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by taligent 14y ago
Seriously go and tell these stupid memes someplace else. It's not funny, witty or insightful. It's just stupid.
842.
by taligent 14y ago
Really ? I expected the incredibly dumb "Apple patented round corners" meme from somewhere like Engadget not HN.
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by taligent 14y ago
Well I guess you are lucky then because Linode has had massive downtimes in their London and Dallas data centres in the last few days and when I was a customer their Fremont data centre went down all the time. http://status.linode.com Her
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by taligent 14y ago
Can you please provide us with the link to your apps ? If Apple Legal are involved then 99% of the time it is due to a third party filing a lawsuit against Apple because of something you've done e.g. violate trademarks. So you why do you th
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by taligent 14y ago
Are you kidding me ? You know NONE of the facts. NONE.
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by taligent 14y ago
Simple. Because if you don't love what you've spent all the blood, sweat and tears building then what is the point of it all ? And you know what is worse than no feedback. Bad feedback that crushes morale and energy that could've been avoid
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by taligent 14y ago
Actually AFAIK MySQL supports master-master and the Cluster version supports autosharding.
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by taligent 14y ago
Even though Redis is moving from being a Memcached competitor to being more of a Cassandra competitor and MySQL is used by many of the world's largest websites (often as a glorified key-value store) they are odd choices. Would anyone really
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by taligent 14y ago
Firstly that mode is completely valid for many use cases e.g. logging, metrics. Secondly all the drivers handle this behaviour behind the scenes for you. Thirdly it is trivial to set the write concern to specify how many instances of the re
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by taligent 14y ago
Sorry but what you are suggesting is crazy. MongoDB has a completely different data model to PostgreSQL. You can't just build your app around one approach and then trivially move to another. Pick the database for the data model not the othe
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by taligent 14y ago
Exactly ALL databases will have issues. Which is why I suggested MySQL. Every issue has either been solved online or worked around in Percona, Facebook or Twitter's implementation. There are huge benefits that come from being the most widel
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by taligent 14y ago
You must be joking if you think that count as 'setting up' a database also I just set up 4 servers: apt-get install mysql-server redis riak-server mongo-10gen-server
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by taligent 14y ago
Easy of setup matters. Because unless you are using a hosted database then you will be managing and maintaing that database day to day. Which is why I would never recommend PostgreSQL for startups. It is far, far too convoluted for many of
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by taligent 14y ago
I don't understand your point. You could use replication (master/slave) with 2 servers and you don't have to use sharding for anything. How is MongoDB not the same as every other database ? If anything MongoDB is by far the easiest database
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by taligent 14y ago
Redis has no clustering (yet) so is best used when your data is transient and you are able to repopulate.
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by taligent 14y ago
This idea that MongoDB is dangerous is just crazy and seems to often come from the same people who endlessly tout PostgreSQL as the world's most perfect database. The fact is that very large companies are using MongoDB in production environ
857.
by taligent 14y ago
CPU cores as a performance metric between two very different platforms. Makes sense to me.
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by taligent 14y ago
Apple does NOT have a patent on rectangles or rounded corners. And there is no evidence that Apple's image hasn't been tarnished at all in the eyes of the general public. I see no reason that the iPhone 5 and iPad Mini will again be record
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by taligent 14y ago
Oddly enough it would be victimless if it was legal and regulated. But since it isn't in many countries it is a haven for people trafficking, child prostitution, kidnapping, drug abuse etc. The sooner we shine a light on these darker parts
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by taligent 14y ago
No offense. But you are so ignorant about the facts it is scary. Apple does NOT have a patent on rounded corners any more than Coke has a patent on soda bottles.
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by taligent 14y ago
The Retina resolution 'issue' has been solved and well understood for a while now. You simply create two images one at original and one at @2x.
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by taligent 14y ago
Well obviously whoever Paul talked to is clueless about Apple. All of Apple's products from now through the next year or two was designed and developed when Steve Jobs was alive as was revealed in his biography. So this idea that Apple is s
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by taligent 14y ago
In NONE of those cases did anybody use a pinch gesture to zoom anything. So no. None of those legally count as prior art.
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by taligent 14y ago
Trillions of dollars ? Are you serious ? I can think of at least 4 different ways to implement zooming without using pinch to zoom. So this idea that it is worth trillions is bizarre.
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by taligent 14y ago
Which is hilarious because all of Apple's current products (and those for the next few years) were created whilst Steve Jobs was still alive. As was revealed in his biography.
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by taligent 14y ago
Religion ? Nice. Actually the FACT is that a company is required to defend their trademark as a condition of it being granted. Also a cease and desist isn't a lawsuit. This is well established law.
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by taligent 14y ago
That is less about patents and more about STANDARDS. And if you care about that you should be very critical of Google, Samsung and HTC who have abused the standards process at the expense of everyone else e.g. H.264, 3G. Imagine life withou
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by taligent 14y ago
It's closer to the second one. The implementation. It's just that in some cases it can be difficult nee impossible to implement it any other way. I would recommend reading some patents. Most are far more specific than you realise.
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by taligent 14y ago
You do know that lawsuits are based on actual damages right ? So the idea that you would be sued for a billion dollars or a company like Apple would bother with you is ridiculous. The real ones to worry are the Lodsys of the world who sue y
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by taligent 14y ago
Inexperience. It was VERY clear that these were just a bunch of college kids who had no decent real world experience in software development. When you have a such a small project as Diaspora failing to get something the fundamentals sorted

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