mikescar

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by mikescar 14y ago
Yahoo stock is up from $15 under Scott Thompson to almost $23 with Mayer, so not sure what point you're trying to make. Please, since you are so familiar with the ins and outs of Yahoo, what would you have done differently?
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by mikescar 14y ago
It's not a complex algorithm, it's a static website run from wordpress that could be faster by any of these: S3, CloudFront, memcache, APC, or even file caching. Yes, you could spin up any number of AWS to throw ab / httperf traffic at it,
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by mikescar 14y ago
"Where our website fails at serving pages" ... can we stop these 'authoritative' posts that can't even serve a static webpage? Ugh.
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by mikescar 14y ago
Well, if it's anything like the Chrysler 300, the touchscreen dims as the ambient light decreases. There are buttons on the back of the steering wheel to move around the stereo system, without looking at the screen. The 300 also has a voice
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by mikescar 14y ago
Not a link, but without any plugins of that type installed, this is the behavior I've had for a long time now. (I use Chrome for everything until I need to test apps in FF).
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by mikescar 14y ago
It's pretty easy to own a smartphone and not go around acting like a jerk who isn't aware of the surroundings. You can drive a car without talking on it. If the phone rings, beeps, or vibrates, you can even ignore it.
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by mikescar 14y ago
Why would any sane manager take the risk: - for a bunch of employees to start filling up 55-gallon drums of easily-ignited fuel - hustle the 55-gallon barrels over to somewhere else in a datacenter - then hook it up to a generator and resta
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by mikescar 14y ago
Some other posters have mentioned that you can't raise rates in the time of an emergency. I don't know how valid this is, or what constitutes an emergency. Irrespective of the majority of cab money going to the corporate apparatus and not t
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by mikescar 14y ago
Well, Uber knows there is a disaster. A large temporary change in the NYC cab market would not go unnoticed. They can update their own 'system' to reflect current prices, it's not a third-party thing.
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by mikescar 14y ago
The building is being evacuated.
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by mikescar 14y ago
I think they were the two members of the Mozilla team that delivered the cake to their IE friends. (Matt Brubek and Eitan Isaacson).
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by mikescar 14y ago
Bad grammar throughout but yes, just incredibly lazy. >"It does sound like the site has offers more than a lot of other Internet things these days." Good god, this is the Atlantic. At least they could act like they're trying instead of
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by mikescar 14y ago
It was just a question of when. Curious to see how much pushback there is, or if 'Sponsored' posts are stigmatized or accepted.
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by mikescar 14y ago
Yes, his English is great. Much better than my Spanish or Korean. No, it's very possible to never lose your accent. I have German/Swiss landlords who have lived in the US for decades, and they still struggle with English, as well as Southea
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by mikescar 14y ago
It happens semi-frequently and is noted on their status page. Why do we need a submission about this every time on HN?
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by mikescar 14y ago
In the 'faux pitch deck'? It's called a joke. Or did you really think after Slide 2: "Colors: people love that shit" this was a real pitch deck?
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by mikescar 14y ago
Good catch. Yes, this all reads as very fake. Link to real people who said it if it's real. All of these names sound like made-up people.
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by mikescar 14y ago
I'm just an engineer, but if I spent a ton of money on a marketing campaign and got a little shady with my tactics, I wouldn't write an article to pat myself on the back about getting 15 emails.
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by mikescar 14y ago
This isn't anything revolutionary, much less interesting. A marketing guy dumped a bunch of money at a conference, gave out a bunch of conference garbage, and paid some online businesses for rush delivery. Oops I didn't credit the 15 emails
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by mikescar 14y ago
https://twitter.com/antirez "People should stop writing articles about sexism in tech. It's not interesting and IMHO it's not the central problem for most women in tech." Edit: Oops, left out the blog post: http://antirez.com/post/differ
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by mikescar 14y ago
You're really stretching the point here. First, having vending machines for hardware doesn't mean that an IT department doesn't have any say on what gets ordered to go inside. And really, is there any measurable amount of theft by employees
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by mikescar 14y ago
No kidding. There really aren't "three major opcode caches" anymore, APC won out years ago and is now tightly integrated with PHP compiles and as a module available in any package manager.
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by mikescar 14y ago
Not sure in this environment, but I've been using Percona builds of MySQL for the last couple years and it's a great drop-in. Good optimizations for InnoDB Oracle-owned bits.
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by mikescar 14y ago
I'm interested to hear what versions of PHP and APC you used. In my experience, stable APC releases have been very stable, but beta APC can poop out pretty bad, even if the changelog doesn't indicate anything that might affect your applicat
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by mikescar 14y ago
Maybe, but there's a difference between the real Rodrigos, and the programmers that just think they are in that class, but only match up on the negatives (unresponsive, don't show up to work, think they are above the rest of the group). I'l
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by mikescar 14y ago
Huh? The whole point of paying twice as much is that you spend a fraction of the time defining product specs, and don't have to wait. If so many pass up a 50% discount to get immediate satisfaction, they aren't likely to change their prefer
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by mikescar 14y ago
How long does it take in practice to swap out VM images in this way for different types of loads? How do you monitor that all 30 are ready to go and working right to spec?
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by mikescar 14y ago
Well that is just dumb. If you're young and don't know what you want to study, and change your major a few times, then yes, you should not be doing it while paying $56k a year. Leaving to go work for a while would be smarter until you lock
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by mikescar 14y ago
Furthermore, other sites jumping on this story are just as lame. Gawker is also owned and/or staffed by douchebags like Nick Denton and Adrian Chen. It's funny how much Gawker and Adrien in particular have slagged on 'content farms', when i
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by mikescar 14y ago
Well yes, we are all very fortunate that TC can figuratively pat itself on the back for such groundbreaking journalism. Alexia's comment is just a reminder about the article's high quality.

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