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by tybris 16y ago
Well, except in code quality.
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Probably because that was always the plan.
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by tybris 16y ago
Right, he just didn't want to submit it to a peer-reviewed journal?
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by tybris 16y ago
At college, you develop yourself intellectually, through interaction with peers, professors, understanding complex material, finding the fundamental insights that underly your field, building an maintaining a network, developing your skill
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by tybris 16y ago
Don't worry, by the time you'll be so big that you scale out of RDS, you'll be able to build your own datastore.
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by tybris 16y ago
What's your definition of a "cloud" solution?
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by tybris 16y ago
College isn't about learning, it's about developing intellectually.
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by tybris 16y ago
Wow, it's Amazon's response to Google App Engine. I like their increasingly silly naming. :-) http://aws.amazon.com/elasticbeanstalk/
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by tybris 16y ago
Windows is a platform for desktop applications. iPhone is a platform for mobile applications. Facebook is a platform for social applications. Why would the latter not be marketable?
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by tybris 16y ago
I started off my career using w3schools about a decade ago (which turned from playing with (D)HTML to distributed systems engineering) and I still find myself going there occasionally. It's a good reference. They deserve better.
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by tybris 16y ago
After college I lost the ability to code for long nights. I usually don't bother getting out until I got 8-9 hours of sleep, otherwise I'll be useless.
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by tybris 16y ago
I think this point is often missed. I always compare a PhD to professional athletics for the mind. You need to have the same kind of dedication, constant training, ability to deal with failure, good coaching, spartan lifestyle, etc. I never
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by tybris 16y ago
Somehow, Google APIs always end up broken like that. Why don't they just have the balls to scale up like Amazon does? I guess it might change. Google App Engine is finally beginning to make sense, be it mainly for intranet applications.
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by tybris 16y ago
and Exxon Mobil? Investors are offering a price because they expect a good ROI for that price, nothing else.
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by tybris 16y ago
Nice graph, except there's virtually nothing that's worth more than Apple.
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by tybris 16y ago
From the article: > For Mr. Zuckerberg, the deal may double his personal fortune, which Forbes estimated at $6.9 billion when Facebook was valued at $23 billion. That would put him in a league with the founders of Google, Larry Page and
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by tybris 16y ago
Extrapolation is such a tiring business. Google is constantly changing and developing. How can you make generalizing comments about the future without knowing what they're working on? For future reference, replace Google by pretty much anyt
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by tybris 16y ago
Society is in a constant state of flux, that's normal. The Netherlands tends to be rather open about its societal problems. The relatively large immigration of workers from Turkey and Morocco allowed isolated communities to form within the
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by tybris 16y ago
Reclaimed land is primarily used for farming. The Netherlands is among the largest exporters of farming products, particularly flours and vegetables. Immigration from Morocco and Turkey was invited to fill low-end job as education levels ro
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by tybris 16y ago
Also, high-tech industry is in a sad state in the Netherlands. Large IT projects fail at a remarkably high rate. Successful start-ups move out. Foreign tech corporations settle only for localization and catching a tax break. There is not mu
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by tybris 16y ago
This is what we call an essay and it's decent, but also quite general and hand-wavy. A much more interesting talk on this and other topics by Jeff Dean: http://stanford-online.stanford.edu/courses/ee380/101110-ee3...
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by tybris 16y ago
There's not even a half-decent open file system for the web yet. I can store my files on my desktop and open them with any application, put them in Dropbox and open them in any computer. Before you have that (and many, many other things), w
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by tybris 16y ago
In short: Because restaurants don't farm their own crops or raise their own livestock. They cook.
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by tybris 16y ago
Unless you give dividends, profit is mostly just money you forgot to invest in your business. A successful business is about sustained growth with a balanced budget.
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by tybris 16y ago
Yes, except for the ones that aren't...
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by tybris 16y ago
> In other words, it appears to make the model more complicated and less aesthetically pleasing. There is this perpetuating religious dogma in physics that physicists are uncovering the "elegant" rules of god, rather than creating model
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by tybris 16y ago
Why is at that wherever Roger Penrose's name turns up extraordinary claims are being made that eventually don't hold up?
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by tybris 16y ago
It made perfect sense for Microsoft to include a browser with its Operating System. Users liked Internet Explorer and its market share came close to 100%. Nonetheless, the EU fined Microsoft around 2 billion for violating antitrust laws and
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by tybris 16y ago
> The savviest webmasters (who promote their sites best, know SEO, etc.) are the first to play with a new tool like Google places, which is why you see their pages so highly represented in the top results. By savviest webmasters you me
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by tybris 16y ago
Mostly revenue / employee, stock price. Bezos' lack of interest in profit is well-known, e.g. http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/06_46/b4009001.... (2006).

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