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by whopa 16y ago
Huh? It is cornflower: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centaurea_cyanus http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornflower_blue
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by whopa 16y ago
Berkeley DB is an embedded database with no network story, let alone distributed story, so it isn't really a complete solution compared to the k-v stores people talk about. It can be a building block though, e.g. memcachedb uses it. ASN.1 i
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by whopa 16y ago
That's not really true, e.g. in the UK, Android is also gaining similarly: http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2010/apr/30/android-goo...
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by whopa 16y ago
In-N-Out is also far more scarce than McDonalds. In towns where In-N-Out and McDonalds density is about even, In-N-Out has more marketshare than McDonalds. How is this relevant to iOS vs. Android again?
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by whopa 16y ago
A lot of places where prostitution is legal, pimping is not, e.g., Germany, Canada, Australia, New Zealand. There's less of a trafficking problem in those places, since it can and does get prosecuted (though there still are problems, since
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by whopa 16y ago
Personally, I think the offline play feature makes it worth it. None of the other on-demand services seem to charge any less for mobile either, which makes me think that the labels have put a price floor on mobile access.
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by whopa 16y ago
A half assed service has the possibility of hurting their brand though, as well as driving people to competitors, e.g. http://twitter.com/garrettdimon/status/22824730445
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by whopa 16y ago
So what's awesome and new in Ping that's never been done before?
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by whopa 16y ago
6 month lockout is standard, maybe even SEC mandated? Which is plenty of time for initial IPO hype to wear off and the price to crater.
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by whopa 16y ago
The US tapped an undersea Soviet cable in the 1970s: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Ivy_Bells
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by whopa 16y ago
In my ten year career, I haven't found there to be a correlation between having a degree and being a good developer. I've worked with a number of awesome people, most with degrees, some without, and plenty of bad people, most with degrees,
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by whopa 16y ago
Actually, health insurance companies refuse to insure a band of neighbors collectively since they deem the risk of insuring everyone in the same neighborhood too great, due to everyone being exposed to the same environment (power lines, con
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by whopa 16y ago
The p2p streaming and encryption is overengineering for this problem. RTMPE works just fine for this.
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by whopa 16y ago
But RTMP was designed for this. This is totally possible using a web client.
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by whopa 16y ago
Do you some concrete examples of some of these details where being native makes it far and away better or easier than a web UI?
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by whopa 16y ago
I wonder why they haven't just made a web client already, instead of bothering with fat native clients for every platform. The P2P stuff isn't really worth it given that bandwidth is so cheap, and they otherwise don't actually do anything w
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by whopa 16y ago
Yeah, it's horrible verbiage, plus it's really rather self-serving on Facebook's part. Really this is "we noticed this user has stopped using Facebook, please trigger an action so we can spam their email to remind them that we exist." It's
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by whopa 16y ago
Yeah, but it seems like you rarely want to be radical when it comes to consumer focused web UX design, whereas when it comes to development itself, it could be justified a lot more often, because people are really dealing with tools for hou
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by whopa 16y ago
Yeah, interesting article, weird conclusion. The comparison of hotels to website design is pretty apt. A hotel is often just a place to sleep, and not the point of the trip (resorts are an exception), so even if it makes the room prettier,
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by whopa 16y ago
The poster's main issue is not that people who didn't go to school are generally better than people who did, but that people who went to school aren't generally better than people who didn't. I.e., because of grade inflation and the trend t
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by whopa 16y ago
There was a lot of press hype about it, but global cooling wasn't widely accepted scientifically. The first paragraph of that Wikipedia article even says this. One thing hasn't changed: the mainstream media's handling of science and technol
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by whopa 16y ago
Wow. I know people at Facebook who don't know how to code. And that's fine, they are business types. Seems really disingenuous for Facebook to claim that during interviews.
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by whopa 16y ago
> Facebook. A CEO that's proven that he understands technology. A team where every single engineer is brilliant. A company where every single person including sales, design, and business employees, can code. Talk about putting Facebook
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by whopa 16y ago
> it's to give people a way to communicate to the outside world that doesn't depend on anyone else. Well, it depends on Twitter itself, which doesn't have the best availability record. Frankly, Twitter is a poor place to actually have a
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by whopa 16y ago
> Murdoch is wily and buys talent. Eh, Myspace was an eyeballs acquisition, not a talent acquisition. Myspace's lack of a proper engineering culture contributed to its fall from grace; Facebook's faster load times, quicker feature addit
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by whopa 16y ago
Chrome has a process per tab and runs entirely separate processes for each plugin. So if flash crashes, the page does not crash. There is only one flash process serving the whole browser though, so if flash crashes, flash content on all o
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by whopa 16y ago
It's not full, it's literally whitelisted to only kick in for Flash, Quicktime, and Silverlight.
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by whopa 16y ago
That circle has been squared since the 90s when webcams first showed up. VIDEO CHAT WITH LIVE GIRLS has been an Internet porn mainstay for a long time now. But the media didn't let that fact get in the way of playing up a new fad when they
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by whopa 16y ago
The kangaroo thing is an urban legend. Think about it, why would shipping kangaroo all the way from Australia be cheaper than locally sourcing beef? Hell, kangaroo in Australia costs more than Australian beef.
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by whopa 16y ago
Well, to make the analogy a little more accurate, suppose they weren't making as much profit on the hamburger as they are by serving the turkey... Facebook and Twitter both have the problem that they have to justify the amount of investme

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