tybris

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by tybris 14y ago
One bad idea leads to another. Selling information by the bit is a bad idea.
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by tybris 14y ago
I don't think either the PC or tablets in their current forms will be the productivity tool of the future. The floor's open to new contenders that can help people deal with data and complexity.
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by tybris 14y ago
Well, that's how physics works. Physics is stupefyingly strict about its methods. Most sciences don't put quite as much value into models. The problem is that in a desire to strictly follow the method, physicists have become complacent with
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by tybris 14y ago
In all other sciences, if you find a model that predicts something as self-contradictory as a black hole or dark matter, you shrug, figure your assumptions are wrong, and start over. In physics you announce the splendiferous wonders of the
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by tybris 14y ago
Yes you must. Everyone should want to be like Elon Musk.
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by tybris 14y ago
A quick collapse of the price would be best for everyone, except for the "muppets" who bought FB shares in the IPO. Especially for Facebook, who would otherwise see an exodus of employees who can make more in terms of vesting credit at comp
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by tybris 14y ago
Not wrong. Facebook and the investors that sold stock in the IPO got $38*the number of shares. Whatever happens after the IPO is essentially irrelevant to them, except their remaining shares have gone down in market price. That probably doe
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by tybris 14y ago
The catch is: that is not true.
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by tybris 14y ago
touché
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by tybris 14y ago
I always wonder what obvious truth about the universe we fail to see because of just such an event in our past.
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by tybris 14y ago
Actually, I think information theory is the only branch of science that has something genuinely useful to say about computers. Unfortunately, it has few people working on it in the context of computer systems. The world is dying for useful
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by tybris 14y ago
I think the world record in questionable speculation was broken here.
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by tybris 14y ago
End of the article: "PS: Amazon was nice enough to refund the bandwidth charges, as they considered this activity accidental and not intentional. Thanks TK!"
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by tybris 14y ago
What if Facebook is now being used by nearly all Internet users? Should you expect it to keep growing? No. Is it bad for business? Hell no.
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by tybris 14y ago
Probably something like that. One problem with the Public folder is that people can easily guess URLs to files you might not want to share with them. I recall http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1/test.png used to show a wireframe for the Dropbox Des
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by tybris 14y ago
This has been possible using the Dropbox API for quite a while now. Is the announcement that they added it to the context menu?
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by tybris 14y ago
Sure, many software engineers are over their creative prime by the time they hit 40 and move into management, training, recruiting, etc. With 15-20 years experience in the complexities of software engineering under the belt, they are probab
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by tybris 14y ago
Stowe was just speaking at AWS summit, lots of AWS goodness there: http://aws.amazon.com/live/
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by tybris 14y ago
"80% of the funds collected are dispersed to the software vendor and AWS Marketplace charges a service fee of 20%." https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/help/200904140/ref=help_l...
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by tybris 14y ago
Nginx 0.8 with support . Sure, 1.0.15 would be better, but enterprises generally care more about support than about having the latest version (see Red Hat).
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by tybris 14y ago
So suddenly you can have managers telling their sysadmins they've set up a new SQL server? That's pretty big.
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by tybris 14y ago
"Everything is worth what its purchaser is willing to pay for it"
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by tybris 14y ago
I think the simultaneous rise of successful social networks like Facebook played an incredibly large role in making people want to have the Internet with them all the time.
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by tybris 14y ago
Seems like sarcasm.
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by tybris 14y ago
Works for me in Ireland.
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by tybris 14y ago
I don't think SpaceX is really seeking attention. They don't depend on consumers or the aerospace industry at large. Musk certainly doesn't strike me as the kind of person who craves attention. The interview on the Daily Show was the first
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by tybris 14y ago
It's not like they built new DCs, networks, and fleet management tools for EC2 hosts. It's all running in the same computing environment.
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by tybris 14y ago
Literally kill? I certainly hope not.
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by tybris 14y ago
At this point, Instagram's primary value is in its brand. I never used it, but heard about it so many times that I was under the impression it had been around for years. It might have 30 million uploaders, but hundreds of millions of people
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by tybris 14y ago
It seems to be the way of the world. The Google Cloud Storage API is an exact copy of the S3 API. If you can't beat them, join them.

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