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by tgriesser 16y ago
Gotta love sensationalist headlines... Should read: Facebook CTO says purchasing servers for a separate startup prior to Facebook might have been unnecessary The idea that Facebook wouldn't need its own data centers is pretty ridiculous,
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by tgriesser 16y ago
Quote from part 3: Our motto was “bite off more than we could chew, then figure out some crazy complicated way to make it work.” What a great motto to have for anything you're working on, clearly it paid off.
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by tgriesser 16y ago
I'd definitely start with the Eric Meyer reset before writing custom css just to get rid of any defaults you might be unaware of... http://meyerweb.com/eric/tools/css/reset/ I'm also a fan of the 960.gs grid, really quick to learn and goo
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by tgriesser 16y ago
I think it's pretty low... http://news.ycombinator.com/newpoll
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by tgriesser 16y ago
First, make sure you understand some of the higher level OO concepts of PHP like variable scope, inheritance, polymorphism, and visibility. You can easily do this in the php docs and stackoverflow, or other such Google searches. Then take a
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by tgriesser 16y ago
Since you are using Facebook connect, it sounds like you are actually an app on Facebook, and therefore can access any of the graph api calls. There is a ton of things you can do with it, and they are detailed here: http://developers.faceb
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by tgriesser 16y ago
You may want to consider reformatting this in the form of a poll ( http://news.ycombinator.com/newpoll ) as the number ordering clearly did not work out. Also, the way it is posted now makes commenting a bit more difficult, whereas if there
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Facial Recognition: In Store Signs Get Smart(technologyreview.com)
1 points by tgriesser 16y ago|0 comments
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by tgriesser 16y ago
Open source, Java based "Sakai" http://sakaiproject.org/ has replaced Blackboard at Wake Forest University, which is encouraging to see...although I have heard some complaints that it is difficult to learn to use for professors, even amon
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by tgriesser 16y ago
It makes sense if building a service in that language means that you need to hire far fewer engineers to maintain because it is much better suited to handle the particular demands of that application, as erlang seems to be in this case
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World disappoints us once again: Japan loses 2022 3D holographic World Cup bid(engadget.com)
5 points by tgriesser 16y ago|1 comments
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How Hunch Built a Data-Crunching Monster(readwriteweb.com)
40 points by tgriesser 16y ago|13 comments
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Obama, Congress Near Deal on Tax Cuts(thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com)
1 points by tgriesser 16y ago|0 comments
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by tgriesser 16y ago
I don't know where they determined the entries on this list, but I'm 100% sure that A List Apart is running on PHP/MySQL via the ExpressionEngine CMS ( http://www.expressionengine.com )... which then makes me wonder how credible the other e
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by tgriesser 16y ago
Probably because if they had, wouldn't have been the fastest in all tests, or at least not by much.
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by tgriesser 16y ago
It looks like they've been working with the community to try and clear a lot of that stuff up, I really enjoy using CI myself so I've been interested. http://codeigniter.com/news/the_official_codeigniter_communi...
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by tgriesser 16y ago
I wonder why the birthday dropdown in the personal information section goes earlier than 1990, since they're only looking for under 20's
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by tgriesser 16y ago
This is my favorite documentation... http://codeigniter.com/user_guide/ The table of contents dropdown tab at the top is a cool way to organize the different categories of information... the styling of the docs is also consistent and easi
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by tgriesser 16y ago
This has been a really good resource for me: Learning iPhone Programming: From Xcode to App Store http://www.amazon.com/Learning-iPhone-Programming-Xcode-Stor... Has some really good practical examples and does a good job explaining it.
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by tgriesser 16y ago
When giving these numbers about screen resolution, I don't think it takes into account the size of the browser, but only the size of the screen. For example my screen resolution is 1440x900 but i can't remember the last time that I ever had
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by tgriesser 16y ago
Right but i think the issue is more that once you have upgraded and realize the problems, you are practically forced to keep it as there isn't an easy way to roll back to a previous iOS release.
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by tgriesser 16y ago
That's the biggest problem with billing something as the "Next Big Thing"... no one has any idea what that will even look like, so trying to hype something as the next big thing before it is released is setting it up for disappointment 100%
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Create a Highly Organized, Synchronized Home Folder with Dropbox(lifehacker.com)
2 points by tgriesser 16y ago|1 comments
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by tgriesser 16y ago
There is really no reason to get an MBA coming straight out of school, the benefits do not justify the expenses. It's not an automatic pass to a position in a company, especially if you have little to no work experience. If you have the pas
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Are 'Patent Trolls' the Secret Heroes of the Tech World?(technologyreview.com)
2 points by tgriesser 16y ago|1 comments
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by tgriesser 16y ago
Its a difficult balance...I would say if you are talking to companies, just for gauging interest, assume that you are going to have the users when explaining it to them. If there is any way you can provide some sort of value to users withou
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by tgriesser 16y ago
If you want some basics... you could check this out, there's a couple different videos on related topics http://www.khanacademy.org/?video=raising-money-for-a-startu...
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by tgriesser 16y ago
I don't think that I could skip the daily shower, if only for the fact that it is one time out of the day where you can just let your mind and body completely relax. PG talks about the ability to find your top ideas in the shower: http://w
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What’s Hindering Cloud Adoption? Try Humans.(gigaom.com)
14 points by tgriesser 16y ago|12 comments
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by tgriesser 16y ago
The president might need to be careful when dealing with the tech industry. Sure, they may not have as much power as the "media" now, but with the declining foothold of traditional news outlets and media sources it will be interesting to se

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