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Hardware Virtualization: Xen, VMWare and Others Explained(it.anandtech.com)
3 points by tx 19y ago|0 comments
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by tx 19y ago
Flex is not a technology. It's a marketng BS. In the end your "platform" is a lousy browser plug-in which is already having a hard time catching up to the variety of web-platforms (no iPhone yet, Linux implementation is buggy as hell, etc)
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by tx 19y ago
Nicely said. Sorry for accidental downmod, stupid CT syndrome... :)
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by tx 19y ago
Especially for the enterprise? No wonder. Enterprise software represents the absolute lowest form of life among all softwares: the requirements are relaxed, bandwith is fat and users are paid money to use such software, not the other way
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by tx 19y ago
I agree, and I think I was unnecessary harsh on "wasting your life". I guess I was just trying to say that in SV most success stories were driven by engineers: google, yahoo, facebook the list is long. Moreover, there is a history of it, lo
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by tx 19y ago
PG lives in a different world. Considr Austin TX, the 3rd largest computer tech startup hub in US (read: the world). Programmers are NOBODY here, they're disposable code monkeys, and literally all startups I personally was involved in were
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by tx 19y ago
Hm... they say Apple now captures 25% of all revenue from PC sales, I wonder if that includes corporate sales. Because if it does, it means that Apple currently holds over half of new home/personal PC sales.
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85% of all Spam Comes from Only 6 Botnets(marshal.com)
4 points by tx 19y ago|0 comments
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by tx 19y ago
Noodle, no pun intended, but did you read what I wrote ? What bells and whistles are you referring to? Besides, MacBook is the opposite of "top of the line" - it's a bare minimum of a computer one needs to care for these days. Disclaimer:
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Microsoft Surrenders to the Cloud.(blogs.zdnet.com)
9 points by tx 19y ago|1 comments
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Firefox 3 Goes on a Diet. Eats Less Memory than IE and Opera.(arstechnica.com)
3 points by tx 19y ago|1 comments
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by tx 19y ago
The author is insane. Why on earth would you want to settle on a old and rusty Windows-based tool? Just because you're an "average" user you should not be settling on junk, otherwise an argument can be made for buying a 5 year old used PCs
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by tx 19y ago
I learned that having a powerful cross-platform standard library was more invaluable than I previously thought. :-)
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by tx 19y ago
I hope not. I hope there will be standardized way of doing hardware-accelerated 2D/3D graphics, H.264 video and Ogg vorbis sound on the web. http://kontsevoy.blogspot.com/2007/11/on-flash-and-new-techn...
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by tx 19y ago
Hm... that was probably true whenever I was 18 ;) These days I use Linux because: - All hacker's software is developed for Linux first, and then ported to other platforms later. - GNU tools, proper command line, various file systems. - Linu
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by tx 19y ago
"Asshole" was harsh, I take it back.
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by tx 19y ago
I think he is not being mean enough. Personally I've taken even more radical position towards flash-only web sites: they endanger all of us, because they're going with a closed, proprietary platform over open standards, allowing (ultimately
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by tx 19y ago
My favorite is TipJoy. The problem was in the air, PG himself teased everybody with it, but yet nobody took the trouble of actually tackling it. Neat approach, nice execution. Bravo! Another big one, I think, is SnapTalent. The existing sys
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by tx 19y ago
I think I used different email last time so I re-applied.
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by tx 19y ago
Ok, here is a quick test. I am pretty sure none of us has any portion of cisco site in our caches. Copy&paste this link into your browser and see how long it takes for this page to completely load. It has no flash, nothing complex: a
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by tx 19y ago
No, I'm on FF 2.0 (Windows|Linux) and on Safari when I'm on a Mac. However, FireFox, especially when paired with Flash, is a topic for another discussion: my CPU utulization sometimes jumps to 100% when I simply switch tabs in it. Actually
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Ask YC: Is Internet Slowing down?
7 points by tx 19y ago|14 comments
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by tx 19y ago
I can see why you're saying what you're saying, but I didn't find debugging particularly hard, and binary size explosion is probably your particular compiler's problem: MSVC 7.1 works very nice with templates, generating code only when abso
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by tx 19y ago
ubuntuforums.org - they have a very nice feature where you can see unanswered questions from beginners that you can take care of. I genuinely want Windows to die and try to contribute to Ubuntu in any way I can.
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by tx 19y ago
Essays like this one make us, YC-rejects, feel like not being part of something cool, something new and exciting and much better, while we're stuck out there dealing with "old kind of animals" and the question "why haven't they picked pikl
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by tx 19y ago
http://kontsevoy.blogspot.com <-- a typical developer's blog. I have an issue with ranting, that's the only thing I constantly want to blog about :-)
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by tx 19y ago
Web programmers who follow your advice usually sound like idiots who don't know much about what they're doing. Lots of them like to reimplement wheels like HTTP caching, HTTP authentication and content negotiation, even error codes (!). I h
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by tx 19y ago
How's that related to you costs? The primary expense has always been the cost of talent and "cost of sales". Employees time and marketing/advertising. Paul assumes that programmers will work for free (or for very little) because they're fou
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by tx 19y ago
How do YC companies get on TC so easily?
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by tx 19y ago
Hm... some of them are (ICQ users), but the American portion of my contact list is split between Yahoo and MSN. For some of them those messengers are "corporate standard", i.e. everybody at work is running one of those two. Another sizeable

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