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by rkalla 15y ago
campnic, I appreciate the response. I'll try and address each thing you mentioned. -------------------- but let me tell you what i see. 'Amazon is building their market on the backs of apps by giving them away for free.' -------------------
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by rkalla 15y ago
shifty, Admittedly, my response was focused more on the other beef than that single point. Given how much other information was in the post, I didn't think the 20% == 0% was the central argument; my apologies for missing that. My core bel
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by rkalla 15y ago
<edited to remove the unintended snarky tone and clean up some points> What I got from this blog post is that they made an uninformed decision, and ended up with an unexpected result that pissed them off from the perspective of "los
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by rkalla 15y ago
Ahhh! Eric that is exactly where I got that info from, I couldn't place it, but I finished reading "Drive" a few months ago so that must be where it came from.
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by rkalla 15y ago
There are some excellent studies out there that suggest this to be false. One source[1] showed that: - For highly creative jobs, respect and autonomy to function and just enough $ to cover comfortable living expenses produced the best resul
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by rkalla 15y ago
I don't think it is a fair thing to ask for, but it is certainly a fair thing for you to look for. It is the job of the company to impart passion, set an example and hold on to the people that get behind the company vision. Without that
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by rkalla 15y ago
Thank you for the recommendation, 3 chapters in and this is fascinating (horrifying/thought-provoking)
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by rkalla 15y ago
Exactly right. It just depends on where you stop in the hypothetical timeline of thought. If you stop in 2020, then yes, we have a ton of human engineers working on this problem. If you think out 2030, now more of it is handled by machines
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by rkalla 15y ago
Thank you for the correction; I tried to edit the story but it looks like I'm past the time limit.
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by rkalla 15y ago
Good point, I wonder if we will need to create virtual realities for ourselves just to stay "occupied" ... here is a meta though... what if that is what we live in NOW, hence all the talk about "is our reality a hologram?" recently. Incepti
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by rkalla 15y ago
hackin, I've been reading your replies and thought this summed up what you've been saying in other replies. Exactly spot on that the framework for society we have no is not capable of handling/supporting what I'll call the artistic/spiritua
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by rkalla 15y ago
Good point, but does it have a conclusion? I think Kurzweil refers to it as the Singularity... but basically what happens when AI reaches the point where it can manage itself or advance itself? This is certainly in the realm of "what if" be
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by rkalla 15y ago
I very much agree that this point will eventually be reached. We won't suddenly stop automating tasks and making those automations more and more functional. It'll be interesting. I've spoken to people that feel our role will be to move back
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by rkalla 15y ago
Really like the idea of this community driven cdn.
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by rkalla 15y ago
Well this makes sense[1], but will be really inconvenient: - Don't use cellphones within 1,000 feet of the conferences to avoid phony cell stations. For anyone going this year you know the conference is at the Rio as well as most of the gue
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by rkalla 15y ago
Foxconn is an interesting mega-beast. It has a campus that houses 500k people and employees 1 million. Just think about that... when was the last time you heard of a company employing more than like 200k people world wide and this company
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by rkalla 15y ago
+1 Effective Java is a must-read once you understand Java. It points out what is magic and what is not. What takes up processing time and what doesn't. It pulls the sheet back on the abstractions and shows you how everything works and what
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by rkalla 15y ago
I find thought-topics like this fascinating. - What, if anything, would change if we confirmed this? e.g. I still have a mortgage, I still want my kids in school, etc. - We manifested ourselves into a dream world, forgot we did it, and
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by rkalla 15y ago
She is, she confirmed it in her followup blog post.
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by rkalla 15y ago
Bah, missed that the story was essentially ripped off from: http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/07/29/us-hulu-lawsuit-id...
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Hulu sued for patent infringement(bgr.com)
2 points by rkalla 15y ago|2 comments
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by rkalla 15y ago
Ed, you put it exactly right. Airbnb's "wrap this up, get rid of it" response is what I would categorize as a typical, immature response to a problem. Make it go away, I don't want to look at it. A responsible, empathetic response would be
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by rkalla 15y ago
Thank you PJ for the clarification. I have no problem with "the right tool for the right job", just wasn't sure how to fit all the pieces together. If redis wants to focus on ultra-fast/in memory I can take advantage of that in the right wa
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by rkalla 15y ago
What replaced VM? I've seen antirez saying recently that diskstore isn't necessarily the perfect replacement it was suppose to be either. Just a big confused about what the best-practice is moving forward for bigger-than-memory data sets.
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by rkalla 15y ago
+1 -- I imagine it was a merging or at the least a talent acquisition. Which I don't mean to downplay, having a strong, independent Mongo PaaS company is fantastic.
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by rkalla 15y ago
Agreed -- I also think 2 years in software is would be considered sufficient time to have a technological advantage over your competition. Maybe even 3 years. But I think it's currently 11 or something like that isn't it? In 11 years I'll p
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by rkalla 15y ago
Good point about equals, I'm just thinking in a tight render loop (like in a game engine or something equally as sensitive) even with the diff hash codes you are dropping through to a char-to-char comparison IN the off chance that your two
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Key emails from original Android team could help Oracle's case(java.dzone.com)
15 points by rkalla 15y ago|6 comments
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by rkalla 15y ago
Incase the result gets changed, here is the search result page (Bing is #1) http://i.imgscalr.com/kmPbJfLoV.png
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by rkalla 15y ago
I wasn't even aware of that proposal, just found these examples[1] and love the idea. Sort of in the same vein as static imports (as far as usability) but has a really nice added side effect of exporting a default impl from an interface tha

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