caudicus

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by caudicus 14y ago
To add some weight to parent comments, there are lots of comments from Googlers using AngularJS here http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4113530 . I recently switched from Backbone to Angular and have no plans on going back. [edit: I'm not
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by caudicus 14y ago
I stumbled into the about section, and in there they mention they're using a fleet of 500 volunteer ADS-B receivers networked to a central server, and they actually just pick up on planes with ADS-B transponders (more common in Europe than
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by caudicus 14y ago
Caution: recently minted millionaire egos at play.
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by caudicus 15y ago
At the same time that amendment didn't pass (just to be clear). It was basically a tactic by the anti-SOPA contingent to blur the lines of legality...the pitch was "Why waste taxpayer dollars enforcing pornographic copyright? Vote for this!
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by caudicus 15y ago
It's probably just "failure of imagination" in preventing this hack - inertial navigation tech isn't exactly new (was pioneered in WWII and really came to age building ballistic missile navigation systems) so I doubt cost/classified technol
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by caudicus 15y ago
This is the cover of this week's Economist, despite the fact they really only have two other articles in it...one talking about the Skype purchase and another talking about the increased investment of web technology companies in both the US
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by caudicus 16y ago
I'd guess it's signal/noise ratio issue. I'd assume the number of "I have a startup but no money" people outnumber the "I have money and am looking to invest in a startup" people. By forcing startups to "pitch" and "schmooze" it acts as an
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by caudicus 16y ago
Reserved instances (assuming you're going to use it for the full year, which of course is the big caveat) also bring the cost down to $0.007 an hour with an up-front investment of $54, so: (($0.007 * 24 * 30)*12 + 54)/12 = $9.54 a month ass
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by caudicus 17y ago
While reading this I was wondering about Godel's constitutional loophole to allow a dictatorship and Google'd upon a hacker news discussion of the same topic: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=447852
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by caudicus 17y ago
Looks like they have something like that actually - http://www.astorybeforebed.com/milpromo - or they just added it REALLY quickly to the site. ;)
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by caudicus 17y ago
Seriously. I've worked at a large bank and a small software company and both of their in-house email systems would go down at least a few times a year for all kinds of weird reasons. There are lots of ways for things to go wrong in general.
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by caudicus 17y ago
This is sort of un-related, but for fans of coding to ambient music (or anyone for that matter) - if you haven't already, check out "9 Beet Stretch" - http://www.park.nl/park_cms/public/index.php?thisarticle=118 - Beethoven's 9th Symphony
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by caudicus 17y ago
On iTunes you can go to Radio -> Ambient and there are a bunch of stations that play the style of music. I'm a fan of StillStream and Drone Zone.
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by caudicus 18y ago
So what does exactly equal scaling then? I'm not disagreeing that scaling isn't only caching, but it's often a component just like anything else. Caching often helps scaling, as do multiple databases, working out bottlenecks in code...whate
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by caudicus 18y ago
In response to "Wait, what? Where does it say we're an alternative to relational databases, or MySQL?" you responded: "The whole article is a comparison to relational databases." Sure sounded to me like that was an answer to his question, a
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by caudicus 18y ago
I think they're trying to say how they differ from relational databases since most people know and understand relational databases. It's like telling someone in America how cricket is played and using baseball as a base point to explain it.
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Cisco, Dell Sales at Risk as Slump Fuels Gray Market(bloomberg.com)
1 points by caudicus 18y ago|0 comments
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by caudicus 18y ago
Totally agree. I've found that one of the most depressing things is feeling like a "cog in the wheel". If someone sent me this letter, I WOULD open up the window and scream "I'm going to make this product the best I can", and trust that I w
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by caudicus 18y ago
I remember watching a call with someone from Dell on CNBC during the last US recession (2001 recession and "jobless recovery" the following couple of years). He said that Dell was basically going to cut prices like crazy and actually lose s
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by caudicus 18y ago
Well, I don't know the internals but Merrill might have a better balance sheet than Lehman. Also, BOA might be trying the whole "get too big to fail" thing - riding the wave of moral hazard and hoping for a government bail out if they ever
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by caudicus 18y ago
Agreed - just as a sample, here is another one posted a while ago (Jan. 2007) - http://www.getacoder.com/projects/need_operating_system_4287...
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by caudicus 18y ago
There are Linux and Mac versions coming - they're just releasing first on Windows.
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by caudicus 18y ago
Well, to their credit Netflix's market cap is only 4x that of Blockbuster. ;)
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by caudicus 18y ago
As a Boston native, I can attest that people go to Dunkin' Donuts for the coffee, not the donuts. That is the main attraction of the place - donuts, bagels, etc - are all secondary. A chain that doesn't have the coffee is bound to fail. Her
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by caudicus 18y ago
One thing to note about bank loans: usually the bank asks that at least some of the credit line is made personally liable to you/someone on your team. It's like the first time you get a credit card and you have a parent/guardian underwrite
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by caudicus 18y ago
I would say something like this...if you haven't already, this is the kind of thing you need to really create a business plan for. Read this - http://www.slate.com/id/2132576/ - it might give some perspective. The profit margins on these
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by caudicus 18y ago
Listen to this episode of Radio Lab - http://www.wnyc.org/shows/radiolab/episodes/2007/05/25 - it talks how, in our dreams, we start to do free association of events that have occurred during the day to make sense of them. Pretty interest
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by caudicus 18y ago
Well for drive through Starbucks you order first and pay second, so just envision that scenario.
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by caudicus 18y ago
Hmmm...I'm not sure if I buy that statement...is there strong correlation between income and debt levels? Any data to back up that statement? I mean basic financial advice is that everyone should maintain a health "debt to income" ratio - s
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by caudicus 18y ago
I wonder how much of this is sort of self-feeding behavior: e.g. in America we use email a lot at work, so emails are answered quickly, which reinforces its use. But in China, they don't use email so much, so email isn't answered quickly, w

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