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by xfour 10y ago
Complete and shameless fluff advertising for velocity 360, evidently a coding bootcamp.
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by xfour 10y ago
One standout by far is Jim Hines in 1968 breaks 10 seconds which is not done again for 12 years and after which point seems to follow a linear downward march.
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by xfour 10y ago
I would call it the 3rd dotcom bubble, there was a pretty big one forming that popped during the 2008 financial crisis as well, at least in San Francisco.
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by xfour 10y ago
Seems straightforward.
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by xfour 10y ago
"The operating loss at the time was 39 million euros, widening from 21.3 million euros in 2013." Hmm... Not the most obvious why this would be worth a Billion. Is paying subscribers or visitors still growing at a rate that makes i
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by xfour 10y ago
Looks pretty compelling based on the graphs at the bottom. Seems like OP could lead with those or at least make a percentage right up at the top for those of us that need a TLDR instead of a play by play.
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by xfour 10y ago
Not sure how well this is going to work judging from the last time they tried to buy a vote http://sfist.com/2015/10/23/airbnb_frantically_doing_damage_... though admittedly that did work out in their favor i
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by xfour 10y ago
Smart, but I don't know how granular you could get unless you had known servers at every possible datacenter.
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by xfour 10y ago
Good post, had me thinking within 5 sentences of places where this played out. I'm struck though that the DM would necessarily have to have the big enough ego to consciously or unconsciously block new efforts. Like the post says let it
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by xfour 10y ago
So true, San Jose, and the greater Silicon Valley have a huge problem with this. The ongoing fight over Coyote Valley is the flashpoint of the moment but mostly because it's the only open space left.
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by xfour 10y ago
Perhaps we should try going back to metal detectors? Automated thing that goes beep, seemed to work just fine. Theoretically could move lines faster and with less errors.
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by xfour 10y ago
That is some amazing journalism. I learned a ton of things I never knew about Iceland, and a fair bit about what happens when Justin Beiber is filmed in your plane. Dude has to rescue tourists every single day? That's not a very sustai
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by xfour 10y ago
I'ts incredible how many businesses revolve around this, you have the obvious ones like Lexus Nexis, but even more in the housing space you have the regional MLS's sole purpose of existence is to be the keeper of the data. Again i
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by xfour 10y ago
Congo was way ahead of its time. Amy good Gorilla! http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=KXlSFKLuzTA
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by xfour 10y ago
Couldn't you just as easily for 90% of the problems you mention use cash?
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by xfour 10y ago
Slide deck style buildup has me wanting to scream. Then I found out it was Europe only. Can't use a co.uk or denote in some way?
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by xfour 10y ago
Just give it the Digg treatment and be done with it. Too many words have been written on this subject. Yes the financials make it much more difficult but the brand is worth something to somebody. Figure that out and unwind the finances to i
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by xfour 11y ago
towards the end of the article you get an interesting question. If you have the State of California mandating that the energy is 50% renewable but share energy with other states how do you account for the grey area especially if the other s
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by xfour 11y ago
Well thought out article. Open source whatever the customer needs to keep the thing running Google! This reminds me of Tivo's wish to EOL all their old set top boxes, that they originally sold as lifetime subscriptions, they still seem
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by xfour 11y ago
I can't help but feeling for the a huge swath of the intended audience this is much too late. I remember the cachet of using RHEL over something like CentOS 3-5 years ago but now it seems like any operations team I come into contact wi
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by xfour 11y ago
I'm enjoying fidelity's releases as a public company they have to release financial information. Gives as close a proxy as one can get to the health of these "Unicorns" remember that term? I wish fidelity or some other f
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by xfour 11y ago
No mention in this article of how you will handle to uglier parts of software development such as the debugging, the globals such as window, the browser inconsistencies? This seems much too early to make such a blanket statement.
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by xfour 11y ago
Which in the end appeared to be a backlash of being diagnosed with HIV, so taking your anecdote to its full conclusion the DOJ is sickened with a terminal illness they haven't come to terms with dealing with.
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by xfour 11y ago
Only problem with this is it discourages shifting to paper-less business. Remember when that was a goal of business and government. It's been so successful via the fact that it's simply easier than shuffling papers about. That bei
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by xfour 11y ago
A lot of good thought put into this article. I remember first hearing the final state of this line of thinking from Star Trek. I believe the next generation, where a character says,(paraphrasing) I work for the betterment of mankind, with w
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by xfour 11y ago
You're just making this worse. Do you think people are not going to parse this comment line by line to verify what you imply, point by point. The fact you have a job in Developer Relations and you're trying to deflect the story be
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by xfour 11y ago
Agreed, every other line was a pitch for how amazing SignalFX is.
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by xfour 11y ago
Perhaps it could be as simple as keeping a hash of levels tied to a box. When your monitoring alerts that your box is unhealthy, run a process to remove all locks associated with the dead box allowing the player to refresh and restart the s
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by xfour 11y ago
Managed to get through level 2 eventually, lot of retries while boxes were being rebooted etc. The calls to /gm must allocate an instance or something of that sort as once you manage to get lucky on that step the game will work it seem
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by xfour 11y ago
Seems to be pretty stressed out at the moment, tons of 500s and timeouts. 2-3 refreshes per page, got to the Level controls dialog, nothing doing. We couldn't start the level: This level has been locked by a different server. (Sorry if

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