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   by tedsuo 13y ago

   The Daily Telegraph is notoriously full of climate change cranks, and regularly misrepresents the views of scientists and the IPCC. A previous example regarding arctic sea ice: http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/arch
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   Verizon and F.C.C. Net Neutrality Battle Set in District Court(nytimes.com)

   5 points by tedsuo 13y ago|0 comments
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   The Charitable-Industrial Complex(nytimes.com)

   91 points by tedsuo 13y ago|116 comments
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   by tedsuo 13y ago

   Pivotal Tracker
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   Is Silicon Valley only interested in the problems of twentysomethings?(m.washingtonpost.com)

   2 points by tedsuo 13y ago|0 comments
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   by tedsuo 13y ago

   I wonder how many of these new companies come from large companies that are just rearranging themselves? So that first year's revenue is based on pre-existing revenue or assets?
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   Ruby 2.0.0 is released

   1 points by tedsuo 14y ago|0 comments
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   Health Insurers Raise Some Rates by Double Digits(nytimes.com)

   1 points by tedsuo 14y ago|0 comments
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   A new streaming API for Node v0.10(blog.nodejs.org)

   1 points by tedsuo 14y ago|0 comments
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    MongoDB switches to safe writes by default(blog.mongodb.org)

    2 points by tedsuo 14y ago|0 comments
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    Merge or Rebase?(blog.sourcetreeapp.com)

    3 points by tedsuo 14y ago|0 comments
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    by tedsuo 14y ago

    Yeah, strike lists are The Way It Has Been Done for over a century, it works pretty well. What amazes me about this story is not that the software crashed, but that they did not have precinct captains and strike lists at the ready to step
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    by tedsuo 14y ago

    Oh the irony of distracting myself by reading this on Hacker News, then making a comment which I will flip back to and check reflexively for the next two hours.
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    by tedsuo 14y ago

    yep, node has always used a threadpool for filesystem calls, even before libuv.
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    by tedsuo 14y ago

    I would add this to the complaints: - NOT AMENABLE TO SOURCE CONTROL Half the code lives in the database, configuration is all mixed up with content, and there's no reliable programmatic way to extract it. It makes doing deployment a night
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    by tedsuo 14y ago

    There are only a finite number of people in the world. So even if all of them knew how to program, a task requiring 10 billion programmers would have a supply shortage. Therefore, the statement "there cannot be a shortage of programmers"
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    by tedsuo 14y ago

    Is it possible that google forced them to make their own maps solution? I assume apple made the first move, but given the size of the pissing match between the two of them, I could see google withdrawing map access in order to harm iOS.
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    by tedsuo 14y ago

    The drones in the video look extremely CG to me. Cool idea though.
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    by tedsuo 14y ago

    Hmmm, I'm not entirely sure, though I also don't like the model. I have fond memories of stuffing quarters into arcade games, a "pay to play" model that's even more direct in it's incremental revenue collection. Yet that payment model did
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    by tedsuo 14y ago

    I don't clearly understand this, but does it create a scenario akin to a "pre-ipo ipo" where start-ups can get funding from the general public?
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    by tedsuo 14y ago

    I have similar anecdote, but with facebook: We had an web application get a huge bump in traffic as we approached the date of a massive live event that was being managed by the app. Suddenly, facebook shut off our access. Luckily, we had
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    by tedsuo 14y ago

    Getting a access to human support is important in general, but absolutely necessary if you are going to mess with people via an automated system. I'm always frustrated when I read articles about a journalist who gets his gmail account hack
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    by tedsuo 14y ago

    Haven't seen the paging issues Adam was noticing, but I'm still gobsmacked by the amount of memory some applications seem to take. The OS (kernel_task, mds, WindowServer, and friends) regularly eat up .75 of a gig, and Firefox consumes .5
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    by tedsuo 14y ago

    Actually, over the years both MS and Apple have heavily messed with developers in various ways. Microsoft refined the practice to the point they coined a new term for it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend_and_extinguish As a re
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    by tedsuo 14y ago

    Thanks, that was succinct and informative.
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    by tedsuo 14y ago

    Leaving aside the psychology for a moment, and assuming the market prices the stock correctly before employee's are allowed to exercise their options, doesn't that mean they would get the same amount, regardless of whether the IPO was high
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    by tedsuo 14y ago

    Could someone explain, how the low stock price is bad for Facebook? They are profitable, so they aren't going to go bankrupt. And they made a lot of money on the IPO, arguably more than they should have. Doesn't this mean the joke is on
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    Rise Is Seen in Cyberattacks Targeting U.S. Infrastructure(nytimes.com)

    3 points by tedsuo 14y ago|1 comments
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    by tedsuo 14y ago

    Are there any memory management / performance changes after the upgrade?
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    by tedsuo 14y ago

    If you'd like to read a more accurate and detailed article on the new study: http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2012/07/tree-r...