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901.
by wheels 16y ago
I think there are two really interesting things about this: • This is the first time Amazon has pulled together the two major branches of their business, retail and cloud infrastructure, into something (dare I say it?) synergetic. • Amazon
902.
by wheels 16y ago
> ton of useful stuff (from template metaprogramming to fast matrix algebra), it's loosely coupled, and it's insanely fast It's actually not all that fast in a lot of cases. Boost's matrix manipulation support is particularly slow:
903.
by wheels 16y ago
That's almost a list of the countries that US has present embargoes with – close enough anyway to make me think it's not a coincidence. Perhaps they're using strong cryptography and those are the nations which are not approved to export c
904.
by wheels 16y ago
This sounds way more like "how to make Google a developer wonderland" than "how to make Google more startup like". The author started at Google post-IPO. That's hardly "startup" time. In a startup it's not like resources are given out lik
905.
Line-art vs. Color: Thoughts on a high-resolution social graph(scotchi.net)
26 points by wheels 16y ago|3 comments
906.
by wheels 16y ago
There are three different things that I've heard it mean: • A business that is meant to support a particular lifestyle of its stakeholders, and would not risk that lifestyle for higher growth. This is the proper and non-derogatory meaning.
907.
by wheels 16y ago
I think the point is that networking events aren't usually chock-full of potential customers. They're often an early-adopter circle-jerk and unless your customers are early adopters, you get diminishing returns on such things. You need to
908.
by wheels 16y ago
There's a reason text is usually put into columns of a limited width when being laid out – it's much easier for the eyes to follow. (You'll see this nearly universally in print.) In fact, the current columns there are still way too wide b
909.
by wheels 16y ago
That was actually what I tried at first, but still found the extra cruft distracting, even when faded down to 10%. I wouldn't be opposed to merging in a setting if someone else wants to create it. (Same goes for justification / hyphenation
910.
by wheels 16y ago
All navigation elements are still accessible – they fade back in on mouse-over. Edit: Added a note above the large screenshot to reinforce that (though it was in the bullet points as well)
911.
Readability-inspired Wikipedia Beautifier for Chrome(github.com)
68 points by wheels 16y ago|40 comments
912.
by wheels 16y ago
Sorry, no, my intent was not at all to paint you as being racist. What I meant as "typically German" is that most Germans, even those who are not particularly racist themselves, have something of a blind-spot for noticing the depth of raci
913.
by wheels 16y ago
That's a fairly typical German viewpoint. It's something that caught me a bit off guard when I moved to Germany 9 years ago. Germans have a real aversion to noticing their own racism, no doubt that's a product of cultural baggage, but raci
914.
by wheels 16y ago
The presumption here is that doing open source work does not open doors to employment – in fact, that's quite far from the truth. If you're a contributor to a well known open source project there are lots of doors that are opened by being p
915.
by wheels 16y ago
I'll play devil's advocate here (though I don't think this is actually what happened): • TechCrunch knows that they're going to have to throw their readers and anti-AOL bone at some point. There had to be a post like this eventually; the
916.
by wheels 16y ago
A few links that might be useful: Shopify add-on, using the same engine (with a different face): http://apps.shopify.com/directed-edge-expressrex Write-up by one of our customers: http://www.jonathanbriggs.com/ecommerce/33-of-revenue-exp
917.
by wheels 16y ago
It's interesting that you say that -- and I don't mean this to be contentious -- I've genuinely had the opposite impression. Unfortunately HN's a bad place to get a sense for such things since it tends to be way ahead of the curve. (i.e.
918.
by wheels 16y ago
They're kind of differently inflexible. :-) So, they're both moving away from the generality of the bindings, which are a pretty faithful mapping of the capabilities of the API, to make simplifying assumptions to make the API easier to use
919.
by wheels 16y ago
It's the same in that they both use our webservice, but the Shopify add on doesn't use this Rails plugin. The Shopify add-on is actually fairly different from the usual webservices product since it's completely usable by non-developery sort
920.
by wheels 16y ago
Assuming there's some uptake on this version we'll almost certainly produce a Rails 3 port. New apps aren't actually a great target for recommendations since they don't have much data around and since there are still far more Rails 2 deplo
921.
The easiest way to add recommendations to your Rails app: acts_as_edgy(blog.directededge.com)
70 points by wheels 16y ago|27 comments
922.
by wheels 16y ago
I was curious a bit back how successful Groupon promotions actually are -- i.e. if there's actually significant value being created or if they were just moving from one burn to the next based on hype. Turns out for 66% of customers it does
923.
by wheels 16y ago
It's lame that this is on HN. Basically it's just finger pointing and laughing at someone for being stupid on the internet (in a private mail, it seems).
924.
by wheels 16y ago
Amazon's competitors in France also pay tax. That's the difference. The issue here is that the law is such that out of state vendors don't have to pay tax; Illinois is just trying to jigger a way to make Amazon have to pay anyway, beca
925.
by wheels 16y ago
Which one do you think is right for most people? Neither. And that's the essence of what I'm getting at. I don't think there's a singular this is what people (or entrepreneurs) should do . It's widely variable upon the person, their c
926.
by wheels 16y ago
The major difference in what we're saying is that you're defining success as a step function, I'm defining it as a continuum. If we're talking about a step function, sure, you're more likely to get over the threshold with calculated risks
927.
by wheels 16y ago
While it's likely true that people who sacrifice everything are rarely successful, I think that the people at the top of their fields almost always have. There's almost, but not quite, the subtext here that over the top dedication doesn't m
928.
by wheels 16y ago
The important thing noted there, contrary to the vibe of the headline, is that they're in their growth phase and not even attempting to be profitable now. It was an unintentional fluke.
929.
by wheels 16y ago
The entrepreneur visa was the one that I was referring to in the UK, which has similar requirements (actually lower – access to £200k in capital) as the proposed US founder's visa. The German setup is similar, requiring the creation of at l
930.
by wheels 16y ago
Huh? This sounds totally wrong to me. The UK and Germany, the two strongest EU startup countries, both already have founders visas and there's nothing special about a foreigner owning shares in a Ltd or GmbH, the respective equivalents of

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