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by wayne 18y ago
When you're that tiny, does anyone notice or care? You can grandfather your favorite users into free accounts and, worse case, you piss off all 10 of your users.
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by wayne 18y ago
Probably more than 500 lines. Doing information extraction on all those different sites probably involves quite a few scripts and doing search on the scale and at the speed they're doing undoubtedly involves backend services too. When they
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by wayne 18y ago
It's always fun finding 10-year-old, embarrassing news articles or pictures of someone. :) Also, if you're one of the many people who use MySpace instead of Facebook, those drunken pictures aren't behind a wall.
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by wayne 18y ago
Python: http://www.michael-noll.com/wiki/Writing_An_Hadoop_MapReduce... Ruby: http://blog.rapleaf.com/dev/?p=16 It's pretty hokey, either running through the shell or calling a REST service through a proxy, but it's been done if you're
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by wayne 18y ago
Really cool. Hadoop is pretty mature and Yahoo's shown it works well on large clusters, but it can be a bear to install, maintain, and learn. I'm sure many companies wouldn't hesitate to pay a few bucks to get another company to help them
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by wayne 18y ago
The first comment on the article brings up a good point too. Rather than spamming everyone who links to you, you can also just change the bad URL into a 301 redirect, redirecting to where you want that URL to go, and Google will pick that
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by wayne 18y ago
280 Slides is a brilliant technological feat and I would never be bold enough to attempt something like Objective J, but I have to say, I don't see the point of 280 Slides and Google Presentation. Perhaps it's because I'm a PowerPoint fan
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by wayne 18y ago
Apparently Woot's been doing stock ticker-based SEM for a while: http://www.brentter.com/wootcoms-new-adwords-campaign-offens... It got them a free TechCrunch mention too, so who am I to argue.. http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/10/08/are-t
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by wayne 18y ago
AKA why you shouldn't evaluate testers based on the number of bugs fixed and developers based on the lines of code written (though I know places that still do both those things).
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by wayne 18y ago
People are obviously opposed to a bad manager assuming he can do your job better than you can. But I think DHH's point is to avoid the opposite extreme, small companies that over-hire into positions that an existing employee can easily per
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by wayne 18y ago
My first thought: "Hmm, I could outsource note-writing to India, or automate it with Mechanical Turk." I suppose that defeats the point though. :)
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by wayne 18y ago
Already a big thread about this: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=324688
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by wayne 18y ago
The first thing that popped into my head was Google Zeitgeist (www.google.com/zeitgeist) but I don't think that's what he's talking about.
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by wayne 18y ago
It's the cost of entertainment. As opposed to slots, you get to interact with a live person (the dealer) who's there to keep you entertained, and you get to hang out with your friends. There's a little at stake, which keeps things interes
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by wayne 18y ago
Here's the big Thrift/PB comparison table: http://stuartsierra.com/2008/07/10/thrift-vs-protocol-buffer... Personally, I like Thrift better. More languages and greater community participation.
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by wayne 18y ago
I think you're confusing Bebo and Meebo. The co-founder of Bebo was on that panel and Bebo is written in Java.
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by wayne 18y ago
It's not totally crazy. I think Meebo's mostly written in C++, for instance, since they're always looking for C++ and JavaScript people but they never mention scripting in their job ads: http://www.meebo.com/jobs/openings/server/ I thin
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by wayne 18y ago
He can use that on his YC app to answer "Please tell us about the time you most successfully hacked some (non-computer) system to your advantage" ( http://news.ycombinator.com/w2009form ).
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by wayne 18y ago
Perhaps I'm missing something, but I've never understood what it means to be connecting to an "unsafe" wifi point. Isn't most of my data ultimately going over the Internet unencrypted anyway? Does this just mean there's no firewall blocki
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by wayne 18y ago
Interesting, it's really similar to the iPod Touch: - Wifi/a browser - App store Only I guess you get a camera instead of an MP3 player. ( http://www.joystiq.com/2008/10/02/nintendo-dsi-vs-psp-3000-v... ) I wonder what the standard will be
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by wayne 18y ago
Sounds like Microsoft's version of GWT ( http://code.google.com/webtoolkit/ ) only with C# instead of Java. I've just never understood why people find JavaScript so bad that they'd put another layer between them and what's running in the b
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by wayne 18y ago
Pretty cool for Windows-stack developers. I wonder what the pricing will be compared to Linux instances.
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by wayne 18y ago
Dupe: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=314294
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by wayne 18y ago
You can't downmod articles, can you?
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by wayne 18y ago
Getting official Microsoft support with an official IDE is a big deal and this seems to be the first functional language Microsoft is taking seriously. IronRuby/IronPython and third party languages may exist, but they're nowhere near as bi
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by wayne 18y ago
For the counter-argument, read this by Raymond Chen, a developer on the Windows Shell team: http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/archive/2005/01/14/352949.... (In a nutshell, he argues it's really hard to write exception-safe code)
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by wayne 18y ago
Don't use a generic term to name your startup? Trademark your company name?
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by wayne 18y ago
And a post from Scott Hanselman about it: http://www.hanselman.com/blog/jQueryToShipWithASPNETMVCAndVi... And the original announcement on the jQuery blog: http://jquery.com/blog/2008/09/28/jquery-microsoft-nokia/
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by wayne 18y ago
Wow, that's a pretty big deal. It's totally unlike Microsoft to ship a not-invented-here API set, as-in, in the box.
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by wayne 18y ago
As a Silicon Valley person, moving to Colorado, Philly, or DC for even a few months doesn't seem very logical.

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