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by rgo 11mo ago
> First time I've ever heard of webAI - I wonder how they got themselves that mention? I wondered the same. Went into Crunchbase and found out Crunchbase are now fully paywalled (!), well saw that coming... Anyway, hit the webAI blo
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by rgo 1y ago
There are now many solutions, and full-blown startups, under the "swarm", "agent orchestration" and other similar keywords, for spinning agents in the cloud. I'm not sure if that's what you mean, but I totally
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by rgo 9y ago
Here's my personal version of the story: With SQL DBs (Oracle, SQLServer and MySQL): 1. SQL database migrations where killing us. Going back and forward in a dev environment was impossible. No hot deploy in production. 2. Could not wor
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by rgo 10y ago
Here's my advice regarding conferences and events in general, out of experience running a enterprise software startup with a decent marketing budget: - Most of large conferences and shows are not worthy it, especially the expensive one
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by rgo 10y ago
Everytime I hear arguments for going back to relational databases, I remember all the scalability problems I lived through for 15 years in relational hell before switching to Mongo. The thing about relational databases is that they do every
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by rgo 10y ago
To me the relationship between NYT and FB (or any other content creator and FB) is not very different from that of freelancer content writers and content companies like Demand Media, of eHow and Livestrong fame. The only difference is that
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Not so safe: Security software can put computers at risk(sciencedaily.com)
1 points by rgo 10y ago|0 comments
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by rgo 10y ago
My sister worked closely with many of the parties involved in the "Marco Civil", Brazil's brilliant Internet Bill of Rights. Two years later, I feel much of her work was in vain. No significant legislation was enacted from it
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Pilots Complain the A380 Is Too Quiet for Sleeping (2008)(wired.com)
2 points by rgo 10y ago|0 comments
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by rgo 10y ago
I thought A380 and 787 had equivalent cabin pressure of 6000 ft with similar humidity features. That said, I unfortunately did not notice any reduction in tiredness or jet lag in either plane compared to older aircraft. But I did enjoy the
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by rgo 10y ago
These are the 3 questions I ask my team on non-deterministic errors: - Can you reproduce it? (locally) - No? Then can they reproduce it? (remotely) - No? Then can you follow the flow byte-by-byte by just looking at the code? You should. If
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The Three Faces of Steve Jobs (1998)(archive.fortune.com)
2 points by rgo 11y ago|0 comments
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by rgo 12y ago
Do you know why they are acquihiring you? Bootstrapped or not, VC funded or not, profitable or not, a company's value is given by its potential. This potential will be measured (with different metrics, some of them quite subjective) by
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How to be Productive Infographic(entrepreneur.com)
2 points by rgo 12y ago|1 comments
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by rgo 12y ago
External dependencies increase failure points, no argue there. It depends on your line of business, but if you compare the benefits of making user signup faster, lowering acquisition barriers and getting access to the social graph of users
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by rgo 12y ago
I wonder if Spain will claim ownership of the ship or its contents like they (rightfully) did with the treasures of Nuestra Señora de las Mercedes . http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2012-06-07/odyssey-and-...
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by rgo 12y ago
I think the article raises some legit questions on how nearly $50B of tax money is being managed, not by the government, but by the criteria of private donors. The author also implies some lack of coordination in between scientists' an
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by rgo 12y ago
Our enterprise on-premise software package runs on Mongo, before it used to run on relational dbmses. Here's why we changed: - flexible document schema reduces migration complexity greatly, really important when we have our software de
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by rgo 12y ago
Not sure, but I had a similar bug once due to a trim() combined with an out-of-order string length check. But that would imply that Xbox Live does not allow passwords with spaces or something.
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Cloud desktop eyeOS acquired by Telefonica(gigaom.com)
1 points by rgo 12y ago|0 comments
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by rgo 13y ago
No. I think cleaning up, manually or automatically, after objects go out of scope is not the same as garbage collecting. "Garbage" here implies objects that linger beyond their usage scope, from construction to destruction, and no
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China Leaks(icij.org)
2 points by rgo 13y ago|0 comments
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by rgo 13y ago
Previous versions of my startup's enterprise product used to be based on relational DBs (mostly Oracle, MySQL also). This year we switched to Mongo and dropped RDBMS support. RDBMS performance was fine most of the time as we're no
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No one should have to do work that can be done by a machine(youtube.com)
3 points by rgo 13y ago|0 comments
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MVC, a personal history(blogs.perl.org)
3 points by rgo 13y ago|0 comments
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by rgo 13y ago
I personally don't like either one, but at the end I'm using AngularJS because it's simpler and has a lower entry barrier, bringing several features that I desperately wanted to have in one webapp: routing, templating and a s
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by rgo 13y ago
I wonder where they're going to take the Go downloads page to: https://code.google.com/p/go/downloads/list
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RethinkDB's "silly dependencies"(github.com)
1 points by rgo 13y ago|0 comments
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by rgo 14y ago
Didn't know Spotify ran a p2p rig. Just wish they would give me some extra free minutes for having the damn thing up and running all the time back home... Anyway, quite entertaining to monitor its port traffic on my Mac: perl -e'while(
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by rgo 14y ago
I personally prefer using the exact oposite to the language. That way my code or customizations are set apart visually: obj.getSomethingById() <-- theirs obj.redraw_panel() <-- mine Non-native English speakers sometim

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