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by d4nt 13y ago
I'm using GAE for QueryTree ( http://querytreeapp.com ) which is a data analysis tool. The GAE data store is really nice for persisting objects that come from users filling in HTML forms, or equivalent. One user can only type in data so fas
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by d4nt 13y ago
I don't make a habit of spamming discussion threads but... my product QueryTree ( http://querytreeapp.com ) will load JSON files even if they have lists at the root, you can use the Append tool to bring multiple files together, and you can
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Behind the Scenes at QueryTree: The Anatomy of a Web Based Data Tool(d4nt.com)
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Why the World Got Stuck on Spreadsheets(blog.scraperwiki.com)
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Twitter Map Visualization of TEDxBirmingham(thedatamine.wordpress.com)
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by d4nt 13y ago
This is spot on, in many engineering jobs getting the right technical decision made requires you to exercise influence over management and peers. And having some influence in the bank involves a careful tending over a long period. If that m
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by d4nt 14y ago
I'm sure this works for things which you might buy having only see the website (and maybe a few screenshots) but beyond a certain level of cost/complexity you actually need to have some real software for them to try before they'll pay.
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What I Learned from the QueryTree Private Beta(querytreeapp.com)
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by d4nt 14y ago
I think big data is a bad term, the key issue is whether you're using data to drive your decision making, not how much of it you have or what storage technology your using. If you're Amazon or Facebook then, sure, you've got to crunch throu
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by d4nt 14y ago
A common cause of slowness in .net web app is multiple database round trips during a single request, all happening in sequence. You can write async database calls in .net but they're not the standard / path of least resistance, and by the
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Behind the business model of MailOnline, the biggest newspaper site in the world(m.themediabriefing.com)
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by d4nt 14y ago
You're assuming an lot of clever forethought on the part of Yahoo. I find it hard to believe their PR team are that cunning. It's more likely that Yahoo are desperate to rejuvenate and buying up the nearest hot startup (at whatever price it
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by d4nt 14y ago
As one of the 500 million people wants to "work less and earn more", I'd just like to point out that all Americans are gun slinging Christian fundamentalists. Oh wait, did I just make an assumption about a rich and varied culture all confor
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by d4nt 14y ago
Yes, the relationship between page load speed and bounce rate is well proven: http://blog.kissmetrics.com/loading-time/?wide=1
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by d4nt 14y ago
> He said that the best entrepreneurs, like Zuckerberg, have a definitive view about the future and plan for it; they don't willy-nilly chase luck--using statistics, probability, and iterative processes--to stumble upon something, anyth
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by d4nt 14y ago
No, step #1 is to put up a launchrock page promising FizzBuzz'd numbers and seeing how many signups you can get.
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by d4nt 14y ago
I've worked on a couple of these systems over the years and I think it's a combination of the philosophy of those languages: http://steve-yegge.blogspot.co.uk/2006/03/execution-in-kingd... And partly a correlation between the type of comp
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by d4nt 14y ago
I sense that, for a long time, the world of journalism has told itself that it is a fundamental pillar of democratic society. While true, the implication is that society owes it something. You might even extrapolate that a journalist doing
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by d4nt 14y ago
It baffles me how journalism hopes to survive the disruption that the Internet brings with stunts like this, and the odd pay wall. I'm doing a bit of work with journalists at the moment, and while I think many of the individuals would like
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by d4nt 14y ago
I think an important aspect of what makes Excel formulas (relatively) useable to people who don't think they're programmers is their functional nature. You don't have to simulate the program's state in your mind because there is no state. Y
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by d4nt 14y ago
I don't see any reason why you can't have the agility of Excel with a few of the nice tools that modern IDEs have to make it easier to debug or secure a spreadsheet "app". Excel actually has a lot of features for preventing issues such as f
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by d4nt 14y ago
> it’s about finding female speakers who have enough of a thick skin to want to stand up infront of an audience of twitter-trigger-happy males and public speak Was this awful incident a one off or is attacking female speakers at tech co
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Themail: visualize your email conversations(alumni.media.mit.edu)
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by d4nt 14y ago
The UK used to have that kind of system (from about 1990 to 2001). Since that time a more complicated system has operated known as NETA[0]. In the current system, generators and consumers (domestic supplier companies are "consumers") trade
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by d4nt 14y ago
I've experienced the problem of too much flexibility when working on some enterprise software products at a former employer. We believed we were doing the right thing by keeping the analysis phase short and just building a generic capabilit
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by d4nt 14y ago
But if you're that next city and you don't take from the middle classes and give to the poor then you already have no money to spend on those things. And what's more, the poor will probably now vote in someone who will take from the middle
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by d4nt 14y ago
What incentive would local governments have to find a niche? I don't see how there are more votes in attracting childless professionals vs poor families.
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by d4nt 14y ago
I agree there are dangers, but I think the way to protect the poor or technologically unskilled is not to keep data sets locked away where only government officials, illegal hackers or bribe paying business people can get at it. The answer
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by d4nt 14y ago
I've come to believe that coding standards always end up being either too simplistic to deal with every scenario or longer and just an inferior in-house implementation of Steve McConnell's "Code Complete". Either way you're wasting your tim
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by d4nt 14y ago
I'm 33, have two kids, mortgage and have recently left my job to freelance while I bootstrap a startup. Here my take on it: 1. Seed capital seems largely useless, my lifestyle is very modest but the realities of childcare and mortgage mean

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