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by tedsuo 15y ago
And with apple, they might even be serious about that "patently" part.
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by tedsuo 15y ago
I'm so happy to see what he's doing with his money. They way he earned it was problematic to say the least (see the ECIS paper for a succinct history, if you are interested: http://www.ecis.eu/documents/Finalversion_Consumerchoicepape...
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by tedsuo 15y ago
Did these agreements actually involve turning down employees who applied for jobs, or just an agreement not to cold-call each other?
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by tedsuo 15y ago
“Most portals show their own content above content elsewhere on the web. We feel that’s a conflict of interest, analogous to taking money for search results. Their search engine doesn’t necessarily provide the best results; it provides the
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by tedsuo 15y ago
You can also change the number of columns using LESS.
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by tedsuo 15y ago
Can you imagine if someone streamed that Goldman Sachs board room through to wikileaks?
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by tedsuo 15y ago
I agree. I think taking them to court is reasonable, whether they will be convicted of anything is up in the air. It sets precedent that SOPA is not needed, and is not a precedent that can be extended to p2p sharing or anonymous search li
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by tedsuo 15y ago
You should check out yousendit, it's like megaupload but without the network effect so it can't be used for piracy.
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by tedsuo 15y ago
Paul Krugman with the breakdown for the top .1%: http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/01/15/but-the-top-0-1-...
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by tedsuo 15y ago
In short, even "traditional" apps now actually have to do quite a lot of IO, and the ability to cram a large number of requests into a single process can have a dramatic increase in efficiency. If your ruby/php applications are memory boun
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by tedsuo 15y ago
It's not the pigs' fault eggs are delicious. :)
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by tedsuo 15y ago
Yeah I still use a migration system with mongo, for this very reason.
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by tedsuo 15y ago
The important point (for me) is not how much money is being lost due to piracy, but whether the internet as it stands is destroying the music industry. Clearly it is not. The music industry, on the other hand, is currently bent on destroy
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by tedsuo 15y ago
China Mieville wrote a great piece ripping apart this concept: http://www.inthesetimes.com/article/3328/
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by tedsuo 15y ago
I gotta admit I'm confused why these things are popular on hacker news. I've written several "growl" notification tools, usually I just re-write it on top of whatever ui toolkit the project is using rather than try to use a library. It tak
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by tedsuo 15y ago
I would put up node.js as a counter-example. It is a large, important project successfully being managed on github. It's sponsor, Joyent, is a private company, but the role could easily be filled by a foundation like Apache.
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by tedsuo 15y ago
Just to put a counterpoint out there: My experience is that apps built on top of taller stacks tend to have more maintenance issues. This is because there are more moving pieces under you, and at any moment one of those pieces could cease
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by tedsuo 15y ago
Exactly. Yelp gets a higher ranking, and may have better info, than the local business's website.
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by tedsuo 15y ago
Does this make mongo a bad choice for storing real time statistics?
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by tedsuo 15y ago
I read recently that mongo has a global lock on write. That was news to me, does anyone have more info?
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by tedsuo 15y ago
I think there is some confusion/conflation with "blocking IO" and "blocking the event loop". If some requests are more computationally intensive than others, you will see slower response times for the less computationally intensive request
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by tedsuo 15y ago
I'm a little unclear about threads in ruby 1.9. I've been told in the past that threads in ruby were problematic. Can anyone illuminate the current state of affairs?
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by tedsuo 15y ago
I like how in the end the whole article boils down to a potshot at police and firefighters for wanting pensions. You stay classy, forbes.
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by tedsuo 15y ago
Obviously this is working for you, but what about an icon that triggers a git shell script? Clicky clicky?
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by tedsuo 15y ago
Don't mind the questions at all. So, to be clear we don't offer general IT services, we only do individual projects for clients (usually websites and custom applications). Most clients don't need too much support, just an occasional train
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by tedsuo 15y ago
I help run an organization, radicaldesigns.org. We work exclusively with groups (mostly nonprofits) that have a mission we believe in. We've been around for 8 years now. Some advice, from my experience: 1. Long term support is what organ
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by tedsuo 15y ago
According to this article, they threatened his family's immigration status. Since he hadn't done anything wrong, complying was probably the safer route.
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Hailstorm: feel the wrath of the yeti (Node Knockout entry)(hailstorm.radicaldesigns.org)
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by tedsuo 15y ago
I'm not sure why the exec is less at fault than another class of employee. If you hire a programmer or designer who can't deliver, how is that any different?
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by tedsuo 15y ago
It's true there's a great deal of corruption. But many kinds of activity that lead to the financial crisis were impossible under the Glass-Steagall Act. You might argue that corruption is the root cause, and lead to the Gramm–Leach–Bliley

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