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by tdmackey 17y ago
and did not consider distribution time at all which makes the results largely meaningless.
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by tdmackey 17y ago
I too fall into this group. The redesign is very interesting and the javascript work is amazing.
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by tdmackey 17y ago
As it stands, it seems the only real demand for ultra-highspeed (40Gb/s+) is in the data centers of the facebooks and googles of the world trying to shuffle around all the data between their own servers. I don't think the average home user
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by tdmackey 17y ago
Sadly, developers also have a history of being able to game the system a lot better than sales as well, partially because of the measurement problems pointed out in the article, and such a system usually ends in failure. Also, the bounty sc
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by tdmackey 17y ago
Thought it was a little funny to see that http://buzz.com/ seems to be a similar unlaunched service from AT&T with the same name. It seems they've managed to roll up what a lot of others were doing into a seemly nicely integrated pack
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by tdmackey 17y ago
I find it disappointing in its current form. I assume you aren't doing much more than a few ajaxified api calls to the 5 or so engines you're aggregating which is neither technically challenging nor technically interesting. However, if you
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Google's Super Bowl ad shows the need for search privacy(eff.org)
33 points by tdmackey 17y ago|14 comments
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by tdmackey 17y ago
It's very old, and the posterous owner thinks its fine to blatantly copy entire articles by merely providing "From: http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=14218138919 as the only indication that it wasn't original.
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by tdmackey 17y ago
Yes, it is pretty bad for github to have so many problems in so few days and if he isn't happy with the service he should leave. However, seems like he doesn't really understand how to use Git if github being down is barring him from doing
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by tdmackey 17y ago
on proggit there has been a recent fad to reimplement reddit in X lines of Y in Z minutes where X and Z are minimized and it has devolved into a satire, yes.
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by tdmackey 17y ago
Dinosaurs and Google. 'nuff said.
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by tdmackey 17y ago
Who says he was offered a bribe? Perhaps he demanded it?
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by tdmackey 17y ago
Essentially, it breaks down to if the non-journalistic party offers it to the journalist as part of the "review process" and it is disclosed it is ethical, if the journalist demands a random "gift" in exchange for running their story it is
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by tdmackey 17y ago
I guess I should start filtering Facebook related posts for a while to avoid all the user revolt that is going to happen. Although, the facebook platform is being treated like a first class citizen with this new design which is good for dev
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by tdmackey 17y ago
First the solution doesn't really fulfill all of imaps use cases (especially push mail) but that is unimportant. What is important is that the IMAP protocol isn't difficult, and I don't think that is what limits "email innovation." It is mo
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by tdmackey 17y ago
The size of their tablet in the video makes it look closer to something like MS Surface than a 'tablet' device.
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by tdmackey 17y ago
It allows for multiple windows, which is somewhat similar.
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by tdmackey 17y ago
I imagine a surge of users from news.yc set off a few flags considering their product is intended to monitor this sort of thing.
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by tdmackey 17y ago
"On any given day, you might find him tracking down potential hires, going for a run with his software engineers, or personally answering calls to Kayak's customer hotline." <- what is this? software engineers don't run ;) Honestly, he
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by tdmackey 17y ago
A difference that makes no difference isn't really a difference.
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by tdmackey 17y ago
Sadly the article over-exaggerates the amount of computer chess Magnus plays. Few grandmasters do. Chess software is good for analysis and study of the board but not so much for actually playing against. For direct quotations from Magnus re
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by tdmackey 17y ago
Not a terrible article, although I was a little put off by the "K&R Style is obsolete" remark, considering that a lot of the projects I work on use a slight variant of K&R, the Linux kernel included.
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If you have a great mobile idea Nokia has $1Millon for you.(callingallinnovators.com)
2 points by tdmackey 17y ago|0 comments
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by tdmackey 17y ago
Javascript and cryptography are two words that should never be used together. I can't believe people think this provides some decent form of security. Instead of worrying about the security of some javascript crypto implementation you shoul
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by tdmackey 17y ago
Don't have any datasets but http://news.ycombinator.com/robots.txt is your guideline.
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by tdmackey 17y ago
A lookup on their ip says rackspace.com does.
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by tdmackey 17y ago
http://www.amazon.com/At-Glance-Reversible-Horizontal-PM326-... At A Glance is the typical big name retail company that manufactures these types of things.
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by tdmackey 17y ago
Google didn't really want to buy spectrum. Schmidt even publicly stated they had no intention to buy the spectrum. They were just after open access to the "C-block" of the spectrum which they got as a stipulation to them making a slightly h
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by tdmackey 17y ago
The article left out the fact that most of this commercial real estate excess is left over from the dot com bust. At the height of prosperity between the bust and the most recent financial trouble the vacancy rate was still around 16% compa
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by tdmackey 17y ago
Sadly, implementation isn't all that matters.

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