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by tybris 15y ago
NetFlix should sell their chaos monkey as a commercial product.
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by tybris 15y ago
Conquering other countries. More seriously, I can imagine it includes travel to work, which tends to be an epic journey through traffic jams in densely populated countries like Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands.
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by tybris 16y ago
I'm just shocked that something that uses a Google search API survived for more than 2 years.
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by tybris 16y ago
Extrapolation doesn't predict the future.
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by tybris 16y ago
If a law is so silly that it makes criminals out of millions of regular people, you expect it to be changed, not enforced. Several European countries where online poker became popular are legalizing it.
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by tybris 16y ago
They probably won't fix that, because DNS does not allow CNAMES at naked domains.
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by tybris 16y ago
You can never have enough pictures of Bill Gates.
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by tybris 16y ago
Traditional currency is still too reliable because it is tricky to get a critical mass to give up their faith in government and the economic system. For these boom and bust times we need something that can become completely worthless overni
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by tybris 16y ago
I don't know about the client, but I imagine fulltiltpoker.co.uk will work just fine for the foreseeable future. There is no force in this universe that will keep the British from gambling... and if there is, they already have bets on it.
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by tybris 16y ago
Something, the new something unrelated.
221.
by tybris 16y ago
or... be an entrepreneur and take a chance...
222.
by tybris 16y ago
I used PHP for years, worst mistake of my life.
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by tybris 16y ago
Interesting, 5 year change: AAPL +400% AMZN +400% GOOG +40% MSFT +4%
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by tybris 16y ago
The fact that there is no engineering position on that list says enough.
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by tybris 16y ago
I think we're moving from single answer knowledge to multi-answer understanding of the matter. This involves being able to absorb large amounts of information, rather than being able to find obscure information. We probably need more knowle
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by tybris 16y ago
There's nothing transitional about it. This is what cloud storage looks like at its finest. Any model where you don't keep your files in local storage and sync is going to be slow, error-prone and annoying, just like all the solutions we've
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by tybris 16y ago
It seems like Dropbox is going to be a pretty big company, and their infrastructure largely runs on Amazon.com, which is a company with more revenue than Google.
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by tybris 16y ago
The difference is Dropbox has some 21st century common sense that actually make it a viable solution for the cloud: Eventual consistency is good enough but I agree, many of the points he's making are nothing specific to Dropbox.
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by tybris 16y ago
Given the name, I would guess the host_id is what they use to identify the computer to avoid having to deal with changing IPs/hostnames/whatever.
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by tybris 16y ago
I think you stop use of it by removing the original host from Dropbox Website > Account > My Computers.
231.
by tybris 16y ago
They were one of the first companies to offer some seriously useful web services, but they never found a way to market them. Business-to-business might not be one of Yahoo's core competencies.
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by tybris 16y ago
How was it funny? It seems like a sound reasoning, depending on whatever alpha represents.
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by tybris 16y ago
> Systems should be simple and consistent as much as possible CAP theorem says otherwise. Distributed systems are complicated, almost like reality. You can feel the constraints of physics and math everywhere. You simply cannot get the b
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by tybris 16y ago
Tech journalism 101: "leaks" are not leaks, just limited announcements.
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by tybris 16y ago
I just have patience and ignore people telling me they know that the full scale of one in only a handful of major nuclear disasters is going to be relatively harmless/harmful.
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by tybris 16y ago
Google or Amazon should offer to sponsor it and make the data accessible in their respective cloud computing platforms. There's tons of potential for data analysis / consultancy companies to work on this data and it's too big to process any
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by tybris 16y ago
I guess normal people get bored with their "PC" quite easily.
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by tybris 16y ago
I'm pretty sure that in the beginning all cars were cars.
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by tybris 16y ago
:'-( I miss the X-Files and the old Web.
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by tybris 16y ago
+1, or was that an April fool's joke as well?

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