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by tlack 17y ago
Some do, some don't: there wouldn't be any airlines in business if it wasn't extremely profitable. All that post 9/11 "we're going out of business!%!%#@!!" madness was mostly a TARP-style bail out quest. The reason you see so many commercia
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by tlack 17y ago
This is a brilliant idea from Google's perspective. The travel industry is very very profitable, and a lot of the travel shopping process is basically the hunt for information - tell me where I can stay, how much, give me options, etc. This
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by tlack 17y ago
Do you think they'll also spend top dollar to "buy teams" that are good at other languages? Kind of a ridiculous concept - surely if the gains of Lisp were actual, Google would just pay their employees to learn and use Lisp.
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by tlack 17y ago
The phone's interface is completely exceptional and a very different take on what the big three vendors are offering. I wish I had something like that on my BB.
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by tlack 17y ago
Another aspect is that expensive startups require more planning and careful attention to profit and business strategy. If you're investing $500k, you will spend more time figuring out what you are going to be selling and how it's going to w
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by tlack 17y ago
I noticed that too. I stopped reading after that point.
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by tlack 17y ago
Absolutely. It's perverse that they'd even worsen their dire startup lag with this kind of bullshit bloat. What has happened to the good people at Mozilla?
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by tlack 17y ago
Just a thought: if Google is found to be intentionally disrupting the operations of the Chinese government, such as their equivalent of the justice department ("injustice department" perhaps), couldn't extradition be used to bring charges a
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by tlack 17y ago
Ah, that one example of a successful Lisp project.
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by tlack 17y ago
This brings back memories of trying to crash BBS uploaded file verifiers by sending massively compressed files that would crash the board when unzipped. Ahhh the memories..
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by tlack 17y ago
They would need to be able to see passwords to login to your server to fix stuff anyway, unless you'd prefer for them to backdoor every machine they install with their ssh key. What's the big deal here?
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by tlack 17y ago
I'm telling myself that Oracle can't be as large as they are and not realize the secondary value of visible open source projects like Drizzle.
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by tlack 17y ago
Oracle is losing the most valuable assets at Sun - the brains. What a clusterfuck.
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by tlack 17y ago
Those pension funds and states should not have invested in dangerous securities. Let's face it: the money seemed easy and these guys took very dangerous investments, with money that was not safe to play with.
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by tlack 17y ago
I agree. A lot of the more pedantic REST advocates seem to use this kind of thinking, such as implying that we shouldn't use descriptive URIs because the client or programmer shouldn't need to understand how the URIs are structured. If that
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by tlack 17y ago
that elaborate joke was totally worth the effort
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by tlack 17y ago
First, they didn't call the PHP standard library: the poster of the root comment we are replying to has stated they didn't use the Zend runtime or code. The PHP standard library has a huge number of functions that are mostly useless permuta
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by tlack 17y ago
Did they reimplement the entire standard PHP library bug-for-bug in C++? I'm curious about that aspect of it..
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by tlack 17y ago
I never understood that either. For years I've been hearing people say that web apps shouldn't worry about CPU speed, but in 100% of cases over the past ten years I've found servers with faster processors to be much less sluggish when servi
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by tlack 17y ago
Queries like that should be very, very fast even with low amounts of ram. Good article, but consider using EXPLAIN a few times first before embarking on such adventures. :)
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by tlack 17y ago
I feel like this is just a bunch of nerds and kooks who want to meticulously plan their great utopia while living comfortably in their suburban homes. If they were serious, they'd already have a few boats lashed together and would be planni
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by tlack 17y ago
I can only speak for myself, but I rarely want to change the way I work with my phone (well, more so lately, but that's a separate Blackberry rant ;) ), and I wouldn't ever want to change the way my mp3 player would work if I had one. But I
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by tlack 17y ago
Beware, ranty comment follows: There's another possibility here. Microsoft succeeded because of their focus on developers and, to some extent, having an open ecosystem as long as it suited their business goals. Forgetting this may be Apple'
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by tlack 17y ago
But I think people understand the limits of a phone that means it might have to be closed (after all, phones were closed for 15 years before we started seeing "open" ones), and people saw the crazy copyright battles that went on that lead t
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by tlack 17y ago
Wow! I was sure he would finally have something fair, balanced, or even perhaps negative to say about Apple! I am totally shocked that he found some obscure point about the iPad to harp on about rather than mentioning the many obvious negat
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by tlack 17y ago
Does anyone remember when businesses started off trying to make money? This HN-fueled "startup" mania is getting ridiculous.. just because you have an idea and built some minimal prototype thing doesn't mean you're some brave entrepreneur.
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by tlack 17y ago
Instead of actually doing the diff process on the client or server side, this may be useful as a method of returning Javascript events and transformations from the server side to the client side for rendering; i.e., instead of returning scr
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by tlack 17y ago
I wish I could decipher my mental blockage with understanding git's model of development.
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by tlack 17y ago
Random idea: they might be using a single pixel "image" that they generate in memory, and then handing that image to their tiling routine, which duplicates and tiles it all over the massive resolutions we use today. Back in the day, using s
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by tlack 17y ago
+1. This, along questions of the validity of other forms of science and journalism--such as Errol Morris' recent work in the NYT about the trustworthiness of photojournalism--has been bouncing around in my head nonstop. How much of what we

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