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by tx 19y ago
:-) In my case future has arrived already. I don't use CDs or DVDs for anything, except rare OS installations and Mac Air already shows how that can be done without a CD. I am on the network, nearly all the time. Plus I have a 4GB flash dri
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by tx 19y ago
Xobni is pretty cool, although I'd love to have their services in my gmail instead of Outlook. I am pretty sure they have it in the works.
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by tx 19y ago
Who cares? Why so much fuss over this "format war"? Format of what? An ancient concept of storing read-only bits glued over a piece of plastic? I don't plan on using CDs or DVDs or any kind of big physical objects to store anything on in th
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by tx 19y ago
What makes you think you NEED to stay in control and "provide vision"? I started alone and within a month realized that I was going crazy. Then I teamed up with my long-time dev. partner and he not only provided some initial funding, but in
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by tx 19y ago
I spent a full week evaluating Amazon, PayPal, Authorize.net and a couple of smaller players (don't remember their names). I even posted a detailed report here somewhere in August. Authorize.net is the big daddy of online payment processi
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by tx 19y ago
The entire browser's set of controls is written in C or C++ and is provided by underlying OS the browser runs on. On Windows it's RichEdit control. On Linux it's something else. There is no API in existence that lets you do anything outsi
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by tx 19y ago
Google Docs is simply a web storage. The actual "office" part, specifically the text editing, is done by a rich text control embedded into your browser, which is written in C++ or plain C i.e. it is as much "web" as Office itself, only many
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by tx 19y ago
Ughh... where can I sign up for FlashMeNot, a service where annoying flash "black boxes" (scribd in particular) get replaced with proper HTML/CSS?
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by tx 19y ago
I agree, in-memory hash table controlled manually by the application has a million ways to beat any SQL-server caching. What I am saying is that I suspect that memcached is way overused by people who don't know much about SQL . I am not po
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by tx 19y ago
You don't spend to advertise yourself? How do you get users?
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by tx 19y ago
We started about a year ago and launched about 3 months ago. The biggest two problems are: Time. Neither of us can afford to quit our "jobs at a big company" . We're not 20 and have mortgages, school payments, etc. Working part-time is pr
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Microsoft: You can now disconnect from the Internet(kontsevoy.blogspot.com)
13 points by tx 19y ago|3 comments
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by tx 19y ago
I refuse to believe in memcached. Apache, along with other web servers, has a built-in in-memory cache for static content. Decent SQL-servers have several caches on different levels, in fact those caches in theory should be far more effec
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by tx 19y ago
http://graphics.stanford.edu/papers/lfcamera
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It's official: Yahoo rejected Microsoft bid(arstechnica.com)
1 points by tx 19y ago|0 comments
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Advertisers are back in the driver's seat with rise of Internet TV(arstechnica.com)
3 points by tx 19y ago|0 comments
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by tx 19y ago
I don't get the practical value of it. They cite low system requirements for embedded applications because unnecessary components can be omitted during compilation. So? Linux kenrel can already be compiled with minimal configuration without
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Microkernel OS in C#(arstechnica.com)
7 points by tx 19y ago|2 comments
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by tx 19y ago
His sentences of globalization were the critical element. By including 3rd world countries in global trade, by "deepening capitalism" as he says, we essentially outsourced the poor. Now the poorest Americans represent the upper middle class
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by tx 19y ago
Just pay attention to what you are reading. The problem of micro-payments has been voiced many times on YC news, PG himself mentioned it in one of his writings. Yet it took forever for TipJoy to materialize. Why? Because of all the details.
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by tx 19y ago
Finally! The need for a service like this has always been around. Your execution is excellent too.
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by tx 19y ago
He should have written an open letter not to Ballmer but to Microsoft board. The letter could have been much shorter, while enormously more useful for Microsoft shareholders. It could have said: "Get rid of Ballmer The Car Salesman and get
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by tx 19y ago
True. When we launched our email service, the only users we had complaints from about emails not being delivered, were hotmail users. As it turns out, Microsoft's SMTP servers were simply dropping all messages from our servers, without giv
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by tx 19y ago
Heroku is the weirdest company I've seen. Everything started rather typically for a YC-backed group: an announcement of beta on YC news, immediate if not mandatory post on techcrunch, hundreds of enthusiastic comments. Cool. Except this tim
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by tx 19y ago
I have no idea what you guys are doing, but your designers rock!
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by tx 19y ago
Reimplementing is a bad idea.
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by tx 19y ago
Let me rephrase: what would happen if they simply said "no"?
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by tx 19y ago
Why can't they just say "no"?
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by tx 19y ago
Agreed. However, you haven't mentioned the BEST "feature" of Austin. We have an absolutely unique freakin jungle within 6 miles of downtown called "Greenbelt" where you can do all kinds of crazy things on your mountain bike, or swim with yo
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by tx 19y ago
I like SV. Most people outside of it, albeit smart and intelligent, "don't get Internet" and it's quite apparent. While there are always exceptions to any rule, it's still a rule nevertheless, therefore the original guy's comment "... even

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