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> You make something that is so compelling and you solve a certain problem so well that people tolerate it despite its deficiencies. That's the opposite of what I'm describing. I'm…

I think it is relevant. If users generally dislike facebook, but continue to use it, it's a bad situation to be in for Facebook. It indicates that people are using the product beca…

Not directly related but a fun fact: GCHQ had discovered both RSA and Diffie Hellman asymmetric crypto years earlier: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clifford_Cocks

I don't understand. The apple watch does allow 3rd party apps.

"Run your small business as if it were a large business" is a quote that I would disagree with for startups, for two reasons: - it encourages premature scaling - many large busines…

A great way to check the visibility of your own profile is to view it in an incognito window.

Here is the link to Q2: http://investor.fb.com/releasedetail.cfm?ReleaseID=861599

"Why do local ISP markets tend towards monopoly, even though it has been illegal since 1992 to grant local cable monopolies?" This is because last mile internet access is a textboo…

Has there been discussion of passing this fee on to customers who access from Comcast in the form of a surcharge? If Netflix hiked prices for customers who were connecting from Com…

I think the idea is that lead exposure in childhood leads to crime later in life

Appfolio - http://www.appfolio.com/jobs - Santa Barbara, San Diego, Southern California * Appfolio is looking for great full-stack engineers to deliver products customers love usin…

This is the best article I've read yet on the subject of what's actually going on. The NSA slide deck was always inconsistent with most of the public statements of industry execs, …

An ambitious goal, but unless they have a clear path to get there, it shouldn't drive their valuation.

If this lives up to even half of its potential, it will be fantastic. Also, routing exceptions using git blame isn't about placing blame on individuals for defects, it's about auto…

Will they be compensating the bloggers whose content they are profiting from?

Use whatever theme you want. Content should be judged on its merits, not on some blog "brand". Most readers won't know svbtle, and of those that do, most won't think it adds any gr…

Lucene search with Rails is easy and very common. Sunspot[ http://sunspot.github.com/ ] is just one example.

(tl;dr: in California, such agreements are unenforceable) I don't know what state the author was in when he was working for Sony, but California State law prohibits such arrangemen…

We've had nothing but problems with exceptional. We've experienced multi-day outages, that only got resolved by calling the company. Our operations staff won't even use the product…

Great post. If someone is trying to sell you an idea or technique and they use their own profitability to justify this technique, then the definition of "profitable" is very releva…

If you compare the cost of renting commercial space to the cost of software engineer labor, this explanation doesn't hold up. The cost of commercial rent is minuscule when compared…