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I assume he is talking about Richard King. I don't think he has his own channel. but as mentioned Stefan Gotteswinter and Keith Rucker both have videos of the scraping skills they …

I suspect that if netflix went to the ISPs to cache their data, the ISPs would be more than happy to charge them for it like to do with other content networks. In this case, netfli…

I read books constantly, and I do own a 2nd generation Kindle, but I think it is buried in a box somewhere from a move I did last fall. I do 99% of my reading these days on either …

You would think so, but I still see new projects started every day using Apache for something nginx would be a much better fit for. I think that mostly the admins and architects on…

The getter/setter stuff in java is a huge waste of space and time. However, at least in the enterprise space, all of the tooling and frameworks assume your code follows the java be…

Great article, but they seem to barely mention the most mind bending fact about the experiment: They are generating a 1km wide blast of neutrinos in suburban Chicago and sending it…

A few months ago the NY Times wrote an article about how they did static generation for their election results mini-site. The HN discussion was here: http://news.ycombinator.com/it…

Some people were watching TV online before, now lots of people are watching TV online. Hulu has played a big part in that. I suspect the number of people watching Hulu every week d…

I really appreciate that this example shows a useful testing strategy and handles the big scheduling gotcha (rescheduling jobs.) Neither are hard solutions once the answer is known…

Does google require you to use their service the same way apple does? Or is their service just there for developers that want to use it(at a 10% cost?)

I guess my point is that it really does work both ways, the iPad existing may help me sell things, and me selling those things helps sell iPads. So how about both sides just focus …

Hmmm....and if my app gets someone to buy your iPad, what do I get?

So is this being driven by people working on the VP8 codec or the WebM project? Or is MPEG LA just trying to show that VP8 really is just a patent encumbered at h.264(and protect/a…

I had to read this as part of my Rhetoric class my freshman year of college. I hated just about every minute of it, very hard to absorb, more than a big long winded in places. It a…

I noticed they did this to Jalopnik the other day, makes it much more difficult to browse the list of headlines. I very rarely want to read the first story on the list, or each sto…

Kind of neat, but what is with all the static methods and inner classes? Makes things kind of ugly, and very hard to write independent tests.

JUnit stores all of the meta data about each test case in the test instance itself, so all of the reporting is based off of these classes. It has always puzzled me why it was done …

Ruby’s Test::Unit library (which we use for Basecamp’s tests) creates a new instance of the test class for each test. Not only that, but it holds onto each of those instances, so i…