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by tfb 15y ago
So are you saying that because of the overhead involved with "talking" to redis, the fastest datastore would actually be an implementation of my own version (or a readily available version like node-lru-cache) of an LRU cache in my node app
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by tfb 15y ago
Maybe I'm missing something here, but I was under the impression Redis is one of the fastest data stores out there. What do you mean it would blow the latency budget? I'm curious because I've switched my startup's backend to node+redis. T
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by tfb 15y ago
Site appears to be down (assuming HN effect) so here's the text-only cached version: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:jamiefo...
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by tfb 15y ago
When I need to learn about a wheel, I usually attempt to re-invent it. But in practice (production), I tend to choose a wheel that someone else has already spent years making perfectly round. What is learned from re-inventing definitely pr
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by tfb 15y ago
Is that really a good thing though, at least in the particular case of a todo list app? I love that they are pushing boundaries and trying to pave the way for other gesture-only apps (where practical), but for something as simple as naviga
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by tfb 15y ago
I posted this on the blog but I'll copy it here as well. Please forgive the shameless plug. I think the OP is right in that wanting to automate repetitive tasks is inherent to humans. And the problems discussed in this post are exactly th
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by tfb 15y ago
Pardon me for taking the bait, but what are you so mad at pg for? Clearly you've taken some kind of interaction with YC and/or pg personally.
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by tfb 15y ago
To us and other technologically-informed people, he failed. But to the general public who already associates the term "hacker" with a destructive force, the author probably further reinforced the negative connotations. People hear (read)
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by tfb 15y ago
That is assuming we use facebook. I don't use facebook. That said, this is somewhat interesting to me for 2 closely related reasons: 1) I like to know how the "big boys" think and it's entertaining to see the moves they make competitively.
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by tfb 15y ago
I truly think that at some point (far) in the future, robots will put everyone out of "real" work. They'll do everything for us. Money and economics will become irrelevant. Humans will be left to do what we enjoy at will, whether it's sp
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by tfb 15y ago
Awesome post. It definitely addresses the core issues of the "problems" with the downward trend of current job availability and the economy. I think you hit it spot on. I'd like to mention that I've kind of been on the receiving end of so
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by tfb 15y ago
Maybe Bill Gates was never truly "evil". Maybe he just did what he had to do to amass the wealth that is required to do truly great things like stamping out Malaria and AIDS. Who is to say he wasn't planning his philanthropy all along? I
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by tfb 15y ago
I don't know how Daniel manages to do it, but every week he seems to post something that relates directly to what's been weighing heavily on my mind. Over the past year and a half, I've really let both my health and social life slip from un
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by tfb 15y ago
The simple fact of the matter is that when a sociopath is discovered, the discoverer will avoid the sociopath but WILL NOT WARN OTHERS due to fear of retaliation. This is false. Nothing bothers me more than people making statements as if
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by tfb 15y ago
The joke is on them, however. "Nerds" always win in the end. This whole SOPA thing - or variations thereof - will only be small hiccup in the grand scheme of things. The advancement of technology and its ensuing freedom will trump any cur
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by tfb 15y ago
It really comes down to the people in the group. I've been grouped with people who always try to find a reason for something not to work. Their worldview seems very limited in that they never push the status quo; they don't seem to look
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by tfb 15y ago
Very nicely done, PG. I'm amazed at how ahead of its time Viaweb was... 3 years before IE6! I agree with the other comments here that it's quite good even by today's standards. To withstand the test of time (14 years!) of web design/tech
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by tfb 15y ago
Just out of curiosity, which features are you talking about? I'm only wondering so that I might be able to incorporate them into my own UIs. I did some googling for what you're talking about but couldn't find anything definitive.
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by tfb 15y ago
May I ask how many hours you put into it and what the requirements were? I've done quite a bit of custom development but have never had to bill $1k for something as (seemingly) simple as an image slider. Perhaps I'm not charging enough!
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by tfb 15y ago
Is this slider viewable by the public? I'm honestly curious about what a $1k image slider looks like.
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by tfb 15y ago
I thought the same thing too and was also pleasantly surprised. In the past, I've always just found these machines entertaining, as opposed to funny. I never knew they were supposed to be funny; I always thought they were just supposed to
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by tfb 15y ago
You'll be able to do this with Loggur when it's ready, no problem... along with a number of awesome ways to sort, filter, graph, push/pull data, and set triggers. http://loggur.com
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by tfb 15y ago
Has anyone else noticed that everyone who calls his/herself a "designer" uses very similar fonts (and font structures/patterns)? It always seems to be a taller-than-normal, skinny, bold, with < 0 letter-spacing kind of font, in all cap
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by tfb 15y ago
I think it will take quite some time for humans to accept robots as entities with rights. There's a lot of fear surrounding the idea of intelligent machines, and most deeply religious people (who I know, family included) consider robots/A.
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by tfb 15y ago
It's still crazy to me how exhausting swimming can be. It probably doesn't help that I tend to sink like a rock so I have to work harder; even so, it's such a simple motion one would think it isn't that great of a workout, but it definitel
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by tfb 15y ago
How did the other 3 go? What were they? And just out of curiosity, how old are you?
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by tfb 15y ago
eat less; eat even less; fast once in a while; exercise regularly I've recognized the effects this has on my own brain, and you're absolutely right (for me, at least). And it makes me wonder about the origins of this particular chemical
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by tfb 15y ago
I love the first comment on the article: Very insightful. That’s why the true entrepreneurs are considered crazy. Like other entrepreneurs, I've always thought outside the box with pretty much everything... always questioning the why, the
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by tfb 15y ago
This might help: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://...
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by tfb 15y ago
<blatantSarcasm>Yeah let's just forget about all the poor suffering people! Survival of the fittest, right?!</blatantSarcasm> But in all seriousness, I'm curious as to how/why you and the grandparent think that funding his

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