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by sauravc 14y ago
This is from August of last year. Is it still relevant?
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by sauravc 14y ago
No "magic" here. They're just paying Amazon to host their content instead of hosting it themselves.
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Intraterrestrials: Life Thrives in Ocean Floor(livescience.com)
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by sauravc 14y ago
The markets reflect what the money wants. But money isn't distributed equally. So the markets really just reflect what people with money want... and that's not a malaria vaccine.
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by sauravc 14y ago
I'm sorry for your loss, but how does it make you an expert on how much funding is given to malaria vs male pattern balding research?
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by sauravc 14y ago
Micro-transactions are one of the advantages. (Micro-transactions in adult were basically unfeasible before MiKandi, since no adult payment processor would allow a charge below a certain threshold (usually $5-10).) But virtual currency has
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by sauravc 14y ago
http://blog.mikandi.com/tag/virtual-currency/
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by sauravc 14y ago
The MiKandi App Store has been doing this for years. It makes microtransactions a viable source of revenue for developers.
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by sauravc 14y ago
Criminal? This is the kind of warped thinking that lead to Aaron Swartz's death. Please chill out.
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by sauravc 14y ago
I'm shocked by the author's ignorance. He's kind of an idiot. Simply because he's been living under a rock and lacks common knowledge about how 90% of the world's personal computers run. Pick any OS and if you've never used it before you
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by sauravc 14y ago
"I find nothing" is a fairly strong statement. There are plenty of general purpose scripts one can write in PHP. Also config files don't preclude 'general purpose'. For example, run anything in Java and you'll find out there are plenty o
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by sauravc 14y ago
Some people have crazy ideas, and the world needs that. However, trading in Ruby or Python or [insert favorite scripting language] for Objective-C to write server code is a foolish idea that's divorced from reality (with some exceptions).
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by sauravc 14y ago
That's a pretty stupid comment. Take off your blinders and read the rest of the article.
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by sauravc 14y ago
This is a step in the right direction.
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by sauravc 14y ago
This pretty much sums up most Hadoop projects I've seen at startups: http://wavii.files.wordpress.com/2011/12/hadoop_too_big.jpg (Originally from this Wavii Engineering blog post http://blog.wavii.com/2011/12/29/your-mileage-may-vary/ )
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by sauravc 14y ago
Reminds me of this blog entry: http://blog.notdot.net/2007/4/Damn-Cool-Algorithms-Part-1-BK...
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by sauravc 14y ago
This is a joke. If one wants cold storage, look to the mountains or polar regions. The latency won't suck as bad and it will be a whole lot cheaper.
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by sauravc 14y ago
I always thought coders had the ability to sniff out a BS software patent a mile away. But with all the pro-Apple patent comments, it seems software ignoramuses and revisionists have taken over HN. How can anyone "skilled in the art" stan
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by sauravc 14y ago
Have you tried CouchBase? The built in admin panel is a dream. Adding and removing servers to a cluster is super easy. http://www.couchbase.com/docs/couchbase-manual-2.0/couchbase...
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by sauravc 14y ago
That shitty deployment experience has nothing to do with PHP. There are plenty of valid reasons to move to Python or Ruby, but better deployment stories aren't one of them. Objectivity seems to be in short supply here on HN.
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by sauravc 14y ago
Good points, but I think this one is inaccurate: "Microsoft makes a ton of money, no one will deny that, but they make less money than they used to." Actually they make a lot more money now than since Ballmer took over as CEO.
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by sauravc 14y ago
That's a good point, but I don't think it's the question. Let's start by putting yourself in Microsoft's shoes... and by making the silly assumption that Apple's lock down of iOS is acceptable ( suspending reality for a moment ). Write a p
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by sauravc 14y ago
No, it means owning the browsing/battery life experience e2e. Geez! When it comes to issues about Apple or Microsoft (or Ruby), it seems a number of people on HN lack the ability to think objectively. It's quite sad really. It's like watc
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by sauravc 14y ago
Yup. But two wrongs don't make a right.
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by sauravc 14y ago
The title is pretty stupid not to mention misleading. 24ms to talk to memcache means "they're doing it wrong".
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by sauravc 14y ago
I agree with the your first line. It espouses objectivity. But your second line goes in the opposite direction and make me sad.
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by sauravc 14y ago
The author doesn't have a grounded view of the credit card chargeback process. Square seems to be pretty well behaved despite his whining.
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by sauravc 14y ago
IE may be annoying, and I certainly sympathize with the Paydirt crew. But this author makes a good point: "it’s exactly this type of behavior (writing for or against specific browsers) that sets the Web back again." Sometimes doing the rig
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by sauravc 14y ago
Not only is this article is outdated, it makes broad sweeping generalizations that make little sense for usage patterns that differ from the author's. Reserved instances make perfect sense if your server on EC2 is running 24/7 for months on
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by sauravc 14y ago
Some people LOVE riding horses, but you don't see them riding horses to the movies do you?

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