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by elefont2 12y ago
YC-backed startup means a culture of 'move fast and break things' - works for facebook, but definately not something I would want to store my bitcoin on, since 'break things' means 'losing all my money with no recou
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by elefont2 12y ago
This is an example of a pretty good april fools joke - Enough to cause an emotional reaction, but not so far out there that it is obviously fake.
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by elefont2 12y ago
Past performance does not guarantee future results - That is true for all investment types, including home ownership. Home ownership does have very advantageous tax consequences in the US compared to other instruments - e.g.: deductible int
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by elefont2 12y ago
Okay, let's do that thought experiment. Set Sales and marketing expense (Currently $171 million) to zero. So, they would be making $2.3 million a year in profit. But you can't have your cake and eat it too. Without sales/m
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by elefont2 13y ago
While it looks impressive, i don't think 'raytraced' is the correct term - i suspect it is just rendered
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by elefont2 13y ago
How many people actually have a net worth > $30 million due to stock options from a Silicon Valley startup? Assuming a billion dollar exit, you would need 3% equity (post dilution) to end up with that net worth, or 5% if you want that n
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by elefont2 13y ago
This is pretty cool. It makes we wonder if it would be possible to create an automatic SVG-to-CSS converter
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by elefont2 14y ago
The unicode consortium got unicode wrong, not java. At the time Java was created, there only was a BMP and Unicode had a purely 16-bit design. Therefore, it was perfectly reasonable for java to assume a 16-bit char. Unicode was later ext
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by elefont2 14y ago
'Even memcached, which is the conceptually simplest of these technologies and used by so many other companies, had some REALLY nasty memory corruption bugs we had to deal with, so I shudder to think about using stuff that’s newer and more c
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by elefont2 15y ago
I'm hoping for a self-driving car giveaway myself
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by elefont2 15y ago
there is a bright side to it - the 'sold out in a hour' situation last year was ridiculous. While i would have preferred a coding challenge to eliminate that problem, a price increase is another method of fixing it.
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by elefont2 15y ago
His advice for using 'short selectors' for performance is just plain incorrect. http://code.google.com/speed/page-speed/docs/rendering.html is a great page describing CSS performance. Selectors like '.nav a' would not be allowed at all as
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by elefont2 15y ago
it does, but you cannot predict future legislation. In 2010, you may not yet know that the timezones will change in 2012, but you might still need to store a 2012 date in your database. So, the best you can do, if storing in UTC, is store t
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by elefont2 15y ago
There is an apache incubator project http://raffaeleguidi.wordpress.com/
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by elefont2 15y ago
Awesome article, if anyone knows of an equivalent article about moving to London, please provide a link
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Twitter search - 3x faster by replacing ruby on rails with java(engineering.twitter.com)
6 points by elefont2 15y ago|1 comments
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by elefont2 15y ago
GWT has a fair number of sessions at google i/o as well - so not a dedicated conference, but a dedicated track at a conference.