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by xirium 19y ago
From the article: Which party is responsible for which legs of the connections? Do you have each party's telephone number on paper, in a big folder which never leaves your office? Having this information in a fancy database is useless when
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Dave Barry's Read This First(linuxmafia.com)
2 points by xirium 19y ago|0 comments
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by xirium 19y ago
Technically, this is standards compliant: From RFC2616 HTTP/1.1 ( http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616.html ), Section 8.1.4, Practical Considerations: Clients that use persistent connections SHOULD limit the number of simultaneous
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by xirium 19y ago
To many end-users, technology is magic and therefore anything beyond pixels on their desktop is non-existent. Therefore, it would be worthwhile to consider the proportion of code which is directly concerned with user interface.
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by xirium 19y ago
"myplaylist" in san serif is good. Lowercase is alright. Black background may create printing problems and limit future styling. "my" in green is good. Red dot on "i" is good. Volume style stripes on "li" significantly reduces legibility. J
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ACM Queue - A Conversation with Phil Smoot: Scaling Hotmail(acmqueue.com)
1 points by xirium 19y ago|0 comments
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by xirium 19y ago
In the olden days, A/B testing of newspaper adverts took advantage of a printing system in which two otherwise identical copies of a newspaper was printed on wide rolls of paper. This fixed the testing ratio at 1:1. For new website features
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by xirium 19y ago
Parking companies are unlikely to share information if it disuades customers from speculatively finding a space. However, if you allow advance booking via mobile telephone then the parking company obtains revenue even if you don't use the s
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by xirium 19y ago
Have a message table and an ancestor table. The ancestor table allows you to find all ancestors of a message or all decendents of a message. This allows you to quickly retrieve a branch of the discussion tree.
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by xirium 19y ago
Don't be afraid to try something new. Remember that a lone amateur built the ark and a large group of professionals built the Titanic.
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by xirium 19y ago
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=134703 ?
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by xirium 19y ago
From the article: Thou shalt steer clear of the private use area. Due to the necessity of fonts requiring code points, the private use area is becoming a de facto fictional language area: http://www.evertype.com/standards/csur/index.html
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Ask YC: What's The Oddest Thing On Your Colleagues Desks?
1 points by xirium 19y ago|3 comments
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by xirium 19y ago
It is possible for one or more good programmers to be managed by a better programmer. However, there are two disadvantages to this technique. Firstly, it borders on micro-management and it would take a large number of sub-ordinates to make
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by xirium 19y ago
Perhaps I access Mecha Image Of The Day ( http://www.miotd.com/ ) too frequently but my first thought was a giant space mecha. Am I the only one?
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by xirium 19y ago
From the article: When you think of Firewire, you really should just think of a cable coming directly out of your system's DRAM banks. That's basically all Firewire is. Shouldn't DMA transfer only be initiated from inside a host? That's r
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by xirium 19y ago
A friend has used this facility for quite a while. It certainly raises the bar and reduces the chance of compromising an account but only in trivial cases and only if the user checks.
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by xirium 19y ago
Its a clever pun on the German word for wonderful.
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by xirium 19y ago
Search in page http://www.canonical.org/~kragen/tao-of-programming.html for DOS.
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by xirium 19y ago
Perhaps a gap in the market is emerging. 1/3 of Google's first 500 employees have already left and stock options will vest for another 2200 staff in Aug 2008 ( http://www.news.com/Life-after-Google%2C-with-millions/2100-... ). Additionall
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by xirium 19y ago
Why isn't RFC1365 more widely implemented? This would provide all of the address space needed and without needing a grand switch-over.
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by xirium 19y ago
Spam!
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by xirium 19y ago
A good reason for a startup is because there is a large gap in the market which currently exists, is emerging, or is imminent.
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by xirium 19y ago
You don't need cash to acquire companies ( http://www.billparish.com/citigrouppyramidintro.html ).
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by xirium 19y ago
This type of valuation has been mentioned before ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=121206 ). Yahoo purchased GeoCities for US$1100 per user. Microsoft purchased a stake of Facebook for US$300 per user. So, AOL buying Bebo for US$250 p
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by xirium 19y ago
Yes, it is a question of opt-in versus opt-out and the difficulty of making those actions.
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by xirium 19y ago
Your ISP may have a web cache which is creating high latency. Can you fetch large files quickly? It the delay most noticably when fetching many small files?
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by xirium 19y ago
> when you have good stuff This is a point of contention. This forum is for people who are advancing the art not imitating it. Your contribution so far is at least six years out of date.
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by xirium 19y ago
That's the most off topic spam that I've seen yet.
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Ideas For Start-Ups(halfbakery.com)
2 points by xirium 19y ago|0 comments

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