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by timf 17y ago
Cool. So as an aside, I think your great-uncle would be your grandfather's brother but this would be your "first cousin once-removed" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:CousinTree.svg (and thanks for the opportunity to brush up on that :-)
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by timf 17y ago
I'm more interested in this Adam tablet (also based on Android). It can do BOTH e-ink (best feature of the Kindle) and full color LCD: http://www.notionink.in/adamfeature.php
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by timf 17y ago
Would have liked it better if the comparisons paragraph starting with "At this point" was toned down. For example, others do REST _and_ binary protocols. Cassandra and HBase both do replication without SPOF. etc.
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Stonebraker on CAP Theorem and Databases(perspectives.mvdirona.com)
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Javocalypse(blog.cr0.org)
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Posterous (YC 08) unveils Post Editor 2.0(blog.posterous.com)
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by timf 17y ago
I think if you do a redirect there is no advantage to that. Travel to http://www.easterbingocards.com , there is content there for the search engine to index and return as a result (content that also of course has a lot of the keywords th
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Know When to Stop Designing, Quantitatively(azarask.in)
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How to get new GMail interface on your desktop(lifehacker.com)
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Rethinking how we build and invest in partnerships(scalability.org)
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by timf 17y ago
> it also supports CFML, remember CFML is built atop Java. And many other JVM languages, see this list: http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine-java/web/wil... (which I notice is missing Clojure: http://fragmental.tw/2009/0
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by timf 17y ago
I'm shocked, humans and human institutions act in their own self interest? If an institution's strongest aim is e.g. profit/preservation (as it often is) then of course it is trying to preserve or create conditions where the product or serv
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by timf 17y ago
A nice quote in the context of how Google made "big company" mistakes with Google Lively (part 2, ~9m in): "Most startups don't realize that one the big advantages you have is that you have a pathetically small number of customers"
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by timf 17y ago
I like the angle that it's not just ignorance that keeps us away from early customer contact (and therefore facts about product fit) but the perhaps unconscious attraction of fun and lack of constraints. There is a comment directly about t
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Benchmarking Load Balancers in the Cloud(blog.rightscale.com)
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IBM initiative aims to hook startups while they're young(arstechnica.com)
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Ways to Make Your API More Successful(blog.programmableweb.com)
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by timf 17y ago
The command lists the EBS snapshots available for you to mount. Just like with VM images (AMIs), Amazon allows customers (and of course themselves) to make EBS snapshots "public" in order to allow other people to use them. Here is an examp
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The Things That Matter Most in Privacy(azarask.in)
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by timf 17y ago
It's described here: http://docs.amazonwebservices.com/AmazonCloudFront/latest/De... It works mostly like S3 signed requests (last section of the following URL): http://docs.amazonwebservices.com/AmazonS3/latest/RESTAuthen... ... except
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Amazon CDN (CloudFront) Adds Private Content(developer.amazonwebservices.com)
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Start thinking of every piece of content as a little startup(startuplessonslearned.com)
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by timf 17y ago
OK, inserted the word "effectively" to the submission title (my opinion on the subject is @ http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1225271 )
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by timf 17y ago
My takeaway is that I will not use their messaging system for private conversations if they get a license to "analyze, use and commercialize" what I am talking about. Gmail is different: "9.4 Other than the limited license set forth in Sec
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Open Source at Unibet.com - 10x Scalability at Half the Cost(infoq.com)
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New Research Suggests That Governments May Fake SSL Certificates(eff.org)
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by timf 17y ago
> I think this is an old link. It's new, here's the announcement in the SDK forum (dated yesterday): http://developer.amazonwebservices.com/connect/ann.jspa?annI...
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by timf 17y ago
It's been discussed quite a bit on HN: http://searchyc.com/duck+duck+go Gabriel is an active user, see his comments and submissions here: http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=epi0Bauqu
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by timf 17y ago
Another reason I am happy at USAA: In 2008 "when most financial services companies posted record losses and the S&P 500 Index total return dropped by 37%, USAA earned $423 million in net income and generated positive investment income.
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Jsawk is like awk, but for JSON(github.com)
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