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I feel there are a lot of compelling UI opportunities for non-gaming uses without headsets, eye tracking, holographic hardware, etc. Back when VRML was a thing, navigating a 3d spa…

This gets an upvote merely for citing Frank Zappa in any way

Does the presence of this post indicate that VRML is going to be relevant for ...anything... ever again? I have an old t-shirt around somewhere from a VRML event in the mid-90's (b…

Fastly | Senior SRE - Edge Cloud | London, Madrid, Stockholm or EU Remote | https://www.fastly.com/ Fastly is building up the team that owns managing change on its world wide bare …

Bitnami | San Francisco or West Coast REMOTE | Senior SRE | Full Time Bitnami is on a mission to bring awesome software to everyone. Building and configuring software stacks can dr…

I'm surprised at all of the responses calling for the CTO to be fired. It's very common to have founders who are very good at the very early stage but lack the experience to scale …

I use MySQL plenty and there's a lot of things I like about it. But I honestly don't understand any of the MySQL related comments on this post. Even if Oracle didn't own MySQL, a m…

The posting says they're hiring only 5 now, 40-50 next year;I inferred they're still in an exploratory phase because if they were all in, they'd be hiring more than 5 now. The post…

Salesforce spends a huge amount of money on licensing their horizontally scaled Oracle databases. I'd venture to guess this signals Benioff exploring a strategic bet to tell Elliso…

Nice. First thought evoked: "Scenes From A Night's Dream Lyrics" by Genesis

As a user of the WeLL from the 1990's, I'm glad to hear that the community that owns its own words will now own its own destiny.

> why no one has made a Couch to 5k app yet I've been using this, a little buggy but definitely helped me acquire my running habit: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/ease-into-5k/id30…

Maintaining the good graces and friendship with the founders and moving on aren't mutually exclusive. They're not stupid, just level with them: the traction achieved isn't what you…

Hadoop is good at what it's designed for (data processing parallelization built by programmers) and bad at what it's not (ad hoc queries by people who are not programmers). Move al…

Meh, if your other option is to use PostgreSQL and get row level locks, a db level lock is still a fail.

I also found it interesting that the storage media is specified and it's SSDs. Solid state will be hugely disruptive for hosted services, I've been hoping for an instance-by-the-ho…

A "ruby vs. perl" fight is the furthest from my mind, I'm just speaking anecdotally about what my friends who, like me, were heavy perl users are using in it's place now. If the "m…

Back in the day, I was an avid mod_perl user and Perl 5 enthusiast. I recall being optimistic that Perl 6 would come out of the oven in 12 to 18 months. Sadly, that was in 2004. My…

Apt comparison. It's easy to see how both perl and scala can degenerate into "line noise", both are quite powerful and both have their religious adherents and detractors. While I w…