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One forum post, nine different sentences saying the same thing: "Comodo invented 90 day free certificate".

To me this sounds quite similar to the ownership of the rectangle with rounded corners (I am actually not sure whose side I'm on in either dispute).

Think how you would do that with session cookies - you either issue a fresh cookie or ask for login/password. Same with JWT - your client-server API wrapper can add a renewed token to a response when needed. There are many other reasons to have central API wrapper on the client (common error checking, serialisation, headers etc) so it doesn't cost much to stick an extra check for a new token

Amazon has Echo, Google has Nest and now Home.

What could Apple's Project Titan be if not a smart home device?

I think median Software Engineer Salary also followed hockey stick graph over last couple of years, as well as CA real estate prices, so it isn't that clear that Apple grew headcount at all. When iPhone came out there was no app store nor 3rd party apps; when apps arrived they had no push notifications; icloud didn't exist and so on. Products become exponentially more complex, requiring proportional growth in R&D. There may even be tax incentives to maximize R&D spending.

Smart home / smart appliances would be a much more logical step for Apple as it'd be much closer to their area of expertise in electronics. Unlike with iPod and iPhone, there's at least one company that is already doing all the right and hard things around cars - Tesla.

TVs, kitchen appliances, even lights are much better understood and researched. Technology is there, safety/regulatory barriers are lower than with cars, consumer demand is pretty obvious. Yet existing manufacturers releasing product after product with laughable design and usability. Just like used to be the case with Nokia and Windows smartphones.

A year ago one of the reasons to leave Python was poor MongoDB & JSON support, 12 months later the same author complains about the lack of a decent SQL ORM library in js <scratching my head/>

while JS is far from perfect, his problem was he was a little bit ahead of time- babel, standard promises & sequelize solve most of the problems. I think Python is still superior for serverside, but JS isn't as bad as portrayed in this post, if you slowdown for a couple of weeks to learn how to use it properly (just like any other popular language or framework).

Sergey got bored with his new robot toy and chucked it into the same bin as google glass, wave, internet balloon and some other stuff that got cancelled before public announcement.

Cloudflare does that when you are hitting it from a suspicious VPN IP address. There may be other reasons why it doesn't like your IP.

So it's 125 million SQL queries or 6 million page loads per machine per day.

It also seems like average query is 1.2ms - am I missing something?

speaking of web design - did smartphones ruin that blog's design?

Most of these reasons can be applied to modern cars, apartment complexes, smart TVs, etc. Title should be "why I don't like this century"

He was CTO, why would infrastructure guy ever be held responsible for poor overall performance? It's not rocket science, nor F1 team

Twitter - where most of these rejected people ended up?..

> Perhaps they get around that valuation with 100M/year in patent licensing.

Patents expire after 25 years, so at 100M p.a. deal for investors is spend 1B to get $2.5B back, two decades later. I'm not sure that even beats fixed interest. Even with continuation it's still around 10% return.

As others have pointed out O(1B) is same as O(1).

Make a payment to see "we are fully booked till next year"? I think using callbacks to trigger stripe's checkout.js is not that hard, unless you hate your users.

maybe a camera drone would see the one in front as an obstacle and constantly try to turn away from it :)

So they expected major frameworks to switch to an unfinished spec without a clear ETA for approval and that didn't work out?

I think this is a major blow to web performance. We are bound to perform O(every object on page) computations on every event, instead of O(tiny bit that's actually changed). This is how having a device with gigs of RAM, close to ghz CPU we still measure FPS of a page with one table and 5 images

Dude! Do you really think that KS is a quick and easy pile of cash, or let alone has anything to do with freedom? Have you talked to anyone who got funded that way, or maybe read a postmortem on a failed hardware campaign?

After I stopped using Windows I've revisited my definition of "works well". Not trying to troll or bash Microsoft here and perhaps you have strong reasons to stay on it, but sometimes people try to treat symptom not the problem.

That's a shame. Hammer is an awesome little lib, I think I started using it back in 2013, have only good things to say about it.

> didn't help them one iota but caused a lot of fire.

Yes, I was referring to the relationship with customers. The result would likely be the same, but it wouldn't end with personal attacks and attempts to uncover a fraud.

Very vocal minority makes all backers seem mad and aggressive, basically a couple of trolls set the tone. maybe if everyone who felt the other way would be as proactive in expressing their opinions to founders it would change at least the emotional outcome. It would silence the trolls, and it would also be more democratic.

The problem is people with more balanced views also have other things to focus on in their lives, so here you have it - even if most backers understood the risk they were taking and have no hard feelings, years later we only hear about that other small subset

Did you notice how things went downhill once they entered the stealth mode? What kind of startup consultant would suggest that and for what reason?

"Move fast and break things", there's no time for deep thoughts and too much uncertainty for carefully planned architectures.

Good to see microsoft products on top of at least one comparison against opensource alternatives.

PHP was also very easy to understand. Maybe sometimes, as a professional you have to spend few weeks grasping a complex paradigm, if that is going to boost your productivity for a couple of years afterwards.

OK, so they've analyzed 4.9 million moves. How many double blunders did they find in the set? If the hypothesis of independent events is true there should be about (4.9e6 / 10,000) = 490 doubles in the data set. An obvious way to test accuracy of the model is to compare that to the actual number.

Why hasn't that comparison been done/mentioned?

While not sure about this particular business model, it is the first good use case for container hotel rooms I've ever seen.

Standardized rooms all over the world, run as a network of independent providers adhering to the international code of practice, advertised and paid for on AirBNB (because we already have hassle free hotel check in experience, why build another one).

... and stuffed with IKEA furniture we all know and love :)

Great idea, but all the marketing speak on the landing page just didn't make sense to me. Things immediately fell into places when I saw the diagram in the"About" page.

Pushpin is a proxy server that adds websockets to existing request-response apis. Why don't you just say that straight away?

Suppose you got $40-100k from one of the dozens of accelerators and the cost of running an online business shrinks every year. Is your next raise still counted as seed or series A? Are successful kickstarter campaigns counted as seed deals? Should they? Maybe it's not that seed bubble is popping, but there so many new ways to run a startup that old metrics are no longer relevant.

I didn't know that. Is that a law, or just the way it's currently done?