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The epic battle between “consume only” Apps and Participatory Web (scobleizer.com)
1 points by bdfh42 17y ago|0 comments
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by bdfh42 17y ago
well ghee whiz cowboy - let us know when poor people no longer need to die of treatable illness in your country... I think part of the UK silicon valley is called the M4 corridor - the other part is in Scotland. With a country with fast int
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by bdfh42 17y ago
Sometimes I wish there was a button on HN labeled "Yawn" or "Goldfish" that I could press when someone posts yet another link that just repeats a story that has been posted n times before without any additional detail or analysis. I am not
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by bdfh42 17y ago
Sometimes I wish there was a button on HN labeled "Yawn" or "Goldfish" that I could press when someone posts yet another link that just repeats a story that has been posted n times before without any additional detail or analysis. I am not
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by bdfh42 17y ago
The definition of an "April Fools" post could be tricky. I posted the latest at the dailywtf.com ( http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/Announcing-APDB-The-Worlds-F... ) - is it an April Fools or a clever parody of some of the "No SQL" rants a
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Announcing APDB: The World's Fastest Database(thedailywtf.com)
3 points by bdfh42 17y ago|0 comments
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Usability On The Cheap and Easy(codinghorror.com)
3 points by bdfh42 17y ago|0 comments
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by bdfh42 17y ago
First off I thought this was an April Fool's joke - Make data collected at the tax payer's expense available to said tax payers - impossible I thought. but the BBC article looked genuine. Mind - all of the "open data" links seem to be broke
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by bdfh42 17y ago
Sorry, I am still not getting this - if the data is local then why not run the app on a server running on the local machine. Alternately you are trying to access local personal data using a remote app - so you need Google's or HTML5's suppo
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by bdfh42 17y ago
OK - perhaps dumb question - but what is the problem with AJAX and a web service to return the SQL query results in (say) JSON format? It is pretty simple and works very well. The concept of an ODBC driver being run directly from Javascript
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by bdfh42 17y ago
Duplicate of an item just posted (well 14 further forward on the "new" list). Plus the poster has editorialised the link text - not the HN way.
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by bdfh42 17y ago
I have been banging on for a long time that as soon as someone produces a decent home computer that is actually designed to be a consumer good then the price of computers as we know them will start to rocket upwards. We probably need to sta
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Twitter, Curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal(ericsink.com)
72 points by bdfh42 17y ago|54 comments
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Are location geeks at Where 2.0 off the path to real money?(scobleizer.com)
7 points by bdfh42 17y ago|1 comments
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by bdfh42 17y ago
On the two most recent occasions when I have had the opportunity to design a new kitchen layout I have made the case for installing two dishwashers. Such units are not that much more expensive than the cupboards they would replace but with
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JSINQ - LINQ to Objects for JavaScript(jsinq.codeplex.com)
1 points by bdfh42 17y ago|0 comments
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A brief, yet helpful, lesson on elementary resource-locking strategy(reprog.wordpress.com)
26 points by bdfh42 17y ago|3 comments
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Creating an OData API for StackOverflow including XML and JSON in 30 minutes(hanselman.com)
1 points by bdfh42 17y ago|0 comments
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by bdfh42 17y ago
Microsoft's Small Basic fits the bill perfectly - perhaps undersold on this link but... http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=B00... <edit> A good overview can be found here http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/beg
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by bdfh42 17y ago
Scott Rosenberg is absolutely right - the failure of the CD ROM was that it forced the user to consume the content in the way that the publisher was prepared to present it - most CD ROMS failed to allow the user to freely search and re-purp
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For the media biz, iPad 2010 = CDROM 1994(wordyard.com)
4 points by bdfh42 17y ago|1 comments
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by bdfh42 17y ago
OK - It has a boring title but you have to admit to the "Friday" entertainment value...
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Normal Mapping with Javascript and Canvas Tag(29a.ch)
2 points by bdfh42 17y ago|1 comments
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by bdfh42 17y ago
Have you checked out the draconian libel laws in the UK? They apply if the "libel" can be read from the UK. How about the privacy laws in Italy - check what just happened to some Google Execs... This could end up as a great "get rich quick"
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The Opposite of Fitts' Law(codinghorror.com)
98 points by bdfh42 17y ago|51 comments
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How To Pick A Company Name(onstartups.com)
18 points by bdfh42 17y ago|8 comments
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JQuery Spritely(spritely.net)
1 points by bdfh42 17y ago|0 comments
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by bdfh42 17y ago
Has all the hallmarks of an amusing fraud - the language would indicate it is of quite recent origin.
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Regular Expression Matching can be Ugly and Slow(stevehanov.ca)
42 points by bdfh42 17y ago|9 comments
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The 94 Percent Solution(cringely.com)
2 points by bdfh42 17y ago|0 comments

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