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by wayne 16y ago
Yeah, my guess is it was actually deleted but because of the PR hoopla they went to tape or did something equivalently time-consuming to recover the data. It's something that wouldn't scale to everyone, but worth a day of someone's time in
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by wayne 16y ago
What's the high-level reason for such a big discrepency between WebKit browsers? E.g. I'm confused why some would have :nth-child support and other wouldn't. Do all these companies have their own local forks? Are some using old versions
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Interview: Jeremy Stoppelman, Yelp CEO(mercurynews.com)
7 points by wayne 16y ago|2 comments
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by wayne 16y ago
According to 60 Minutes's interview with one of the engineers, the main failsafe equipment was damaged weeks before the explosion, and BP didn't bother repairing it and in fact increased drilling speed since they were slipping behind schedu
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by wayne 16y ago
Similar past cases: - Azia Kim from Stanford: http://www.paloaltoonline.com/news/show_story.php?id=5120 - Michael Godelia from Harvard: http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2007/4/11/murky-past-trail...
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by wayne 17y ago
Java to PHP: http://ma.tt/2004/06/friendster-goes-php/
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Making Facebook 2x Faster(facebook.com)
36 points by wayne 17y ago|22 comments
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Most Innovative Companies(fastcompany.com)
1 points by wayne 17y ago|0 comments
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IBM's Jeopardy-playing machine(networkworld.com)
4 points by wayne 17y ago|4 comments
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by wayne 17y ago
Why would you expect a research lab to ship a product? Seems like you were interviewing with the wrong group.
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by wayne 17y ago
Entertainment and Devices made $375 million last quarter: http://blog.seattlepi.com/microsoft/archives/192686.asp
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by wayne 17y ago
Anyone else have a deja vu moment while reading this? The article repeats this snippet of text twice, the second time adding the word "very": "suggest that Google, and the U.S. generally, has [very] little leverage to press China to back d
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by wayne 17y ago
I guess he had a one year retention contract.
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by wayne 17y ago
Since it was an extraction from WordPress, which is GPL-licensed, maybe it was super hard to make this library LGPL since everyone who had contributed code had GPL-licensed it.
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by wayne 17y ago
Microsoft's plan is to remove the feature from Office: http://www.microsoft.com/Presspass/press/2009/dec09/12-22sta...
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by wayne 17y ago
Your point is a good one but I think it's somewhat cheating to pick 1909-1947 as your arbitrary 38 year period since both world wars happened during that period. A world war has a way of spurring innovation in killing technologies more tha
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by wayne 17y ago
Also, in terms of running speed, Closure is a better form of compression than gzip since the JS engine still has to parse all that ungzip'd JS.
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by wayne 17y ago
The rumor was for NBC Universal, which includes more than just a network: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NBC_Universal
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by wayne 17y ago
> The only large – and lets say profitable and growing – startup that uses Java is LinkedIn. Mint uses Java a ton too and they did ok: http://mint.jobscore.com/jobs/mint/javasoftwareengineerbacke...
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by wayne 17y ago
If you want business-friendly maps, Microsoft's MapPoint terms were very startup-friendly last time I checked. You just pay as you go. The downside is you need to talk to a salesguy: http://www.microsoft.com/maps/
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by wayne 17y ago
They also make a bunch of popular Facebook apps like Mafia Wars and Vampires.
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by wayne 17y ago
He knows. In his annual report he wrote that the Berkshire board knows who on the shortlist to appoint should something happen to him.
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by wayne 17y ago
What do $1 billion "Kennedy bonds" (mentioned in the story) look like?
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by wayne 17y ago
The above link just linked to my playlists, but here's a Chrome video I found: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0Z0ybTCHKs
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by wayne 17y ago
It's good to know about dupes. If nothing else, if you're interested in the article you can read the HN comments on the other page.
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by wayne 18y ago
First the SlideShare fiasco ( http://mashable.com/2009/04/01/slideshare-april-fools/ ) and now this. April Fool's on the web is so stupid. I don't know why companies are so willing to bet their reputations for a chance at hilarity.
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by wayne 18y ago
Call it a waste of money, but I really enjoyed the height-adjustable desk I had at my last company. You'd turn a crank and could set the surface to any height. It probably cost a fortune, but was ergonomically awesome.
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Why Microsoft wants more H1Bs(microsoftontheissues.com)
1 points by wayne 18y ago|0 comments
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by wayne 18y ago
For every awesome PhD who can code, there are 3 who forgot how to code, never coded anything beyond a toy, or are too good to code what we code. Maybe all the good ones get snagged up by Google.
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by wayne 18y ago
Call me a naysayer, but this is the danger of starting your company too close to the open source flame. Eventually the community decides they'd rather have an open/free version and you get burned.

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