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by sh1mmer 18y ago
This is similar to an earlier thread about scaling with the cloud. But it's an important point, using X buzzword won't make your product better. Building it right will make it better. Cloud computing might be the right tool to do that if
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by sh1mmer 18y ago
While 3 out of 7 point are "stealing" in some capacity there is some goodness in here, specifically: Volunteer , Offer to write , Offer to speak As someone who's job it is to go to conferences to speak and look after the Yahoo booth I s
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by sh1mmer 18y ago
I think it's great he's quickly turned around a site that lowers the barrier to a specific problem. I'd just worry about the demographic makeup of the respondents. While Turkers aren't all geeks getting good sensible feedback is a skill in
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by sh1mmer 18y ago
While Google have an interest in talking about the message that Gmail is secure, from a security perspective it's kind of naive to say "Gmail is secure". All web mail (or any other system) is just a step away from the next exploit. The diff
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by sh1mmer 18y ago
Apparently the rater who down-modded me gets sarcasm and faux-ad hominem.
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by sh1mmer 18y ago
This argument would be interesting if the author wasn't an idiot and had a grasp of what sarcasm is. A: "All rodents are mammals, but a weasel isn't a rodent, so it can't be a mammal." B: "This does not logically follow. You evidently kn
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by sh1mmer 18y ago
Their strategy isn't really very open though. With heavy rate limiting and lack of a decent auth mechanism it's pretty sucky. I really don't like having to store a user's password. Once twitter have OAuth and XMPP I'll think of them as open
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by sh1mmer 18y ago
I've actually thought that Twitter could make quite the business model out of using their search acquisition and some other things to work with brands to track trends. The recent piece on O'Reilly blog post ( http://broadcast.oreilly.com/20
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by sh1mmer 18y ago
Oh and while I'm thinking about it, this is a cool tool but I'm not sure of how much it will do to pressure browser manufacturers into improving. Obviously Steve's suggestions have gone into Chrome but beyond that I wonder how much influenc
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by sh1mmer 18y ago
Did anyone else spot Safari 4.0 on Steve's page? Is that some Apple folks trying out their latest offering, perhaps? I'm pretty sure WebKit nightly comes out as WebKit.
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by sh1mmer 18y ago
That's pretty bad. Is it out of date or just overly fanboy-esque? It would be cool to put some feature list comparisons somewhere. Right now most of this stuff seems really anecdotal because people that understand one system mostly use that
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by sh1mmer 18y ago
I really love Bazaar. I love that it's distributed and I can version a local folder with a single command. I love the simple integration with Launchpad.net (which is annoyingly mediocre). I love that it's a single command which has all the
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by sh1mmer 18y ago
Minification has already been mentioned, but I wanted to re-iterate as it's such an important point. You can reduce size over the wire by as much as 30-80% by minifying and obfuscating (something like YUI or Dojo compressors do this). Not h
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by sh1mmer 18y ago
I think there is a lot to be said for intuitive tool design. While the article was particularly single sided, for something you should use as much as version control it should be low barrier. I rather like the Bazaar single binary approach
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by sh1mmer 18y ago
I've heard this question a lot when people ask me about what Yahoo are going to be offering in the cloud. A lot of people don't understand the difference between Amazon's and Google/Microsoft's approach to cloud offerings. Amazon seem to be
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by sh1mmer 18y ago
Twitter have said they are going to implement OAuth (which would solve this problem) on their API page. However, they have shown no progress to my knowledge of doing this. It would be great for the community to push them towards it. Twitter
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by sh1mmer 18y ago
There was an article on HN a month or so I can't find a link to which discussed how a number of major banks didn't properly update their models to knowingly take greater risks. It explored how a number of banks were using outdated models to
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by sh1mmer 18y ago
This should be called "Where CouchDB Sucks" he highlights some points but also concedes it's great in many places. Frankly a lot of his criticisms are openly pointed out by the CouchDB docs.
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by sh1mmer 18y ago
That's because Facebook is burning through cash they don't have. Unless they continue to grow they are going to be in hot water, fast. Sometimes the Facebook valuations make me think of that Southpark episode where Butters' gay dance earns
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by sh1mmer 18y ago
That encourages lock-in. What if my wife had a baby and I went offline for a year because I didn't have time. Would that make my opinions suddenly invalid? Tennis rankings are based on physical form. Physical form is something much more lik
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by sh1mmer 18y ago
I couldn't agree more. Karma encourages karma getting behavior. Sometimes that overlaps with good.
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by sh1mmer 18y ago
I'd be surprised if this didn't greatly help you against dictionary attacks. I'm pretty sure 90% of cracking dictionaries don't even touch that range of UTF-8. Once you get out of dictionary range brute forcing a password is much, much hard
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by sh1mmer 18y ago
I think the known ones were previously decoded by humans not machines. I could be wrong. But that would make it a bit crap as you say.
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by sh1mmer 18y ago
Anecdotally I've found ReCAPTCHA's CAPTCHA easier to fill in than other CAPTCHA that do strange distortions to obfuscate perfectly rendered text. It seems the human brain is much more adept at decoding the black and white noise resolved in
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by sh1mmer 18y ago
There is enough standardization happening to allow your browser to render those pages. That's a good start. The problem historically with Web Standards has been 2-fold the lack of concrete implementations for vendors to work from. This lead
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by sh1mmer 18y ago
While I'm not sure this is news (well not anymore) I love ReCAPTCHA. What I especially like about ReCAPTCHA is the engineering elegance. The second word is hard to break by hackers because it already failed a machine OCR algorithm (obviousl
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by sh1mmer 18y ago
It's seems like there is a lot more complexity in modern products but there is also not the same kind of engineering attitude to products. Working in the Internet industry I've met so many people without formal backgrounds, something unthin
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by sh1mmer 18y ago
Google have been working on Map Reduce for 4 years longer than anyone else. I'm actually pretty happy that we (Yahoo!) are talking about what we are doing in the Open and contributing in an Open project. You could reproduce what we did. Obv
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by sh1mmer 18y ago
Then the people that bought it would have complained that Apple let them pay for a feature that came out for a free a couple of months later. That's the problem with secret roadmaps.
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by sh1mmer 18y ago
This is such a compelling demo because it's based on common technology available to millions of people. Doing it with Flash and a webcam was a stroke of genius. When stuff is in a lab it's less compelling. I saw one of the Microsoft multi-t

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