tlack

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by tlack 16y ago
It's quite a coincidence that you both mention Manufactured Landscapes and I happen to be currently watching it on Sundance. I'm a fan of Burtynsky but had never heard of the movie before. Synchronicity.
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by tlack 16y ago
They're interesting to me because of all the technologies that huge platforms like Google and Facebook spawn. For instance when Facebook launched the Places API, there were 3-4 Places apps out there within a week or two. For that reason the
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by tlack 16y ago
Anyone inside Google care to anonymously comment how morale is over there these days? Why so many people jumping ship? Is it purely about money, or something else?
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Google offers engineer $3.5M to not leave for Facebook(techcrunch.com)
191 points by tlack 16y ago|145 comments
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by tlack 16y ago
exactly what i was wondering. the permissions combination makes no sense. perhaps this was implemented by FB without the API?
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by tlack 16y ago
to go from not knowing how to make a <form> to doing all of this in 4 weeks is majorly impressive. and the site has a really nice, unique look and feel. good work!
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by tlack 16y ago
Seems like a desperation move. Can you imagine the exciting, dynamic Google of 5 years ago thinking ""Uh.. give them slightly more money?" was a great solution to this problem?
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by tlack 16y ago
I find it interesting to watch the telecommuting life style emerge and how people cope with the feelings of isolation and the unusual schedule. For instance: some of the telecommuters I know end up spending more time at bars and stuff like
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by tlack 16y ago
Create an account. Open a service ticket. Wait hours for response. Plus no firewall options on your Nitro servers, at that price range, is ridiculous and way below the standards of the industry.
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by tlack 16y ago
+1. In the past 24 months I've used Rackspace, ThePlanet, SoftLayer, Slicehost, Linode and the terrible Mediatemple. I'm doing all future development on Linode. Their basic VPS is pretty quick for the price and it's online almost instantly.
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by tlack 16y ago
More time spent interacting with a site means more opportunities for advertising (in all its forms), and that's what these companies live by. You don't think Google wishes they had a successful social product similar to Facebook?
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by tlack 16y ago
We definitely don't need all the fluff, and I like the philosophical cleanliness of Lisp (from a distance), but to me it seems like too basic of a building block to think with. Haskell's point free style and K's vector building blocks seem
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by tlack 16y ago
I've started doing the basic version of this: in my case, before I quote something, I'll ask for a detailed written explanation of what it is, even if I will still meet with them to discuss it further and think through my part of the estima
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by tlack 16y ago
After the guy admits that he simply ignored failed tests and marked the QA as passed, I think the time for kind and easy to understand communication is long past.
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by tlack 16y ago
didnt amazon also start their first facebook page-based store selling diapers? diapers must be their most interesting product according to some internal spreadsheet..
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by tlack 16y ago
What makes you say that? They've increased and changed their paid support offerings, but Oracle has a higher cost basis than Sun does - this should be expected.. http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/mysql/
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by tlack 16y ago
Are you worried that the domain itself won't give any boost to your SEO efforts? Because I wouldn't really worry about that aspect of it - even bad domains rank fairly well these days. I think Google realized that aspect of the system (doma
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by tlack 16y ago
same here. went from reading 0 to reading 500 pages per month+ due to k3
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by tlack 16y ago
I feel like this should best be handled by outside apps rather than the FB platform itself. Edit: Perhaps I should offer the disclaimer that my suite of Facebook tools (fanbldr.com) will eventually include some Places-linked features.
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by tlack 16y ago
Ok, so does that mean you'd rather work at Google instead of Facebook? Right now, Facebook is doing stuff that is more interesting for programmers I suspect.
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by tlack 16y ago
tl;dr from the pros please! My ferret-like attention span defeated me on this one.
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by tlack 16y ago
One way of looking at it: Facebook has changed the way people communicate and socialize with each other. I think in some ways that is more fundamental than what Google has done - change the way people search. Furthermore, Google has seemed
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by tlack 16y ago
He said "just as easily." Smuggling coke is much easier than children.
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by tlack 16y ago
I've saved a number of people quite a bit of server costs with memcached.
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by tlack 16y ago
I don't know if I'd describe this postmortem as excruciating detail. I'd like to know more about what products they're using, how the "mesh" become overloaded, what their fix was, etc. NASA reports have excruciating detail. This felt a big
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by tlack 16y ago
Couldn't you use one of those rechargeable temporary credit cards? The ones they use to grant people with bad credit a semblance of a normal life..
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by tlack 16y ago
This is an absolutely brilliant move. Trying to figure out pricing estimates often discourages me from launching more stuff on AWS. Knowing I can get a feel for it, for free, is a real game changer. This gives my projects a strong base to s
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by tlack 16y ago
I have three suggestions, all of which are pretty lame and very predictable, but affordable, practical and accessible: Caymen Islands - slower pace of life, fairly wired for tax fraud purposes, easy to blend in due to British heritage Miami
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by tlack 16y ago
I think what he means is that, although Microsoft may talk about it a lot, Azure isn't getting nearly as much developer traction as other cloud computing developments, at least from the perspective of the author - and me, and most of the pe
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by tlack 16y ago
The idea itself, as it currently stands, is an amazingly strong one that is relevant to almost everyone. Are you sure it's necessary to get so complicated so fast? I worry that perhaps you'll lose potential customers and mindshare by being

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