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by Todd 16y ago
Is this a joke? VB may be "easy" but it's terribly verbose. VB 6 was end-of-lifed two years ago. Pascal was a good idea 30 years ago. And Delphi's designer was hired by MS to build a better language 14 years ago, which became C#. Now, let's
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by Todd 16y ago
At first glance it seems nontrivial. As with most problems like this that can be decomposed into algorithms and datastructures, technology provides a solution. OpenID, OAuth, and Open Social were all developed to solve similar problems. My
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by Todd 16y ago
I think the main difference is that there would be a "behind the scenes" component that would allow profiles on different sites to exchange information in a secure way, while supporting different levels of privacy, etc. I think a home page
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by Todd 16y ago
The security will be determined by your web of connections and the quality of their profile providers. For such a system to be functional and have sufficient appeal to 3rd parties such as Google and other systems that will want to crawl the
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by Todd 16y ago
FOAF has some great ideas. Unfortunately, for a system to have the level of functionality that users have come to expect, it will have to be a protocol run as web services. I think many of those ideas or even parts of the standard can be le
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by Todd 16y ago
They won't have to do this. Most will probably go with a provider such as Google, MSN, or Yahoo!. The "cool kids" will install a Wordpress plugin or set up their own.
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by Todd 16y ago
Trust would be an issue. In an open system, it would always be possible to set up a rogue server with spoofed profiles. There are ways to combat this. Using OAuth for authentication keeps them from getting your credentials. It or a similar
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by Todd 16y ago
This can be handled by 301 redirect or it can be built into the protocol. When moving a profile from one provider to another, the standard could require a response indicating the location of the profile for a minimum period of time (such as
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by Todd 16y ago
I have been in the process of doing the same thing for a few weeks. It seems like the time is right. My plan is similar. RESTful API built on OAuth 2.0 and Open Social, with OpenID as an option. The specification will be open and the first
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by Todd 16y ago
Where's the "Like" button when I actually want it?!
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by Todd 17y ago
I would highly recommend Patent it Yourself from NOLO Press. It goes into great detail about claims. As a software person, you're at an advantage in understanding the logical language of claims. One important aspect is the independent claim
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by Todd 17y ago
Good points (wheels and masterj)
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by Todd 17y ago
What about SomeComplexObject b = new SomeComplexObject() This should probably be SomeComplexObject* b = new SomeComplexObject() since the former news up an object and then invokes a copy constructor before losing the original
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by Todd 17y ago
A chair really can make all the difference. I was having severe back problems until I bought a Steelcase Think. My problems went away overnight. Every chair won't work for every person. I suggest that you buy a good chair, try it for a week
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by Todd 17y ago
I agree with the point that aarghh made. I also believe it stems from the idea that "that site isn't that complicated; I could do that myself--why would I pay someone $X per month for something I could do myself?" Unfortunately, if you're a
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by Todd 17y ago
Working on photo upload in a new web app I'm working on. It spawns ImageMagick to do the conversion into multiple photos of different sizes. I had doubts about this until I read that it's the technique Flickr uses.
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by Todd 17y ago
I think part of the reason founders try to keep as much stock as possible is to retain control for as long as they can through each investment round. If you can demonstrate two cap sheets with the typical scenario and the feel-good scenario
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by Todd 17y ago
Like many (most?) here, I have faced the same problem in the past and continue to. The difference is that over the past several years, I've figured out how to do it. It all boils down to persistence, diligence, and work. As others have said
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by Todd 17y ago
The virtues of the CLR are (rightly) extolled for Windows, then the lack of the CLR on Linux/OS X is cited as one justification for the HLVM. Mono is alive and well on those two platforms (notwithstanding hate from the GNU/Stallman camp). N
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by Todd 17y ago
Check out livemocha.com
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by Todd 17y ago
Agreed. Scripted/interpreted languages are, in general, one to two orders of magnitude slower than a compiled language such as C/C++. It's damn difficult to go much better than 10x slower due to the nature of an interpreter--even fast opcod
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by Todd 17y ago
LOL. That's one of the best.
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by Todd 17y ago
I guess their 1984 ad campaign was more precient than Steve could have imagined. The surprise is that he is the old guy on the screen. Now, who's the woman throwing the hammer?
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by Todd 17y ago
I know of no other company that can charge $100 for 16GB of flash memory. Differentiating on real features like 3G is good and expected. Differentiating on commodity hardware like memory is unfair. With the ubiquity of SD and micro SD and n
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by Todd 17y ago
You may apply for a US patent within the first year after the invention was made publicly known (e.g., published). If you intend to file foreign patents, the invention must not be made publicly known before filing abroad. You have one year
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by Todd 17y ago
It sounds to me like he is making a lot of use of harmonics. He appears to be doing it percussively (by banging his finger against the fretboard vs. the usual technique of lightly touching the string and picking elsewhere). This is probably
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by Todd 17y ago
By 100BCE the Greek classical period had already passed and Rome was on the rise. A high level of culture existed in places and sophisticated thought was commonly expressed in written form. Metallurgy was sufficient. Many of the works of ar
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by Todd 17y ago
Fantastic. Not only is she a smart engineer, but she's protected herself from a business standpoint as well.
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by Todd 17y ago
A pet rock may be the best choice.
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Protein folding as a game to help science(fold.it)
19 points by Todd 17y ago|2 comments

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