Ok: 1. This doesn't account for undiscovered reserves. 2. This doesn't account for the ability to substitute one mineral with another in some applications (copper was replaced with zinc in pennies, and aluminum in wires…
There was a 20x performance difference between the 2 machines they tested simplejson on. Having used both, I feel that simplejson has a pretty sizeable reliability advantage (unless cjson has changed a lot in the last…
15 people for 100k/month would mean you are paying an average of 74k/year. Who would willingly work for a startup for that, without lots and lots of equity (answer: the exact people that you would never actually want to…
Free shipping with the gift card, can't you read?
4% of 0 is 0, so I wouldn't worry about it too much. If you don't have a no-compete, which it sounds like you don't since there isn't any company to have an agreement with at this point, I would offer him a full 40% and…
The stock market is zero sum? That is hilarious. I guess you haven't heard of dividends? I totally understand people being wrong about basic facts. But what motivates you to go out of your way to post your ignorant…
I agree. Also, you can't patent or trademark just an idea. So just wait out the year or whatever on your NDA and make the company yourself. Unless the people who want you to build the prototype have millions of dollars…
The two paths are not equivalent at all. When two people bring you in, they might bring someone else instead. So the outcome should be reduced by how easily you can be swapped with someone else. If you have one of a…
I agree, Mysql is a poorly designed pig. Big count(*) is fast, so people lap it up.
Strategy: Keep Memcached and drop MySQL, and get a RDBMS that can handle concurrency without 50 servers.
This server is already painfully slow. Lets not completely shut it down, mkay?
This has nothing to do with poverty. The article goes out of it's way to make it clear that the family is black without mentioning it, by saying they are from Oakland, and by pictures. Then, it blows through the only…
You shouldn't try to learn a language with an application framework. I also recommend you don't try to learn Python with a web app. The web is a crazy hodge-podge of standards and a web-app is complicated by how many…
Perfect is doing what you need, enough of the time, such that it isn't worthwhile to spend time improving it vs some other work that is to be done. Worse is better and all that.
Steps to produce a religious experience: 1. Be indoctrinated from birth to find any questioning of religion (yours) strange and disrespectful, and any beliefs other than yours highly odd and absurd. Alternate Method: 1.…
Actually, the leading thinkers in all times were very often either atheists are extremely a-religious compared to contemporaries. They had to be publicly orthodox. That is because there has never been a religious…
I agree, but that is not surprising to me. I suspect that Knuth and the others would be able to fully follow an argument against holding the beliefs they do, but that they would short-circuit it by 'answering' any such…
'spiritual but not religious' is the most vapid phrase ever to originate on the lips of a douchebag.
Oh, you do have a logical defense then? Or are you just spitting into the wind and claiming that "there could be a logical defense, so we shouldn't say there isn't?
Ok, you're confused here. Something can be an outrage, and something can cause outrage. The question "where's the outrage?" isn't "Where's waldo, see if you can spot an outrage", rather "why aren't people outraged!?".…
Questions like this are really questions about words. Was the Roman Empire too big to fail? Sortof, in that it so thoroughly changed how people thought and lived that even 2000 years later we are very obviously Roman in…
This essay is bullshit, the author doesn't understand anything he is talking about to the point of absurdity (allocating objects on the stack takes 0 time???) and he largely repeats the common-knowledge on slashdot, as…
Yea, I think this article is just flaunted stupidity. The author assumes that all times where any user information is needed, that all the information about that user will be needed. That is silly. Secondly, they…
Ok: 1. This doesn't account for undiscovered reserves. 2. This doesn't account for the ability to substitute one mineral with another in some applications (copper was replaced with zinc in pennies, and aluminum in wires…
There was a 20x performance difference between the 2 machines they tested simplejson on. Having used both, I feel that simplejson has a pretty sizeable reliability advantage (unless cjson has changed a lot in the last…
15 people for 100k/month would mean you are paying an average of 74k/year. Who would willingly work for a startup for that, without lots and lots of equity (answer: the exact people that you would never actually want to…
Free shipping with the gift card, can't you read?
4% of 0 is 0, so I wouldn't worry about it too much. If you don't have a no-compete, which it sounds like you don't since there isn't any company to have an agreement with at this point, I would offer him a full 40% and…
The stock market is zero sum? That is hilarious. I guess you haven't heard of dividends? I totally understand people being wrong about basic facts. But what motivates you to go out of your way to post your ignorant…
I agree. Also, you can't patent or trademark just an idea. So just wait out the year or whatever on your NDA and make the company yourself. Unless the people who want you to build the prototype have millions of dollars…
The two paths are not equivalent at all. When two people bring you in, they might bring someone else instead. So the outcome should be reduced by how easily you can be swapped with someone else. If you have one of a…
I agree, Mysql is a poorly designed pig. Big count(*) is fast, so people lap it up.
Strategy: Keep Memcached and drop MySQL, and get a RDBMS that can handle concurrency without 50 servers.
This server is already painfully slow. Lets not completely shut it down, mkay?
This has nothing to do with poverty. The article goes out of it's way to make it clear that the family is black without mentioning it, by saying they are from Oakland, and by pictures. Then, it blows through the only…
You shouldn't try to learn a language with an application framework. I also recommend you don't try to learn Python with a web app. The web is a crazy hodge-podge of standards and a web-app is complicated by how many…
Perfect is doing what you need, enough of the time, such that it isn't worthwhile to spend time improving it vs some other work that is to be done. Worse is better and all that.
Steps to produce a religious experience: 1. Be indoctrinated from birth to find any questioning of religion (yours) strange and disrespectful, and any beliefs other than yours highly odd and absurd. Alternate Method: 1.…
Actually, the leading thinkers in all times were very often either atheists are extremely a-religious compared to contemporaries. They had to be publicly orthodox. That is because there has never been a religious…
I agree, but that is not surprising to me. I suspect that Knuth and the others would be able to fully follow an argument against holding the beliefs they do, but that they would short-circuit it by 'answering' any such…
'spiritual but not religious' is the most vapid phrase ever to originate on the lips of a douchebag.
Oh, you do have a logical defense then? Or are you just spitting into the wind and claiming that "there could be a logical defense, so we shouldn't say there isn't?
Ok, you're confused here. Something can be an outrage, and something can cause outrage. The question "where's the outrage?" isn't "Where's waldo, see if you can spot an outrage", rather "why aren't people outraged!?".…
Questions like this are really questions about words. Was the Roman Empire too big to fail? Sortof, in that it so thoroughly changed how people thought and lived that even 2000 years later we are very obviously Roman in…
This essay is bullshit, the author doesn't understand anything he is talking about to the point of absurdity (allocating objects on the stack takes 0 time???) and he largely repeats the common-knowledge on slashdot, as…
Yea, I think this article is just flaunted stupidity. The author assumes that all times where any user information is needed, that all the information about that user will be needed. That is silly. Secondly, they…