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by spidaman 4y ago
I feel there are a lot of compelling UI opportunities for non-gaming uses without headsets, eye tracking, holographic hardware, etc. Back when VRML was a thing, navigating a 3d space with a mouse was painful. However, with just the graphics
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by spidaman 4y ago
This gets an upvote merely for citing Frank Zappa in any way
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by spidaman 4y ago
Does the presence of this post indicate that VRML is going to be relevant for ...anything... ever again? I have an old t-shirt around somewhere from a VRML event in the mid-90's (back when I was tinkering on making dumb little scenes a
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by spidaman 8y ago
Fastly | Senior SRE - Edge Cloud | London, Madrid, Stockholm or EU Remote | https://www.fastly.com/ Fastly is building up the team that owns managing change on its world wide bare metal infrastructure. We are operationally
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by spidaman 10y ago
Bitnami | San Francisco or West Coast REMOTE | Senior SRE | Full Time Bitnami is on a mission to bring awesome software to everyone. Building and configuring software stacks can drag down an organization’s time to market with their applicat
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by spidaman 12y ago
I'm surprised at all of the responses calling for the CTO to be fired. It's very common to have founders who are very good at the very early stage but lack the experience to scale the technology, the team, the culture and the busi
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Introducing Hystrix for Resilience Engineering (Netflix OSS)(techblog.netflix.com)
11 points by spidaman 14y ago|0 comments
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by spidaman 14y ago
I use MySQL plenty and there's a lot of things I like about it. But I honestly don't understand any of the MySQL related comments on this post. Even if Oracle didn't own MySQL, a migration from Oracle to MySQL is significantly more difficul
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by spidaman 14y ago
The posting says they're hiring only 5 now, 40-50 next year;I inferred they're still in an exploratory phase because if they were all in, they'd be hiring more than 5 now. The posting doesn't say they're doing a migration but having worked
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by spidaman 14y ago
Salesforce spends a huge amount of money on licensing their horizontally scaled Oracle databases. I'd venture to guess this signals Benioff exploring a strategic bet to tell Ellison to fuck off once and for all.
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by spidaman 14y ago
Nice. First thought evoked: "Scenes From A Night's Dream Lyrics" by Genesis
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by spidaman 14y ago
As a user of the WeLL from the 1990's, I'm glad to hear that the community that owns its own words will now own its own destiny.
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Sprint's Motorola Photon Q one of the first phones with Moto's bootloader unlock(androidcentral.com)
2 points by spidaman 14y ago|0 comments
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Everything Will Be Connected, Everything Will Be Hacked(blogs.hbr.org)
1 points by spidaman 14y ago|0 comments
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by spidaman 14y ago
> why no one has made a Couch to 5k app yet I've been using this, a little buggy but definitely helped me acquire my running habit: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/ease-into-5k/id301233668?mt=8
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IOS hacker posts method to get in-app purchases for free(gigaom.com)
1 points by spidaman 14y ago|0 comments
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Reusable Patterns for Riak in Scala(blog.boundary.com)
12 points by spidaman 14y ago|0 comments
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by spidaman 14y ago
Maintaining the good graces and friendship with the founders and moving on aren't mutually exclusive. They're not stupid, just level with them: the traction achieved isn't what you aspired to and you want to work on something else. Be assur
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by spidaman 14y ago
Hadoop is good at what it's designed for (data processing parallelization built by programmers) and bad at what it's not (ad hoc queries by people who are not programmers). Move along here folks, nothing to see here.
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by spidaman 14y ago
Meh, if your other option is to use PostgreSQL and get row level locks, a db level lock is still a fail.
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by spidaman 15y ago
I also found it interesting that the storage media is specified and it's SSDs. Solid state will be hugely disruptive for hosted services, I've been hoping for an instance-by-the-hour service backed by SSDs and I'll surmise from this announc
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by spidaman 15y ago
A "ruby vs. perl" fight is the furthest from my mind, I'm just speaking anecdotally about what my friends who, like me, were heavy perl users are using in it's place now. If the "measurably" bit refers to how the runtimes benchmark, yes, ab
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by spidaman 15y ago
Back in the day, I was an avid mod_perl user and Perl 5 enthusiast. I recall being optimistic that Perl 6 would come out of the oven in 12 to 18 months. Sadly, that was in 2004. My feelings about Perl 6 are like those about a Microsoft OS t
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by spidaman 15y ago
Apt comparison. It's easy to see how both perl and scala can degenerate into "line noise", both are quite powerful and both have their religious adherents and detractors. While I would refrain from using punctuation characters in method nam
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Siri biz-nass all up in your Ruby(github.com)
2 points by spidaman 15y ago|0 comments
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by spidaman 15y ago
Yet another illustration about how broken the health care system is in the US. Pharmaceutical and medical device companies are disincented to produce cost effective treatments, it's really an outrage. Medicine in the US is geared towards co
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The mobile web, bookmarks and the apps they should be able to play with(arachna.com)
1 points by spidaman 15y ago|0 comments
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How We'll Power The U.S. In 2035(fastcompany.com)
6 points by spidaman 15y ago|4 comments
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Talking to the neighbours: A proposal for an interstellar communications network(economist.com)
2 points by spidaman 15y ago|0 comments
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by spidaman 16y ago
Netflix seems to be the biggest counter case - grew their data centers and effectively gave up and moved it to AWS. I suspect the sweet spot is doing a bit of public and private cloud, adjusting how much is on one or the other based on cost

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