rbranson

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by rbranson 16y ago
The Apple design and development process is sort of the quintessential anti-committee process. It's somewhat autocratic, authoritarian, cohesive, focused, and very decisive. Cringe as we might want to, this is what makes Apple so great at c
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by rbranson 16y ago
I don't think it'd be terribly infeasible from an architectural standpoint because of the multi-process network architecture, but there are other things to consider. The multi-process architecture is really in it's favor, as it already uses
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by rbranson 16y ago
This is it. The final release that will put PostgreSQL ahead of MySQL in the performance and scalability realm. They've already exceeded or are at par with MySQL in single-box OLTP performance, now PostgreSQL can scale-out with read slaves.
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by rbranson 16y ago
PostgreSQL has better performance on real-world, high-concurrency loads over multiple cores. MyISAM is slow on tables with lots of writers (table level locking). InnoDB is better, but PostgreSQL is even better. Supposedly MySQL 5.4 is going
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by rbranson 16y ago
Sounds like pre-mature optimization, a bad idea which hackers need to be constantly reminded of.
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by rbranson 16y ago
Yes! This is so obvious to me. Why would they even bother with MacRuby if this wasn't the future of iOS development? What would bring more developers to iOS than a rapidly growing language that you can learn and apply to multiple platforms,
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by rbranson 16y ago
better yet, why isn't Quora using PostgreSQL? :)
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by rbranson 16y ago
Yawn. Verizon is full-steam ahead on the Android front. Bringing in the iPhone would fragment their investments in Android and they'd be competing against themselves. Android devices are good enough to match the iPhone for most consumers. V
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by rbranson 16y ago
Right, it would have to be a few hundred million for the VCs to make anything back. This product is either going to have to get a much larger userbase, become ridiculously compelling, or develop some sauce that's worth buying.
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by rbranson 16y ago
Not to be a hater or be a potential-Twitter-doubter, and my thoughts about the product aside, what do these guys need $20 million for? The only exit for a company like FourSquare is a buyout, and is someone really going to pay $30m or $40m
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by rbranson 16y ago
Most of the prime spectrum <3GHz won't be able to be reallocated, unless they're going to be willing to spend tons of cash and/or upset lots of people. If they won't, it'll most likely only be valuable for non-portable or semi-mobile de
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by rbranson 16y ago
> Saddling future generations of individuals and businesses with debt inhibits growth, it doesn't promote it. The revenue to pay the interest on that debt has to come from higher taxes down the road, which means higher tax rates for bus
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by rbranson 16y ago
when a fire consumes your personal cloud... when a flood drowns out your personal cloud... when a thief takes your personal cloud... it's all a trade-off i suppose.
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by rbranson 16y ago
Uh, the lender is collecting interest the entire time. The government is borrowing to invest in and ensure the continuity of it's economy, which is it's source of tax revenue. Recession and/or economic stagnation are much more expensive tha
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by rbranson 16y ago
You're assuming the US government can just simply print money. It can't: the Reserve and the Treasury are two different entities. While I might agree that default and inflation both have costs, with inflation perhaps costing more, you're ig
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by rbranson 16y ago
> We can't possibly pay back the money we owe. If the government were a person, economics might agree with you, but it's not. This is what fiscal conservatives fail to see. The government can hold debt so long, that, due to inflation, i
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by rbranson 16y ago
It is sort of like spam and/or snail mail solicitations. It's so "inexpensive" for people (victims) to ignore that it becomes a simple exercise in basic profit equations for the sender.
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by rbranson 16y ago
EDIT: As pointed out by replies, I apparently lack reading comprehension skills. Thanks to reply: tl;dr: The SEC no longer requires good cause to remove oversight board members any more, and the President's power is essentially unchanged.
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by rbranson 16y ago
Roughly? The Mac Pro has a workstation-grade dual-socket motherboard with Xeon processors, ECC FB-DIMM memory, and four PCI-E x16 slots. The build quality is also significantly better than most off-the-shelf PC hardware. Granted, this isn't
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by rbranson 16y ago
Anyone else read Johnny Ive quotes in a British accent, almost as if it's instinct?
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by rbranson 16y ago
Actually, you are both wrong. Production and consumption by themselves do not yield productivity. Both producers and consumers play equal roles in economic productivity. Without active consumption, producers would be completely unproductive
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by rbranson 16y ago
Which absurd claim? EDIT: I can't reply to the thread below so I'm putting my reply here. I have activated a half dozen iPhones on my Mac for friends that don't own computers. While it may not be the smartest thing (no backups), it is certa
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by rbranson 16y ago
This article FAR understates the vast superiority of Saccharomyces. Until some other organism that can pack as much punch per square nanometer comes along, it will reign supreme!
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by rbranson 16y ago
This is not going to work in the era of the iPad-only home. While I understand the technical reasons and humble beginnings of the iTunes store, let's face it, there are a lot of people who don't even own computers now because their iPhone a
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by rbranson 16y ago
Yikes. It's amazing how unenlightened people can be in such a time of supposed enlightenment, and in such a field of rigor.
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by rbranson 16y ago
You think an awful lot of your opinions. While confidence attracts, it came across to me as a bit blowhard-ish. ry and DHH didn't really talk big talk until they had walked a big walk. Perhaps you should focus on making a great product, let
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by rbranson 16y ago
Yes, it was admittedly a nightmare back then. Passenger is amazing.
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by rbranson 16y ago
Base 10 isn't arbitrary. It's believed that it's based on the human condition of having 10 fingers.
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by rbranson 16y ago
> Not every platform is as fucked-up as Rails ... mod_wsgi for Django (or any wsgi compliant Python framework) just works with no headaches. erm... Phusion Passenger is the deployment platform of choice for Rails (Rack) applications. It
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by rbranson 16y ago
Agreed, totally asinine. Carriers tend to acquire each other along protocol boundaries. Verizon acquired Alltel, which was a predominantly CDMA2000 company. In addition, T-Mobile's network is predominantly urban, which is already well-cover

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