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Ecio78
15y ago
I'm trying to open http://wpengine.com/pricing/ and the tab keeps loading (it seems i cant connect to their cdn.wpengine.com)... NB Patrick's site is ok EDIT: now the pricing page loads
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15y ago
As for the terminal, it is constantly evolving That explains why it installs .NET framework, Silverlight, Flash and God knows what else :)
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15y ago
Thanks apaprocki for the clarification. Dont you think that an additional step would be have a public API directly accessible through internet? In the past customers had to buy dedicated lines for your service, then BLB gave the opportunity
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15y ago
afaik (please somebody correct me if i'm wrong) if you pay for a bloomberg workstation you can download API and use it on your system, but you're limited to using it on a licensed workstation (you cant interface another system in order to p
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15y ago
Ok this example probably clarifies the rationale: "A programming interface that is proprietary severely limits the options for firms that use them. Typically, a proprietary interface is contractually tied to the associated product. If the
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15y ago
What am I supposed to do with a free programming interface if I have no access to the data? Maybe they want to "force" other market data providers to define a common standard for this kind of API? Or maybe they hope it will bring more third
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So, what's the difference between this and the current (previous?) access model where you use their already existing API to interact with their systems? The only difference seems that they have published the API and you dont need to have a
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15y ago
Depending on what you're after, there's either the native app lookalike : http://www.chocolatechip-ui.com How is it compared to jquerymobile?
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15y ago
Some of these infos are in the podcast, but I agree it will be nice to see them in the next parts
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15y ago
I think he explains it here: http://www.softwarebyrob.com/2011/11/02/9-ways-to-decrease-y... and here http://blog.asmartbear.com/virtual-assistant-startup.html and here http://www.softwarebyrob.com/2009/07/14/one-of-the-most-comm...
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15y ago
What about IndexTank? They dont talk about it in this blog post. Have they stopped using it?
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15y ago
Yes exactly, thanks talmand for the clarification, i was thinking about the case in which the user is not logged in the mail but google fetches data for your search from all your personal data just because you're logged on.
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15y ago
they already mine your email to show ads to you, they already do everything he talks about, they're just now going to let you have access to it through search instead of having to go to mail/reader/youtube/etc individually Uhm ok tell me
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15y ago
Except you can use it to power on EC2 machines with those data, so you can use it for dealing with requests spikes, for offsite data elaboration or even Disaster Recovery of your onpremises infrastructure on Amazon.
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15y ago
I suspect this[x] is just a way to bring attention to the Broadcom chip that powers the RPi [x] i mean the article, not the Pi project itself
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15y ago
there's a comparison vs Mysql here: http://senseidb.github.com/sensei/performance.html for insert and query performance
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15y ago
I've just checked their page, featurewise they look like very interesting, but their pricing is far from being cheap: "Pricing is 5.9% plus $.95 or 8.9% flat per order, whichever you prefer. The minimum order fee is $.75 per order." EDIT: a
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15y ago
I'm currently evaluating which architecture is better for my startup project: I'm thinkin about hosting my own Solr instance (i've already used it in a Drupal project), using an external hosted Solr solution, using another engine (i.e. i di
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15y ago
Even though the concepts are easy (nothing you cant do with a couple of excel/google docs formulas) I think it's quite nice if you want to do some basic startup pricing maths. A humble suggestion, you can improve the UI, i.e. reduce the vid
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15y ago
Actually it seems that RaspberryPI will have a slightly odd bootloader, not the usual uboot, so you must check how to install BSD on the board http://elinux.org/RaspberryPiBoard#BootRom Also here http://elinux.org/RaspberryPiBoardDistrib
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15y ago
Disclaimer: i've used Drupal for a couple of projects and I like it for its easyness for noncoder, this is just about the cons: Drupal is very good and powerful (i think the best part is the ability to create custom contents with CCK - now
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Check this blog post about freemium, i've found it quite interesting: http://www.softwarebyrob.com/2010/08/18/why-free-plans-dont-... I haven't still decided yet about using freemium or not for the project i'm working on
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15y ago
What about creating some polls and using Amazon Mechanical Turk to get opinions? You can read something about this approach here: http://www.softwarebyrob.com/2009/10/29/crowdsourcing-your-p...
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15y ago
Same in Italy, for 2012 is 112 Euro for a year (145$). According to this chart http://www.abbonamenti.rai.it/immagini/grafico2011.gif this kind of fee is quite common for public tv in Europe.
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15y ago
it reminds me of IP over Avian Carriers: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IP_over_Avian_Carriers
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We have to remember two things about this law: 1) it's "for defects present at the time of sale" (as you stated), and this leads to various (mis)interpretations (like "how can i demonstrate that a non working hard disk was already not perfe
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15y ago
I'm working on a webapp that will be used by not-so-tech-savvy working people and this could be an interesting way to subscribe to the service without implementing generic openid (i think most of them wont understand it) or facebook/twitter
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15y ago
sorry for my bad english, it led you to misinterpretations: I was citing situations in which other big names (not microsoft) were a bit "evil", google too (because the op was picturing a scenary in which Microsoft is all-bad with its FUD an
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15y ago
I dont want to defend Microsoft, but i think that if we dig deep enough we found bad "habits" in every big society: what about Google[1] or Apple suing everybody from Samsung [2] to Luxembourgish restourants[3]? [1] http://www.theverge.com
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Italy is doing the same but as usual, too late and too slow: http://www.dati.gov.it/
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