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by smokinn 15y ago
So "most of the world" is China and some muslim countries? I'm pretty sure Canada, India, most of Africa and pretty much all of Europe have neither state-controlled media nor an internet firewall. Of course, I do agree that people need to k
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by smokinn 15y ago
Seconded. Showing your appreciation makes them much more likely to stick up for you in the future. If these bills do get shot down, they'll inevitably return in a different form in the future.
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by smokinn 15y ago
That's not what he said at all. I don't use couchdb either but I do follow the nosql space a little and what I read was that he's creating an all-new project. Couchdb is an Apache foundation-led project and will continue on its own path. Co
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by smokinn 15y ago
I imagine he wants company name/links to job postings.
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by smokinn 15y ago
HBO spends a lot of money on creating truly premium content. For that reason I would pay for HBO Go. But I can't because I refuse to pay for cable just to get HBO. What would I watch on cable? A bunch of crappy reality tv? No thanks, Netfli
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by smokinn 15y ago
Which I find insane when it comes to crops. If the person had willfully taken some seeds and used them sure, but patent law really should have some sort of exemption for cases where the patented product is overtly trespassing. It's ridiculo
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by smokinn 15y ago
So what you're saying is they came around and said: Oh, sorry, but we infected your field. And by the way you're not allowed to use your own seeds (the ones produced by his field) anymore because we infected them.
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by smokinn 15y ago
I would like to see a list of Amazon's bullshit.
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by smokinn 15y ago
Yes and no. At the scale pof operates at you have to A/B test everything because some things are very counter-intuitive. My favorite anecdote of his (tried to find it on his blog but google is failing me) was when he briefly fixed the probl
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by smokinn 15y ago
Probably not but I personally have no problem with this. pg runs an investment firm that invests to a large extent in internet-based companies. To "blacklist" the companies that want to hurt his investment opportunities and returns (really,
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by smokinn 15y ago
I imagine there's a large number of reasons. Of the top of my head: Supplier costs Volume discounts smaller (until they scale up more at least) Infrastructure partners more limited and costly etc, etc
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by smokinn 15y ago
I agree. I use Instafetch and it covers 100% of what I used on the ios version of Instapaper to the point where I couldn't tell you what other features IP had over IF.
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by smokinn 15y ago
I imagine that would depend on your position in the company. If you're a product manager you might face some stigma but if you're a software engineer I doubt anything matters other than the technical challenges you face. (And Zynga operates
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by smokinn 15y ago
What kind of informed choice can you make when the market is run by a conspiring oligopoly? CarrierIQ is the case in point. It may be tracking a different subset of things on different devices but it seems to be on all brands and it seems t
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by smokinn 15y ago
And you guessed wrong. It says iphones and blackberrys are equally affected.
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by smokinn 15y ago
Windows Phone is actually quite nice. I have a few friends who have one (most of which work at Microsoft) and I've only used it a little but it seems pretty usable. What I like most is how fast they're both catching up and, in some areas, s
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by smokinn 15y ago
Businesses don't create a tax burden? Businesses use the country's infrastructure just as much as the citizens. They want police so they don't get robbed, they want roads and a post office, they want electricity for their buildings and sewe
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by smokinn 15y ago
Sales tax only puts the burden disproportionally on the poor. If you're making millions of dollars a year you're probably only spending a small fraction of it and if there's only sales tax you pay tax on a percentage of what you spent. So l
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by smokinn 15y ago
I remember installing it a few weeks ago on ubuntu to update my cv. The base system was 280+ mb along with 190+ mb of documentation. I found it mildly amusing that I had to download ~500 mb of stuff just to update my cv.
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by smokinn 15y ago
Interesting that this guy could write a quick script that could take out almost any mail server on the web for more or less free. I imagine only a few of the big guys (yahoo, microsoft, google) could handle large unexpected volumes without
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by smokinn 15y ago
Sure, I wasn't implying eBay overpaid by 80x but 79 million dollars is a lot of product development once you've paid 1 million for a proven state of the art proof of concept. Obviously eBay must see other reasons for the acquisition than ju
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by smokinn 15y ago
I tried it a couple of times too. First time I figured it was basically a slightly better stumbleupon. Next time I tried it was still the same thing and never went back.
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by smokinn 15y ago
80 million dollars is a lot to pay for a recommendation engine. Netflix had their own and paid a million dollars as prize payout for an absolutely state of the art system. If it really was just a tech acquisition they massively overpaid.
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by smokinn 15y ago
The series is netflix-owned though so it'll probably be available in Canada too. They don't have any arbitrary studio rules for regional licensing to deal with. It's Europe, where netflix hasn't launched yet, that is left in the cold.
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by smokinn 15y ago
Tech meetups are a goldmine if you're interested in startups. Maybe you won't find employees from the startup itself there but if you interested in say, erlang, and go to an erlang meetup you can very easily ask people there if they've hear
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by smokinn 15y ago
They've already announced how they're going to pick up where they left off and it's actually a very good idea. For the first few episodes, each main character is going to get a recap episode of what they've been up to. (Now my personal opin
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by smokinn 15y ago
Timeouts probably. If you mean why is it a problem at all, it's usually because of database size. On any large scale deployment (ie you have at least a million users) schema modifications will take hours . The only way to do reliable schem
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by smokinn 15y ago
Don't worry, we in Canada won't be getting reasonably priced good internet connections either.
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by smokinn 15y ago
The article wasn't vague. It explicitly pointed out that there's no business model at all yet: Maritz says VMware doesn’t have a concentrate plan for making money from Cloud Foundry. “A leap of faith,” he calls it. I imagine the obvious b
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by smokinn 15y ago
Sigh, I know, but non-technical product managers can be very adamant about certain things. =(

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