trimbo

60 ms·

631.
by trimbo 13y ago
It certainly makes for good HN discussion fodder :) FWIW, I've had the "Real Engineering" discussion before -- way more in depth than you illustrated here. My grandparent response above is probably a bit of pent-upness toward
632.
by trimbo 13y ago
> If you were building a bridge or a skyscraper and you told me, before you began, that you knew exactly how it would look when it was finished – I would believe you. If you told me that you knew to some insane degree of accuracy how lon
633.
by trimbo 13y ago
I was a GRPN employee at IPO and I can confirm that even with your stipulation, it sucked.
634.
by trimbo 13y ago
The term for this is "bagholder". Congratulations to whomever was on the sell side of this today. Sucks to be an employee who is locked up for 180 days.
635.
by trimbo 13y ago
I've been away from it for a few years and just recently picked up a new project in C++11. I'm loving the improvements.
636.
by trimbo 13y ago
I understand all the implications you mention, and that's why I phrased it the way I did. Though, the assumption I'm making right now is that the hackers know exactly what sites they've compromised. The longer they have this
637.
by trimbo 13y ago
I am contemplating whether MongoHQ should just post their customer list, so their customers' customers know what to expect? I know that's not exactly proper but... at this point, the hackers are way ahead of the users of sites tha
638.
by trimbo 13y ago
> Some times taking more time (and/or better coders) to do something 'right' vs. just hacking it together is the difference between failure and success Maybe it's high time we start taking "not screwing over your
639.
by trimbo 13y ago
So what would Facebook be? Or Google?
640.
by trimbo 13y ago
They need to go back to publishers and rework this. Only 5 books and I've been buying from them since the beginning. I bought one of them, if it helps give them some leverage.
641.
by trimbo 13y ago
Or Japan.
642.
by trimbo 13y ago
> they dont market themselves as open-source heroes "We're going to the standards bodies, starting tomorrow, and we're going to make FaceTime an open industry standard" - Steve Jobs, 2010
643.
by trimbo 13y ago
"Today we're going to revolutionize pricing. Today we announce a new era for the Mac. Today we announce that Mavericks is free." This is a quote from the Verge's liveblog of an Apple guy. Note he said "Mac", wh
644.
by trimbo 13y ago
I love how it's free for the "first time ever"... ... except before... I think it was... System 7.5? All new OSes used to be free for Mac and Apple II.
645.
by trimbo 13y ago
In later posts, he refers to doing order books and such: http://andrewwdeane.blogspot.co.uk/2013/09/bullhorn.html
646.
by trimbo 13y ago
I'll say it every time this comes up: you develop iOS first because all of your investors have iPhones. When they all have Androids, you'll develop for that first.
647.
by trimbo 13y ago
> A market maker is basically a wholesaler for institutional share traders and stock brokers. During my time there I replaced several key systems components with Go. I'd like to hear more about how you deal with Go's garbage co
648.
by trimbo 13y ago
Sure, but the Mac came out in 1984. And don't forget the Apple II and C64.
649.
by trimbo 13y ago
We need more data scientists to make more infographics!
650.
by trimbo 13y ago
Why doesn't that guy post more often? He's hilarious!
651.
by trimbo 13y ago
Was Matt Van Horn one of them? [Context: http://www.motherjones.com/media/2012/04/silicon-valley-brog... ]
652.
by trimbo 13y ago
I prefer to say they suck less.
653.
by trimbo 13y ago
It also didn't hurt that AT&T paid T-Mobile $3 billion in a breakup fee. They're spending it wisely, at least. [1] - http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2012/02/t-mobile-takes-3-bill...
654.
by trimbo 13y ago
Noted it is 2G only, but it is a great step forward.
655.
by trimbo 13y ago
They might have COBOL around, lots of banks and government agencies do. But the VA's critical system, VistA, is written in MUMPS[1]. It's NoSQL! [1] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MUMPS
656.
by trimbo 13y ago
What was once known as journalism is now all about the SEO. It's like those "reviews" of gadgets from someone who held it for 5 minutes at the unveiling.
657.
by trimbo 13y ago
I'd be interested to know about how much they have in the way of custom software. If they're just using Office, I agree, this should be fairly easy. The tough thing is when you have custom development that happened on Windows. For
658.
by trimbo 13y ago
Invested in "Huddle" and "Huddler"? That's weird. Is the idea to be sure if the brand works, one of these will be successful? Or just like the word "huddle"?
659.
Lock-Free Writes in SQL Server 2014(infoq.com)
1 points by trimbo 13y ago|0 comments
660.
by trimbo 13y ago
Weather Underground is implemented in C.

More ›