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541.
by seldo 16y ago
I feel like lots of big stories have managed to last overnight, so at least 12 hours, so I don't think this can be true. I've no idea how I would prove that though.
542.
by seldo 16y ago
It is obviously intended to as sarcasm, with the intention of making you think.
543.
Using dead children as the unit of currency(raikoth.net)
5 points by seldo 16y ago|2 comments
544.
by seldo 16y ago
"Running a startup" and "being in tech" are very different things. It's totally possible to work in tech without running a startup, so if her thesis is correct you'd expect women engineers to be equally represented in medium to large tech c
545.
by seldo 16y ago
This is an astonishingly effective technique. I feel a bit of an ass talking to a duck (in my case, a stress ball with a smiley face on it) but much less of an ass than coming to a co-worker with a stupid problem. NB: silently looking ove
546.
by seldo 16y ago
Ditto. Although I was interested to learn that Donald Duck has a direct connection to Adolf Hitler.
547.
by seldo 16y ago
Back in 1997, my decision between postgres and MySQL was made for me by the fact that Postgres was pretty much impossible to install on my Windows box, while MySQL had a sexy InstallShield. When you are trying to make your technology attrac
548.
by seldo 16y ago
And the updates! The glorious, unending stream of modal software-update dialogs!
549.
by seldo 16y ago
That's really not the point I was making at all, although it's nice of you to say so :-) Scaling the business side is definitely another strength of Mark's, but I don't think it was a contributor to their early success -- certainly not the
550.
by seldo 16y ago
I would really love for it to be an error to include neither, but that would be a massively backwards-incompatible change.
551.
by seldo 16y ago
I've seen a lot of coverage of Zuck as a "genius computer hacker", reinforced by the Hackers-style montage in the film which makes it look like what he did was really hard (oh no, he busted out emacs! He must be a genius!). Actually, Facebo
552.
by seldo 16y ago
The NY Times noted that audience reaction to The Social Network has been split very firmly by age: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/04/business/media/04carr.html Basically, older folk think the thing is a hatchet job on Mark Zuckerberg, and
553.
by seldo 16y ago
I've been using them for well over a decade. No nonsense, low prices, interface miles better than GoDaddy.
554.
by seldo 16y ago
People complain about this a lot, but the rate of link-rot of ordinary URLs is much, much greater than people believe. I run a URL shortener, and I can assure you that while all of our links still work, huge numbers of the pages they point
555.
by seldo 16y ago
I don't know if this is common knowledge, but all bit.ly-powered domains are actually mirrors of each other, so http://bit.ly/bdMwyV and http://j.mp/bdMwyV automatically go to the same place. This would make such a switch technically si
556.
by seldo 16y ago
Redirecting your content through a third party like Amazon Web Services? Or Akamai CDN? Or Rackspace? All small- to medium-size websites are the result of dozens of third party companies -- server farms, network backbones, DNS providers --
557.
by seldo 16y ago
That's a very western view. As far as they're concerned, both shutting down the "adult" shortener and their human rights record are both examples of their high moral purity. Their idea of moral behaviour and yours differ, is all.
558.
by seldo 16y ago
To be fair, people stopped blaming Rails for Twitter a while back, after it became clear that the problem was mostly at the data level. Likewise, nobody (well, except liuliu) is blaming PHP for Facebook's downtime, since last time they blam
559.
by seldo 16y ago
This sounds interesting but you're using a lot of jargon, could expand on it? I know the thundering herd problem is when a resource goes away and then everybody tries to fetch it the moment it comes back up, sending it down again. What is t
560.
by seldo 16y ago
This does not look intentional. If they were just rolling out a front-end change, they wouldn't have killed their APIs like Connect and the Like buttons.
561.
by seldo 16y ago
Down for me (2010-10-05 9.31PST). Again? The Like buttons and Facebook Connect are also affected. When Facebook goes down like this, huge numbers of websites are affected.
562.
by seldo 16y ago
I really feel for those folks, this has been an awful week for them and it's only Tuesday. This is also really terrible publicity for MongoDB.
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Foursquare experiencing another multi-hour site outage(status.foursquare.com)
2 points by seldo 16y ago|2 comments
564.
by seldo 16y ago
As a PHP developer, I found learning Ruby and Rails at the same time too much. I went back to PHP, learned MVC in a language I was familiar with, and then when I went back to rails it was clear which bits were Rails features and which bit
565.
by seldo 16y ago
I believe your information is out of date. In addition to the two major data customers in Google and Microsoft (rumoured to be in the region of $25m/year) it also has advertisers who pay for promoted tweets and promoted hashtags. As for the
566.
by seldo 16y ago
The Yahoo building is the one marked on Google Maps as "Marvell Semiconductor". They moved out and Yahoo took over the building.
567.
by seldo 16y ago
Totally. I would be careful not to equate density of startups with success of startups, but the two biggest startups since Facebook (Twitter and Zynga) are both SF-based.
568.
by seldo 16y ago
Yowza. This surprises me. I thought Ev was interested in running the company and building a legacy, but this looks more like a plan for a big exit.
569.
by seldo 16y ago
Soon we will all know the joy of accidentally creating a real-life professor Moriarty who we have to defeat using only our powers of deductive reasoning!
570.
by seldo 16y ago
Precisely what I meant, thanks for clarifying.

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