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by xal 13y ago
It works great if everyone in the company is hugely accomplished and if the product of the company is in essentially permanent use by everyone who works there.
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by xal 13y ago
Be careful trying any kind of lessons from Github. I admire them greatly but they are an (almost-) unique company because every single person who works there also uses their product 8 hours a day. This is so profound that when Github they f
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by xal 13y ago
That's really interesting how much Go can be traced back to this library.
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by xal 13y ago
Longboarding isn't like skateboarding very much. I never skated before but earlier this year I bought a $60 longboard of Craigslist and used it to get to work. It was a bit weird at first but I got there about 25% faster than walking.
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by xal 13y ago
What was the exact quote? I remember it as him saying that it's using open technology which it is. I think people misunderstood this.
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by xal 13y ago
The third icon could be O: Steam OS + O: Orange Box 2. Orange Box 2 may include Half Life 3 and more.
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by xal 13y ago
It's not a tough sell. Valve can offer a massively higher cut then Sony and Microsoft will do.
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by xal 13y ago
I really hope that this will be seamless. I would love to keep a beefy windows PC in the basement as a headless machine to run windows only games from and stream them to TV or Macs from there.
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by xal 13y ago
I highly doubt that. What's way more likely is that even if they are just slightly more safe, you will be able to get cheaper insurance for them. Eventually, over time, this will push all self directed cars off the road. There is even
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by xal 13y ago
OneNote exists on the iPad: https://itunes.apple.com/ca/app/microsoft-onenote-for-iphone... Right, it's not quite the same.
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All new batman.js website. JavaScript framework extracted from Shopify(batmanjs.org)
1 points by xal 13y ago|0 comments
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by xal 13y ago
So this is supposed to be a portable browser engine that can be directly embedded into (opengl) video games? This could be great.
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by xal 13y ago
It's the industry's term. I was very tempted to headline the whole launch as "Shopify: First POS that's not a POS." but alas..
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by xal 13y ago
I'm CEO of a medium sized company now. I played semi pro broodwar and masters level SC2. Nothing in this surprises me. More then anything else Starcraft is a game where you learn how to use limited information better than your opponent
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by xal 13y ago
Heh, this is the kind of article that will be humbling to the author to re-read later in his career.
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by xal 13y ago
which then just shows how silly your system is so far. You included an ecommerce store - I just did a quick DB query and we have over 1k stores that are growing faster relatively and absolutely. Every company that grows this quickly is hiri
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by xal 13y ago
The list is by mattermark... I don't know what to say. Certainly I wouldn't have included my self in such a list if I'd have made it.
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by xal 13y ago
brew install fasd Thank me later
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by xal 13y ago
No. We would be crazy to do anything bad for our incredible third party network at http://experts.shopify.com . We are super proud of what we archived here. Last year more than $18m was billed for Shopify work through this commu
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by xal 13y ago
Stay tuned!
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by xal 13y ago
http://www.jetcooper.com for more color.
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by xal 13y ago
yes, Toronto becomes Shopify's second core city. It will have it's own mandate and own projects. Commerce is big and complicated - making it simple and approachable is such a big task that it needs to involve several great cities
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by xal 13y ago
If you already have a server or vm somewhere you can get the same with: $ sudo echo "GatewayPorts clientspecified" >> /etc/ssh/sshd_config $ sudo service ssh restart then from your local computer do
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by xal 13y ago
So how do you square that with the financial success?
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by xal 13y ago
Wow, the new york times is doing some incredible work. They are really moving the web forward.
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I'd like to have an argument: A primer on Consensus(harry.me)
1 points by xal 13y ago|0 comments
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by xal 13y ago
The economist has used Editorial Anonymity since 1843 and is edited to read in a single style: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Economist#Editorial_anonymi... Obviously there is plenty of criticism of this practice, ev
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Building a Modern Computer from First Principles(nand2tetris.org)
238 points by xal 13y ago|83 comments
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by xal 13y ago
Yea, all of us successful web companies face these all the time. We get them multiple times a day. Most of us end up giving up and pay for Arbor gear and ridiculously over provisioned pipes as well as good relations with our hosting facilit
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SAP Acquires Hybris(sap.com)
2 points by xal 13y ago|0 comments

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