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by rythie 16y ago
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/weblife/kevin-rose-10-tips-for-ent... point 4
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by rythie 16y ago
My guess is that Reddit won't be able to innovate much with that level of staffing, they are basically just keeping it running - but maybe that's ok, since they have already been bought. Slashdot has been the same for a long time too, but t
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by rythie 16y ago
Apple and Oranges comparison really. - What do the sites do? - How optimised are they? - How much static/cachable content is there? Really there is too little data for this comparison.
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by rythie 16y ago
I set my desktop to pause music when I lock the screen (and play again on unlock), it's really useful.
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by rythie 16y ago
If that were true wouldn't he just do the extra work for free, then he can take his pick of the very best/interesting jobs that way. The government would take most of it in tax anyway as he points out. Of course the downside to the governme
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by rythie 16y ago
I imagine getting on Hacker News is a good boost for their SEO, so maybe it worked?
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by rythie 16y ago
Also social networks are helping people raise money for charities (sponsored runs etc.) by connecting to their friends easier.
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by rythie 16y ago
There are plenty of super bright people who've got their PHDs and are working for organizations doing the above things. It's just that people don't typically do startups in those areas, because you need massive investment to even get starte
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by rythie 16y ago
What's your view of way over the missed premiums? 10x, 100x? (Assuming 1/100 chance over 20 years - which is very high) $75 over 20 years is $1500 So they are looking at committing $15,000 or even $150,000 if their house burns down. Now, ba
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by rythie 16y ago
When will we see the Twitter zip file? It's still limited to 3200 of your own tweets.
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by rythie 16y ago
Would like to use them in servers, but Linux currently is not supporting TRIM through RAID. Also VPSes with SSDs would be nice for database servers.
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by rythie 16y ago
I think they're hacking on arduinos, MSP430s and pogo plugs.
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by rythie 16y ago
The colorized picture doesn't have that and I'm not sure you could tie it up with the other information on the page easily.
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by rythie 16y ago
I agree, I can't quite believe they put something so poor security wise out. I'm not convinced when they say it's fixed that's it's really fixed yet either - in that someone could just create another page with the problem.
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by rythie 16y ago
They are using GET requests for status updates - possibly only on new twitter.
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by rythie 16y ago
You don't say what eventually happened to those people, you learn the best by failing. A teacher at my school was in signed band in the early 90s, released a couple of albums, travelled the world though ultimately their second album flopped
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by rythie 16y ago
That's like what Flickr do by letting you browse the last 200 photos unless you get a pro account.
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by rythie 16y ago
I'm thinking if they are storing 3 million tweets that's got to be about 900 customers meaning $9000/month in revenue.
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by rythie 16y ago
You can run Tweetnest yourself http://pongsocket.com/tweetnest/ so that's free, here's mine: http://tweets.rythie.com/ for example. There are other solutions around if you look.
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by rythie 16y ago
The library of congress has them, if we could get a copy we could index it all somewhere to re-construct a copy of people's early timelines http://blogs.loc.gov/loc/2010/04/how-tweet-it-is-library-acq... I was thinking recently about get
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by rythie 16y ago
It look Wine almost 15 years to get to the 1.0 release.
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by rythie 16y ago
Someone else would have published it if they hadn't.
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Twitter knew about onmouseover flaw a month ago(github.com)
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by rythie 16y ago
Climbing up that mountain isn't always fun but the sense of achievement when you get to the top is always good.
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by rythie 16y ago
I would imagine he does have more than 0.05 friends (based on 500 million users)
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by rythie 16y ago
I don't think it would be aimed at the type of person who reads stuff here or anyone who reads techcrunch.
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by rythie 16y ago
Most of the cost of the chip is in the R&D just like in software so the cheap chips cost about the same as the expensive ones on manufacture. For years, people have been overclocking cheap chips to make them run like the top end ones wh
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by rythie 16y ago
They can be the long tail of search engines, an army of Google beaters that are used by people that would never consider using Yahoo search. I don't think the ordering of the results is Google's competitive advantage anymore it's branding a
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#newTwitter, Diaspora and the future of the Social Web(blog.friendbinder.com)
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by rythie 16y ago
Also 100% of people who make a error in their joke get corrected by the people on Hacker News.

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