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by sh1mmer 16y ago
That's also probably true of Nintendo. I doubt the hardware has anywhere close to the revenue margins of the games themselves, or licensing games. I think the real point in the original comment was that "serious" business is unlikely to bui
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by sh1mmer 16y ago
Even if Github's implementation was misconfigured at first the right thing would be to inform them, wait for the fix and _then_ blog about how to do it successfully. Posting zero day exploits is not big or clever. Github's public transition
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by sh1mmer 16y ago
I probably have a different perspective on this than a lot of the Americans having lived my whole life in the UK until a couple of years ago when I moved out to San Francisco. I think my issue with this essay, and a lot of the politics I he
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by sh1mmer 16y ago
I wrote a short essay ( http://kid666.com/2009/12/15/your-users%E2%80%99-mental-mode... ) about this for "Designing Social Interfaces" ( http://www.amazon.com/Designing-Social-Interfaces-Principles... ) by Christian Crumlish and Erin Malone
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by sh1mmer 16y ago
It's been killed so it's hard to know what was so bad that we should flag it. Not that I'm against flagging.
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by sh1mmer 16y ago
Big enough attacks commonly take down the hosting provider. Especially if they are not geared up for such things.
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by sh1mmer 16y ago
I don't think Github (or anyone really) could afford a drinkup at Nihon.
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by sh1mmer 16y ago
Fancy a beer next week?
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by sh1mmer 16y ago
I think Google are actually really brave to do this and I for one am proud of them. Lots of corporate companies keep around products in zombie states for years because they are afraid of shutting stuff down and upsetting customers. Google p
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Understanding event loops and writing great code for Node.js - Part 1(developer.yahoo.com)
34 points by sh1mmer 16y ago|1 comments
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by sh1mmer 16y ago
I think your conclusions in the article are fair. I think the title on HN is misleading because it's a quantitive issue. V8 GC is a well known concern in the Node community, but it's still performing well enough that Node is considerably fa
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by sh1mmer 16y ago
I think the editorializing of the headline is unnecessarily negative (read biased). There is obviously an issue Ryan is working on addressing but Node is clearly already providing performance which is suitable for many server workloads.
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by sh1mmer 16y ago
I talked with Brendan Eich in New York after JSConf.eu and he was suggesting they might be looking at porting the V8 API to Jägermonkey after they release it so that it can run Node.
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by sh1mmer 16y ago
I think the author has a valid point, but I disagree with his tone. I feel like those of us who were speaking about this early on always said that the browser would be the constraint. This is why Yahoo has been working on using YUI3 in Node
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by sh1mmer 16y ago
Yes. It's been explicitly stated on our blog and on the YQL page that it's not going away. Specifically we've promised a minimum of 6mo notice if we ever did decide to shut it down.
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by sh1mmer 16y ago
I also made a YQL table for HackerNews a while back which should be as polite to the site as possible. http://developer.yahoo.com/yql/console/?q=select%20*%20from%... YQL implements a bunch of caching layers so it should tread as lightly
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Optimal Stopping(wondermark.com)
1 points by sh1mmer 16y ago|0 comments
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by sh1mmer 16y ago
If this kind of stuff interests you there is an excellent book on the physics of bicycles http://www.amazon.com/Bicycling-Science-David-Gordon-Wilson/...
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by sh1mmer 16y ago
I'm surprised no-one has mentioned monofur yet. http://eurofurence.net/monofur.html It's my favourite programming font because it's extremely readable but retails a little flare.
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by sh1mmer 16y ago
When you get a lawyer make sure you know the jurisdiction you are going to do the acquisition in and make sure the lawyer not only says they know about that jurisdiction but has a case history. You may need more than one lawyer, e.g one in
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by sh1mmer 16y ago
I commit pretty frequently, so unless I'm merging in a large feature I tend to use git -m more often. That doesn't mean that I don't rebase a bunch of those smaller changes away before pushing them upstream it just means a lot of the change
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by sh1mmer 16y ago
I'm not a Rubyist but there is something magically about _why. He should be an inspiration to the advocates of all programming and we should try to emulate some of the whimsy and fun he brought to the craft. Programming will be a lot better
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by sh1mmer 16y ago
Disclaimer: I work for Yahoo! I also have no insight into the Bing API roadmap. To quote from the Bing Terms of service: 3. CODE OF CONDUCT / RESTRICTIONS ON USE. You will not, and will not permit your users or other third parties to: (o) c
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by sh1mmer 16y ago
Disclaimer: I work for Yahoo! We've said there will be ways to get BOSS without having to pay a fee. This will probably involve including advertising. The exactly details of this aren't available right now though.
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by sh1mmer 16y ago
I added my phone number after '--sent from my iPhone' so people can call me while I'm on the go if they need to. I feel the signature works for me because it reminds people about brevity. The only stuff I answer from my phone is important,
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by sh1mmer 16y ago
Correct.
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by sh1mmer 16y ago
Possibly both, neither intentionally. Happy to be corrected.
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by sh1mmer 16y ago
Disclaimer: Yahoo! Technology Evangelist In some ways I'm actually glad you raised your views, because I'm not afraid of people peeking in to see what it's like now. I'd still like to reiterate my point from the other thread. We aren't perf
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by sh1mmer 16y ago
This is a common misconception. Yahoo's algorithmic search is powered by Bing. But that's like saying DuckDuckGo can't innovate because Gabriel uses Yahoo, Wikipedia and other APIs to get data. Microsoft have partnered with Yahoo! to provid
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by sh1mmer 16y ago
How about Hadoop? Sure Google released the Map/Reduce paper, but it was Yahoo who wrote 90+% of the current industry standard. What about Node.js? That's pretty en vogue right now. We are currently hiring Node.js engineers and have a number

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