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Do you have evidence? Because that claim doesn't pass the sniff test - why would people who have large amounts of money care about data centers?

Yes, I could see a lot of GMs being interested in plug in and go product that fills that niche. Implementing the right feature set is challenging, as existing dedicated virtual tab…

Real world example of: Patient: Doc, it hurts when I do this. Doctor: Then stop doing that.

My first thought was that it would be explaining Quicksort using an Ikea warehouse as a metaphor, to show how different algorithms suit different constraints. As for the actual Ike…

Might be useful to add tags. The more complex credit-based services often have categories (e.g. ec2, s3, etc). It could be useful for the dev to track service usage by spend, the c…

> Art is ... mostly about surfacing the inner world, and only in part about skill. I like the phrasing of the first part. But what art is "about" is very subjective. For me, part o…

Reminds me of an old Discworld chestnut: Scientists have calculated that the chances of something so patently absurd actually existing are millions to one. But magicians have calcu…

I wanted a Markdown notes app that I could access over the internet, and stored files in a files-on-s3 structure that would makes sense if I accessed it directly and would be stupi…

> "If the solution is complicated, you are probably wrong." True in so many situations, Vincenzo.

In Australia, the fees for a four year engineering degree is around $30k AUD, and that's with very humane packback rules. $80k a _year_ is mindblowing. Rich folk and scholarship st…

I've backed quite a few projects (150), so I did a review to look for patterns. * 33 software/game projects * 23 board game projects * 20 "thing" projects (i.e. requiring manufactu…

The copy implies very strongly that comments can be a respected part of the article as a whole, and by implication - of journalism. My experience in the past has been that comments…

I found the repetitive use of "outdated" to be off-putting. It implies that much of the value of a new interface (including this one) lies in it's novelty. Except for a minority, t…

I would be very interested in seeing a tutorial for how to build a custom developer tool in this. Something I've been very interested in over the last couple of years is the idea o…

I personally find the characters very sympathetic and laughing at the BBT characters is like laughing at myself. It's refreshing to see the extreme qualities which other shows mere…

I also like it for sites that have ads everywhere . But the outright intrusive ads are the worst.

I'm not familiar with LKML or any of the developers, but Sarah is very impressive in this thread. Every time someone else tries to shift the topic, she brings the conversation back…

This inspired me to find a scale comparison of Africa vs my home (Australia) which led me to MapFight: http://mapfight.appspot.com/africa-vs-au http://mapfight.appspot.com/africa-v…

They won't be able to do this, for the same reason they couldn't open source Flash - too much proprietary code and licenced stuff.

I think the question might be better put this way: Pick 5 random points on an infinite plane. Draw lines between all of them. One of those lines will contain another integer point.…

I've had the same experience as Tesla, though not so extreme as to cause problems. For as long as I can remember I have enjoyed extremely detailed "daydreams" where I explore world…

You need to explain more - for example what do you mean by a "partial"? A quick search for "partial functions" gave me several links to mathematics articles. When I followed the li…

Their target audience is non-expert consumers. These new features are perfect examples of what their target audience wants. Any feature that requires editing a configuration file w…

His arguments triggered a sense of deja vu. I've made those same arguments with clients who want a system to process a specific product differently to all the others, and colleague…