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by smoody 18y ago
I'll take Rhapsody's subscription service any day. $15/month on LaLa: add 150 songs every month to my stream list. $15/month on Rhapsody: have instant access to millions of songs every month. BTW, I do not work for Rhapsody or any of its pa
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by smoody 18y ago
"At best, your 'foresight' can result in wasted time, where you spun your wheels for a few hours (or days!) playing 'what if' and 'let’s pretend', trying with too little information to think of how best to architect your code to accommodat
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by smoody 18y ago
I wonder if, during the next application cycle, you'll receive a bonus uptick in applications due to people having been made redundant, as our friends across the pond say. Being jobless can turn even the most mild mannered programmer into a
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by smoody 18y ago
It's sort-of funny that the URL you've provided for an article about RISD is the printable version with no images. For anyone interested, remove 'print' from the end of the URL to see the version with images (and yes, with ads). Of course t
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by smoody 18y ago
I don't think it has liquid database scaling the way App Engine does. If you have to even spend a second thinking about sharding, partitioning, replication lag, etc. then you're not getting the same functionality.
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by smoody 18y ago
Yikes. At this time either use the appspot.com domain for your URLs or, perhaps in the future, use a technique implemented by only the most modern of browsers (but excluding Safari at the moment). I'm sure that'll work for some people out t
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by smoody 18y ago
beautiful!
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by smoody 18y ago
"Google has established a plan with Morgan Stanley (which might go under)..." Wow. That is, IMHO, a hugely irresponsible claim to make unless the author, the president of the WebGuild, is privy to some inside information as to the state of
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by smoody 18y ago
There's a difference between not having a business model and waiting for the proper time to spring it on your customers. In the case of twitter, the author is being a little bit short sighted. More and more companies are using twitter to fo
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by smoody 18y ago
I know exactly what you're talking about. I once worked for a software company where the female engineers/managers way outnumbered the male engineers. It became known as a friendly place for female engineers to work and that, in turn, attra
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by smoody 18y ago
Let's say it's boom times and money is cheap and plentiful and there are a stable of eager acquirers looks for companies to buy. Why not grow fast in that case? It didn't seem like it hurt the guys who started YouTube. And there are more ex
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by smoody 18y ago
could they be the seven horsemen of the startup apocalypse?
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by smoody 18y ago
exactly the approach i would have taken and i think their solution demonstrates, to some degree, what can happen when a company is focused on hiring engineers instead of great product people.
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Yes, Facebook is Open Source, Too [list of Facebook open source projects/contributions] (insidefacebook.com)
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by smoody 18y ago
is it too late to get our $700 billion back?
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by smoody 18y ago
the person who snapped the photos erased the serial numbers but didn't erase the barcodes. oops.
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by smoody 18y ago
nicely done! good to see an original take on online dating. i wouldn't worry about the background. for every person you find that doesn't like it, you'll find someone who will. people are visiting the site for a reason. they probably won't
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by smoody 18y ago
can HN articles waste my time with deceptive titles? YES!
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by smoody 18y ago
The guy who started Tumblr, the leading tumblelog, didn't even go to college. I guess he'll be working the fry machine.
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by smoody 18y ago
they didn't actually collide anything yet.
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by smoody 18y ago
Coincidentally, I predicted that someone would take credit for predicting that Bill Gates would appear in the advertisements. :-)
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by smoody 18y ago
ah..2005...a very good year for apple.
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by smoody 18y ago
"For example, one of the respondents Katrina, 27 from Brighton, is a classical musician and leads a jazz band. She was asked to make contact with a Japanese jazz singer, Natsuo Murakami, halfway across the world. She contacted her record p
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by smoody 18y ago
note to self: don't start companies that require multiple synchronized data centers. :-)
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by smoody 18y ago
i agree. i wish there was some way i could unsubscribe to the f5 feed that they push through here. HN should, at a minimum, collect money for allowing them to use this site as a distribution channel for their shamelessly self-promoting post
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by smoody 18y ago
I've heard great things about nginx. In relation to this article, how would you implement the lua script presented in this article with nginx? I know that Perl can be embedded in the server, but I'm not sure if that would be the proper solu
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by smoody 18y ago
Well, to be fair, they have taken that article and generalized it in a broader way, but based on what firsthand experience? Oh, right... firsthand experience reading the original article. It's so funny that people can take one or two articl
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by smoody 18y ago
"You either die a hero, or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain" :-) (from _The Dark Night_ script, obviously)
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by smoody 18y ago
prolog rocks. it is certainly one of the most under-appreciated languages imho.
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where do i start? google?

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