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by thorax 18y ago
That particular comment made me walk away thinking he was rather jerkish. I didn't know who he was at the time of tuning in live, but there's about 10 different ways to say that without making the poor startup guy feel like a humiliated los
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by thorax 18y ago
Windows Home Server actually uses a duplication scheme that makes sure all your machine backups (and shared folders) are stored, in full, on more than one drive on the server. It behaves pretty much like one big drive and duplicates across
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by thorax 18y ago
Some of the demopit companies are good ideas. For example, this is the first I had hard of www.expensify.com: http://www.techcrunch50.com/2008/conference/demopit_company.... Probably a number of gems in there.
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by thorax 18y ago
SB is more like IM. With this addon you don't have to share anything at all if you don't want. It's just a single button-click to do so, though, for any site you like. It just makes it easier to send it than email if your friends are also o
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by thorax 18y ago
Liking the new performance. Glad you were able to work in the SQLite support. Now all we need is a way to get a Chrome extension...
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by thorax 18y ago
I love it because it can upload to my own FTP and paste links from my own site which is often faster than screencast.com for my audience. Startup time really sucks, though. But once it's running, I'm super, super pleased with it.
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by thorax 18y ago
Well, not sure I'm ringing the bells yet. I think as people play with it, they'll see there's still a long way to go. The biggest is that it doesn't do extensions yet. It doesn't The first focus sounds like it will be the Flash engines of t
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by thorax 18y ago
I think when he said "It's hailed as brilliant because it's open, but it's poorly implemented to a fault" he was talking about OpenID, not Clickpass specifically.
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by thorax 18y ago
Well, I see it differently. I think some sites need to require it so that we can discuss how much we dislike that. Better an early-adopter developer forum than GMail.
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by thorax 18y ago
To clarify for non-Pythoners/non-coders: If you assume "nums" already contains the list, most of his code above is setup. You only need these two lines of his code to get the answer: import operator answer = reduce(operator.xor, nums)
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by thorax 18y ago
I agree wholeheartedly. Definitely a bully sort-of post for no good reason. Reminds me a bit of the sort of chip-on-their-shoulder hackers that aren't very fun to work with. I think it's fine for people to offer constructive criticism to th
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by thorax 18y ago
First thing that came to mind for me (just assuming there was needed a practical way to do it) was the following (translated into Python): # associative array / dict / hash store = {} for elem in inputlist: if elem in store:
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Does a failed startup count against you on your resume?(blogs.msdn.com)
9 points by thorax 18y ago|21 comments
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by thorax 18y ago
We have a site in the pipeline targeting health-related topics, but nothing that would interface with the Health Industry directly. I also have Kurzweilian dreams for other ventures, but the regulations are so daunting that it's so hard to
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by thorax 18y ago
The best .me domains were squatted within 48 hours.
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by thorax 18y ago
All like Wikia did? http://search.wikia.com
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by thorax 18y ago
I voted, but honestly none of these would end up on my phone if the cost anything. If they were free, I suspect my wife or I would install the movie showtimes, restaurant suggester, and/or the contact maker (the latter just as a toy). Best
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by thorax 18y ago
Some of the cooler commands/features Ubiquity has: * As-you-type Google searching * translate the selected text from some language to another * syntax-highlight the selected text (guesses language) * maps to the selected address * tab somet
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by thorax 18y ago
This is really very impressive. Have you played with it? I think they do a disservice by talking about what this "could be". I don't think the emailing and mapping stuff they showcase is really as useful as the whole concept/package. It's r
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by thorax 18y ago
I was just debating the basic model of this recently (not knowing of Amazon's work) and how it could be made to operate if we could relax consistency requirements. Makes me happy to hear that smarter minds than mine are way, way ahead of me
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by thorax 18y ago
Yeah, still down for me with proxy errors.
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Jaiku seems to be running now on Google App Engine(jaikuinvites.com)
2 points by thorax 18y ago|0 comments
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Why We Fail To See When We're About To Fail(forbes.com)
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by thorax 18y ago
Anyone out there using AppEngine for anything interesting nowadays? I was originally excited about it, but the performance and limits have kept me from feeling comfortable hosting something substantial there. This feels like maybe an odd bi
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by thorax 18y ago
I have my beefs with Mozilla, but to say they aren't focusing on code is crazy. The stuff they're doing (especially with the native JS compilation) is very difficult stuff that honestly has a chance to change all browsers for good. I have g
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by thorax 18y ago
Socialbrowse has been a cool way to find stuff "word-of-mouth" lately for me.
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by thorax 18y ago
I've always been curious why someone hasn't (or why I haven't heard of someone) prototyping an improvement to MySQL's query cache to invalidate the cache less frequently and get more dependable usage. Currently it invalidates when any table
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by thorax 18y ago
Here's one screencast on some of the technology: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FjGKLYINGsg
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by thorax 18y ago
Usually when I try to read a philosophical text, I find it very unsatisfying. The philosophers are just not rigorous, effectively invalidating all their own thoughts. Yeah, I agree with most of your points. I feel this is a little more tr
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by thorax 18y ago
Philosophy (as I see it) is about asking big questions before science has a good answer. It's not about tackling questions as much as it is about posing questions and testing possible answers with logic before experiments or empirical evi

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