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by sunchild 15y ago
Has that "Search source code..." input always been there? I sure needed it in the past, and somehow never saw it until now.
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by sunchild 15y ago
Toyota is an awesome company. Simply amazing, by any standards. If you visit Nagoya, you will meet a few million Toyota fanatics – and they have something epic to pride themselves on. Honda, likewise, is a powerhouse of innovation, and t
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by sunchild 15y ago
I think this is just part of the bigger story of Apple's increasing independence from upstream suppliers.
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by sunchild 15y ago
Lehman may not be the best example in this case, but I agree that Apple is in business to make money. There's no question that their strategy vis-a-vis their developers is to do the least amount necessary to avoid a chilling effect on the
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by sunchild 15y ago
So, if you are in the 10% of Mac users, you are of no interest to the authorities? Quite pragmatic, I suppose.
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by sunchild 15y ago
It's possible that this is an approach to deal with the patent troll Lodsys, who claims to own the patent on in-app purchases. I don't say that to let Apple off the hook if it does use the patent offensively, but it was the first thought t
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by sunchild 15y ago
This is likely due to pent-up demand in anticipation of any upgrade announcement. iPhone has carved out a massive space in the cultural zeitgeist. IMO, this is still about the inertia that iPhone generated in its early days when the ide
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by sunchild 15y ago
The ghost in the machine. Lovely.
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by sunchild 15y ago
I would say that enduring a few days of Steve Jobs tributes on HN is small price to pay for the massive contribution that Steve made to this community, albeit indirectly. Steve is, in many ways, the prototype for taking an idea from the gar
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by sunchild 15y ago
Taking the opportunity of a man's death to call him overrated is not speaking truth to power: it's tacky and tasteless by any measure.
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by sunchild 15y ago
You realize how poorly your comments reflect on your product, right? I'll certainly never support Tarsnap after reading this garbage.
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by sunchild 15y ago
Always a risk of data corruption, key management issues, etc. when encrypting at rest.
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by sunchild 15y ago
Which tutorial are you referring to? I need that!
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by sunchild 15y ago
Practice what you preach.
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by sunchild 15y ago
At one time we had a government that set limits on bank consolidation, cared about capitalization, kept investment banking apart from retail, etc. All of that broke down when the banks/insurance companies preemptively broke Glass-Steagall.
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by sunchild 15y ago
Well, since you asked: I want fewer people sleeping in parks and playing in drum circles and pretending to be reporters, and more people working inside the system to right its course.
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by sunchild 15y ago
Back up now.
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by sunchild 15y ago
Thanks for all your hard work over the years. It is truly, truly appreciated. I've watched so many Railscasts while learning Rails that my wife rolls her eyes when she hears the intro chimes.
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by sunchild 15y ago
I live a few blocks away. I just walked past the park where the protesters are camped out. There are (and have been over the past few days) a small group of activists there. A lot of them seem to be playing "reporter" in front of their f
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by sunchild 15y ago
I put Ted squarely in the category of "contrarian" rather than troll. I think it's important to have people calling out the Emperor for having no clothes, even if the Emperor is wearing clothes. It makes for debate, which in turn makes fo
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by sunchild 15y ago
What version control tool promotes good habits?
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by sunchild 15y ago
I work in git on OS X all the time. When you rename a file (regardless of your OS), it's just plain good practice to git add . and (at least) git status to ensure you've got the file you want committed.
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by sunchild 15y ago
Git doesn't kill code, people kill code.
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by sunchild 15y ago
It's structural; a middle-man in the merchant sales cycle presents two fundamental value-add propositions: 1. Eliminate the hassle of finding and dealing with prospective customers, 2. Educate the merchant about customer demographics and
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by sunchild 15y ago
EDIT: I've represented a whole lot of customers of web services over the years (IAAL). The big lesson in this area for me is: (1) customers rarely invoke SLA credits, preferring instead to "work it out" at the relationship level, and (2)
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by sunchild 15y ago
100% uptime is not an operational requirement – it's contractual. A client that demands 100% uptime isn't being unreasonable; they're looking for a contract remedy (most likely a termination right) if/when the site goes down. 1. "Uptime" i
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by sunchild 15y ago
Just as all roads in the enterprise lead to email clients, all roads in daily deals lead to loyalty programs. Forgive me for being blunt, but Groupon's move into loyalty programs was basically inevitable, if you really think about their bu
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by sunchild 15y ago
What New York/New Jersey does have is an army of operations staff capable of building and maintaining some of the most hardened data centers and networks in the world. In many ways, New York is still stuck in "enterprise" mode. That needs
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by sunchild 15y ago
Exactly. OP offers a great article and commentary, and then arrives at the completely wrong conclusion. Like it or not, MVC is in the vernacular now, and it means any framework organized in model-view-controller structure – regardless of
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by sunchild 15y ago
Remember this quote from Mason's leaked memo: "We are generating cash, not losing it — we generated $25M in cash last quarter alone, adding to the $200M we had before. In other words, we’re doing the opposite of running out of money." He ch

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