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ChrisArchitect
28,320karma·20,291submissions·March 7, 2011
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I do web development & ops and solve things. I am the Architect. I created the matrix. I've been waiting for you.
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hmph, this one caught me by surprise..... more infos: http://www.delicious.com/help/transition
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isn't this whole make-your-own-currency, digital or not, like that Ithaca HOURs thing?
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I know this is right out there, but why not focus on going wireless to solve this 'need to avoid digging stuff up' hurdle? I thought advances in wireless speeds was going to be the real revolution.
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while cryptic at times, the messages in this article were great I thought. And on TechCrunch no doubt. I think only a few of Twitter's users are really seeing the bigger picture use of the service an…
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good post with insights on the site traffic etc..appreciated the rails/heroku discussion. What is with the hacker submissions tho!? submitting drop table lines etc...geez ppl....whyyy
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not one mention of The Social Network movie or if a chunk of this influx is looking for a career at making iPhone apps?
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I find the comment scores useful at a glance to note contributions the community likes. I haven't been here that long, but what is the HN obsession with discussion/comments anyways? Good links are g…
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yep really I find VM is just a 'medium' choice, and one that I don't prefer, but maybe my callers would at the time. Sometimes it's just easier to ramble on about something instead of typing. But VM…
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gah, this again eh. Friday's news. This is a pretty unique/upper tier end of the spectrum problem. They needed to be able to cope with the ridiculous amount of realtime indexing and searching going …
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while reading this I was afraid of what conclusion the author was going to reach -- but a vm message that says 'txt or email me' is great -- amen!
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love how this comes out while http://agoogleaday.com is around
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google translate's always had a strong confidence in its EN -> JP translation abilities. http://translationparty.com/
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yeah, true -- this is all about scale. They have tons of online content producing partners that will be interested in doing live stuff, and also on the scale side of things, the YouTube reach is imme…
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there's not alot in here about dropping Rails particularly.... it's more some Rails powered front end stuff for SEARCH that needed to be ditched to speed up the crazy insane search load they get.
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yeah, legendary and omitted? maybe too much source material for that..hehe; and if you wanna talk about the sound fx that go with the GUIs.....the insane work and science behind all the Trek sounds is…