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by seldo 16y ago
Yahoo has a ton of cash and an army of really great, smart people who want the company to do well, but after 4 years there I was forced to conclude that the ship could not be turned around. I imagine that Microsoft is the same.
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by seldo 16y ago
The problem is that Ballmer, like Yang, doesn't actually know what he's trying to say.
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by seldo 16y ago
That was true, but I think they have hired extensively since then.
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by seldo 16y ago
Why do people keep saying Twitter is revenue-free? It has search integration deals, sponsored topics and promoted tweets. It may not be profitable, but it certainly has non-trivial revenue at this point.
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by seldo 16y ago
If so, somebody should automate this RIGHT NOW. $0.02/hour to watch British/American TV! (Depending which side of the pond you're on)
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by seldo 16y ago
We use X11 forwarding to get this interface on our local machines with little fuss. Of course, you still have to log into the box via ssh to run the client, but that doesn't seem too onerous.
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by seldo 16y ago
The slowly rising gc percentage (red) is a sign of memory leaks. So do you reboot regularly, or what?
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by seldo 16y ago
This is funny, because having lived in London it's SO much easier to catch cabs here, I assumed SF was pretty good about taxi regulation. You have not experienced unavailable taxis until you have lived in London, where outside of the city c
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by seldo 16y ago
This is pretty fascinating. I was expecting another cover-your-ass blog post, but this is a pile of interesting data work which is new to me.
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by seldo 16y ago
Having recently implemented a CC payment system, it's not actually required by CC companies to do any kind of address verification (though companies that ship physical goods generally try). Amazon is probably more stringent.
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by seldo 16y ago
Oh of course, thank you.
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by seldo 16y ago
750 hours EC2 linux micro = $15 750 hours ELB = $18.75 15GB ELB data processing = $0.12 10GB EBS, 1 month = $1.00 1 million EBS I/Os = $0.10 1GB snapshot = ? (varies a lot, but less than a dollar) 5GB S3, 2000 PUT, 20000 GET = $0.79 30GB tr
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by seldo 16y ago
Of course, any moment now there will be a blog post from somebody who signed up for 300 disposable credit cards and used 300 disposable email addresses to get a supercomputer for free.
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by seldo 16y ago
This is mind-blowingly great, not only for them -- compete with Google App engine, and get people hooked on AWS early -- but also for young entrepreneurs, who can get a professional dev env for $0 and a year to see if their idea works. I th
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by seldo 16y ago
But with rounded contacts! You know somewhere they had a meeting about how rectangular contacts would be off-brand.
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by seldo 16y ago
Joel was a real, honest-to-goodness role model for me when I was 18 and still wondering whether tech was a place where you could comfortably work as an out gay person. He doesn't seem to do much in the way of gay activism -- his blog bio us
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by seldo 16y ago
You're quite right. But after a lifetime of minor slights, forgive me a little paranoia :-) (I note said unknown has already downvoted your comment, too)
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by seldo 16y ago
Somebody is going through this thread systematically down-voting every single comment. So, yeah, gays in tech could still use a little extra support.
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by seldo 16y ago
Hi! Gay co-founder of awe.sm here. I've considered posting exactly this Ask HN a few times, pleased to see somebody else did. My side project http://gaygeeks.org is also probably pretty relevant here, if you'll excuse the (second) shamele
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by seldo 16y ago
I used it for years and finally switched away in disgust at the performance. NetBeans is very similar but much faster. (But still terrible, in lots of ways. I've yet to meet an IDE I didn't hate)
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by seldo 16y ago
This would be fine if it were obvious to all of us that GUIs have advanced as far as they can, and the remainder of the problems we see in them were inherent to the complexity and nondeterministic nature of the systems they manage. But it's
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by seldo 16y ago
I could not agree more. Given that IDEs are the primary tools of programmers, and unlike Photoshop users our primary skill is to build software itself, why are IDEs not the most advanced pieces of software that exist? It seems logical. They
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by seldo 16y ago
Visual Studio with Resharper does half of the things mentioned in the article. The key word there is half .
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by seldo 16y ago
This is the kind of brilliant and pointless analysis that I love. Me, I would have just emailed the app author and asked them.
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by seldo 16y ago
Very unlikely, I think. Jobs was forced out and felt he had a lot to prove. Gates left voluntarily as the richest man in the world. There's very little chance of him coming back.
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by seldo 16y ago
Word from inside is that it is not, but they can't reveal what it actually is.
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by seldo 16y ago
This has to be Yahoo! Frontpage's first downtime in over a decade. I know we're not supposed to be posting articles about sites being down but: wow. I worked at Yahoo, and I firmly believed that it was literally impossible, at the architect
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by seldo 16y ago
I'm not sure this data is very good. The Lexington Club is marked as having 7% more male checkins. I live right next door to the Lex, and it's a lesbian bar. Women outnumber men there at least 10-to-1.
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by seldo 16y ago
How embarrassing. On the other hand, the only clue that he's one of the authors of dojo is that he links to dojo projects in the sidebar a lot, but he also links to chromium and webkit. Should I assume he's one of the authors of those too?
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by seldo 16y ago
This complaint is as old as the hills. You may as well slap an obnoxious "Designed for HTML5" button on your site. The cost of having the world's largest addressable audience of any development platform is that web developers have to deal w

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