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by tybris 15y ago
Why? There are people who might enjoy this. How does this bother you?
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by tybris 15y ago
Interesting, but a big risk is that generic interfaces/software will limit functionality and lead to suboptimal performance. Amazon can roll out a new kind of hyper-advanced SSD-based database with some awkard custom interface any day of t
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by tybris 15y ago
Maybe I can't tell whether the author is being ironic, or maybe I'm just old, but this is what we did in the past (10-15 years ago). Turned out to be noisy, unreliable, more expensive than you might think, and generally inconvenient, so hos
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by tybris 15y ago
Once you master GWT you can really be very productive in it, while allowing you to: -Write statically-typed code -Maintain large projects using packages and OOP -Use unit testing, code generation, and refactoring tools -Use many Java librar
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by tybris 15y ago
That dashboard sucks, but Twitter being a faster, more reliable source of news is true for most things now.
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by tybris 15y ago
So my brain uses base64 encoding? Didn't see that coming.
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by tybris 15y ago
When did Unix stop being a product of Bell Labs?
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by tybris 15y ago
Apple should really use their vast piles of cash to buy one of the major carriers.
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by tybris 15y ago
Why? These robots look pretty simple and have no problem going up stairs.
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by tybris 15y ago
The only purpose I can see for this is another advertising channel.
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by tybris 15y ago
No different from C / Java / most others.
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by tybris 15y ago
You generally don't delete files from a CDN. They just get evicted when they are the least recently used, which may never happen if the URL is still in circulation. Facebook may have set near-infinite Expires/Cache-control headers on their
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by tybris 15y ago
This sounds bold, but I think the success of Khan academy is simply due the fact that Sal Khan is a brilliant man, and so is Sebastian Thrun. The best teachers provide the best teaching experience, and the Internet allows everyone to have t
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by tybris 15y ago
What if our entire view of history today is misguided or very much incomplete because of similar events that occurred in the past when there was hardly any redundancy of information?
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by tybris 15y ago
Big Data, yes. Big Conclusions, no.
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by tybris 15y ago
Stanford.
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by tybris 15y ago
Respond to what? The ramblings of an employee who left over 5 years ago? That hardly seems necessary. Yegge in 2006: "I was at Amazon for just under seven years, incidentally. Great place to work. I recommend it." https://sites.google.com/
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by tybris 15y ago
Funny that he's praising IBM for something as meaningless as a YTD stock price change, and then goes on to complain about Amazon and conveniently ignores that its stock price outperforms IBM at every level. http://www.wolframalpha.com/inpu
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by tybris 15y ago
Larry's on a spending spree.
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by tybris 15y ago
Amazon changes faster than any other company I know. In Amazon years, Yegge left centuries ago. In addition, your Amazon experience depends mostly on what team you're in. You should base your decision on your internship.
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by tybris 15y ago
By good, you mean a lot of Chinese that made the Tibetans a discriminated minority in their own country? Look! We built you a railroad! Oh, you don't have money to use it because we have all the jobs? Too bad! The reason the West likes Tibe
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by tybris 15y ago
In general, everything is getting X. By some definition of X.
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by tybris 15y ago
Best is a term that suggests there is no subjectivity to preference.
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by tybris 15y ago
I don't know of it's so huge for corps. They tend to not mind spending the extra money to get EC2 + RDS in return for reduced lock-in, an environment you can control, and serious SLAs.
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by tybris 15y ago
> I don't agree, I believe the compuation is straightforward That is, until you do them in parallel...
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by tybris 15y ago
You don't patent something because you built it. You patent something because you think someone else might build it, or because you don't want someone else to prevent you from building it.
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by tybris 15y ago
My uncle's Google account was just shut down after they asked his age (for "personalization") and he filled in 1-1-2000, which is under 18. He had to send them a copy of his passport to reopen the account.
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by tybris 15y ago
Glad to know the over 5000 fictional insect species I've drawn over the years were not completely useless. However, I find talking to myself / a figment of my imagination is even more effective at keeping me concentrated. Unfortunately, the
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by tybris 15y ago
Though strangely enough, the per-capita contribution of Germany is lower than that of Ireland.
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by tybris 15y ago
It seems that things always get pretty dirty when Oracle is involved, but maybe they're just being honest.

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