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by seldo 16y ago
Dupe.
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by seldo 16y ago
Nearly all of my spec work goes on inside Dropbox; it makes brain-dead simple to know that I'm always working on the latest revision, whether I last edited it on my laptop, home or work machine.
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by seldo 16y ago
I reluctantly agree that this isn't appropriate for HN. I think highly-contentious political topics are super-fun to discuss and can obviously form a community (see DailyKos), but that's not what this site's community is supposed to be abou
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by seldo 16y ago
This article was posted (and extensively discussed) yesterday in the comments on the other Deepwater Horizon story: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1389647 The WSJ also has a lot more detail on how the rig was being run prior to the a
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by seldo 16y ago
San Francisco shows both trends -- South San Francisco is poorer, and so is Oakland to the East (although there are lots of other non-weather-related reasons for Oakland). I've never understood why South San Francisco is quite so neglected
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by seldo 16y ago
The Oracle equivalent of this functionality if called CONNECT BY PRIOR: http://ss64.com/ora/connectby.html I used it back in 2002 to build some messageboards and it was pretty effing magical. Glad to see equivalent functionality finally m
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by seldo 16y ago
Ah, the dreaded phrase "it turns out", offering assertions with no evidence ( http://jsomers.net/blog/it-turns-out ) :-) I believe the author's point is that using these recursive SQL queries is more efficient, as the DB engine is inheren
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by seldo 16y ago
A few DBs within Yahoo which require threading use this pattern (the one I worked on used hyphens as the separator, though).
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by seldo 16y ago
Update (I can no longer edit parent): the Wall Street Journal has a longer and even more damaging report on what was going on inside BP prior to the blowout: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405274870402620457526... In summary: they
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by seldo 16y ago
My numbers were for illustration. It doesn't need to be 10x more profitable, it just needs to be any degree more profitable and the unlucky event sufficiently rare that the profit of the successful wells outweighs the costs of the failure (
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by seldo 16y ago
It is absolutely in BP's and Transocean's interests for this well to explode and people to die. That's my point. Avoiding accidents by drilling more safely and expensively is not in the interests of BP and Transocean; it makes more sense
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by seldo 16y ago
I would love to hear the libertarian defence of a private enterprise's accident that is putting thousands of people out of work and destroying an entire coastline's worth of ecosystems.
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by seldo 16y ago
BP knew for weeks in advance of the explosion that the well was unsafe, and had deliberately dialled-down the federally-required tests they were running on the well, which strongly suggests they knew it wouldn't pass the real tests: http:/
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by seldo 16y ago
My favourite part of that experiment was that they believed there to be a non-zero chance that it would trigger an uncontrollable reaction that would ignite the atmosphere and end the whole world but did it anyway .
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by seldo 16y ago
This is such obvious linkbait that it even admits "this title is linkbait" at the bottom. He means give the power back to Kevin Rose, which is exactly what appears to have happened recently. So... non-story.
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by seldo 16y ago
As long as you don't mind working on boring software. (I mean, I know Joel is everyone's nerd idol and everything, but really: bug tracking software? Version control? That's all you got?)
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by seldo 16y ago
I don't think they were meant to be funny. Light-hearted, certainly, but they weren't supposed to be a joke . They were supposed to be an eye-catching marketing exercise that associated Chrome in the public mind with "speed". And they're g
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by seldo 16y ago
Accidentally pasted entirely the wrong URL initially; apologies.
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TechCrunch claims Bing will become the default search for iPhone(techcrunch.com)
8 points by seldo 16y ago|3 comments
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Ask HN: startup jobs for the experienced, non-technical?
19 points by seldo 16y ago|5 comments
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by seldo 16y ago
The Chrome "speed tests" really were ridiculous. Oh, so when connected to the world's most gigantic internet connection on a computer that isn't doing anything else, your browser can render pages very quickly? Well, gosh. Are you going to s
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by seldo 16y ago
I'm at Gluecon, where Mike Stonebraker (CTO of VoltDB) gave a talk about Volt this morning. He's very clear that VoltDB is not a NoSQL product; it's a SQL product, but a next-generation SQL product. He says they've achieved enormous perform
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by seldo 16y ago
The same tech can also walk into a burning building to locate trapped people without endangering the lives of firemen, crawl through rubble to find survivors after an earthquake, power household robots to assist the disabled, and more. I kn
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by seldo 16y ago
I don't even think it's that apparent. It takes us 2 years to learn to walk, even with millions upon millions of years of evolution designing us perfectly to do it.
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by seldo 16y ago
To extend your analogy though, obscure algorithms could be like the techniques that allow master craftsmen to build beautiful, solid furniture using only careful joins and maybe light wood glue. On the other hand, what most people want is s
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by seldo 16y ago
Nothing makes me want to hire developers like reading lists of algorithms and discovering I don't understand them.
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by seldo 16y ago
It's a little misleading, since many of the figures were calculated after they left office -- being president opens lucrative book and speaking opportunities (for instance, and surprisingly to me at least, most of Nixon's wealth came from t
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by seldo 16y ago
Because, as the article points out, startups tend to be run by young people, and San Jose is really damn boring. Kind of a non-story unless you happen to be the San Jose newspaper...
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by seldo 16y ago
The cookie thing is definitely a different matter. I was referring to the portion that is making all the headlines, which is Facebook "giving advertisers names and ages of people who clicked ads" (see http://www.businessinsider.com/faceboo
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by seldo 16y ago
"Caught" is a little strong. It's not like they were selling the information to advertisiers -- in fact, several of the advertisers who were receiving the information have said they were unaware it was even being sent, far less doing anythi

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