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by bsaunder 18y ago
Robotics and virtual worlds? To me, the "web" (as in web developers), is really about UI programming (html), system communications protocols (e.g. XMPP, SOAP, HTTP), and data persistence (rdbms). Earlier on (a decade ago), there seemed to
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by bsaunder 18y ago
Yes, it was a bit longer than necessary to make his point. I think the general point is that programming is more about information and system architecture and less about the details of one particular language. I tend to agree with this vi
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by bsaunder 18y ago
I don't think he's referring to "virtual machines" (which I think tend to run one operating system 'within' another (ergo much more than the processor)). He's talking about programming languages which generally run in a virtual machine (e.g
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by bsaunder 18y ago
I agree completely! Spend money encouraging innovation and solving tomorrows problems, not keeping the existing oligarchies on life support. Congress should be considering investments and negotiating term sheets like VCs (but they won't).
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by bsaunder 18y ago
Yeah, I've been getting a hunch that there's some significant market manipulation going on over the past year. Particularly the strength in the dollar and the weakness of gold.
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by bsaunder 18y ago
I think there's a more fundamental problem with any commentary (economic or otherwise) by mass media. It hardly seems objective these days. There's also a self-fulfilling prophecy problem with media coverage of economic information. If y
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by bsaunder 18y ago
No, but it's funny that the compatibility pane suggests that since it sits on top of Oracle and MySQL you have access to your data... by integrating your normal apps at the database?
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by bsaunder 18y ago
Your colleague may be interested in pcre (perl compatible regular expressions) see http://www.pcre.org But I agree, C isn't the best choice for that task.
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by bsaunder 18y ago
Hehe, yeah so did Bush, but I'm sure you didn't mean it the same way.
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by bsaunder 18y ago
Cellular Automata ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cellular_automata ) Particularly rules 110 and 30
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by bsaunder 18y ago
This is fairly comprehensive: http://www.nist.gov/dads/
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by bsaunder 18y ago
I'm concerned that this is the by-product of politicians "creating jobs". We should be focused on improving our global quality of life, not providing employment. Unfortunately this would imply lots of unemployed less skilled workers (e.g.
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by bsaunder 18y ago
"... if America’s networks remember they are Americans first, revenue seekers second." Unfortunately, they revenue seekers first. They are accountable to their shareholders (American or not). It's the politicians themselves that should be
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by bsaunder 18y ago
I've also found the following strategies helpful: Be less vocal. You might be right in your opinion on some matter, but, you don't always need to express it. Some things are okay to be ... less than ideal. Let people make their own mis
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by bsaunder 18y ago
I'd prefer to see the government take even half the amount of money and offer lots of smaller grants/loans to innovative entrepreneurs to launch our country into the next wave of growth. That's where the new jobs and economic growth will b
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by bsaunder 18y ago
Perhaps odd to comment on myself, but what if I (we) more liberally up-mod the on topic posts regardless of quality... Ideally (as others have suggested) we could vote on relevance separate from quality/agreement.
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by bsaunder 18y ago
I'm disappointed that they don't have a try-then-buy option. There are plenty of sub $10 apps that I would love to try out and wouldn't mind paying for if they are good. But I don't like payng the money first and then learning that I don'
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by bsaunder 18y ago
Yeah, some of the old School House Rock videos seem rather fictional to me these days (particularly "No More Kings"). I'd love to see a modern remix of that with some well chosen TV footage on YouTube.
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by bsaunder 18y ago
Good point. I think user experience is important as well. But as demonstrated by many of arcane JavaScript emulators out there (vi, terminals, etc), I'm sure you could devise just about any user experience you would like in a simple web p
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by bsaunder 18y ago
Do you really care about access to your applications (e.g. MS Word) or the functionality they provide (e.g. editing a document)? I think it's more likely just the functionality + the information. I think more likely Mac OS and Windows a
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by bsaunder 18y ago
I can't wait for UDP over HTTP in Cometd 0.6 ;)
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by bsaunder 18y ago
I think it's less about people using streams more (though I think that is true) and more a representation of what is happening to information. In the document (or batch) mode of interaction, you have full knowledge of some set of content.
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by bsaunder 18y ago
I think in our domain (software), there may be some additional rational to keeping things secret. An unpolished early revision of code may be a much better way to judge a job applicant than a resume. No one would consider publishing the
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by bsaunder 18y ago
I can't say much, but I think this is not so much of a problem for the summize guys.
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by bsaunder 18y ago
Boy that looks clunky. I'd like to see the Apple version. Why not just a small hand held projector the size of mouse (then you can swap machines if you need to).
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by bsaunder 18y ago
I think it's less of a death and more of a maturing. Early on in technological cycles, things seem to be rather inefficient and require more resources than when they mature. I think there is other evidence of improved efficiency in softwa
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by bsaunder 18y ago
check for yourself at trends.google.com apache and spring framwork are trending down, orm is mostly level
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by bsaunder 18y ago
I'd say go ahead and proceed with your idea (of course, I'm not a lawyer). People with patents, don't care about you until you have money (confirmed this with a patent troll I met recently at a convention). At that point you can either wo
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Thoughts on the Semantic Technology Conference 2008(recursivedesigns.blogspot.com)
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Ask YC: Anyone else headed to the Semantic Technology Conference?
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