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In the same way that copyrights on photographs cut down on the availability of picture frames?

VC doesn’t need to be the asset class benefiting, does it? Doesn’t most of the cream and benefit of innovation in the startup space end up getting purchased by first the big tech f…

A bunch of over-funded, under-profitable startups trying to discover a business plan is, in itself, a moat. I just wonder: for who?

Google. The new Microsoft.

Myself, I enjoyed the entire book, but I understand the let down feeling some here are expressing. The first part is immediate, gripping, intense, and hard to go through it (but yo…

Any thoughts towards integrating Docker's VPNKit with Vagrant to provide transparent networking services to the development VMs?

The built-in VPN clients support old broken insecure protocols (PPTP) and expensive, hard to implement and hard to deploy protocols (IPSEC-LLTP), whereas public vpn providers tend …

Very good question. The answer is, of course, 'it depends'. What is depends on is how much horizontal scale you expect to have. At a small scale, you can use something like postgre…

Are you looking for something like https://snyk.io ?

Still a better love story than Radar.

The British are so strange. This kind of abuse of power would never be contemplated by American authorities.

Oh thank god!

I think in many cases you will be right and 'they' won't be able to secure it. This will force them to contact out those applications to someone who can. Plenty of SaaS providers a…

'Game over': I think this is exactly the problem. In all the organizations I've been in, firewalls have been an excuse for negligence. 'We don't need to think about security becaus…

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I'm excited to see this. My big outstanding wish is reliable reduplication. My flickr is a mess of duplicate uploads from various attempts at organization and upload.

An idea that I got after reading Guns, Germs, and Steel was that at a basic level, killing other humans is the correct response to most threats, annoyances, or disagreements. Manag…

I seriously need a 'die in a taint fire'-button. So many uses!

I love you michealochurch.

PubSub messaging is definitely a PaaS feature more than an IaaS feature, so it's going to be less portable until we have the problem so well surrounded that we get some sort of ope…

Are there any detailed references out there to what Nadella has changed for QA?

What I've overheard on some podcast discussions is that they are taking the multiplatform Silverlight runtime, and have enhanced it to be a headless server-type runtime instead of …

I can't upvote this story. What's up with that?

> rails new todolist ...seriously, though. All of our views are out of date by the time we see them, and all of the user inputs have to be dealt with for races and double-submits. …