mthreat

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by mthreat 14y ago
Another point - people in prison still deserve "human rights", even though they've lost their right to freedom. This implies that even freedom isn't a human right. Of course, you could argue that this leads to a contradiction about taking
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by mthreat 14y ago
As someone who was once banned from the Internet by the US gov't[1], I actually agree with you. People throw around terms like "human right" without knowing what it means. If access to the Internet is a human right, that means every human
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by mthreat 14y ago
AWS should call them Unavailability Zones.
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by mthreat 14y ago
At my previous company (where I stayed for 7 years), I remember seeing our CTO doing the dishes in the kitchen/break room once. This wasn't just in the first year, but about 5 years in. It didn't surprise me, it was more of a confirmation
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by mthreat 14y ago
Will this integrate with schools' registration systems (add class, drop class, is-class-full, etc?). When I was in school I made some decent college cash with something I built called "Classgrabber" that registered for hard-to-get classes
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by mthreat 14y ago
Assuming they hold options or shares, it's not likely to be "for free". (edit: I meant to reply to the parent comment)
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by mthreat 14y ago
I like the Lost reference - hugo@reyes.com
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by mthreat 14y ago
I didn't - the author's name is on the page though. I use it so often, I almost keep it in a dedicated browser tab.
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by mthreat 14y ago
Here ya go, dynamic too (jeffbarr, take note) - http://mikekhristo.com/ec2-ondemand-vs-reserved-instance-sav...
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by mthreat 14y ago
I just wish Amazon and Rackspace would lower the price of RAM on their cloud servers
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by mthreat 14y ago
I wish the MPAA would engage in a discussion here. Who knows what might come out of it.
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by mthreat 14y ago
They should have read about the Internet Worm of 1988 - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris_worm Those who don't know history are bound to repeat it?
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by mthreat 14y ago
ACCESS GRANTED, story of my life ;)
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by mthreat 14y ago
They probably found that it increased sales by 0.7%.
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by mthreat 14y ago
Does this compete with things like RedisTogo? (I understand it's just a key/value store and Redis provides a lot more, but many people use Redis for just that)
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by mthreat 14y ago
I think the most important part of this post is "Well, fuck that." Update: Actually it's this part: "Well, double fuck that."
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by mthreat 14y ago
As is often the case with these awards, the only winner is the site running the contest. Other players in the game have incentive to send traffic to the site running the contest, who gets more traffic. Meanwhile, the sites being voted on
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by mthreat 14y ago
Patio11's article "Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Names" http://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-b...
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by mthreat 14y ago
In other news, employee with last name NaN gets a huge paycheck due to software glitch...
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by mthreat 14y ago
I use it all the time. I've found that clicking on the previous messages in the conversation view is much slower (requires hitting their servers, which are usually slow). But clicking on the "..." must not require a server hit, because it
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by mthreat 14y ago
Thanks, changing the labels to text is a big help. I didn't even notice it there in General settings. It still doesn't change the tiny "..." link to a text label (the thing you click on in a message to show previous messages in the conver
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by mthreat 14y ago
I totally agree with you. Another specific change that is hard to defend is the new "..." three dots to expand hidden parts of the conversation from previous messages. It used to be text that was clear and large enough to click on. Appar
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by mthreat 14y ago
I see the risk. However, after 4 years at the company, I felt I should have been trusted. Here's the rest of this particular story: A year later, I said screw it and worked on it anyway, for 2 weeks (manager was out of town). It was an i
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by mthreat 14y ago
One thing that I've found extremely demotivating is when a manager tells me what NOT to work on. I'd have a side project that I'd start on my own time, and I'd tell my manager "I've got this prototype of X working, and I'd like to spend mo
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by mthreat 14y ago
Every manager should also watch Office Space :)
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by mthreat 14y ago
You're right - I'd say the phone improved by life by more than $599. I was coming from a typical crappy phone with a joke of a web browser. The iPhone is the first phone I really used to access the web.
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by mthreat 14y ago
I had my doubts too, until the minute I used one at the Apple store. I walked out with it, $599 poorer.
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by mthreat 14y ago
This would be stored in a numeric value. IndexTank (and Searchify which runs IndexTank) stores numeric values in a normal array in RAM. So an update is essentially equivalent to: array[index] = updatedValue; And then you can sort or filte
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by mthreat 14y ago
Hope you'll excuse the shameless plug, but check out Searchify's hosted search. It covers the requirements you mention - easy-to-use, fast faceting. http://www.searchify.com/documentation/tutorial-faceting
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by mthreat 14y ago
Thanks, but don't pity us! I knew about amazon cloud search before I decided to start working on Searchify. I said it before and I'll say it again - any worthwhile space will have competitors. And I think today has already set the record

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