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by rythie 14y ago
Anyone who bought a Windows PC 4 years ago would have IE7 on it, since IE8 didn't come out till March 19, 2009.
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by rythie 14y ago
A lot of companies are just fixing stuff for their software and hardware, by submitting patches it almost guarantees it will turn up everywhere - I could imagine getting Microsoft or Apple to provide a feature to all their customers is a l
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by rythie 14y ago
I created http://cleverrun.com as a dashboard addition to RunKeeper, built in about a month as a MVP. 2000 people signed up (promoted by RunKeeper), seems to have good user retention rate of about 8%. Didn't enable paid upgrades till Apri
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by rythie 14y ago
Really, a lot good people can't quit their jobs a try something like that because they have families and couldn't afford to pay others work on it etc. etc. I'm sure if it took off, they'd get to be project lead with a nice pay increase - wh
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by rythie 14y ago
I really don't think that the brand name dropping is much about status or cost, it's about products he recommends for those tasks because they are the best. Most of the products he mention cost pretty much the same as the competitors anyway
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by rythie 14y ago
Most people don't do #3 and without tools either limiting (twitter) or coaxing you (facebook) you get big run on messages, which you don't want to read. You want #6 because many people are trying to share you thoughts with everyone, and the
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by rythie 14y ago
The problem is that email is so broken, you could sort of fix it, but people have been trying for years and it's easier to start again. For example we still have these problems: - No proof that people are who they say they are, we have PGP/
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by rythie 14y ago
time dd if=linux-3.4.tar.bz2 of=/dev/null is 0.7 seconds on the beagleboard and slicehost is more variable but comes to down to 0.5 seconds after a few goes from (1 second). I'd expect it to be read from the page cache anyway. However, I re
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by rythie 14y ago
Well, for a ballpark figure: md5sum of 3.4 kernel.tar.gz (average of three runs) 512Mb Slicehost 2.2Ghz Quad-Core AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 2374 HE = 0.275 seconds 512Mb BeagleBoard XM 1GHz Cortex A8 = 2.023 seconds
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by rythie 14y ago
If it had a lot more memory that would be interesting. Though really you can get a 256Mb VPS for £5/month http://prgmr.com/xen/ and you don't have a setup charge or unreliable hardware.
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Pymlico: Free alternative to Olympics 2012 branding(roymccarthy.com)
2 points by rythie 14y ago|0 comments
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by rythie 14y ago
It's fairly common to pay at least £1k/month for a one bedroom flat in central London.
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by rythie 14y ago
I'd argue that in the short term, everyone is replaceable when the company is profitable. Most companies that are bought have their founders leave even if the product keeps going. Though of course in the long term without the innovators t
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by rythie 14y ago
I don't think it ever ran on Linux, I remember the Solaris and MacOS versions though.
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by rythie 14y ago
FTA: "Daddy, who is Dark Vader? Is he a bad guy? I heard he has a Light Saver."
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by rythie 14y ago
A much better view on this: http://www.fashion-era.com/hats-hair/hats_hair_1_wearing_hat...
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Achieving overnight success: Kevin Systrom(joel.is)
95 points by rythie 14y ago|34 comments
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by rythie 14y ago
No idea, should really mean, lots of ideas but not tied to a particular one yet. It would be bit worrying if someone couldn't think of a single idea before applying.
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by rythie 14y ago
Please write a blog post about how you picked which idea to work on
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by rythie 14y ago
It's nice, but some arrow keys would be easier to understand for most people.
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by rythie 14y ago
$1,000/mo. is fine except if it becomes a mainstream need, then competition turns up with it's $100/mo. product (or even free) and you can't drop the price because the sales cycle costs too much, product requires individual integrations etc
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by rythie 14y ago
People need to define what they mean by a bubble, most of the companies mentioned are privately held, it's not clear this is like the .com bubble or that a crash would have wide ranging effects - unless someone would like to explain?
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by rythie 15y ago
The problem is evaluating social networks on a per-user basis without considering Metcalfe's law: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metcalfe%27s_law I.e. it is not a linear relationship between the number of users a the value of the network.
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by rythie 15y ago
I, like a lot of people, do a fair amount of browsing on my iPad and iPhone, I don't see how you can lump this in with no-JavaScript users, it's a completely different set of people. Also, the amount of no-Flash users is increasing and will
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by rythie 15y ago
I think designers prefer to work on many sites a year, especially the good ones and that's how they got so good. Having a full time job working on one site, doesn't really suit that - for example how many times you can redesign the website
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Consumption Addiction(phuu.net)
51 points by rythie 15y ago|13 comments
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by rythie 15y ago
It only really needs be captured like that using redis, when the collection period is up you could store it on disk, or even just the aggregate information on disk.
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by rythie 15y ago
And Digg 4.0 was a more complicated attempt to solve the long tail problem, by creating personalized sub-reddits essentially.
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by rythie 15y ago
There are tons of developers jobs in U.K., companies always seem to be on the look out.
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by rythie 15y ago
Is it? I don't much about them since I live in the U.K. it just seems generally when I've been travelling, mostly to less developed countries, that the airports aren't really that secure.

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