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by smoody 15y ago
Doesn't this completely blow their "only a few employees have access to your data" stance out of the water? Doesn't mean that, for example, every one of their programmers has access to user data? If a presumably simple bug can give the whol
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by smoody 15y ago
How many servers will it take to push everyone data to a billion people all trying to pull data at a gigabit per second?
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by smoody 15y ago
I didn't realize that it is possible to trademark something after it has been used widely as a non-trademarked term. Isn't that why Aspirin couldn't be trademarked?
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by smoody 15y ago
"each startup receives $40.000 USD subsidy (no equity). This is a huge deal for me as you usually have to give a lot of equity in seed rounds for relative small amounts of capital. With this program you don't give away any equity, which sh
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by smoody 16y ago
The thing about Dropbox is that they were making the same claims (from the perspective of a non-technical person) that other you-manage-your-own-encryption-key cloud storage sites were making. You put someone non-technical in-front of the m
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by smoody 16y ago
I was developing an app in Java at the time (1996). The Java motto was "write once, run anywhere." (everywhere?) We used to say "write once, debug everywhere." It was a mess (granted, we were using it to build a client, not a server). A San
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by smoody 16y ago
I care because it means not all IE users will auto-upgrade from IE9 to IE10 which means IE9 will have great longevity and its shortcomings will have to supported by us developers for a longer period of time.
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Flipboard raises $50 million at $200 million(venturebeat.com)
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by smoody 16y ago
IMHO, this smells like a marketing move -- in the same way that merging Rails and Merb was a (brilliant) marketing move. If Rails wants to stay "cool" (and if you believe that "cool" is a zero sum game), then Rails has to stay buzzword comp
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by smoody 16y ago
The Rails team used PHP for their Rails website for a number of years if I remember correctly.
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by smoody 16y ago
I've always wished someone would do a JVM-version of Prolog, like Clojure (Jalog?) where the prolog databases can, on demand, be linked directly to MySQL databases and/or a networked in-memory cache of some sort. Do that and don't charge an
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by smoody 16y ago
ditto on the focus effect. reduces the value of the photo.
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by smoody 16y ago
Granted, I haven't read all of the critiques of Color, but here's my issue with camera apps: For any given moment, people are going to choose one app to document that moment. Are people going to start with Instagram, take a photo, switch to
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by smoody 16y ago
I, along with the rest of my team, created the same concept back in 1998 and by the year 2000, we were averaging between 14 million and 20 million pageviews per day which, even in this day and age, is still a decent amount of pageviews! Bu
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by smoody 16y ago
I believe he is. There's a chance he has a clause in his contract that gives him him a payout in the event that he gets let go without cause (and firing him for being an annoying reporter probably isn't just cause). Remember, this is the sa
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by smoody 16y ago
"It's completely secured." -- Yikes, I'd never have the courage to make such a statement. How is my encryption key generated and where/how it is stored on your server? Forgive me if the key is generated by me on the client -- I'm afraid to
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by smoody 16y ago
quick question: Can I be sure that the service will not index my confidential site visits (banking, creditcards, etc.) and/or capture information sent to those sites (usernames, passwords, etc.)? On the download page it says that I grant y
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by smoody 16y ago
As the saying goes, half of something is better than all of nothing. If he'll make the difference between the project being a hobby and being a real business, then my take-it-or-leave-it advice would be to be generous with the stock, but th
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by smoody 16y ago
He also officially quit blogging a couple of years ago, too. Quitters never quit.
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by smoody 16y ago
Her Kindle books are $3 per copy, not $9 as the article states. But no matter how you slice it, she's making north of $1M per year.
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by smoody 16y ago
I think people are mostly upset because he got coverage on Techcrunch and, IMHO, that idea isn't Techcrunch-worthy (whatever that means).
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by smoody 16y ago
The AWS team never ceases to amaze me. Seriously. They release new, great, useful services at an amazing rate. It's difficult to believe that other cloud services will be compete over time simply because they cannot innovate as fast (I know
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by smoody 16y ago
There's a good reason: I would argue that Dropbox has questionable security practices (by that I mean look around their site and try to find an in-depth description of how then insure individual account security... it leaves me with many qu
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by smoody 16y ago
Where can we find an overview of companies that demoed at Launch today?
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by smoody 16y ago
short version: empty string
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by smoody 16y ago
Lease it or sell it to the magazine "BlackBook" ( http://www.blackbookmag.com/ ) and enjoy the extra cash.
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by smoody 16y ago
With many people, including myself, finding times to print and mail 100 photos from a birthday party (and you can bet that grandma will want to see all 100) is an issue, but uploading photos is a background task. There's a reason people sha
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by smoody 16y ago
37Signals have a very clear "Getting acquired by big companies is the worst mistake you can make" stance. I'm not sure where it comes from, but they seem to think that anyone who gets acquired by a big company will regret it. They say the s
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by smoody 16y ago
I'm I the only one concerned about concentrated pin-point beams of UV light being shined into my eyes for hours-on-end when using Kinect? I know we can't see the UV light, but that doesn't mean it can't hurt our optical wetware, right? If
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by smoody 16y ago
Great idea. Great name.

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