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by yapcguy 13y ago
> "The $258 million is a 86% chunk of Google Ventures’ $300 million dollar a year fund, and its unclear as to whether the firm will continue to make such sizable investments." So a towncar hire service, with an app, is worth ov
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by yapcguy 13y ago
Tim Cook is a weak man. Just ask vulture capitalist Carl Icahn, who tweeted this a few minutes ago. https://twitter.com/Carl_C_Icahn/status/370615097963450368
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by yapcguy 13y ago
Yesterday Wired published a similar puff piece for App.net. Does anybody know how much it "costs" to have a sponsored article?
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by yapcguy 13y ago
Better to be blacklisted then get Google recruiters spamming you every few months!
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by yapcguy 13y ago
Bravo. Agree 100%.
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by yapcguy 13y ago
It's not open. It's closed, proprietary and the boys over at Andressen-Horowitz are going to want a return on their investment.
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by yapcguy 13y ago
They have funding. Journalists like free lunches.
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MacBook Air battery woes show the downside of the quest for denser batteries(extremetech.com)
1 points by yapcguy 13y ago|0 comments
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So which Internet firm is pure evil in Dave Eggers’ new book The Circle?(independent.co.uk)
2 points by yapcguy 13y ago|0 comments
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by yapcguy 13y ago
App.net con(vince) developers to give up cash to fund a proprietary closed platform. Even users had to pay to get an account. They then sell shares of the business to Andreessen Horowitz for $2.5 Million. Why don't developers and use
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by yapcguy 13y ago
Grumpy old man thought of the day: If Stripe is so easy, why do I need to buy a book and sample code?
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by yapcguy 13y ago
Can you tell us the corporate structure of Stripe? Does Stripe have "operations" in the Republic of Ireland? Will Stripe shuffle UK sales/transactions through Dublin in order to avoid paying corporation tax in the UK? Quite a
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by yapcguy 13y ago
> If you look at the speed that libraries were developed for node.js (and now Go), it seems like the web-dev community can really push forward a technology Libraries aren't really being 'developed' for new languages. The
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Larry Ellison: Google's Larry Page acted 'evil'(news.cnet.com)
4 points by yapcguy 13y ago|1 comments
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by yapcguy 13y ago
Xubuntu works quite well. I recommend you try XFCE for the desktop.
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by yapcguy 13y ago
What I get from this is that the new Mac Pro is going to be expensive - the older generation Sandy Bridge Intel Xeon E5-2687W still costs > $1900.
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Intel's 12-Core Xeon With 30 MB Of L3: The New Mac Pro's CPU?(tomshardware.com)
30 points by yapcguy 13y ago|34 comments
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by yapcguy 13y ago
The proposal in section 6 is somewhat redundant given section 5: > ...all users receive all messages... It would be trivial to modify the BM client to archive/save all messages it receives.
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by yapcguy 13y ago
Bitmessage is a bad idea, read the white paper. Every message is retained forever by every BM client.
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by yapcguy 13y ago
How have you found developing in Vala? What is concurrency and multi-threading support like in the language? With Vala's object system built upon GObject, wouldn't targeting Qt be a problem?
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Apple's evolving view of “pro”(kensegall.com)
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5 Myths About Mobile Web Performance(sencha.com)
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by yapcguy 13y ago
App.net is/was DOA. Dalton managed to con(vince) a bunch of developers to fork over money, but really, nobody cares what happens to App.net because the platform is proprietary and not open-source.
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Lyft drivers having "difficulties getting insurance coverage"(sfbg.com)
1 points by yapcguy 13y ago|0 comments
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Into thin air(sfbg.com)
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by yapcguy 13y ago
> 2) Now I know they are going to stick around for a while. Remember Slicehost? They might stick around but not in the form that you like especially given that DO are playing the startup game rather than growing organically, building a
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by yapcguy 13y ago
My personal opinion is that it just feels - given all the hype - that DigitalOcean are not here to build the best possible hosting provider for developers. I just don't feel there is anything special about DigitalOcean, nothing that in
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by yapcguy 13y ago
What about their security? Seem to have been quite a few issues recently. From just two days ago, here on HN: "Digitalocean.com has misconfigured their network in a way that allows for anyone to monitor customer network traffic.&quot
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by yapcguy 13y ago
Not really. How did it change the game for service providers over at LowEndBox.com, who have been providing VPS servers for $5 or less, before DigitalOcean even existed?
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by yapcguy 13y ago
Exactly. There are lots of providers on LowEndBox.com and many have them have SSDs etc. DigitalOcean are only special because they "play" the start-up game - lots of hype, marketing, get journalists on their side to write nice th

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