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by smhinsey 18y ago
well, this speaks directly towards the point you made about corporate culture clash, but Microsoft's culture places a lot of value on control, so it might not really be an option for them to put a deal in place withou control over it, and s
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by smhinsey 18y ago
i'm not sure that I agree that REST and SOAP are really in conflict. it may not be common, but there's no reason you couldn't use SOAP as a transport for REST-based services. the real conflict is between REST systems which may or may not us
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by smhinsey 18y ago
we do a lot of stuff with soap over queues (msmq in our case, but same difference) as well. as i've been interviewing people, i've observed that stuff like this is really rare, so not many people have actually stopped to think about what yo
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by smhinsey 18y ago
this is actually a repost of a popular comment from the thread about that daily wtf article.
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by smhinsey 18y ago
it does look a lot like dojo, thanks.
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by smhinsey 18y ago
What's most interesting to me about this is the dependency management code in their javascript library. That's a feature that truly sets it apart from the other mainstream javascript libraries. (I'd love to be corrected on this!)
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by smhinsey 18y ago
It's worse only in the narrow context in which it's allowed to be dominant. This isn't a zero sum game. Taking the time differential between when a contribution was posted and when it first met a "value" threshold (say, 5 upvotes) and rewar
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by smhinsey 18y ago
You could end up biasing your community towards the mundane (the digg/fark model) if you aren't careful, but what I'm thinking about is something that instead of rewarding people who are "good voters" (for lack of a better term) instead see
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by smhinsey 18y ago
That's why I emphasize that the key is making sure you set thresholds around it. For example, don't perform the calculation when the post has more than a 10% distribution in votes, or you could add a freshness component, so you would only g
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by smhinsey 18y ago
This is something I've been mulling over for our site (one of the big US newsmags) which gets a lot of comments but has very limited community. One of the approaches I've decided to explore a little further is tying your karma to the votes
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by smhinsey 18y ago
You have the same problem with almost any streaming media, be it internet radio or youtube. I personally almost always have KEXP streaming in the background. I have no idea how much bandwidth I use for that alone but it's non-trivial.
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by smhinsey 18y ago
volume! economies of scale!
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by smhinsey 18y ago
this is a little confusing to me, because i've been working with .net since it came out and i always thought of it was an example of the type of good products microsoft was capable of releasing if they tried. there are certainly bad portion
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by smhinsey 19y ago
I'm not an expert with configuring Google Analytics, but this still looks like a bad idea, except possibly in the case of the RSS (use feedburner, parse logs). If you experience any type of load, you're going to generate a lot of network ch
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by smhinsey 19y ago
i kind of doubt it's real, but it sure seems like it is sometimes.
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by smhinsey 19y ago
I think if you're willing to assume the risk of starting the company in the first place, then you ought to be willing to assume the risk of rejecting an offer and then potentially failing afterwards. It's a risk, but if you enter into it wi
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by smhinsey 19y ago
i am having a hard time picturing a treadmill desk. are you joking? if not, do you have any references you can recommend on the logistics of it?
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by smhinsey 19y ago
i don't think that's true. good luck getting a machine to stay up that long, but it's definitely possible.
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by smhinsey 19y ago
very helpful. excellent comment.
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by smhinsey 19y ago
I'd be more surprised if they didn't do this. (I was going to make a snarky comment about the programming.reddit auto-submit-to-YCNews bot, but...)
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by smhinsey 19y ago
This doesn't imply anything about load balancers not working. Load balancers work by creating what are called VIPs - virtual IPs, which aggregate the IP addresses of the balanced services. In a lot of cases, the individual services need not
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by smhinsey 19y ago
Discovery Channel is my current favorite. You could write a book on how right their "The world is just awesome" campaign is. You can see it here: http://youtube.com/watch?v=e5Q0CLlFFm0
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by smhinsey 19y ago
i've found myself going back to slashdot after a decently long absence as well, but man, it's like they are in a competition with digg over who can have the worst comment interface. it's better than it used to be, but it's way too noisy.
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by smhinsey 19y ago
i agree, but it's best not to overextend yourself in guessing about the intentions of others.
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by smhinsey 19y ago
I'll reserve judgement until I can see it in action, but on the surface the idea of a less spammy Expert's Exchange (I think that bit about the javascript windows is a subtle dig at them, but I can't be sure) could potentially be valuable.
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by smhinsey 19y ago
this doesn't really have anything to do with backing up ram or necessarily the instance's main disks - it's a volume you can mount and format to your taste, and this volume is now available to multiple instances and can be snapshotted into
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by smhinsey 19y ago
I have no idea how they claim to reverse this condition, but it seems at least plausible that it can prevent it, as the stated goal seems to be to mitigate swelling which is symptomatic of Alzheimer's.
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by smhinsey 19y ago
> But then I realized that some people may want these products, even though I would never pay for one. I feel the same way. This is essentially in the same category as products like those Computer Professor cd-roms that will "teach peop
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by smhinsey 19y ago
I think this has the potential to be pretty huge. EC2 is becoming almost the ideal disaster recovery environment for us. All it would take is a simple bridge between our internal messaging platform and SQS and there we go. This is an incred
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by smhinsey 19y ago
I have turned into such a bad sport about this April Fool's Day nonsense.

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