smoody

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   by smoody 16y ago

   "You do realise there's about 20 other companies doing the same thing at this point, right?" The same thing was true when Google entered the market. ;-)
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   by smoody 16y ago

   love this and really want to sign-up for it but didn't see a privacy policy anywhere.
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   by smoody 16y ago

   To all those people thinking that gaming the system this way is fine and they'd do it : Let's not say it's you with a cancerous liver, let's say it's your mom, child, or sibling. and they're near death. And let's not say that they'd get a
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   by smoody 16y ago

   This is a great example of someone finding a nice, untapped niche that was staring us all in the face. Well done!
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   by smoody 16y ago

   of course none of it matters if the machine/vm crashes before the increments are committed to disk. :-)
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   by smoody 16y ago

   NoSQL databases can have their own Structured Query Languages. What they lack are relational capabilities, so something like NoJoi might be better. :-)
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   by smoody 16y ago

   What's the best way to make sure it's nearly impossible for someone to find your datastore on Google? Name it Shard (I guess "replication," and "failover" would be just as bad). :-)
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   by smoody 16y ago

   "But what about reliability? AT&T is horrible! Wrong. AT&T might be horrible for you, but it works just fine for me." Wow... didn't realize that a network's reliability is determined by the reliability attained by a single user on
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   by smoody 16y ago

   If Gizmodo does not get invited, then we'll know for sure if it is the iPhone announcement.
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    by smoody 16y ago

    Why wouldn't someone simply drop-in the api-compatible membase in this situation? It's written by some of the memcached contributors, does heavy cacheing, so it has comparable in-memory speeds but yet persists data to disk, does not require
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    by smoody 16y ago

    As an adult, I've personally lived in Boston, Seattle, San Francisco, New York City (where I now reside), Los Angeles, and Boulder, Co. If I had to chose one, I'd chose Boulder. Why? - Great tech scene. - Great VCs (Brad, Ryan, and the rest
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    by smoody 16y ago

    AppEngine is adding an SQL/relational database to their service in the near future.
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    by smoody 16y ago

    congratulations! nice PR and a useful little app. now, if you can do one for Home Depot, i'll be the first in line to get it.
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    by smoody 16y ago

    "echo" echo echo echo. :-) i give to Save The Children. i'm not a religious man, but i am deeply saddened by the thought of children going hungry.
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    by smoody 16y ago

    i would probably suggest $4.99 vs. $5.00 -- there's a reason people do the silly 99 cent thing, or so i've read.
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    by smoody 16y ago

    exactly. i can't remember the last time i saw the nytimes login page.
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    by smoody 16y ago

    If I remember correctly (and I'll be the first to admit I might not have this right), the accredited investor rule comes into play if a startup doesn't have a full prospectus explaining the risks associated with making an investment along w
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    by smoody 16y ago

    But why couldn't they get funding?
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    by smoody 16y ago

    But, specific to Gawker's case -- where the databases and source code are compromised, this would not work, correct? There'd have to be some salt that does not exist in the database, config files, or source code. I guess one could, as a (we
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    by smoody 16y ago

    Just curious... are you using innodb or myisam? also stackoverflow.com is a perfect place for this sort of question, too.
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    by smoody 16y ago

    check out snip.ly -- the do a good job of emphasizing text you select but still let people get to the whole article. http://www.snip.ly/alpha
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    by smoody 16y ago

    I've read through dropbox's security PDF and I still have a lingering question: What prevents employees/intruders from looking at your dropbox files stored on the server? As I understand it (and perhaps I'm wrong), your dropbox password i
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    by smoody 16y ago

    "At Etsy, we are releasing changes to code and application configs over 25 times a day." Perhaps I'm old fashioned, but 25 times a day? I'm very curious as to the types of changes. UI tweaks? Bug fixes? Do they have to make a config change
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    by smoody 16y ago

    Also, don't forget about potential future value re: their upcoming node.js support. I suspect that'll be even more popular than their rails service at some point in the not-to-distant future.
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    by smoody 16y ago

    If my "app" on Heroku is counted in that hosted app number, then people must assign a lot of value to a one page web app that simply states "welcomes to rails." I suspect there are other apps on the service that compete direectly with mine.
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    by smoody 16y ago

    very nice!
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    by smoody 16y ago

    Speaking of Kinect and health... am I the only one worried about the potential health impact of having bright pinpoints of infrared light beamed directly into our eyes for long periods of time? Just because we can't perceive the light doesn
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    by smoody 16y ago

    I think the CAD renderings are of a very high quality.
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    by smoody 16y ago

    If Kickstarter becomes popular, it'll become overwhelmed by fraudulent projects -- people creating simple renderings and/or videos to raise hundreds of thousands and then just disappearing with the money. Then thousands of people will start
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    by smoody 16y ago

    I bet that he'd add the following today: "And the less downtime we'd experience."