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by sh1mmer 18y ago
I used OSCommerce for one project. Never again. Open Source doesn't mean best code. Open Source projects are mostly the fiefdoms of the founders of a project. If you get a good founder you get a good project. Good doesn't have to mean good
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by sh1mmer 18y ago
There is a submit link, so maybe you, me and everyone here should be contributing...
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by sh1mmer 18y ago
Maybe we could write something to splice a feed of Happy News into a feed of regular news to achieve balance in the force.
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by sh1mmer 18y ago
Sigh. And this is why I shouldn't stray outside of my realm of expertise late at night, even if it seems like an interesting diversion. Thanks for the correction :)
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by sh1mmer 18y ago
To put this in perspective the largest Hadoop cluster Yahoo (or anyone) has spun up is 4000 2.5ghz dual-processor quad-core Xeons. According to http://www.clustervision.com/cluster_hardware.html a Xeon runs about 4 flops per cycle. That m
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by sh1mmer 18y ago
I think this article would actually make you a pretty awesome person rather than not a douche. That said it seems a little self-depreciating. One thing I've always loved about start-up culture is that you are encouraged to remember your own
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by sh1mmer 18y ago
Does anyone know the source of this rumour?
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Ask HN: What are the best of public SOAP Web Services
5 points by sh1mmer 18y ago|8 comments
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by sh1mmer 18y ago
Sometimes I really dislike the NYT's editorializing. In this article they start by describing an experiment into the social lives of student which adds tracking to a windows smartphone. They then compare this to the "ever thicker web of sen
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by sh1mmer 18y ago
So my blog is http://kid666.com/ which has a blogroll of a bunch of engineers who work(ed) for Yahoo in Europe. There is also the Yahoo blog directory which is probably hideously out of date. ( http://kid666.com/yahoo-blogs-employee-blogg
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by sh1mmer 18y ago
I think what is interesting to examine is whether the bankruptcy of these three particular companies would leech all the jobs and potential to make money out of the Detroit Metro area. Personally, with such an abundance of skilled workers I
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Tesla Motors on Detroit Bailout(teslamotors.com)
42 points by sh1mmer 18y ago|13 comments
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by sh1mmer 18y ago
There are a few things to do this, I personally have used Feedwhip a bunch. The guy who writes it is really nice and they have both email and RSS options. http://www.feedwhip.com/ I blogged about it some time last year http://kid666.com/
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by sh1mmer 18y ago
It doesn't have to be a big site, it just has to be one that matters to you.
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by sh1mmer 18y ago
I would pick Flash for a number of reasons. It has a lot better x-platform support for it's IDEs. This is important because if you are creating anything at all rich you are going to have designer and coders working on your stuff. Constraini
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by sh1mmer 18y ago
One of the most interesting quotes I heard recently on NPR was someone from Obama's transitional team explaining that a green energy industry is win-win. Developing and deploying green energy will boost the U.S economy while reducing carbon
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by sh1mmer 18y ago
Ryan Carson talked a lot about how selling in the open wasn't good for him with Dropsend ( http://www.thinkvitamin.com/features/webapps/sell-your-web-a... ). I would think this applies to them too.
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by sh1mmer 18y ago
If you haven't seen it A1c0r works at GOOG now and did a great Google Tech Talk a while back ( http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8493378861634507068 )
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by sh1mmer 18y ago
The "Organic" in Organic food refers to the method of farming rather than the food itself, and thus is entirely valid. I think the chemists have a point, but at the same time trying to be over-protective of language is often an exercise in
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by sh1mmer 18y ago
I used to work on Frontpage and I had been trying to get a Pirate logo up. However they tend to only change the logo for major holidays or charities. The only charity I could find that did pirate day stuff are a cancer charity. Since Octobe
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by sh1mmer 18y ago
That's pretty much the size ofit. In our office we definitely value funny. I was so tickled when I found out we own the misspelling yarhoo.com and point it at yahoo.com
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by sh1mmer 18y ago
I constantly find the Chinese inspiring. Their construction seem to span an interesting divide between high tech and low tech. Their high availability of cheap labor being one of the primary factors enabling construction which would be cons
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by sh1mmer 18y ago
I'm a researcher by trade and have absolute sales call reluctance. I won't sell something if I don't feel it is worth the persons time to hear me or money to invest into the product. Are you planning to introduce anything to help select t
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by sh1mmer 18y ago
Is this just a long winded way of Jeff apologizing for being overloaded and giving himself a get out of jail free card? He included the simple truth "humans don't scale". Surely that's the end of it. Email or anything else isn't going to so
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by sh1mmer 18y ago
If you are interested in structured data you should also look at some of the search monkey stuff. Search monkey gives a real insight into how the Y! search engine uses structured data. http://developer.yahoo.com/searchmonkey/smguide/datars
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by sh1mmer 18y ago
I agree. I think this could make a really interesting project in PHP/Python/Rails/etc
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by sh1mmer 18y ago
Disclaimer: I work for the Yahoo! Developer Network Right now you can use BOSS to get regular web search results and mix them in with you own results on your side. I'm not sure about when vertical search will be available though. I'll follo
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by sh1mmer 18y ago
The most useful article I saw on HN about this subject was Structured Procrastination ( http://www.structuredprocrastination.com/ ). I've found that structured procrastination is extremely helpful in "just getting started" and once you are
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by sh1mmer 18y ago
I love the idea! I think that implementing all the content in HTML and then selecting it in Javascript though is a horrible idea for a number of reasons. Performance and accessibility would be my top two. Maintainability would be a close th
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by sh1mmer 18y ago
Sharing badges is borderline. 1 badge = 1 person (not a specific person) is seen as reasonable by some and unreasonable by other conference organizers. Personally I don't have a problem if the conference organizers don't. I do have a proble

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