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by tlack 16y ago
If they can't provide the support we need with their limited resources (someone mentioned on Reddit they had only 6 people on their platform team), they should at least let us pay $250/yr for a "premium developer" account, and have that ena
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by tlack 16y ago
I found this surprising also. It seems like a very common task, but for the life of me I couldn't find a service to split a human-formatted address (i.e., one <input type=text>) into its component, verified parts. Some good solution
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by tlack 16y ago
I would imagine that these three publishers already had a good relationship with Amazon so a very vague contract was safe to launch with. Anyone from inside Amazon want to comment on this? Or at least give me KDK access? :)
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by tlack 16y ago
I'm also waiting to get my KDK access but I would imagine they're trying to figure out the market lifecycle: from who gets to sell in the market, to how they will be paid, to how strict their app policies will be (especially after all the A
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by tlack 16y ago
My favorite game is finding easy-to-fix bugs in the bug tracker that have thousands of votes and have been rotting away with no action for months or years. I really don't understand how FB can have so much interest in the future of their pl
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by tlack 16y ago
I just started noticing that about two weeks ago. What an monumental pile of failure those docs are. Why they dumped the only hope they had -- the wiki -- I will never understand.
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by tlack 16y ago
Here's a related idea: Someone should start a very large Redis instance, say 8GB of RAM on an EC2 node, with shared reads (i.e., all clients can read all keys), but protected updates. Each app would use a prefix on its keys. This could be u
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by tlack 16y ago
I agree that this is true in some cases but I can give you a counter example that really showed me how convenient vim is: ciw. 'ciw' erases the word under the cursor and allows you to retype it. This process is very, very slow using the mou
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by tlack 16y ago
I'm very excited to get my Kindle. Has anyone gotten accepted to the Kindle Developer Program? I'm curious to hear your experiences.
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by tlack 16y ago
So you're saying you would purposely invite fewer people to an event (even if that means a much higher cost per participant) in order to minimize negative reviews? That doesn't make very much sense to me.
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by tlack 16y ago
I think you're overestimating this one blogger's reach vs. 500/X's Facebook likes, checkins or comments (X being a vague social non-participation factor which is shrinking quickly). Consider the size of all those people's social graphs, how
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by tlack 16y ago
Seems like an awful lot of overhead -- in terms of cash and labor -- to only touch a small amount of people. Compare, for instance, to a nightclub event sponsored by a liquor in Miami that turns out 500+ people.
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by tlack 16y ago
Agree. I'm doing a lot of Facebook app development lately and the API is really a mess at the moment. The documentation is terrible (and they shut down their only hope: the wiki), the API is confusing and inconsistently implemented, and the
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by tlack 16y ago
But haven't we been hearing that about the Semantic Web before even Facebook came on the scene? The number of interesting semantic tools coming to market seems to be decreasing rather than increasing.
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by tlack 16y ago
I guess if you're making $125,000 per seat you don't have to worry about innovating your business model too much. :) I'm surprised no one has released an open source clone, though. It's fairly well documented and I think the Q verbs would b
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by tlack 16y ago
That's exactly what I meant by bone headed: their idea of software is very expensive and secretive, rather than their products forming the skeleton of everything else as I feel they should. They talk about their free version like they're se
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by tlack 16y ago
Absolutely yes. The answer is a succinct vector language that feels close enough to SQL to be learnable by database guys, but has high level primitives and unboxed basic types that enable automatic optimization and parallelization. The clos
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by tlack 16y ago
usually work fine for me. whats your ping to their data center?
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by tlack 16y ago
My first taste of the industry was working for WorldMedia.net, which is an advertising/media buying/creative services agency which focuses on the travel sector. While there we built Aloha Airlines' booking engine and a bunch of other cool s
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by tlack 16y ago
Semirelated question: are there any good interest groups, mailing lists, or forums for tech people working in the travel vertical? I've been doing travel-related stuff since 2004 and I still don't have any good industry contacts.
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by tlack 16y ago
The Flash is buggy; when I mouse over the items, the little label doesn't "unfold" until about 10 seconds after I move my mouse out of the photo. I can see what it's trying to do -- it unfolds for an excruciating split second -- but I can't
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by tlack 16y ago
Analysis of how this works?
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by tlack 16y ago
I feel like applying for a job at the New York Times just so I can fix their terrible Flash-based gallery software which is used in this article and many others recently. Totally kills the otherwise-interesting browsing experience for me. H
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by tlack 16y ago
I'm a bit disturbed to confess this but some of the ideas were actually pretty good. :(
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by tlack 16y ago
Any reason you're using :!grep rather than the built in ctags support? I've found the latter to be very useful but maybe I'm missing some functionality.
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by tlack 16y ago
Shipping containers are made to stand up to the rigors of sea travel so I guess they're confident they can withstand storms. Still it's a ballsy move and I'd think the exposure to the elements would be a net negative, even factoring in heat
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by tlack 16y ago
but when you have thousands of machines of each type, perhaps those economies of scale level out a bit
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by tlack 16y ago
That's the same in the states, but adoption has really fallen off after the Bold and Curve2 - there hasn't been anything exciting and new in the works in the past year or so, and the Torch is considered a failure so far stateside (it's only
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by tlack 16y ago
I remember the same situation around those days: everyone wanted to get a database behind their site, but MySQL felt like you were running with scissors. It was easy to sell Oracle to clients then despite the $5k+ cost. Oracle's sales cycle
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by tlack 16y ago
But won't the products suffer severely once the brains behind them leave? No organization as old and large as Oracle can discount that.

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