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by tybris 15y ago
The difficulty of scaling is not in getting the hardware, but in the operational burden and frequency of failure. With EBS, machine and disk failures are effectively irrelevant and you can instantly migrate to another machine. You don't nee
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by tybris 15y ago
If you expect to grow your start-up quickly, it makes sense to use a provider that allows you to scale. It is very costly to maintain two separate infrastructures for different providers.
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by tybris 15y ago
I don't recognize your description of the political landscape. Republicans don't do any more to shrink government than Democrats do to expand it. This has never been true. They do have different priorities. Republicans think the government
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by tybris 15y ago
Amazon.de went down when the outage started, but they quickly recovered.
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by tybris 15y ago
Both S&P and Moody's make good points, but have a different assessment of the uncertainty. Compared to other nations, The U.S. has a surprisingly healthy budget. Cut out the bush tax cuts, end the wars, stabilize health care spending, a
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by tybris 15y ago
Is that true? My computer savvy friends are slow to switch from Firefox, because they've come to rely on certain plug-ins. My non-computer savvy relatives, who kept switching back to IE if I gave them Firefox, are all using Chrome.
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by tybris 15y ago
Not sure, an open source 3D printer is already cheaper than most laser printers.
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by tybris 15y ago
Sarcasm can work, but it needs to be based on widely accepted truths that people can identify with. Problems with great grandparent: -Campaign finance is heavily regulated in the UK and about half of it comes from the state. -UK media is le
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by tybris 15y ago
Their standard policy concerns the unilateral decisions. This was a mutual agreement outside of the standard policy. The benefit to the app maker is a guaranteed free-app-of-the-day promotional spot, the benefit to Amazon is not having to p
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by tybris 15y ago
> 'Amazon is building their market on the backs of apps by giving them away for free. I don't get that. It's just a deal. They could have said no. The rules of the game are clear. Amazon can make your app free unilaterally, but you'll s
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by tybris 15y ago
I see no reason to think that's not the case. This was a mutual agreement outside of the general terms. That's hardly unusual.
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by tybris 15y ago
Why is it the top 10? Their profiles seem really standard for developers aged 19. Who didn't start playing around with PHP and JavaScript at age 14?
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by tybris 15y ago
Ancient literature can predict floods, lumberjack says. My point is, I'm skeptical of a physicists' insight into the psychology of insurgents that would give this model any legitimacy in terms of making accurate future predictions, rather t
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by tybris 15y ago
That's pretty smart. It basically anonimizes individual responses, without harming the statistical outcome.
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by tybris 15y ago
Almost makes me want to go to school again.
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by tybris 15y ago
Deprecated in 5, 4, 3, ...
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by tybris 15y ago
Debates among scientists sometimes look almost indistinguishable from public debates on science. The difference is in the premise: in the former case the merit of the methods is questioned, and in the latter case the merit of science itsel
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by tybris 15y ago
You can actually make your public folder available through CloudFront by creating a distribution and pointing it at the Dropbox web servers. Unfortunately, it's a bit of a risky business, since all the other Dropbox users will be able to us
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by tybris 15y ago
They backed down alright, by creating a competing app store and presumably a competing tablet.
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by tybris 15y ago
Google invests in Chrome. People use Chrome to buy things from web shops. Should web shops pay Google for this privilege? Are web shops immoral? I thought I paid for an app platform. Not a secret Apple sales platform.
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by tybris 15y ago
I can envision the board meeting now: "It's so much better for our users if we take 30% of the earnings on every sale". No.
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by tybris 15y ago
Is that a bad thing?
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by tybris 15y ago
I think that's completely besides the point. Sony actually bothered to make a couple of plain-text letters look like a captcha image just for the sake of it. That's just a clear misunderstanding of what these things are for and why they are
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by tybris 15y ago
The software industry does not lend itself well to direct competition. One technology will usually be the winner for a particular set of use-cases and others incompatible or lagging too far behind. If you don't distinguish yourself on use-c
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by tybris 15y ago
This is called debt restructuring, not defaulting.
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by tybris 15y ago
PDF has static contents and a static interface. CDF has static contents and a dynamic interface. HTML has dynamic contents and a dynamic interface.
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by tybris 15y ago
This is not an HTML replacement, but a PDF replacement. HTML has never been, and probably never will be, a popular format for static documents.
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by tybris 15y ago
I don't disapprove of free and open publication, but without publishers, who is going to organize conferences with gala luncheons?
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by tybris 15y ago
Why not http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states_by_ext... ?
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by tybris 15y ago
Most computer scientists I know don't like computers either. What we all like is that within them lies a whole new universe with the infinite possibilities of math, yet a strong connection to the physical world. At least, until it breaks.

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