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by whyleyc 17y ago
More in-depth analysis on BBC tech site here: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8496263.stm
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by whyleyc 17y ago
Yes but Cringely just lifted the content straight from Jason's tweets. The way the post is written makes it sound like Cringely was the tester, which is just untrue.
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by whyleyc 17y ago
Thanks - very helpful to know. One follow-on question - you mention you use 2 machines, is this in a failover capacity or do you use another piece of hardware/software to balance in front if nginx ?
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by whyleyc 17y ago
Out of interest how beefy are the servers you are using to run nginx ? We're looking at it for a deployment and I'm wondering if you had any tips about whether it's a particularly RAM or CPU-hungry beast ?
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by whyleyc 17y ago
He makes a pretty compelling point about why Oracle would want to dump MySQL: "MySQL is used in many of the world's largest companies and they use it for an increasing number of purposes. This not only scares but actually hurts Oracle every
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MySQL founder protests against Oracle takeover(guardian.co.uk)
2 points by whyleyc 17y ago|1 comments
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by whyleyc 17y ago
His conclusion - throw yourself into your life and your work whilst you are still young enough to be able to, so that you don't regret it when you are older.
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by whyleyc 17y ago
Most of the early ones seem to resemble bluescreens of death :-)
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14 years of Windows startup screens in pictures(guardian.co.uk)
1 points by whyleyc 17y ago|1 comments
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by whyleyc 17y ago
I was at the talk - the demo was excellent. I spoke to Francisco afterwards and he said that the resulting code would be able to run across both Mac & Win32 platforms, which I thought was nice.
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by whyleyc 17y ago
I thought it might be some kind of limit like that - thanks for the info.
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AskPG: Where'd my downvote arrow go ?
1 points by whyleyc 17y ago|3 comments
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by whyleyc 17y ago
Agreed, although Simone Brummelhuis does mention some specific programs founders can apply to.
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Starter's guide to VC funding in Europe(uk.techcrunch.com)
8 points by whyleyc 17y ago|2 comments
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by whyleyc 17y ago
Doesn't work for me in Mosaic.
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by whyleyc 17y ago
I love the fact that even though he's hung up on the traditions of the past he just can't bring himself to let go of the future. It's just too enticing :-) This seems to be reflected in the title of his blog ( http://pfarley.livejournal.com
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Hacker builds clock powered by decaying prawns(news.bbc.co.uk)
2 points by whyleyc 17y ago|0 comments
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by whyleyc 17y ago
Worked at Hursley for 11 years, now on a year out travelling and working on a startup.
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by whyleyc 17y ago
Internally we prefer to refer to it as "Bloatus Goats" :)
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by whyleyc 17y ago
Bypass registration and view the article directly here: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/02/opinion/02kristof.html?_r=...
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by whyleyc 17y ago
"Russian companies that actually made things that the world wanted were virtually nonexistent" Hmm, make something people want. I heard that somewhere else too.
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by whyleyc 17y ago
+1 for the SL private network. Minus (minimal) outages, it's been excellent for us over the past 2 years.
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by whyleyc 18y ago
I'm using FF2 and need to stay on it due to certain plugins that haven't made their way up to FF3 yet. Not letting me even see the content of the site because of this is a sure fire way of losing me as a customer.
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We are all makers and hackers(news.bbc.co.uk)
2 points by whyleyc 18y ago|0 comments
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by whyleyc 18y ago
Great stuff Steve - my one big "want" would be permanent chat room names. A bit like you can claim a userid or brandname on Twitter or email e.g. http://www.chatterbloc.com/manchesterunited :-)
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by whyleyc 18y ago
Yup - As an example I sometimes find myself so absorbed in resolving an issue (coding, architechture) I stay up into the small hours of the morning, way after my wife has gone to bed.
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by whyleyc 18y ago
If you don't need to read and act on a list like this I suspect you're probably not being honest with yourself.
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by whyleyc 18y ago
Original launch link: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=388226 A low key launch ! (Also looks like it was 72 days ago rather than 47)
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by whyleyc 18y ago
I can definitely relate to the time aspect mentioned here. I find that for very complex design or architecture issues it can sometimes take an hour just to "load" the problem into my memory, such that I can then start thinking around creati
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by whyleyc 18y ago
Agreed. People who are using technology creatively.

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