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by carbon8 13y ago
Short-lived staging environments (eg, a temporary clone of a production environment) certainly have a place, such as when making architectural changes, but these kinds of changes are generally not happening on a regular basis if you are mak
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by carbon8 13y ago
I've found it interesting how many people in the Bay Area, particularly veterans of the 90s boom, discount a lot of the ideas pushed by GitHub and 37signals. Anedotally, one of the common responses whenever I reference either company i
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by carbon8 13y ago
Also, from a Kauffman Foundation report: "The average and median age of U.S.-born tech founders [of companies that have more than $1 million in sales, twenty or more employees, and company branches with fifty or more employees] was thi
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by carbon8 13y ago
"The average and median age of U.S.-born tech founders [of companies that have more than $1 million in sales, twenty or more employees, and company branches with fifty or more employees] was thirty-nine when they started their companie
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by carbon8 13y ago
FWIW, having read through this book, I highly recommend it for anyone interested in learning Go. It provides a good, clear introduction to the language and is very easy to digest.
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by carbon8 14y ago
Parts of this post are premised the "influencer" marketing model, but there is at least some research indicating that it might not be as powerful as generally assumed. For example: * http://misc.si.umich.edu/media/papers/wsdm333w-bakshy.pd
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by carbon8 14y ago
Quoting Phil Plait's very early speculation ( http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2013/02/15/breaking... ): "It appears to split, so I’m guessing the main mass split there. That’s not surprising; it’s happened with previous falls (like
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by carbon8 14y ago
Two more good videos (high quality, trail/train detail, booms, etc): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDqYclzto7k http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ozSq3yEm3g
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by carbon8 14y ago
Engine Yard is more like opinionated configuration management. It allocates and configures EC2 instances that you can log into like normal. The software stack is HAProxy, nginx, unicorn, etc, and customizable through the web interface and/o
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by carbon8 14y ago
This sounds very similar to what I've heard from people who have actually worked with Jobs, as well as the Steve Jobs described by Ken Segall in Insanely Simple http://www.amazon.com/Insanely-Simple-Obsession-Drives-Succe... Segall’s desc
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by carbon8 14y ago
Regarding #3, when practicing Vipassana as taught by Goenka, you do indeed start with anapana, both in the courses (the first 3 1/2 days are only focusing on breath) and in daily practice.
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by carbon8 14y ago
Agreed that it takes determination to continue, but I've managed to do the 1 hour morning and evening sittings for stretches, including a year or so while working full time and going to school. It's just a matter of incorporating it into a
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by carbon8 14y ago
IMO, JSTOR isn't directly to blame. They are operating within a broken system, and it seems like they are doing what they can. Academic publishing is what needs a serious overhaul. After having worked in an academic library and, more recent
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by carbon8 14y ago
Regarding what any of this means for other content paywalls, note this section from Post Industrial Journalism: Adapting to the Present ( http://towcenter.org/research/post-industrial-journalism/ ): "Finally, a note about why we will not b
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by carbon8 14y ago
"the problem is that most people don't like browsing the internet on a phone or even a tablet" The analytics on every site I've had access to in the past couple years suggest otherwise. iPad web traffic has been steadily rising and accoun
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by carbon8 14y ago
San Francisco, CA. Byliner Inc. is a publishing company and social network built around great stories. We are an online archive of long form journalism and fiction, as well as a publisher of original stories for iPad, Kindle, and other mobi
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by carbon8 14y ago
The "check" icon next to the name on the profile page: http://i.imgur.com/Jzg8Y.png
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by carbon8 14y ago
San Francisco, CA. Byliner Inc. is a publishing company and social network built around great stories. We are an online archive of long form journalism and fiction, as well as a publisher of original stories for iPad, Kindle, and other mobi
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by carbon8 14y ago
http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-syntax/#at-rules As I understand it, at-rules are basically directives to the CSS parser and, according to the spec, should be ignored if the parser does not recognize the identifier. Given that, the use of at-ru
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by carbon8 15y ago
Feedback noted. The reason some characters are missing is because I haven't had time to update it to include the new Unicode 6 characters. I'll do it ASAP.
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by carbon8 15y ago
Thanks for the HN love. This is actually one of my side projects. I'm a character and type geek and use this as a place to experiment and play with the data. Really glad to see other people find it interesting. Let me know about anything th
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by carbon8 15y ago
San Francisco, CA. Byliner Inc. is a publishing company and social network built around great stories. We are an online archive of long form journalism and fiction, as well as a publisher of original stories for iPad, Kindle, and other mobi
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by carbon8 15y ago
"Read the iPhone app reviews..." I went ahead and looked, and none of the complaints appeared obviously due to anything related to the current discussion. The vast majority of them complain about "crashes" and problems logging in. The fe
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by carbon8 15y ago
In addition to what others have said, don't forget that ActiveX also played a strong role. ActiveX was pretty widely used in business-oriented web applications, which hindered business adoption of firefox even among those companies or indiv
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by carbon8 15y ago
Regarding sharing, on the mobile (or, at least, iPad) interface, the only sharing option I can see is the basic +1, which, as far as I can tell, isn't seen by anyone unless the go to a user's google plus profile and click the tab. As a resu
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by carbon8 15y ago
Also http://byliner.com/ , focused on narrative long form non-fiction.
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by carbon8 15y ago
Perhaps you've had different experiences, but the issues raised in the book are things I've encountered repeatedly in new companies, and I've repeatedly seen new companies fail for exactly the reasons the book describes. For many of us on H
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by carbon8 15y ago
What's with the use of curly brackets for multi-line blocks?
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by carbon8 15y ago
"Working Draft. Microsoft has committed to supporting standards, as soon as they are standards." As you can see in the example pixelcloud cites, Microsoft does in fact implement features based on working drafts. They are already doing thi
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by carbon8 15y ago
Personally, I use RSS in Google Reader as a living bookmark system. I have about 500 subscriptions and don't pay any attention to the unread count. A couple times a week when I'm in the mood to check out stuff in a certain subject area, I'l

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