rbranson

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by rbranson 16y ago
All they did was make corporations the same as people for 1099 reporting. Don't you just LOVE the hypocritical irony?
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by rbranson 16y ago
http://developer.postgresql.org/pgdocs/postgres/pgupgrade.ht...
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by rbranson 16y ago
Yeah I see that. My tests primarily revolved around single-threaded event driven code, and retaining large container objects (millions of objects). MRI was much more efficient. I understand that there's a lot more going on under the hood in
904.
by rbranson 16y ago
While I agree that it's not important for long-running applications, there is still a lot of scripting done in Ruby, and it's very frustrating to get a a 5-to-10 second wait just to tell someone their arguments were invalid. Waiting that lo
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by rbranson 16y ago
In my tests, it's still worse than MRI. Memory-wise, the best between 1.8.7, 1.9.1, and JRuby 1.5 was still 1.8.7. Of course, if this is the difference between storing stuff in memory and loading from disk, 1.8.7 would be faster by orders o
906.
by rbranson 16y ago
PostgreSQL is well-known for it's focus on data integrity and durability first, performance second. The team didn't really focus heavily on performance until the 8.x release series, after the database had been proven as extremely stable. Al
907.
by rbranson 16y ago
JRuby would be the future if the startup times weren't so horrendous. It makes it very unpalatable for scripting. Nailgun is not robust enough. I have a feeling this is going to be more of a JVM problem than something Nutter and team is goi
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by rbranson 16y ago
FreeBSD's support for paravirtualization is a bit immature right now. I'd definitely wait a bit on that.
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by rbranson 16y ago
If you don't know why this is a big deal, here's one reason: DRBD + GFS/OCFS2. This will make sort of mid-tier scaling setups significantly easier in EC2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DRBD
910.
by rbranson 16y ago
HTC had high-res screens WAY before Apple did. The Touch Diamond had a 286PPI screen in June 2008, which is a month before the 3G came out, with it's meager 163PPI screen. The Touch Diamond, Touch Pro, Touch HD, Touch Diamond2, Touch Pro2,
911.
by rbranson 16y ago
The MyTouch Slide has the same 600MHz MSM7227 as the Droid, and has 512MB RAM, which is as much as the Nexus One. It blows away the G1 and regular MyTouch.
912.
by rbranson 16y ago
This is too difficult for users to discover.
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by rbranson 16y ago
"by avalara 3 minutes ago" Nice job with the advertising.
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by rbranson 16y ago
I used to sneak into movies period (paying nothing) for sport. I never did it when the theater was packed though. My moral justification was sort of the same one used by pirates. The seat was empty, I wouldn't have paid for it otherwise, th
915.
by rbranson 16y ago
They will only be setup to be more efficient because of our capital investment though. We have lost these assets because their only justification was based on the predicate of suppressed wages, which are temporary. This is a fools game.
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by rbranson 16y ago
He agrees with you. You both come to the same conclusion. What you fail to realize is that we've essentially paid the capital to educate people and build infrastructure in another country. Once their wages rise and our massive capital inves
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by rbranson 16y ago
Many of them shifted into fields that didn't exist in 1900 because in 1900, food and shelter were the majority of what people in the US worked for.
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by rbranson 16y ago
I remain optimistic about the prospect for more IP jobs. We don't need five billion of them though. I think there's a limit on what types of things will make economic sense to be automated. People often far underestimate the efficiency of h
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by rbranson 16y ago
It's all "for now." Eventually we will exhaust the Earth's resources and possibly become enslaved by a race of artificial intelligence, but I'm not pretending to even think about solutions to those problems. It'd also be cheaper to have sla
920.
by rbranson 16y ago
How is this true? 100 years ago there was virtually nobody employed doing purely intellectual work, yet this has grown to be a huge labor market. Your ideas here kind of trail off to be "The Bell Curve"-ish. Many of these "unskilled laborer
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by rbranson 16y ago
You're confusing a capital investment (the robots) with cost-of-goods-sold (the widgets). Automated manufacturing systems are complex systems that require highly trained individuals to maintain and operate, while reducing the total labor co
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by rbranson 16y ago
This is exactly the problem. The cost of labor is a cop-out for short-term profit. Industries where the cost of shipping exceeds the savings in off-shore labor almost always find a way to automate labor and eliminate these costs.
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by rbranson 16y ago
Firefox and Internet Explorer aren't products that sell on a market though. There is zero cost to the consumer for using one or the other, so competition is exclusively on features. Open source is sort of post-capitalist in a way. Often mar
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by rbranson 16y ago
The answer is yes. Wealth is the unlocking of human potential through productivity and efficient use of finite resources such as labor and goods. What these companies do is shift costs, not unlocking potential. Luckily for humanity, this is
925.
by rbranson 16y ago
This is a good thing. I disagree with your grim outlook about jobs in intellectual capital being a zero sum game though. Innovation begets more innovation. The more well-educated people around the globe that are innovating in ways that incr
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by rbranson 16y ago
I am not saying these industries are not essential and don't deserve the revenues they earn, but the concentration of PROFIT they generate is telling. The margins of players in competitive industries in healthy markets run thin because pric
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by rbranson 16y ago
The corporatist sociopaths will say "Even the poorest among us can buy [a bunch of stupid cheap shit], surely our standard of living is high!" Wake up: standard of living isn't a bunch of cheap shit. If instead of people spending $28.73 on
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by rbranson 16y ago
Right. He makes many good points, but many of his assumptions are flawed. He uses a few examples and anecdotes to paint a picture of the wealthy exclusively as bootstrapping individuals that innovate for consumers and create massive value.
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by rbranson 16y ago
Oh yes, the EPA and Department of Labor, with their obnoxious "don't fuck up the environment" and "don't treat people like shit" rules. God damn them.
930.
by rbranson 16y ago
Yet again, Microsoft attempts to target the cheapy market and ends up with lame results, while Apple goes for the high end and continues to create magic. What is that quote about the definition of stupidity is doing the same thing over and

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