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by soup10 14y ago
Works fine for me but it's not 60fps. Animation and graphics in javascript will never be good. I can't wait for the native app model to come to PC's so we can stop shoehorning all this crap into html/javascript which it was never designed
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by soup10 14y ago
Weakest support of bold headline ever. I expected sharp insight into some previously ignored market forces to back it up. Instead his argument is "google is making some small inroads with a couple universities". Do you not remember that
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by soup10 14y ago
People who offer solutions and timetables are researchers trying to get funding(always overly optimistic). The fact is that we have a relatively tiny amount of understanding and control over organic matter. And far more basic research brea
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by soup10 14y ago
Nobody is quick to accept aging or death. But it's understood that we are very far from medical technology that can tackle the problem. Aging is deeply ingrained in our DNA. So far the world has spent countless billions trying to cure ca
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by soup10 14y ago
I don't get why every science article gets negative comments like this. Just because something doesn't have immediate practical applications doesn't mean its not interesting research. Of course it's annoying when they are overly optimistic
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by soup10 14y ago
This seems to mostly be the case in software industry where everything moves really fast so nothing seems patent worthy. There's a whole world out there where innovation moves a lot slower and patent protection is crucial.
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by soup10 14y ago
I think it was wrong for Samsung to blatantly copy the iPhone. But it's also wrong for apple to refuse to license certain design patents, when they are clearly superior. I think a lot of the gestures and interactions that Apple has patents
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by soup10 14y ago
A company of companies? Sounds reasonable, but I think our legal/tax system isn't really designed for that so the accounting/legal issues could get hairy. Typical startups contract out most of the stuff you mentioned. Which amounts to the
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by soup10 14y ago
Wait, so open-source isn't all sunshine and rainbows and intellectual property laws have a purpose? That's crazy talk, lets go back to discussing how corporations are evil and selling things for more than they cost to make is greedy.
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by soup10 14y ago
Real reasons why working at Facebook isn't that attractive in my opinion: 1. Giant php codebase. 2. All the excitement is gone post-IPO, they've reached an inflection point and growth is slowing down. 3. Mark Zuckerburg doesn't have great s
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by soup10 14y ago
In short, ANI seeks to break out of the shackles of imperative programming -- a stale paradigm which for four decades has produced hundreds of clones of the same fundamental feature set, none of which offer intuitive hands-off concurrency,
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by soup10 14y ago
I bet Zuck is starting to regret spending $1B on Instagram right about now. Still... Facebook has a very strong monopoly on the social graph, and the eyeballs of most computer and smartphone users. There's significant value there if they
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by soup10 14y ago
This case has nothing to do with patents and everything to do with Jobs/Apple throwing a tantrum. There are so many overly broad and trivial patents that companies have no choice but to ignore them. Standard procedure is to acquire your o
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by soup10 14y ago
I don't like Craigslist because of lock in. Sellers must sell there because they are the biggest market, buyers must buy there because they are the biggest market. Everyone is locked in. Lock-in is super common(and often unintentional or
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by soup10 14y ago
Most freemium games crudely abuse human psychology to get players addicted and waste their time and money. It's entertainment, sure. But most of the time the game's are like slot machines, designed primarily to hook users and exploit them.
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by soup10 14y ago
This isn't a critical thinking problem, it's a math problem. As a critical thinker, I would estimate what floor I think the egg would break at, then estimate a safe floor I feel the egg won't break at. The more eggs I have, the less safe
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by soup10 14y ago
I don't disagree with you, but it's funny that you quoted Carmack, because his game's are always criticized for their lack of creativity.
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by soup10 14y ago
Yep, (they paid a lot more than that) and it's probably worth it imo. Half the battle with web 2.0 sites is getting enough users to get the ball rolling. Digg already has that, and all they have to do is "reinvent" themselves with a great
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by soup10 14y ago
I naturally prefer small firms because of the whole cog in the machine problem of big corps. But the article brings up an interesting point to me, bigger sometimes is better. I like to think that most mega-corps in the U.S. routinely abus
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by soup10 14y ago
Love the optimism and ambition. It hurts to read how hard you are on yourself, but I hope you achieve your goals and relax a little :). Good luck with your incubator.
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by soup10 14y ago
He calls out my post so I'm obliged to respond. First I know my first post there was kind of arrogant and comes off sounding like an armchair expert. But I have scaled similar code, by having extremely efficient barebones code. And I stan
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by soup10 14y ago
Anyone find it really weird that netflix doesn't run it's own datacenters? If the netflix business fails, they would have giant valuable datacenters leftover. Instead by relying on the cloud, they are "all-in" on serving movies. The movie
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by soup10 14y ago
Yea, I see that now. He's complaining about both. Still, asking 4chan add-on developers to be courteous seems pretty silly. Gotta detect/ban/rate-limit them on the back-end.
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by soup10 14y ago
All you are doing is spitting out strings from memory. With a beefy box it could probably be higher than that.
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by soup10 14y ago
> Notice that I say proxied and not cached. CloudFlare does not cache HTML—every connection/request for HTML is passed on to our servers, and our server must send a response. CloudFlare is not caching his html, thus the performance prob
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by soup10 14y ago
It really doesn't matter where you host the static/image files, as long as it's completely separate from the application server and doesn't eat into it's resources.
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by soup10 14y ago
Here's how I would scale 4chan. All static items served from s3/cloudfront. Posted images pushed to s3/cloudfront. (Or wherever filehosting is cheapest). These are all the high bandwidth items, all thats left is the text/html, which isn
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by soup10 14y ago
Meh, I'm always super unimpressed when simple text based websites have trouble scaling. Everything that's highly requested should be available in memory, and it should be trivial to spit it out instantly. I'm not a scaling wizard, but I'd
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by soup10 14y ago
Watching people use the app in person is super important for design decisions. You can see their reactions, ask them questions, and generally just get way more information than you could from a video capture. I could see tech like this bei
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by soup10 14y ago
I agree that Apple is abusing the patent system. But on the other hand, I think Google did a lot of lazy cloning with their Android devices(and with Google+ as well), and they should be called out on it. Just like we do when Zynga blatan

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