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by xal 15y ago
I'm the CEO of the fastest growing tech company in my geographical region ( off the beaten path ) and I get calls by other CEOs asking for stuff like this very very often. In our case it's because those other CEOs don't want to compete on p
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by xal 15y ago
We techies know it is but RIM is very profitable and growing, the trade volume on the stock indicates that a lot of people think that they could be undervalued at the moment. They may even be under book value.
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by xal 15y ago
That's generally a good thing to say when the people that he has to calm the most are the Street and their demotivated workforce. People as a whole don't like change.
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Go got exceptions right(dave.cheney.net)
1 points by xal 15y ago|0 comments
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Shopify's 2011 in review(shopify.com)
2 points by xal 15y ago|0 comments
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by xal 15y ago
It's really a pleasure to read through this code. The amount of things that he gets from the go standard library is really incredible. Go looks perfect for such tasks. Anyone got a C implementation to compare it to?
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by xal 15y ago
This is a bad poll because there isn't even distribution here. By definition there are more small companies then large ones which by definition will use month-to-month dynamic hosting options. Most every startup will start in the cloud and
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by xal 15y ago
Probably a good idea to speed up the ruby by compiling a ruby binary to javascript (through emscripten) similarly to how http://repl.it did it. That way you don't need a server.
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by xal 15y ago
He is one of the nicest people in the valley, unbelievably passionate and aware. He used to be the CTO so he is also a strong technical person. It's a great fit.
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by xal 15y ago
These guys really milk the hell out of you guys. That's barely even a meaningful amount of money for them or for EFF.
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by xal 15y ago
That title is misleading but a misleading title is on-topic in a strange, roundabout way. TL;DR: Some guy who is trolling facebook changed his name to Mark Zuckerberg.
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by xal 15y ago
Not a great test either but better then the above: Geekbench 2 on iPhone 4S: 617 Geekbench 2 32bit on iMac i7 @ 2.80GHz: 8557
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by xal 15y ago
This comment is brilliantly insightful to a degree that the original article could only dream of.
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Twitter redesign(fly.twitter.com)
10 points by xal 15y ago|0 comments
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by xal 15y ago
Let's hope they are collaborating with some real researches to measure the impact of this. It's definitely a super interesting and plausible experiment. I have a love/hate relationship with email. It's definitely good in theory, but in real
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by xal 15y ago
The problem with that is that plain script tags can be started to load once the first TCP package of the HTML source code has been received. Your javascript tag would only be executed after all that has been loaded and the JS parser has bee
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by xal 15y ago
That's good. One of the biggest productivity gains you can have as an OSX user is uninstalling Growl. Being interrupted constantly by stuff that doesn't matter ( Email arrived, iTunes changed song, Download done ) will reduce your ability t
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Ruby 1.9.3 released (blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp)
183 points by xal 15y ago|43 comments
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by xal 15y ago
iPad is such a lost opportunity right now for them. I'm watching hours of content on small resolution iphone app on my iPad.
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by xal 15y ago
Definely not the case in the examples above
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by xal 15y ago
By the way, this is actually less then Shopify theme designers make. http://themes.shopify.com
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Shopify throws weight behind Stripe(shopify.com)
2 points by xal 15y ago|0 comments
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by xal 15y ago
Way too low. The starcraft commentary community alone splits more then a million between the popular casters.
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by xal 15y ago
Really great. One piece of feedback: Clicking on text works great but you can't use the browser back button to get back to the overview. That means you have to reload the page after every click on text.
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by xal 15y ago
Powers the Shopify website as well by the way. Jekyll was a good fit since we made Liquid and are therefore really familiar with it.
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by xal 15y ago
If you are going textmate to Vim you should really just go straight to Vico. It's essentially the perfect editor ( for me ): Textmate look/feel/bundles but vim keybinds down to the most esoteric corners. http://www.vicoapp.com/
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by xal 15y ago
Also look at batman.js
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by xal 15y ago
you are being downvoted because your comment has a fairly obvious chicken and egg problem which I don't think you fully reasoned to it's logical conclusion.
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by xal 15y ago
Proper Security: Something you have and something you know.
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by xal 15y ago
Doing a queue system where the workers wait in a busy-loop is pretty insane. I'm saying that as the author of Delayed::Job so i'm pretty much responsible for those shenanigans.

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