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by smoody 16y ago
I totally agree re: single language/data model instead of spreading time and abilities. It is definitely cool to know a variety of programming languages (and I've used about a dozen of them in commercial work). But it's great to work with a
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by smoody 16y ago
Really interesting and (should the authors read this) thanks a ton for sharing it. I am curious about one thing. I sort-of already know the answer, but will ask anyway: I saw in the post that you used Pusher for handling your realtime updat
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by smoody 16y ago
I know Brad and I've honestly never met anyone more in love with a significant other than he is (and visa versa). I would strongly recommend taking any and all of his relationship advice (and finding the perfect mate for you also helps :-).
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by smoody 16y ago
someone posts this every six or eight months it seems. And every time it scores the poster hundreds of points. Still a good read. :-)
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by smoody 16y ago
a friend of a good friend of mine was brutally raped by an independent Lincoln Town Car licensed driver (in NYC). I would advise (my personal opinion) women to avoid such services and deal with the hassle of getting a cab. Getting into a st
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Building a reverse HTTP proxy in Node.js (kid666.com)
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by smoody 16y ago
I agree with everything except for one point (which was a painful process for me to learn): some people want and need to be told what to do and there's nothing wrong with that assuming that, once told what to do, the people can execute. I j
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by smoody 16y ago
nicely done! what are you using for persistence on the backend?
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by smoody 16y ago
I have both FLUD and Pulse. They are very similar and I believe Pulse came out first (correct?). I always reach for Pulse and FLUD goes unused on my iPad. Just a personal preference and a different point of view. But, I believe both pro
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by smoody 16y ago
great that they shared the story. no way to know going into one if these deals if it'll happen to you or not. yes, there were red flags, but there are almost always red flags. and when there aren't red flags, it can still go south. you see
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by smoody 16y ago
Are they providing a data persistence solution as part of their stack?
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by smoody 16y ago
Funny thing is, mine recently went down. Obama's bill has made it illegal for credit card companies to continue to penalize you with higher interest rates for a late payment made more that six months ago (as I understand it). I called my cr
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by smoody 17y ago
" Who else is the target audience for this? My wife's parents — they're not ready for the complicated computer world. They have these old computers." How much is Woz worth? And even with that kind of money, he won't spring for a couple of
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by smoody 17y ago
Egads. There is nothing wrong with selling. Imagine this scenario: You sell your first company, perhaps you've bootstrapped it and perhaps you sell it for 8 digits. Then you can create a second company (yes, people, it IS possible to cr
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by smoody 17y ago
couldn't have said it better myself.
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by smoody 17y ago
The logic is flawed because the company behind the example he used -- ID -- doesn't make Apple hundreds of millions of dollars each year. Their software doesn't sell Macs. In terms of bottom line, ID doesn't really matter all that much to A
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by smoody 17y ago
Google is cloud-based? Geeze, all this time I was under the impression that they owned their own data centers, managed their own servers, and built-out their own network! The article should be titled "Scaling your server infrastructure to G
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by smoody 17y ago
Version properly formatted with photos: http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/05/sports/playmagazine/05robi...
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by smoody 17y ago
I still don't understand all of the fuss. These two are close enough in performance to where people should pick the framework that best serves their needs, their designs, and their brains. Big deal -- there are now two ways (at least) to ac
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by smoody 17y ago
I understand the response at some level, but I also totally get the idea of making things work the way one's mind works. It makes coding much more enjoyable and speeds the process of app development once the core work is done. And it was ni
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by smoody 17y ago
If the dollar collapses, then people will no longer be able to afford goods produced in China (or good produced anywhere else for that matter). In that case, wouldn't such a collapse put China's economy into a tailspin?
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by smoody 18y ago
"Easy hooks into Disqus (and competitors) so each tweet can be the beginning of a conversation." In my humble opinion, I can't imagine a worse addition to Twitter. Well, I can imagine a few, but the beauty of Twitter is its simplicity and t
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by smoody 18y ago
It's a lot easier when you have a strong brand (corporate and personal). It's not so easy when you don't. Granted, they had no brand when they started (which was in a different climate than the climate facing startups today), but I think th
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by smoody 18y ago
Oracle has owned InnoDB for quite a while -- the transactional storage engine used by MySQL. They could have easily killed it off and thus left MySQL with very few alternatives for anyone wanting something that could do sub-table-level lock
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by smoody 18y ago
http://www.stanford.edu/class/cs193p/cgi-bin/index.php
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by smoody 18y ago
Thanks. It is amazing how much misinformation there is about this issue.
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by smoody 18y ago
People ask questions here because there's an efficiency that comes from asking someone who already knows the answer vs. the time to, say, read through pages and pages of tax laws. I'm happy to share wisdom when it's quick and easy to spread
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by smoody 18y ago
A quick question: Is it or is it not the case that the higher tax rate is only applied to income over the $250K threshold? So, if you make $260K, then only $10K would be taxed at the higher rate and the rest would be taxed at the lower ra
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by smoody 18y ago
The "you get what you pay for" argument is a weird argument to make. That implies that 10 instances of the o3 solution are delivering the same value as a single f5 box -- value in way you describe -- because, at that point, their dollar cos
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by smoody 18y ago
I'm not so sure the VideoEgg's frame is 'evil' like DiggBar's frame. It looks to me as if the ad is inserted into the current DOM at runtime and thus the URL for every page using the technology isn't a VideoEgg URL (could you imagine if an

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