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by wooster 17y ago
VHS was released in the mid-1970's. Betamax was released in 1975. They are widely considered to have popularized (or been popularized by?) video porn.
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by wooster 17y ago
I don't know, but since I moved from a house to an apartment building, my electricity bill is within that range.
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by wooster 17y ago
Really? Because it looks to me like an employee of Mozilla claimed copyright on images plagiarized from another's work. The Mozilla wiki has a very clear copyright policy: "All contributions to MozillaWiki are under the Creative Commons Att
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by wooster 17y ago
I have a friend whose mom told her: "I wish I'd left you to die when you were born." She's Chinese, and a successful Chinese-American entrepreneur. I can't even begin to imagine what a mindfuck that must be.
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by wooster 17y ago
Japan is a fairly well-studied case. First hit on Google is: http://www.japanesestudies.org.uk/discussionpapers/Chapple.h... For Europe, it's less clear, as there's a lot of variation. But, data is here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List
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by wooster 17y ago
The US government debt is all in US dollars. Who controls the value of the US dollar? Yeah. Do the math.
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by wooster 17y ago
It's fairly easy to see that this is going to be one of the great causes of worldwide instability in this century. Many of these societies will be left with little choice in the face of political and societal forces but territorial expansio
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by wooster 17y ago
Yeah, mouse wheels and touch scrolling have pretty much eliminated that problem for me, so it's jarring whenever I have to use someone's machine without those features.
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by wooster 17y ago
Even some basic analytics would help: How are people finding my app? What are they searching for? What web sites did they come from? What languages do they speak? etc.
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by wooster 17y ago
Make that "HTML5+JS+CSS is easier to develop" and "the devices are faster". Much of my consulting work is making iPhone apps faster. People seem to forget that the iPhone and iPod hardware is slow and has limited memory. I'd imagine the eq
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by wooster 17y ago
Those are the problems I'm dealing with at the moment, so they're the ones that came to mind.
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by wooster 17y ago
You make some good points. However, the original author's point basically boiled down to: if you define scalability as the problems you can scale an RDBMS to solve, RDBMS systems are scalable. I'm not big on arguing the finer points of some
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by wooster 17y ago
Myself, I've stopped using protobuf because it's super slow in Python.
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"Such a platform can yield very satisfactory performance for tens or hundreds of thousands of active users" There are 253 million Internet users in China alone. What happens when your site needs to scale from 0.001% of them using the site s
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by wooster 17y ago
All good points. However, there are more issues with dealing with strings in the wild than just round-tripping between encodings. Many of the issues I've dealt with when data mining involved mixed encodings within the same document, documen
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by wooster 17y ago
> Is there a technical reason why Ruby doesn't do this? Han Unification. Gory details here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Han_unification
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by wooster 17y ago
I second jdg that it was really poor form to name it after the original site. It demonstrates a lack of integrity, and I would count it against you in hiring.
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by wooster 17y ago
Ahem: http://twitter.com/kellan/status/9651902873
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by wooster 17y ago
Carbon footprint = carbon output - offsets Much of the charcoal used in tropical regions is made by slash-and-charring rain forests. These forests aren't replanted. So, since the carbon output is high, and there is no offset, it has a huge
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by wooster 17y ago
> Isn't the whole point of renewable energy to have a perpetually renewing "closed system"? Nope. Renewable just means the energy source can be replenished. Technically, charcoal would fall in this category, even though it has a pretty
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by wooster 17y ago
FWIW, Pat House is a fantastic speaker. If you ever have the chance to see her speak, go. She was in the trenches during a very exciting and interesting time in the software industry, and besides for being a major player in the industry, sh
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by wooster 17y ago
Off the top of my head: Pierre Omidyar with Ebay. Gabor Cselle with reMail. Mark Zuckerberg with Facebook (cash flow positive, at least). Max Levchin with Slide.com. And a few others I can't really talk about (they like their low profile).
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by wooster 17y ago
Ah, well that helped me track the 50% blurb down to this article in Lancet: http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-67... Which was a study of one town in Russia. Their interpretation of the results includes this line: "
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by wooster 17y ago
Yes, that's certainly fine anecdotal evidence, and I'm well aware of the "drunken Russian" stereotype, but I'm looking for hard numbers. For example, alcohol consumption per capita (among those 15 years and older) in Russia is less than Spa
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by wooster 17y ago
"Half of all premature deaths of working age Russian men are due to alcohol consumption." Color me skeptical on that. The average life expectancy of Russian males in 2008 was 61.83, whereas the retirement age in Russia is 60. I can't find s
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by wooster 17y ago
For stats, I use Ganglia. The newest versions, which sadly have to be installed from source on most Linux variants, have support for Python modules. So, in addition to the out of the box stuff, I monitor a whole bunch of other stuff related
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by wooster 17y ago
Point 6 (Sessions are irrelevant) is where REST really falls down as a way of explaining the success or practical operation of the web.
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by wooster 17y ago
And I'm not exactly sure how your hypothetical example of the government doing something illegal, irresponsible, dangerous, and unconstitutional is supposed to support your point.
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by wooster 17y ago
Um, no, we should not give the government room to screw up. The government does not exist to innovate. Nor does it exist to create "products". It exists, to quote the U.S. Constitution, to: "establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, p
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by wooster 17y ago
It's not FUD. I don't have a Google Profile, but Buzz was automatically activated (even though I clicked the no/cancel/whatever-it-said-because-it-totally-ignored-me-anyway button) when I logged into GMail. I don't care if it was made publi

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