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by tdicola 12y ago
Ask Zune folks how well squirt worked out for them.
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by tdicola 12y ago
Am I crazy or doesn't this (temporary credit card numbers) already exist with a lot of major credit card vendors? I remember getting an Amex Blue card back in the early 2000's because it could do just that thing...
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by tdicola 12y ago
And what about the backend? Last I heard it's all stored as files on a handful of machines, so it's not like it's some off the shelf database you can just keep throwing machines at to scale. Also it's written in lisp o
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by tdicola 12y ago
'Simple site' that gets probably tens of thousand if not hundreds of throusand unique visitors a day.
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by tdicola 12y ago
Doom's WAD format is very well documented but still a fun binary format to write a parser to read. I remember writing a parser for it in QBASIC when I was a teen!
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by tdicola 12y ago
When you've taken 50 million dollars in investment and are expected to bring a good return on it, amatuer hour is over.
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by tdicola 12y ago
Wow I love the simplicity of the docs. Nice work!
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by tdicola 12y ago
Good lord, I hope the $50M investors in reddit are beating down the doors to get a PR person at the company so the CEO stops making crazy moves like this. There's no way a good developer would want to go work for Reddit when the CEO s
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by tdicola 12y ago
So now put a job hunt on top of trying to create a startup idea and keep a roof over your head? Doesn't seem very practical unfortunately.
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by tdicola 12y ago
Be careful, a lifetime warranty isn't worth anything if the company behind it goes bust.
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by tdicola 12y ago
Getting a 404... bad link? Cached copy is here: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:zb7A5UB...
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by tdicola 12y ago
Haha wow, that is pretty cool. Nice job!
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by tdicola 12y ago
Or maybe a way of clawing back shares of the company now that new money is coming in? Not sure what kind of deal early Redditors got, but getting them to quit in frustration with a move and give up whatever options/ownership/etc.
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by tdicola 12y ago
My conspiracy theory, it's all a move to make Reddit attractive as a major Yahoo acquisition. Yahoo is getting an injection of billions from Alibaba and has been on a tear with acquisitions. Moving everyone to SV makes for an easier
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by tdicola 12y ago
I agree, I seriously don't understand why anyone would ever want to run this script. Getting 8+ hours of battery life is the entire reason I use a Macbook.
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by tdicola 12y ago
That's what old monitors looked like. They had big thick plastic bezels all around the screen.
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by tdicola 12y ago
Awesome! I remember seeing this on reddit earlier in the year when it was in much earlier stages. Looks really great now!
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by tdicola 12y ago
I think with the shiny new purse of $50M reddit needs to hire an amazing PR person. Releasing this news now seems like it will kill all the good will from yesterday's announcements. Also have been a lot of weird media moments in the
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by tdicola 12y ago
3 months severance is also a bit short. In the recent Microsoft layoffs I've heard of folks getting 6+ months depending on how long they've worked there. It's certainly better than nothing but I'm not sure I'd say
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by tdicola 12y ago
There have been at least 3 different articles I've seen about Windows 10 on the homepage today. One about the announcement, one from the BBC, and this one from Wired. I think that's enough coverage, personally.
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by tdicola 12y ago
Like I said the Yun does not and I would bet never will run Windows. If you can get Windows 10 to run on a 400mhz MIPS processor with 64mb of memory and 16mb of storage I would be genuinely impressed. I pointed it out because it's fu
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by tdicola 12y ago
I would bet many of them justify it as a means to build a fortune that their kids can use to live a better life. Kind of like immigrants moving to America and working all their life in factories so their kids could go to college. Unfortun
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by tdicola 12y ago
Yeah, weird they didn't put in an Intel Galileo or Edison, since those are actual embedded boards that can run Windows (Galileo at least, but I'd be shocked if Edison doesn't run Windows for IoT/devices/embedded wha
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by tdicola 12y ago
What in the world is an Arduino Yun doing in this picture of Windows devices: http://files.tested.com/photos/2014/09/30/68049-windows_prod... See item on farthest left, it's an Arduino Yun board wit
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by tdicola 12y ago
If something is truly important people will find a way to contact you through the phone, IM, etc. Constantly checking and responding to email is a vicious cycle that will lead people to expect you can be interrupted any time.
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by tdicola 12y ago
I would take a slightly different approach and ban all email after ~7pm each day and entirely on weekends. Obviously there need to be exceptions for people that monitor mission critical systems, but otherwise there is absolutely nothing pr
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by tdicola 12y ago
Build a snapchat clone in a month. Oh crap there's $100k left! Show up to demo day in a Tesla Model S.
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by tdicola 12y ago
Wow that is an obnoxiously useless landing page and description. Here's some actual information on it: https://medium.com/@bn/introducing-ping-7f9403352764
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by tdicola 12y ago
Haha, I like this quote: "That was a cold-sweat moment for me. After all of my harping about latency and responsiveness, I almost shipped a title with a completely unnecessary frame of latency."
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by tdicola 12y ago
That would never have flown in a Sinofsky organization. The marching orders were PM's define the what and dev's define the how (and test makes sure it works), and it was driven down to everyone in the trenches constantly.

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