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by smoody 18y ago
some sites hide their implementation language for obvious reasons, but for those that don't, you can at least tell what their front-end language is with http://www.builtwith.com
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by smoody 18y ago
Unless the blog author builds software that never crashes -- even when it get millions of hits on its first day, then he should cut them some slack. I'll put money on the fact that Google didn't have the same kind of traffic on their first
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by smoody 18y ago
This just in: Speculation about a 'MacBook Touch' builds when rumor sites post articles with titles like "Speculation About a 'MacBook Touch' Builds"
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10gen - Open Source Stack similar to Google App Engine(10gen.com)
26 points by smoody 18y ago|2 comments
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by smoody 18y ago
"So, as the Twitter's out there continue to have availability issues and the debate continues as to the scalability of Ruby on Rails, BIG-IP helps show that with a good design and infrastructure planning, big things are possible." Uh... the
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by smoody 18y ago
good luck. i was on at 8am exactly, put a bunch in my cart, checked-out, got notification of my purchase, etc. but, godaddy just sent me a bunch of emails stating that someone had registered them before me. and, some were pretty obscure. th
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by smoody 18y ago
this comes from a company that took money. granted it was from mr. bezos, but still.
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by smoody 18y ago
a friend of mine has a site on that list. perhaps there's a way you can all band together and use a single attorney. plus the eff is a great resource. i'm sure amazon will want to help somehow as they most certainly have prior art. and didn
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by smoody 18y ago
unsubscribe. hmmmm...didn't seem to work. anyone know how to stop every single post from the f5 corporate marketing blogs from reaching me here?
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by smoody 18y ago
She would have to find a server that could serve her the DVD in two seconds. And I'd hazard to guess that most servers could only serve a few people (or fewer) at a time at those speeds, so it would quickly devolve into asking people to wai
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by smoody 18y ago
and they both look like the flying spaghetti monster. coincidence? i think not.
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by smoody 18y ago
hmmm... i like some of the f5 posts, but it's beginning to feel like Hacker News is an RSS feed reader and i'm somehow automatically subscribed to the f5 blog.
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TinyURL finally adds vanity URLs(webware.com)
1 points by smoody 18y ago|0 comments
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Topspin gets investment from Foundry Group(foundrygroup.com)
1 points by smoody 18y ago|0 comments
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by smoody 18y ago
It's too bad they perceive long hours at their job as a chore -- and they must since they are prescribing both short hours and four-day work weeks. When I'm in the groove doing something I truly love to do , then 16 hour workdays fly by as
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In virtual worlds, child avatars need protecting -- from each other(latimes.com)
1 points by smoody 18y ago|0 comments
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by smoody 18y ago
"This Flash Player will act just like a person would in some cases. It will click on your buttons, it will move through the states of your application, get data from the server when your application normally would, and it will capture all o
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OBD: Obsessive Branding Disorder: The Illusion of Business and the Business of Illusion(veryshortlist.com)
1 points by smoody 18y ago|0 comments
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by smoody 18y ago
how many years experience has DHH had working with MBAs in order to draw his conclusions? has he worked with one? one hundred? or perhaps he's just assuming? whether or not someone is a great, inspiring leader is completely orthogonal to th
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Fonts: When Comic Sans Isn’t Enough, Sites Help Create Custom Fonts(nytimes.com)
7 points by smoody 18y ago|0 comments
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by smoody 18y ago
The announced at Google IO that they have written their own Java VM for use by Android. It would not surprise me if the VM turned out to be more general purpose and Java just happened to be their first supported language.
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by smoody 18y ago
it's down for me too.
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by smoody 18y ago
Advice given to me during my first startup by a very successful entrepreneur: To succeed, you have to be able to kill a puppy. Don't just think "yeah, I can kill a puppy," but imagine yourself holding a puppy underwater until it stops breat
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by smoody 18y ago
An amazing book. It's at the top of my recommended reading list.
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mod_rails (Phusion Passenger) RC adds Phython WSGI support(blog.phusion.nl)
3 points by smoody 18y ago|0 comments
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by smoody 18y ago
User-submitted news sites that allow people to vote articles up and down. ;-)
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Hadoop use at Facebook (facebook.com)
25 points by smoody 18y ago|4 comments
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by smoody 18y ago
A deceiving headline. They imply that they have inside information, but when you drill down, it is a series of sourceless "shoulds." I still don't know how Apple could possibly ship a phone on Monday when it has yet to show up on the FCC da
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by smoody 18y ago
That depends on the specifics of the application and the traffic it receives. Perhaps you can tell us more about the application? There are a subset of applications that App Engine is perfectly suited for at this specific point in time, but
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by smoody 18y ago
"...which makes wsgi applications (which can be deployed through several ways) very flexible..." What are the preferred ways to deploy wsgi apps?

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