rythie

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901.
by rythie 17y ago
V.C. is suffering because there are not enough companies that have got to a big enough stage for them to fund. There needs to be more put into early stage companies. I meet endless companies in the U.K. that can't easily even get $20k to ge
902.
by rythie 17y ago
The Keiretsu Forum are famous for this after Jason Calacanis found out about them: http://calacanis.com/2009/10/05/jason-jihad-keiretsu-forum-m...
903.
by rythie 17y ago
I think the drop downs should give totals of the number under that selection The colours clash and there a too many different fonts used. The Left hand side rounded corners on the white box don't look right.
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Social Today Feels Like Search A Decade Ago: Lots Of Noise And Lots Of Spam(techcrunch.com)
3 points by rythie 17y ago|0 comments
905.
by rythie 17y ago
Well it's not something to boast about, more lines = more bugs - I don't want to crash
906.
by rythie 17y ago
If a business completely relies on getting a post on TechCrunch for distribution then that's a serious problem. There are plenty of other blogs and news sites, not to mention other ways of getting a message out.
907.
by rythie 17y ago
True. Though as it turns out she was actually helping him organize the conference which was due to be on the next day. (The Interview must be from Friday)
908.
Colorillo: Realtime HTML5 Canvas painting app(colorillo.com)
3 points by rythie 17y ago|0 comments
909.
by rythie 17y ago
Plus not telling the TechCrunch management and giving the gift to them, plus disclosing it in the post.
910.
by rythie 17y ago
Because as you described you have to try it to find out how much it will save you, by which point you could probably just roll it out already. Say you have 10 servers now and you expect business to grow by 10x in next year, so you put 6 mon
911.
by rythie 17y ago
Not really, that type of efficiency is not predictable. From Wikipedia: "scalability is a desirable property of a system, a network, or a process, which indicates its ability to either handle growing amounts of work in a graceful manner or
912.
by rythie 17y ago
Actually it's an efficiency gain, rather than scalability. Facebook already have a system they can add more servers at, but this is designed to let them use less and save money as a result. Also at least 90% of web apps are tiny or are star
913.
by rythie 17y ago
MySQL can only use one index per query. If you need it be on two or more columns you need a composite index with both columns in, populated from the left. If MySQL finds a column in the index you not keying off (WHERE/SORT etc.) then it wil
914.
by rythie 17y ago
The problem is that some short urls are prefixes of others. You could fix this by creating a shortner where the links were always 6 chars long and never shorter or longer (giving you almost 20 billion URLs anyway)
915.
by rythie 17y ago
We had a 15 screen setup for a while http://www.flickr.com/photos/richardcunningham/859013515/ tried to run it from 32bit machine, but with 8 graphics chips (on 4 cards) it only left 700MB or so of addressable memory, so it crawled. In th
916.
by rythie 17y ago
"Perhaps the iPad signals an end to the hacker era of digital history" Couldn't you have said the same about the games console? Even now I can't program my Wii or any other major console, and that's been consistently true for over 30 years
917.
by rythie 17y ago
Doesn't a Mac run Vim and is usable by normal people too?
918.
by rythie 17y ago
He wasn't exactly bowled over by the iPhone either when it came out: http://mattmaroon.com/2007/07/13/iphone/ Also, it did sell more than 10 millions units by the end of 2008 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:IPhone_sales_per_quarter_s..
919.
by rythie 17y ago
His points about Android seem random at the end. What does he think Google should have based the OS on? Windows, where Microsoft won't let you change the interface? OSX which isn't available for non-Apple hardware? Symbian which has tons of
920.
by rythie 17y ago
Yes it's exceptionally good, though some of the key people tech people may unfollow him if he only talks about his foundation.
921.
by rythie 17y ago
Actually that would make sense for him too, so he can get more followers and mix the foundation stuff into a larger audience.
922.
LCA: How to destroy your community(lwn.net)
55 points by rythie 17y ago|11 comments
923.
by rythie 17y ago
Yeah me too, same one.
924.
by rythie 17y ago
However it's a leading question and it most likely she is either feeling insecure or spent a lot of time getting ready, either way I would suggest not saying "no" especially if it's your girlfriend.
925.
by rythie 17y ago
Typo, it's fixed in the Etherpad version
926.
by rythie 17y ago
I don't think it was just the Newton that failed, PDAs all had the same problem of no killer feature, Notes, calendars & contacts were never that really compelling to most people and even if you had one you might not really use it in pr
927.
by rythie 17y ago
This makes me wonder why all the hype about Wave when docs can already do this.
928.
by rythie 17y ago
I can't believe that anyone in the U.S. who has a roof over their head couldn't get a computer if they really wanted one. There are plenty of computers similar to the one I use every day on eBay for under $50 http://computers.shop.ebay.com
929.
by rythie 17y ago
Well if he was making $300/month would it make sense to sell it for less than $7200 (i.e. 2 years revenue, all profit I assume)?
930.
by rythie 17y ago
Yeah I need to get on quantcast.com too, the Nov/Dec numbers are way off for me.

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