mikescar | 13 years ago | on: Best Buy ends work-from-home program
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mikescar | 13 years ago | on: Where TDD Fails
It's not a complex algorithm, it's a static website run from wordpress that could be faster by any of these: S3, CloudFront, memcache, APC, or even file caching.
Yes, you could spin up any number of AWS to throw ab / httperf traffic at it, but why? HN has demonstrated how inadequate their server solution is.
mikescar | 13 years ago | on: Where TDD Fails
"Where our website fails at serving pages" ... can we stop these 'authoritative' posts that can't even serve a static webpage? Ugh.
mikescar | 13 years ago | on: Motor Trend Car of the Year: Tesla Model S
Well, if it's anything like the Chrysler 300, the touchscreen dims as the ambient light decreases. There are buttons on the back of the steering wheel to move around the stereo system, without looking at the screen.
The 300 also has a voice system like a lot of vehicles these days, so that you can hit a button on the front of the steering wheel and give voice commands.
mikescar | 13 years ago | on: Show HN: garlic.js - don't let your users lose their form data
Not a link, but without any plugins of that type installed, this is the behavior I've had for a long time now. (I use Chrome for everything until I need to test apps in FF).
mikescar | 13 years ago | on: The Horrible Future of Social
It's pretty easy to own a smartphone and not go around acting like a jerk who isn't aware of the surroundings. You can drive a car without talking on it. If the phone rings, beeps, or vibrates, you can even ignore it.
mikescar | 13 years ago | on: Internap evacuates LGA datacenter
Why would any sane manager take the risk:
- for a bunch of employees to start filling up 55-gallon drums of easily-ignited fuel
- hustle the 55-gallon barrels over to somewhere else in a datacenter
- then hook it up to a generator and restart that.
- under an evacuation warning before any of this happened
mikescar | 13 years ago | on: Uber Increases Fares 2x in NYC
Some other posters have mentioned that you can't raise rates in the time of an emergency. I don't know how valid this is, or what constitutes an emergency.
Irrespective of the majority of cab money going to the corporate apparatus and not the drivers in plenty of cases, it still seems unfair to expect drivers not to raise their rates somehow just for the increased danger.
mikescar | 13 years ago | on: Uber Increases Fares 2x in NYC
Well, Uber knows there is a disaster. A large temporary change in the NYC cab market would not go unnoticed. They can update their own 'system' to reflect current prices, it's not a third-party thing.
mikescar | 13 years ago | on: Internap evacuates LGA datacenter
The building is being evacuated.
mikescar | 13 years ago | on: Congratulations on IE10: from Mozilla with cake
I think they were the two members of the Mozilla team that delivered the cake to their IE friends. (Matt Brubek and Eitan Isaacson).
mikescar | 13 years ago | on: Ancestry.com Acquired for $1.6 Billion
Bad grammar throughout but yes, just incredibly lazy.
>"It does sound like the site has offers more than a lot of other Internet things these days."
Good god, this is the Atlantic. At least they could act like they're trying instead of just getting something out quickly for the pageviews.
Edit: a quick author search shows a ton of this half-assed blogging. Won't be going back to the Atlantic Wire any time soon. ( http://www.theatlanticwire.com/authors/rebecca-greenfield/ )
mikescar | 13 years ago | on: I Just Paid Facebook $7
It was just a question of when.
Curious to see how much pushback there is, or if 'Sponsored' posts are stigmatized or accepted.
mikescar | 13 years ago | on: Kim Jong Il's Grandson Gives an Interview
Yes, his English is great. Much better than my Spanish or Korean.
No, it's very possible to never lose your accent. I have German/Swiss landlords who have lived in the US for decades, and they still struggle with English, as well as Southeast Asian and Mexican folks who do the same. I'm sure I'd be the same way if I up and moved to Russia, for example.
mikescar | 13 years ago
It happens semi-frequently and is noted on their status page. Why do we need a submission about this every time on HN?
mikescar | 13 years ago | on: Apple Said to Acquire Color
In the 'faux pitch deck'? It's called a joke.
Or did you really think after Slide 2: "Colors: people love that shit" this was a real pitch deck?
mikescar | 13 years ago | on: How To Land Any Major Brand For Your Startup
Good catch. Yes, this all reads as very fake. Link to real people who said it if it's real.
All of these names sound like made-up people.
mikescar | 13 years ago | on: How To Land Any Major Brand For Your Startup
I'm just an engineer, but if I spent a ton of money on a marketing campaign and got a little shady with my tactics, I wouldn't write an article to pat myself on the back about getting 15 emails.
mikescar | 13 years ago | on: How To Land Any Major Brand For Your Startup
This isn't anything revolutionary, much less interesting.
A marketing guy dumped a bunch of money at a conference, gave out a bunch of conference garbage, and paid some online businesses for rush delivery.
Oops I didn't credit the 15 emails and all the potential clients...try writing this post after you get some new work, not right after pulling some joker PR stunt.
>Our competitor was furious, but our potential clients loved the hustle. We got a bunch of agencies interested and I received around 15 e-mails following that panel requesting a meeting.
mikescar | 13 years ago | on: Game Over
https://twitter.com/antirez
"People should stop writing articles about sexism in tech. It's not interesting and IMHO it's not the central problem for most women in tech."
Edit: Oops, left out the blog post: http://antirez.com/post/different-take-sexism-it.html
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Please, since you are so familiar with the ins and outs of Yahoo, what would you have done differently?