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by thisishugo 13y ago
I never quite published a press release verbatim in all the news stories I have written[1], but sometimes the information density of a press release is so low as to make a rewrite look like a copy anyway. [1] https://www.google.co.uk/search
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by thisishugo 13y ago
How about a "Facility for preventing disasters."[1] [1] http://www.google.com/patents/EP0279864B1
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by thisishugo 13y ago
I'm not sure I like the idea of parsing templates with regular expressions. There is a better way, as demonstrated in Robe Pike's video[1] detailing how the Go template language is implemented. Edit: which isn't meant to detract from the fa
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by thisishugo 14y ago
At least it's https; I've seen sites on HN recently[1] that suggest you run code pulled over plain http, as if that wasn't an even more horrible security risk than just blindly running a script from the Internet. [1] http://chocolatey.org/
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by thisishugo 14y ago
Yes[1] - it's an extension of an extant feature of Google Cloud Storage[2] [1] https://developers.google.com/drive/publish-site [2] https://developers.google.com/storage/docs/website-configura...
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by thisishugo 14y ago
There's also the MVP factor. It's easy to throw out a half-broken software prototype and then "pivot" until you have something you can sell (whether to users or a bigger company). The minimum viable cure for diabetes still has to be a cute
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by thisishugo 14y ago
I feel like an idiot for only just realising that this is why eBooks can't be purchased from the Amazon app, but can be from the mobile site.
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by thisishugo 14y ago
In my mind what you call "company selling 101" is just a legal, high level form of profiteering.
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by thisishugo 14y ago
Depends on the journalist and publication. I at least like to think I understood the topics I wrote about when I was writing stories a couple of years ago. But I wrote for a niche publication, not a general news site, so I wasn't required t
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by thisishugo 14y ago
I pasted in an article I wrote for a publication with a reasonably competent editor a while ago and the number of false positives was, I thought, surprisingly high. Many of the 'errors' it flagged simply wouldn't be considered as such in th
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by thisishugo 14y ago
http://feeds.alestic.com/alestic
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by thisishugo 14y ago
I take it you never heard of the JVM, or Microsoft's CLR.
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by thisishugo 14y ago
Well, a b-tree might make a good backend for indexes or storage engines in a (large) number of databases, but mostly that data isn't looked at in the same way as it's stored. So Jeff has half a point. However I agree with you that for hiera
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by thisishugo 14y ago
That's not the point Steve Jobs was making. The point is: if you care about what you do, you'll do your best even when you don't have to. Because as far as you're concerned you do have to.
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by thisishugo 14y ago
That's not what I assumed at all, please re-read my comment. I'm saying that if it meant using Glacier was possible, doing delta-backups on files, rather than blocks, might not be a bad tradeoff.
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by thisishugo 14y ago
There's no bandwidth cost associated with transferring data TO Tarsnap (that is, data transfer into EC2/S3 is free of charge), and if you have to get a file out the cost is the same whether you store files or "blocks" (I'm assuming the bloc
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by thisishugo 14y ago
Without the extremely aggressive throttling of a Micro instance, too; which means that one greedy app can bring everyone to a crawl.
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by thisishugo 14y ago
I make a rough estimate that 50 per cent of the time I do not bother making that extra step.
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by thisishugo 14y ago
He means Metro[1]. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metro_(design_language)
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by thisishugo 14y ago
Light Table reached $300,000+ of funding so it will support Python.
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by thisishugo 14y ago
Unless writing for a scientific journal, or some other such formal setting, your goal of clear communication will be best served by using a casual, conversational style that resonates as closely as possible with how you would talk to your r
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by thisishugo 14y ago
And not forgetting, for example, Riak (Luwak), MongoDB (GridFS) or CouchDB (attachments), all of which are intended to hold BLOBs.
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by thisishugo 14y ago
Google makes the donation, so yes they get the tax benefits. However, as it still means twice as much money going to charity I don't know why anyone would have a problem with that.
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by thisishugo 15y ago
If I spend half an hour maxing my free space and use Dropbox for a year that's $120 I didn't spend, which values my time at $240/hr. It's all relative.
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by thisishugo 15y ago
I think it depends on the framework. A full-stack framework such as Rails or Django isn't going to help with learning because it 'magics' too much of the underlying structure of building a web app away. You end up using so many proprietary
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by thisishugo 15y ago
If you want something installed on your VPS this is not exactly what you need at all.
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by thisishugo 15y ago
* C# is statically typed and compiled, which means a lot of problems the would be runtime errors in a Ruby on Rails project will be caught before deployment at compile-time. * Being compiled also means theres a lower overhead to running C#