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by trimbo 11y ago
On the bright side, at least you get a free latte or cappuccino while having your time wasted.
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by trimbo 11y ago
> easier to maintain How do we know this? Has anyone written enough Go in an environment with a lot of engineers to make that determination?
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by trimbo 11y ago
Thanks for posting this. Great analysis about IBM and Google Cloud in this article as well.
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by trimbo 11y ago
> But that's never going to happen by every big company rolling their own thing. Everybody has to come together. Google has ditched their own and rolled their efforts into Typescript. http://techcrunch.com/2015/
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by trimbo 11y ago
> It always leaves a bad taste in my mouth when politicians use an event (bad or otherwise) to prop up controversial legislation "You never want a serious crisis to go to waste. And what I mean by that is an opportunity to do things
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by trimbo 11y ago
He was a prolific Usenet poster. One easy way to find his posts is to search for this ham callsign, which he signed off with: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!search/WA7KGX$20zmodem
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by trimbo 11y ago
Came here to add this. It's the best in years.
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by trimbo 11y ago
It was odd to see Groupon (somewhat) blamed for HomeJoy's demise. Groupon's problem for businesses is that the customer has no intention of ever coming back, they just want the deal. HomeJoy's problem, no matter how they acqu
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by trimbo 11y ago
Love it! Who's up for a game of Maze Wars?
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by trimbo 11y ago
No it's just the traditional "first to the app store with new feature" cash grab.
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by trimbo 11y ago
Also check out Google's Crush-tools https://github.com/google/crush-tools
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by trimbo 11y ago
Actually Vista added one of my most-used time-saving features: Windows-key and start typing to search. Huge, huge win (for me at least).
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by trimbo 11y ago
I Googled stats to verify this claim and you're right. Last fall, Windows Phone was on par with iPhone sales in some European countries, and in fact beat Apple in Italy (TIL) http://techcrunch.com/2014/10/29&#
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by trimbo 11y ago
Also this: http://ubercab.tumblr.com/post/485301492/entrepreneurial-roc...
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by trimbo 11y ago
> Absolutely no one is paying for content online "The Financial Times saw a sharp increase in profits in 2014, driven by growth in subscription and digital revenues and a record high circulation. The FT’s total circulation grew 10%
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by trimbo 11y ago
Exactly. Though technically, NeXT is "a startup that Apple spawned", I think? Also: Be Inc., Palm/Handspring (Donna Dubinsky), General Magic, Eazel.
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by trimbo 11y ago
For anyone interested in this topic, be sure to read "When Genius Failed". I finally read it last year and it's excellent. http://www.amazon.com/When-Genius-Failed-Long-Term-Managemen...
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Candy Crush Saga comes preinstalled with Windows 10(arstechnica.com)
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by trimbo 11y ago
> I suspect that if HN had been around when Google was raising we would have read the same type of comments there. Before raising, Google had a substantially better product than Altavista running on a dev server in the stanford.edu domai
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by trimbo 11y ago
As others mentioned, J1 is the visa for this. I'd suggest checking this out: http://culturalvistas.org/
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by trimbo 12y ago
Ah, heady days when the world's best computers were made in Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin and featured waterfalls of Fluorinert for cooling. By the time I saw a Cray-2 in person, it was shut down (it was so outmoded it was not worth runn
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How Amazon Web Services Uses Formal Methods(cacm.acm.org)
2 points by trimbo 12y ago|0 comments
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by trimbo 12y ago
It really helped me to be employed somewhere that has a gym on-site and working out is part of the culture. While I worked at EA, it was easy to stay in great shape because I played full-court basketball every day at lunch. They also had
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by trimbo 12y ago
> Thankfully, progress is not purely monotonic towards ads You bring up good points, but thinking about this particular line more, I wonder if it really is heading that way. Anywhere you find exclusivity for content provides the opportun
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by trimbo 12y ago
> In fact, our reluctance to pay for any type of content has led to the state we are in today Then how come, every time I pay for content, that content still has ads? The paywalled newspaper sites I frequent do this. Or, notice how they
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by trimbo 12y ago
The former, it seems. (Page F-80) "Revenue is mainly generated from commissions on sales made by listed sellers and from the sale of advertising on the Company’s website"
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by trimbo 12y ago
Fun fact, in TCL, everything is a string: http://wiki.tcl.tk/3018 Nuke -- the image compositing system used in visual effects -- has included TCL from its origin as far as I know. That would be 1993. Nuke now offers Python,
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by trimbo 12y ago
That's a good point, but from my own behavior: when I'm ready to buy, I go search for that product on Amazon. My general thinking is "Well, now I'm ready to get a better deal on this thing." And if people aren'
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by trimbo 13y ago
I wish Maxis would make new versions of these old titles.
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by trimbo 13y ago
I'm sure it's good. It's just not for real yet. * If you read the link, there is no guarantee of backwards compatibility to the current point within future releases. This is why they're still in milestones. * Jetbrains h

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