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by sabat 14y ago
It’s telling us that people will do almost anything to get same-day releases – and that they’re willing to both pay wads of cash and break the law at the same time to get them. That's the entire point, right there. It is stunning to me th
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by sabat 14y ago
Comcast isn't participating in this, so no HBO on Roku for Comcast subscribers.
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by sabat 14y ago
I agree with you that IFTTT and Zapier are simpler solutions to more common needs, but man, Pipes is really powerful. It's more like a language than an automation framework. I don't know if it will ever make any money, but it's a hell of se
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by sabat 14y ago
EDIT: er, the URL is: http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.edit?_id=a08134746e30a6dd3...
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by sabat 14y ago
I uses Yahoo Pipes for a project of mine—I depend on it, in fact. It's really useful if you're doing something service-based, say, if you need to make an RSS feed out of a website, or otherwise manipulate data. YQL (Yahoo Query Language)
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by sabat 14y ago
Who realized that Ask.com was successful enough to buy someone else for $300M? Wow.
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by sabat 14y ago
I came here to say exactly that. I stopped reading HN as often because it seems like every time I read a Show HN post, or, well, practically anything, someone is trying to crap on someone else's effort. Here's a guy who has a nice story to
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by sabat 14y ago
It is indeed bullshit, particularly because there is no defensible, practical reason for that kind of regulation. This is little more than "you wanna do business? grease my fuckin' palm" on the part of city government.
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by sabat 14y ago
From what I've gathered, you can fork cdnjs, add it, and do a pull request.
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by sabat 14y ago
For just a moment, I thought that Monsanto corporation had been acquired, and thought: "oh, nooooo."
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by sabat 14y ago
It's up to the developers and you, the operations/devops people, to work together to make it chaos-monkey-proof. No engineering team is an island.
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by sabat 14y ago
As a parent myself, I know that the first few months of parenthood are difficult and life-changing, regardless of how many nannies one might afford.
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by sabat 14y ago
Likewise, implying that Mayer was somehow innovative in starting a program that was already widespread in large companies—that is ridiculous. I have yet to hear anything about Melissa Mayer that is actually innovative or impressive.
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by sabat 14y ago
I doubt it. They've shown questionable judgement merely by hiring Mayer, whose accomplishments at Google are not especially respected among those with inside knowledge, and whose priorities will shift wildly after she gives birth in October
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by sabat 14y ago
She's a showboat, IMHO. This is based on personal observation and insider info. She's quick to yell about how great she is, but you don't see a lot of unbiased people talking about her contributions to technology or to Google. She has her o
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by sabat 14y ago
It wouldn't surprise me at all if Sergei and Larry wanted her gone, period. She has had a lackluster career at Google, and they may have gladly watched her move out of the way.
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by sabat 14y ago
Please, name the name.
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by sabat 14y ago
Steve Ballmer is a used car salesman cast in the role of a CEO. These are the natural consequences.
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by sabat 14y ago
Science?
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by sabat 14y ago
As someone who has been underwhelmed by Ms. Mayer since her early days at Google, I think this is just another desperate attempt to save the ailing Yahoo. It will fail, and she'll be out in less than a year.
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by sabat 14y ago
Maybe, but I didn't realize it, and I'll bet others don't either. Significant because of the accumulation of bad days, and because of the company's apparent hubris and possible over-valuation.
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by sabat 14y ago
Thanks for this report. My kid loves math, and so I bet he'll love this (he's six as well).
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by sabat 14y ago
Yes.
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by sabat 14y ago
This flat-out does not make sense. We all may hate IE6, 7, and 8, but a vast number of people still use it, and leaving them out just means alienating an audience and customers. Why do it? Spite?
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by sabat 14y ago
Stock price.
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by sabat 14y ago
How is this not racketeering?
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by sabat 14y ago
AWS? Surely you just. Yes, AWS has thousands of servers ready to go at any time.
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by sabat 14y ago
I've heard of that index before, and I'm skeptical of it. Ruby and Python waning? Not among any of the shops or programmers I know. Maybe if they qualified it: "Ruby and Python are declining in use for corporate enterprise applications on t
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by sabat 14y ago
It's a shame that this is set in stone, and that Facebook cannot do anything to change or improve this.
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by sabat 14y ago
the market believes in a very high potential for growth. That just doesn't seem reasonable. It is not unreasonable to think that Facebook will expand beyond its current incarnation, similar to how Google is no longer just a search engine,

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