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by yid 15y ago
Slashdot's wrapper commentary hasn't been clever in quite some time, unfortunately. I had a very low uid there, and witnessed the decline firsthand. Count me in as someone concerned about editorialized headlines at HN -- I really don't want
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by yid 15y ago
You seem to disagree with the author, but ask yourself if they should still be posting a hefty loss with those numbers.
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by yid 15y ago
The choice there is not to go through anyone at all. It's not like all businesses wanted to hold flash 75% sales and just didn't know how before Groupon.
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by yid 15y ago
A bit full of yourself perhaps? Do you have anything substantiated to back up that sort of preening? (I ask seriously)
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by yid 15y ago
I find it hard to believe that you wrote such a long, pedantic rant about an "extras" chapter in an introductory algorithms book. Are you aware that most introductory algorithms courses (i.e., the ones this book is targeted at) don't end up
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by yid 15y ago
No one's forcing you to use it...
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by yid 15y ago
> 1) JS is awesome precisely because of the common denominator. But because Chrome said so, devs should go back to triple-testing everything and dusting off their assembly debugger toolchains? If you absolutely need the flexibility or
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by yid 15y ago
So what you're saying is that you want a JS-to-NaCl JIT compiler (presuming NaCl is faster than V8).
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by yid 15y ago
Not a problem -- if NaCl exceeds V8 in development, we just compile Javascript directly to NaCl (using tools that will certainly be devised).
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by yid 15y ago
From the official NaCl FAQ: Q. Is Native Client open? Is it a standard? Native Client is completely open: the executable format is open and the source code is open. Right now Native Client is in its early stages, so it's premature to consid
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by yid 15y ago
I'd be more interested if you held on to them indefinitely in digital form (with reliable backups, etc.)
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by yid 15y ago
ActiveX's downfall was a lack of security and relatively high complexity (the two are often related). Google, so far, has had quite a good run in those areas.
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by yid 15y ago
I think they might also see NaCl as helping drive Chrome's growth, when suddenly a browser can do cool stuff that other browsers can't. EDIT: I'm old enough to remember the browser wars, but I really like most of the trends that Google/Chro
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by yid 15y ago
I realize your comment reflects economic reality, but that really came across as a little dehumanizing.
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by yid 15y ago
I'm not worried, but I am very curious about how so much money and talent could produce so little.
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by yid 15y ago
You really think they have a decade worth of runway? $42 mil is a lot, but for a relatively extravagant startup, I could easily see $4/mil a year going to operational costs, high-profile new hires, marketing.
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by yid 15y ago
There is definitely schadenfreude happening here, but at the same time, it's fair to nitpick if you want to learn about what went wrong. The same discussion, in business school, is called a case study.
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by yid 15y ago
Data scientists used to be PhD students, and those can be plucked from grad school for a summer here and there for a pittance.
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by yid 15y ago
From an NYT article: Mr. Nguyen [CEO of Color] outlined an ambitious plan to compete with Apple, Google and Facebook by tying together group messaging, recommendations and local search, all while making money through advertising. You woul
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by yid 15y ago
Either you're incredibly involved in the Mozilla codebase, or you're misusing the word "re-entrant" [1]. Since you're asking about development status, I'm going to assume the latter. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reentrant_(subroutine)
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by yid 15y ago
You don't. I choose to stay anonymous for many reasons, but if it's any help, nothing I said could be construed as trying to discredit Facebook (even though I'm anonymous).
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by yid 15y ago
The juice that we're all looking for: > On that basis, Groupon incurred a $420 million operating loss for 2010 and a $117.1 million loss in the first quarter. So they had a slightly worse amortized 1st quarter this year than last.
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by yid 15y ago
I fail to see why "my ISP doesn't give me Ruby" --> "Ruby isn't mainstream". To my downvoter, here's a list of "mainstream" providers, at the Godaddy-level, and language support: Dreamhost: RoR, PHP, Perl, Python [1] Godaddy @ $8/month:
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by yid 15y ago
...which leads me to think that the poster is confusing "mainstream" with "GoDaddy".
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by yid 15y ago
From TFA: > * I have yet to see this kind of universal support for any other language than PHP. Not even Ruby on Rails, let alone Java, is available on mainstream providers, thereby validating the claim I made five years ago that Ruby o
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by yid 15y ago
It's correct without "let", but a little archaic. You're unlikely to see that sort of usage outside slightly pretentious plays, but it's correct nonetheless.
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by yid 15y ago
Haha, yes I do mind. :)
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by yid 15y ago
Hi anonymous, I work at facebook. If you manage to hack us and grab our data, perhaps you'd like to apply for a job? It's not trivial getting the data even with full access, so you could really help our team! Plus the free lunches are prett
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by yid 15y ago
Ah you must be young -- expecting mutual respect from tech recruiters.
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by yid 15y ago
With the ease with which the burner can be turned into a bomb, it's portability (like a large Molotov), and the $15 price tag, I would be really surprised if it were genuinely an outlier (in the sense of being a chance correlation with cu

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