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by sicxu 13y ago
This is because join negatively impact the scalability of a DB: - When huge amount of traffic hits your DB, out of the most commonly run-out resources - CPU, Memory, and IO - CPU is usually the one that runs out first. And Join uses quite
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by sicxu 13y ago
I have used many languages professionally and in my personal projects. Java is the language that makes me most productive. Why? It has the best tooling support. There are a few things that is extremely important for my productivity: - Pre
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by sicxu 13y ago
It does not have it now, because they want to focus on the basics. Once that is done, adding a camera is not a big deal.
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by sicxu 13y ago
You can use another "attacker" balloon to do it.
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by sicxu 13y ago
Just cover the continent will require a lot of balloons. The world has 148,429,000 sq km. If you cover 1600 sq km per balloon, that is 92768 balloons. Just cover Africa will require around 20k balloons. It will only work out, if Google can
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by sicxu 14y ago
Scalability is an architecture issue, not a programming language issue. You can certainly build linearly scalable system in Ruby. It just costs more to scale a Ruby app vs. an equivalent Java app. In the end, the tradeoff is between enginee
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by sicxu 14y ago
There are lots of things in the toy, art, and spare part category that can use the 3D printing technology. Just like many other technologies, 3D printing will be adopted by designers, hobbists first. If there is enough demand, it will show
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by sicxu 14y ago
There are security issues with this approach. However, I wouldn't mind if a site offers both traditional login and email based login. Then, I, as a user can choose which is the most appropriate.
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by sicxu 14y ago
There are a lot of ebay market research tools out there. You will need to stand out either by pricing or by feature. Good luck.
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Managing HTML with Star Script(starscript.wordpress.com)
2 points by sicxu 14y ago|0 comments
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by sicxu 14y ago
So, growth hacker is a marketer. Fine. But not all marketers are growth hackers. My understanding is that, growth hacking is a specialty in marketing which focus on consumer web marketing. It is also a very technical and hands on position.
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by sicxu 14y ago
Great idea! I just added backend function to your prototype. The dashboard UI is at: http://s.myezapp.com/demo5/app/ezstatus/guest/dashboard.ws The admin UI is at: http://s.myezapp.com/demo5/app/ezstatus/pages/taskslistpage.... Please
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by sicxu 14y ago
I made the utility to help you track the rank of your hacker news post. Simply enter item id, or click "back" and select "History"->"View". Feedbacks are welcome. Note: It only has two days of data, so older news won't work.
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Show HN: Track your HN post(s.myezapp.com)
9 points by sicxu 14y ago|2 comments
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by sicxu 14y ago
love this piece. thanks for posting it. it reminds me one of the talk by Jobs: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dR-ZT8mhfJ4
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by sicxu 14y ago
drunk or stupid people probably won't click 'back' that quick.
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Advice on when to launch a startup(viniciusvacanti.com)
1 points by sicxu 14y ago|0 comments
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by sicxu 14y ago
you can use http://www.myezapp.com/pub/help/hackernews.ws to build custom tools. one example/test case that collects Show HN stories are at http://testblog1-myblog.blogspot.com/ disclaimer: i build the site and appreciate any feedbacks.
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The 8 Cheapest Computers in the World(gizmodo.com)
1 points by sicxu 14y ago|0 comments
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by sicxu 14y ago
Awesome!
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by sicxu 14y ago
AdSense has much lower margin compared with AdWords because Google has to pay publisher for displaying the ads. In the early days, (AdSense revenue around 1B) I remember google was almost paying every penny they got from AdSense back to the
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by sicxu 14y ago
This post is quite relavent to the recent discussion on whether regular people should learn programming. I take it as a challenge and ask: do we have a programming language that regular people can learn easily. Star Script is my attempt at
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Programming for the masses requires a programming language for the masses(starscript.wordpress.com)
5 points by sicxu 14y ago|1 comments
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by sicxu 14y ago
This site is protected with a password.
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by sicxu 14y ago
Yes. When you schedule a recurring event, such as daily reminder, you will have to store timezone. In that case, you are storing a scheduling specification, not a real date/time. You don't have the complete information, such as year/month,
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by sicxu 14y ago
You need timezone for sure. You just don't have to store it along with every date/time value. You can store it as user preference for example. What if you are scheduling a meeting between a U.S developer and an India developer?
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by sicxu 14y ago
I would not go with the approach of storing timezone and formatted date/time in two seperate char columns. You need to really seperate date/time information into two parts, the absolute time and it's presentation. Usually, you only store th
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by sicxu 14y ago
With the leaving of Scott, I hope yahoo will be able to settle patent dispute with facebook.
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by sicxu 14y ago
Could trackback or pingback satisfy the need? Or there are additional requirements I am missing?
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by sicxu 14y ago
To some extend, 100% uptime is like perfect security. There is no perfect security, the closer you get to it, the more expensive it is. At some point, you have to draw a line and design your system to deal with the downtime.

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