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Google Glass: From a Brits perspective(knowtechie.com)
2 points by chton 12y ago|0 comments
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by chton 12y ago
Plenty of people in the tech world have been warning about this for a long time. Healthcare is lax with security on all levels, from electronic pacemakers to healthcare.gov. Manufacturers and providers need to act instead of waiting for it
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Muscle-powered bio-bots walk on command(news.illinois.edu)
2 points by chton 12y ago|0 comments
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by chton 12y ago
I touched a little on that with scaling unit segregation by subdomains, but it would be a great topic for a more advanced look. I'll keep it in mind!
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Scalability: a beginner's guide(scaletheplanet.com)
2 points by chton 12y ago|2 comments
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by chton 12y ago
Having named parameters with different public than internal names is a brilliant idea, but I wonder how often it'll be used in practice. If it's used a lot, it might indicate that those parameters are badly named to begin with :)
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by chton 12y ago
for the lazy, here's part 1: http://www.scaletheplanet.com/post/the-industrial-revolution... and 2: http://www.scaletheplanet.com/post/the-industrial-revolution...
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by chton 12y ago
Make sure to read the other parts if you haven't already, and as always, criticism welcome.
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The software industry is due for an industrial revolution, part 3(scaletheplanet.com)
1 points by chton 12y ago|2 comments
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by chton 12y ago
Part 2 is now live! You can read it at http://www.scaletheplanet.com/post/the-industrial-revolution... and comment on HN at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7758174
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by chton 12y ago
Like last time, I hardly know what I'm doing, so all criticism and feedback very welcome.
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by chton 12y ago
FYI, Part 2 just went up on http://www.scaletheplanet.com/post/the-industrial-revolution...
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The software industry is due for an industrial revolution, part 2(scaletheplanet.com)
1 points by chton 12y ago|1 comments
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by chton 12y ago
I disagree that in software process the manufacturing is trivial. Software is so often designed as more general systems, that need to be configured and installed and integrated, etc. Those steps aren't part of the design process anym
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by chton 12y ago
Reduction of time-consuming effort is exactly one of the points I'm going for. It's necessary for a proper software future. I considered machine-aided development, and it's definitely a very good potential future. In the co
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by chton 12y ago
Software needs to be configured and integrated. Those steps resemble the manufacturing process a lot more. I'll go more into this in the second part, I hope I'll be able to make it clear enough.
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by chton 12y ago
Thanks for the input! For the purpose of this post, I didn't make the distinction between services and products, since at their most basic level, they are the same. The difference is in business model, not implementation or process. &
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by chton 12y ago
Hi all, For what it's worth: this is my very first blog post, and it's a bit of an unusual one. I'd love to hear any feedback, good or bad.
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The software industry is due for an industrial revolution(scaletheplanet.com)
11 points by chton 12y ago|17 comments
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by chton 12y ago
Are there any plans to add support for other OPC sources to OneGet? I can imagine a Windows8StoreProvider would be very useful, especially if you can provide those through MyGet too.
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by chton 13y ago
Okay, valid point, some already do. But that doesn't change the case that _all_ of them should be doing it whenever possible.
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by chton 13y ago
There's a ton of package managers, but none that are as built into the platform as nuget is. On top of that, what advantage would there be in having multiple package managers? All you're doing is making the package management har
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by chton 13y ago
I whole-heartedly agree. It does create some danger there of mismatching versions between the tooling and the nuget packages. What do we do if the user has upgraded to a newer version of the package, but hasn't updated his emulator y
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by chton 13y ago
Why would installing something like jQuery be a bad fit for Nuget? It's a dependency like any other, just because it's in JS doesn't mean you shouldn't handle it the same way you would other packages. Versions in directo
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by chton 13y ago
It's not perfect, but at least you don't have to manually install 10,000 files just to be able to build in the first place. Or worry that your build server is running on the wrong version of Windows. Or even do anything special to
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by chton 13y ago
Microsoft is increasingly doing it with their frameworks and components, but not for real SDKs. Windows 8 and Phone development still requires an installer to build. It's not just Microsoft though. Other vendors need to jump on the sam