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by drewda 15y ago
Based on the headline, I thought this would be about how software engineering is now most often done in a scattershot--sorry, agile--manner, without documents that first detail customer requirements, then product specifications, and so on.*
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by drewda 15y ago
The cool open-source kids (me included :) may use git, but big corporations have been using Perforce for years: http://www.perforce.com/customers/solutions
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by drewda 15y ago
An interesting map to look at: http://www.ie6countdown.com/
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Run a cluster of Node.js threads(nodejs.org)
1 points by drewda 15y ago|0 comments
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by drewda 15y ago
The Nooks run Android underneath, right? Any idea of what version of Android will be running on this new Nook? Too much to hope for 4.0, I imagine.
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by drewda 15y ago
"Frankel announced his resignation from AOL on January 22, 2004 on his weblog, stating 'Won't repeat it here (in two words: I've resigned). So begins chapter 3... or something cliché/poetic there. Or wait, does I've count as a single word?
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by drewda 15y ago
I've had good luck with New Relic* although on first glance I'm not sure if it offers as comprehensive a monitoring service as this system. * http://newrelic.com/features/performance-analytics
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Winamp for Mac(winamp.com)
114 points by drewda 15y ago|108 comments
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by drewda 15y ago
By the way, don't worry, I'm not in local law enforcement ;-) I just happen to be from Los Altos originally, so I always wondered how things worked "in the Hills."
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by drewda 15y ago
Can someone describe to me how these jQuery releases make their way into Rails 3.1 land? Does the maintainer of https://github.com/rails/jquery-rails do an update and then it's up to us Rails users to execute a "bundle update"?
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by drewda 15y ago
Is it even legal to operate a business in Los Altos Hills?
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by drewda 15y ago
Reminds me of Plaxo...
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by drewda 15y ago
Have a look at https://www.dropbox.com/developers
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by drewda 15y ago
Wishing Intuit would acquire them, right?
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by drewda 15y ago
FYI, Jason Davies has been doing great work with Mike Bostock on the d3 visualization library, which is used in this example: http://mbostock.github.com/d3/
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by drewda 15y ago
Appcelerator Titanium can produce desktop apps for Mac OS (among many other platforms): http://www.appcelerator.com/products/titanium-desktop-applic...
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by drewda 15y ago
See Streetline, a spin-off from PARC, that's been installing metering systems around San Francisco and Los Angeles, among other locations: http://www.streetlinenetworks.com/
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"Washington Post Web site loads too slowly"(washingtonpost.com)
5 points by drewda 15y ago|0 comments
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by drewda 15y ago
See IRS form SS-8: http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/fss8.pdf More details at: http://www.irs.gov/businesses/small/article/0,,id=99921,00.h...
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Baroque editor at Talking Points Memo: HTML5 contentEditable + Backbone.js(labs.talkingpointsmemo.com)
2 points by drewda 15y ago|0 comments
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Backbone-forms.js forms backed by Backbone models(github.com)
2 points by drewda 15y ago|0 comments
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by drewda 15y ago
Looks like a good way to sell more copies of AIMA[1]. (Don't get me wrong, I'm a fan, with my own signed copy--but not necessarily enough of a fan to "upgrade" to the third edition.) [1] http://aima.cs.berkeley.edu/
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Why you should quit your technology job and get a Ph.D. in the humanities(chronicle.com)
82 points by drewda 15y ago|49 comments
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by drewda 15y ago
DocumentCloud [1] provides all the pieces necessary. It's all very nicely documented, too. [1] http://www.documentcloud.org
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Free Github accounts for students and teachers(github.com)
7 points by drewda 15y ago|2 comments
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by drewda 15y ago
I quite like that director's previous documentary: Helvetica ( http://www.helveticafilm.com/ )
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Malcolm Gladwell advocates being late(content.usatoday.com)
1 points by drewda 15y ago|0 comments
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At Google, groups are key to the company's culture(mercurynews.com)
7 points by drewda 15y ago|1 comments
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NativeDriver - automated testing for Android, iPhone, and Windows GUIs(google-opensource.blogspot.com)
4 points by drewda 15y ago|0 comments
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Capybara 1.0(groups.google.com)
1 points by drewda 15y ago|0 comments

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