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Confirmshaming(confirmshaming.tumblr.com)
1 points by ahmacleod 10y ago|0 comments
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Dating app Tinder sparks heated legal battle in Toronto(theglobeandmail.com)
1 points by ahmacleod 11y ago|0 comments
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by ahmacleod 11y ago
This is pretty cool. I usually had to add a little more context to get the correct result though. It would be nice to see the top ten results, maybe with a relevance score. It would also be great if I could pipe in the search and bypass con
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The Article on Diversity in Tech That Forbes Took Down(brianshall.com)
2 points by ahmacleod 11y ago|2 comments
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by ahmacleod 11y ago
I found this odd as well, especially given how competing services (e.g. SoftLayer) so often cite the performance of dedicated servers as their competitive advantage over AWS.
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by ahmacleod 11y ago
I'm actually pretty amazed at the diversity, and how few of these frameworks I'm familiar with.
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by ahmacleod 11y ago
> It is not expected that the performance of compiled applications will ever rival 'v8'. JavaScript is an awful language for static compilation - it almost seems designed to foil any attempts at optimization, and so a JIT will
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by ahmacleod 11y ago
Just to clarify: I'm the OP, not the Author.
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by ahmacleod 11y ago
This. The Author pulled a serious coup here, translating an aborted business into a personal profile piece in a national paper.
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by ahmacleod 11y ago
The article is interesting and relevant, even if its premise is flawed. It certainly merits discussion, critical as it may be.
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by ahmacleod 11y ago
Title is from the article; I am not the author.
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How Google killed my startup(theglobeandmail.com)
53 points by ahmacleod 11y ago|59 comments
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by ahmacleod 11y ago
Nice work. I've built roughly half of this before, but your API is cleaner and the docs really tie it together.
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by ahmacleod 11y ago
These are all beautiful illustrations, but they don't feel iconic to me. Granted, there is a spectrum when it comes to detail, but isn't the purpose of an icon to distill an idea to its visual essence?
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by ahmacleod 11y ago
There was a time when you could say the same about street view. Now they're working on the bottom of the ocean.
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by ahmacleod 12y ago
"However, we continued our attempts at possibly making our product work but by mid-February, we realized that we were grinding through our days. Grinding is okay and sometimes necessary for a startup, but it was during this time that I
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by ahmacleod 12y ago
Even better: use data from your own project management (or at least pretend you're using it internally).
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by ahmacleod 12y ago
Frameworks are great for startups. Before market fit, they make it easy to quickly build (and tear down) functionality. Afterwards, they make it easy to integrate new members into your team. At either stage, you don't want to spend you
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by ahmacleod 12y ago
Thanks, that's what I was looking for.
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by ahmacleod 12y ago
"Convenient proxy factory bean superclass for proxy factory beans that create only singletons."
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by ahmacleod 12y ago
I was trained in Java, but I never had to do any Big Enterprise Java coding. Can anyone summarize why and when this style of development began?
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by ahmacleod 12y ago
This is great news for server-side tex rendering. Valiant efforts on behalf of projects like svgtex ( https://github.com/agrbin/svgtex ) notwithstanding, MathJax is abysmal for pre-rendering content.