Edmond

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by Edmond 9y ago
Developer of Solvent (codesolvent.com)...We are still finding the right angle for the product but it has been my goto platform for web development for the past 3 yrs. Combines custom middle-ware+appserver+IDE to give you a one-stop web app
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by Edmond 9y ago
I am going to guess $30 Million is a typo because that would be very odd...I have an easier time imagining meetup acquiring wework than the other way around :)
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by Edmond 9y ago
maybe the article didn't lay out a case but that question should really be viewed from the perspective of more vibrant competition in the marketplace. We know in general that competition is good both for consumers and in the case of t
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by Edmond 9y ago
All the government backed approaches I have seen to this issue fail the privacy test. There is actually an approach that works without the massive privacy violation: https://www.cipheredtrust.com/doc/
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Bubble, Bubble, Fraud and Trouble(nytimes.com)
56 points by Edmond 9y ago|55 comments
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by Edmond 9y ago
*Hal Finney had himself cryopreserved. I read that as: cryptopreserved.
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How a Church Deacon Found the Biggest Prime Number Yet(nytimes.com)
2 points by Edmond 9y ago|0 comments
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by Edmond 9y ago
There is value in growing, you guys will probably grow faster if you had more people doing more things aligned with your growth objective...The problem is that as you grow the human factor comes into play, people are people and have their o
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by Edmond 9y ago
We'll have people living in the "belts" working as ice haulers :) There is a great show called "The Expanse" that touches on this.
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by Edmond 9y ago
It is on Akamai but it is on Akamai's non-TLS network (ie .egsuite.net)...you have to pay more for TLS on Akamai ( .edgekey.net)....I'd blame IBM but not Akamai.
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by Edmond 9y ago
price could go down if more affluent people buy, eventually it can become something the average people could "afford"...there are of course other arguments against everyone owning their own flying machine.
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by Edmond 9y ago
Amazon got me on their Kindle, which is also an Ad device...I posted a rant about my experience years ago: http://colabopad.blogspot.com/2013/12/do-not-buy-amazon-kind...
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by Edmond 9y ago
I attended the New Jersey Institute of Technology (it's been >10yrs so things may have changed)...the curriculum may not exactly overlap but with thoughtful selection of electives you can get pretty close.
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by Edmond 9y ago
You may be taking too rigid a notion of CS...a lot of CS programs at least in American Universities are math programs...I got a minor in Applied math merely by declaring my desire for it without any extra classes. I would have gotten a doub
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by Edmond 9y ago
I used JQuery Mobile to build http://letzcode.com/ Maybe it's time make it a real mobile app :)
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by Edmond 9y ago
Agreed, knowing the fundamentals is always preferable...but that is unfortunately a high-bar for most "developers" so it is better to have solutions with builtin guardrails.
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by Edmond 9y ago
What is needed are modern dev tools that can automate away some of these boilerplate issues...something like this: http://www.codesolvent.com/static-assets/gif-studio/datastat... It forces parameterization on all
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by Edmond 9y ago
No it doesn't apply to them. This is a popular argument from libertarians but unfortunately it is a purely ideological argument that has no basis in reality. The aforementioned currencies are backed by the value of their issuer's
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by Edmond 9y ago
There is only one word suitable for describing bitcoin: scam The vested interest has been very successful in obscuring this basic fact, usually by conflating it with a bunch of other unrelated matters (decentralized infrastructure, fee-less
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The feds need to shutdown the Bitcoin scam now(blog.codesolvent.com)
4 points by Edmond 9y ago|1 comments
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by Edmond 9y ago
Perhaps for those familiar with "functional data structures" such an analogy is helpful but I find it easier to simply explain git for what it is without adding more exotic nomenclature to it. Git lets you do version control via f
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by Edmond 9y ago
Not an expert either :) There is the concept of submodules which allows for multiple repos while maintaining the checksum mechanics that allows sharing the same bit of information between branches and across commits: https://git-
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by Edmond 9y ago
I am not sure if the parent's claim is true, ie that Github is storing objects and sharing them across forked repos. If they are, then it likely just a direct implementation of git the technology. you can see how git stores data here:
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by Edmond 9y ago
my thought exactly.
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by Edmond 9y ago
For most of us that is the experience without exception...I live in the DC metro area (Baltimore to be specific), I dread even the slightest need to get into my car because I know it will easily eat up all my time. A 5 minute errand can eas
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by Edmond 9y ago
Whenever this issue comes up, your type of retort predictably comes up. I think first you have to consider where and how cars are used in the majority and rural areas while important don't come close to matching the typical car usage p
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by Edmond 9y ago
not sure what measure of net worth you're referring to but if it means assets minus debt, I suspect a lot of poor people don't have any debt (ability to be in debt itself can be an indication of wealth :))...
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Before “AI” was all the rage(pugoob.blogspot.com)
4 points by Edmond 9y ago|0 comments
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by Edmond 9y ago
For those looking for an out-of-the-box web app platform for Clojure you can checkout Solvent: http://www.codesolvent.com/static-assets/gif-studio/lang-tes...
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by Edmond 9y ago
None, except he's the first to comment :)

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