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Comment · 12 years ago
Humor, on the internet. Never.
Comment · 12 years ago
Amazing write up, very helpful. I especially liked how heanages to not even conclude wether bitcoin should exist or not. Rare sight on the internet these days, reason that is.
Comment · 12 years ago
Anybody else close that to conserve battery power and save the planet from global warming? Cause i did. Fuck thats a lot of vommit on the screen.
Comment · 12 years ago
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Comment · 12 years ago
Sounds like he needs a career gap year. But then ive been saying that about jeff for years. So whiny.

Some of us still enjoy toys and the shiny. Its not like we go out of our way to use this shit in production before its out of beta. We use it on pet projects in our own time because its fun, its thought provoking, it leads to new ways of doing things elsewhere, its learning - and thats why i love it, thats why i do what i do.

Edit, nothing like a whinge from jeff to get me riled and ranting to the point I just realised how pationate i am about learning and tech. Doubleplusgood day made.

Comment · 12 years ago
Cool, think you can get a lan based room going?

As others have said been keen to do something very similar. Glad someone got off their ass and did it.

I always envisioned it useful at parties and places where the internet may be too congested but the lan/wlan not so much: read conferences

Comment · 12 years ago
You know many countries are working on giving the internet natural right status.

If the net wasnt neutral there would be no google we'd all be stuck using yahooor dogpile. The net and all its services would look a lot more like cable was begining to. I find it hard to take anyone seriously when they are defending companies that would have you pay in the blood of your first born if they could get away with it. You think the net would have gone mainstream? You think that facebook would exist? Amazon?

The world has changed with open unfiltered acess to the internet, anything trying to lock it down and monopolise the network transmissions at a base level is incredibly unethical and an attack on so many parts if your life now.

Its too much of a burden on carriers to be regulated like they should be? Fuck me man, its too much of a burden on the world at large not to.

The fcc needs to call them carriers, be done with it, fix the pricing, fix the dodgy dealing and if need be deregulate the issues that seem to be getting isps in such a huf.

Comment · 12 years ago
Random? Why not all the people?
Comment · 12 years ago
Its like silver vs gold. The volume for silver is much higher as its price range is a lot more manageable for people. I also wouldnt be suprised if just one person created the majority of these to push hype. Theyre all a bunch of ponzi schemes. Sadly i also think theyre here to stay for at least a long while.
Comment · 12 years ago
> when brought down to the census tract level in large cities

Which is exactly the same with any population heat map when you go down to the census tract level in large cities.

In other words, it is completely applicable.

Comment · 12 years ago
Weibo has about 60m daily, twitter has around 100m daily users

Source: random & recent google result titles

Comment · 12 years ago
I think I've seen this map before...

http://xkcd.com/1138/

As in, was this normalized, both for population density, and cost of living: read look at alaska..

Comment · 13 years ago
I wont be able to test it out for a few hours, how is the latency from australia if anyone knows? is it still usable, by usable i mean -never- have to wait for the net to unlag. Id love to use something like cloud 9 but the lag issue is pretty huge.
Comment · 13 years ago
Entire post comparing php, a language, against rails standards and bias about what a framework should be. How about you compare php against ruby or python for web development, there it is obvious how php got where it and why it is here to stay. Or how about we compare rails to symfony or fuel or even zend, then we're getting to where the real contention points are.

In any case, can we stop using php4 in comparisons against frameworks still in their diapers.

Comment · 13 years ago
How is this different from normal dns?

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