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by bl4k 16y ago
I wouldn't bother with a desktop version, most users already have enough things running. Doing a Dashboard widget would be easy through, so would a notifier plugin for the common browsers
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by bl4k 16y ago
Answer needs more love. The capabilities of the client are part of content negotiation. The version that the client supports is thus also part of content negotiation, just like content format, language, character set, compression method, et
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by bl4k 16y ago
These types of threads are great, because they give developers exposure to existing real world problems that they may not have experienced themselves. When consulting, one of the 'fun' parts with visiting or speaking to a new client is find
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The Man Who Would Fall To Earth(esquire.com)
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by bl4k 16y ago
I had to wonder. We do have a large competitor in our market that appears to be growing a lot faster than we are. The company is closing big deals with big, enterprise customers. And the wheels are falling off the donkey cart over there as
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by bl4k 16y ago
If you plan on staying on to live in the valley, $20-30M. I have many friends who are worth $3-5M and they do not consider themselves even close to rich in the valley. Housing and schooling in Palo Alto are very expensive. $5M is nowhere ne
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by bl4k 16y ago
BP are so incompetent that they can not even control a robot without hitting something, nor place a cap over the leak, nor even accurately estimate how much oil is leaking. Giving them a nuclear weapon is not a good idea.
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by bl4k 16y ago
Not only will they leave it, this is the most important part for Google. I expect that they will spin it into a 'Google Travel' product and take over the travel market pronto
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by bl4k 16y ago
closely followed by the #1 hit: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jMH_WRwOWs
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by bl4k 16y ago
Learn to play poker and enter the world series, which is getting under way in a week. Analytical minds do well in poker, especially since most poker players are degenerate gamblers.
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by bl4k 16y ago
he is certainly no threat to the music industry: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-ZJKOpkAbQ
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by bl4k 16y ago
the shortcut to think about it when designing a doc-based schema is as follows: what would be a one-to-one or one-to-many relationship in a traditional RDBMS would be embedded data in the document in a doc based store. What would be a many-
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by bl4k 16y ago
When should I use MongoDB? Always. I am a big fan of mongodb but this is bad advice. The answer should be 'when I need a document-based data store'. You determine what type of database you need (RDBMS, KV, Doc, Graph, Column-based etc.) b
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by bl4k 16y ago
the only people making money are the market makers - who are spending a ton of money on marketing to get people like you to think it is easy to make a lot of money i am amazed by how many people are getting into forex now. it is the new 'ge
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by bl4k 16y ago
This is all part of anti-money laundering provisions introduced in the past few years. As the carrier they are obligated and liable.
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by bl4k 16y ago
First step was to have their own state owned oil company that would take part in exploration and drilling, rather than allowing foreign companies to take control in hope of 'trickle down effects' Step two was to introduce a regulating body
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by bl4k 16y ago
I found this amusing until I realized that it is coming out in Australia shortly
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by bl4k 16y ago
For some reason, your average nerd often considers themselves to be a part-time economist. A nerd meeting an economist would likely attempt to argue out points, where you wouldn't do the same if you met a brain surgeon. It is just that type
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by bl4k 16y ago
a financial hacker would be a facker
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by bl4k 16y ago
I have been in this situation with high profile sites before. When there is downtime that is very public like this incident, you get a flood of emails and calls from service providers offering to help. This can actually often work, a rela
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by bl4k 16y ago
Software firewall is fine for a single machine - plus the hardware firewall you were quoted would restrict your throughput to only 10Mbps - which is not a lot and would be maxed out with 4-5 concurrent users
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by bl4k 16y ago
It would be better to set up this resource as a wiki or on some sort of knowledge base platform rather than the digg/reddit style of news site. Good tutorials are always relevant, you don't want them scrolling down past the bottom of the pa
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by bl4k 16y ago
Wordpress is one of the largest sites on the web now - I can't believe they have a single point of failure
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by bl4k 16y ago
because when something goes wrong, users will call apple and complain
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by bl4k 16y ago
"you will have to decide between using Flash with a 99.6% market penetration or HTML5 with roughly less then 40% of users browsers" Adobe keep rolling out the '99 percent' argument, and it is false. This argument is essentially 'hey look, e
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by bl4k 16y ago
I find his anecdotes interesting, because I treat them as such. I think the conclusion and original thought that Gladwell wraps around these anecdotes and stories is often off-base or outright wrong. If you are not familiar with it, here is
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by bl4k 16y ago
Malcom Gladwell cuts his hair?
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by bl4k 16y ago
2% is waaaay too high
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by bl4k 16y ago
not the issue. the issue is that the nytimes was included as a default feed - and is used as a showcase for the app (note that they also make use of the nytimes name, logo etc.)
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by bl4k 16y ago
The battleship analogy is quaint. The NYTimes is the Tirpitz - the big bad guy who ends up spending the entire war hiding in a fjord for fear of what lies in the open oceans. Likely to also share the same fate as the Tirpitz.

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