theelfismike

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by theelfismike 1y ago
St Peter was the first Pope; all Popes after are successors to him
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by theelfismike 4y ago
agreed, a huge, slow-moving target for a bad actor to try to shoot down
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by theelfismike 6y ago
> Are there any other examples of companies doing similar releases of valuable internal data? the early OkCupid blog was really good at this This one has always stuck with me (archive version: https://www.gwern.net/docs&#
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by theelfismike 6y ago
The Entire Economy Is MoviePass Now. Enjoy It While You Can. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/16/technology/moviepass-econ...
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by theelfismike 6y ago
I mean, isn't that what Peter Thiel is doing? Giving college age people $100k to drop out and do a startup? https://thielfellowship.org/
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by theelfismike 8y ago
TripAdvisor was owned by Expedia from 2004-2011
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by theelfismike 9y ago
Acquired - history of (mainly) tech mergers/acquisitions/IPOs
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by theelfismike 9y ago
I hope they call it Fauxbama.
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by theelfismike 9y ago
There's a note in the text, but the infographic is way out of date.
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by theelfismike 9y ago
presumably they're storing the raw, uncompressed video? at the same time, I would imagine storing a couple extra terabytes of data isn't a significant cost in the scheme of a production.
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by theelfismike 10y ago
Interesting the effective tax rate went from 5% last year to 22% this year. What would cause that?
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Keyframes: Delivering scalable, high-quality animations to mobile clients(code.facebook.com)
393 points by theelfismike 10y ago|139 comments
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by theelfismike 11y ago
See also: Pycharm https://www.jetbrains.com/pycharm/
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Android Runtime Permissions – Facebook Case Study(theelfismike.wordpress.com)
1 points by theelfismike 11y ago|0 comments
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by theelfismike 11y ago
fix the aspect ratio on the ipad screenshot
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by theelfismike 11y ago
248 days * 24 hours/day * 60 min/hour * 60 sec/min * 1000 ms/sec ~ MAX_INT
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by theelfismike 12y ago
Said statement: http://www.quora.com/Why-did-Yishan-Wong-resign-as-Reddit-CE...
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by theelfismike 12y ago
With Android, ant makes naive assumptions. For example, most open source library projects that you include in a project don't change from build to build, but ant dutifully recompiles them each time instead of caching the output until t
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by theelfismike 12y ago
I think they absolutely wanted people to write crawlers and scrapers for codes. Google was created by creating web crawlers that indexed the content to rank pages. This exercise was a tribute to those algorithms.
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by theelfismike 13y ago
Makes me wish Android could request some permissions at runtime. It's painful to have a bunch of permissions in the manifest that aren't used by 100% of users, but 100% of them have to allow them if they want to install the app.
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by theelfismike 13y ago
It'd be nice if the text were selectable instead of an image.
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by theelfismike 14y ago
Good. The Box web app really could use some work.
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by theelfismike 14y ago
They _can_ do it all for free. They should just start doing what JSTOR does, but don't charge for it. Seriously, make a competing site if you think you can do it for free.