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by slewis 15y ago
Awesome job powdahound, and I support this comment. You could show the cost units for reserved instances as a range. For example a small reserved instance's base cost is $227.50 per year so that's a lower bound of $.0263/hour. Then adding $
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by slewis 16y ago
I'm curious about your costs. "The worse case scenario for cost to service that customer is about $20 a month paid to Twilio." Which you say is for 100 appointments per month. Assuming one text and one call per appointment that's $.04/appoi
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by slewis 16y ago
Just Googled around and found http://www.backupify.com/ or maybe something like http://www.ltech.com/google-apps/products/google-docs-backup Has anyone tried those products?
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by slewis 16y ago
So are you actually switching off Google?
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by slewis 16y ago
"improve the platforms all these programmers are going to work on" I'm intrigued. Do you have specific ideas in mind? Do you mean like self-driving cars? Or in home helper robots? All of the above?
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by slewis 16y ago
Would be awesome but it seems hard to implement. Do you randomly choose half and tell them "sorry, no school, you must start a business"? If you let them choose which group they're in instead is the experiment biased? Ideas anyone?
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by slewis 16y ago
I think there are people who have interesting ideas but who can't express them as well as others. The ideas may still be worth discussion. And of course anyone who doesn't want to comment doesn't have to. Its a bit dissonant when a post is
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by slewis 16y ago
Its a good point but less relevant to the discussion than some of the other comments here, and currently has 3x the points of all other posts in this thread. Don't just upvote just because you agree, upvote because a post contributes to the
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by slewis 16y ago
A fallacy? Sharing code between client and server is easier when the two are in the same language than when the two are in a different language. How is that flawed reasoning? One example: you can run the same input validation in the client
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by slewis 16y ago
Why desktop rather than web?
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by slewis 16y ago
I'd argue that being in javascript is an advantage rather than a disadvantage. Sharing code between server and client (browser) is much easier, and there is no alternative to javascript in the browser. I'm not saying javascript is the king
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by slewis 16y ago
Apple id seems to implement the proposed solution. They send a verification email but you don't actually have to click the link, you can just ignore it and your account works. This can turn out bad though. I thought I had an apple-id when b
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by slewis 16y ago
Yeah we're a little concerned about the fax receiving service: interfax if anyone's interested. We've seen fragments coming in a few times and heard one report of a fax that didn't go through.
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by slewis 16y ago
Ours, while somewhat jokey, is fully functional and we think could potentially have some interesting content: http://www.faxins.com/ Is that so wrong?
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by slewis 16y ago
Thanks! Neither of us have slept. Wooooooooooooooo
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by slewis 16y ago
I think that having "The Google-way" is certainly valuable to Google (and engineers). Because there are only a few ways to do things you can build something and then hand it off to another time (SRE) for day-to-day operations. It also makes
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by slewis 16y ago
I wanted to point out that donning Color "just some photo-sharing app" is probably not accurate. The investors saw something else. What did they see?
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by slewis 16y ago
Cool, I just wrote a blog post trying to give Credulity too, but from a different angle. I think the app could be something huge, especially with the people and amazing tech they have, as you say. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=236613
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Seeing in Color(shawnmlewis.wordpress.com)
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by slewis 16y ago
I think people are missing one of the key features. This is described in the video here http://vimeo.com/21413899 , but not discussed in any article I've seen. When you turn on Color it starts recording all of the pictures that others in y
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by slewis 16y ago
Try it.
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by slewis 16y ago
Right, if you are to learn to use a tool in novel ways you need to understand its behavior at a basic level: it is better to experiment with it from the outside until you understand its "Tao". On the other hand if you need to achieve a task
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by slewis 16y ago
When I was at Google I worked with very large structured protocol buffers in Python at one point. A single piece of data could be hundreds of MB in total, consisting of millions of smaller protocol buffers. I was doing a pass over the whole
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by slewis 16y ago
Sorry, didn't see this earlier. In addition to project awards (which are significant as you say) there are individual bonuses and stock refreshers for top contributors that can also be 'significant'. Sorry for the vague terms. Further, gett
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by slewis 16y ago
I used to work there, started post-IPO, left in December 2010. IMO the answer is absolutely. But that's all I feel I should say.
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by slewis 16y ago
Please put an edit at the top of the article in addition to the one at the bottom. This article has the potential to waste the time of those who don't read all the way through.
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by slewis 16y ago
Con Kolivas. He's also mentioned in the article. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Con_Kolivas
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by slewis 16y ago
Nice work. But be careful about relying entirely on something like this. There are more than just seek time differences between hard disks and SSDs: they have different internal cache behavior, different latency variances, queuing differenc