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by ericcholis 14y ago
Also, "Note: This is ALPHA software and may result in irreversible brain damage."
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by ericcholis 14y ago
I've never played EVE for more than an hour. However, I always find these stories intriguing. Due to the nature of EVE's player-driven economy, things like this can have a huge impact. In some ways, the value of the ISK could be negatively
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by ericcholis 14y ago
The stock android experience is amazing, and there are plenty of outstanding apps for the platform. However, I'm talking about setting and enforcing design standards. Android has yet to do that successfully. Also, I said "can" tarnish the p
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by ericcholis 14y ago
"Just because I can use a hammer, doesn't mean I can build a house". Android opens up the entire tool box for you and expects you to be a responsible designer. Problem is, not everybody has the skills to do effective UX. Just because it's p
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by ericcholis 14y ago
This is great and all, not a bad design really. But, as a business user and developer, they seriously need to focus on performance. Their api speed has been rated extremely low (I couldn't find the source, but it's out there), which has a n
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by ericcholis 14y ago
Cheers to the Azure team for putting support behind Node.js. I've always felt that the myriad of amazing tools for *nix devs have left Windows devs light-years behind. Even if you don't like Node.js, this bodes well for Windows as developm
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by ericcholis 14y ago
Now I'm aware of Zapier, pretty slick app. I'm sure I can find many uses for this...
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by ericcholis 14y ago
I've run into a few sites that "prevent" scraping. I just jump on http://developer.yahoo.com/yql/ and scrape away. The surface level defenses (ip blocking) are usually sufficient, but if there is a real developer behind the scraper, they
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by ericcholis 14y ago
It's worth noting that orchestra.io is a similar solution. I've used both and PHP Fog is easier on the surface, especially since it offers pre-configured installs of many popular frameworks (like CI) and apps (like WordPress). They offer on
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by ericcholis 14y ago
It should be noted that while this is written with Rails in mind, the techniques can be applied to any web language.
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by ericcholis 14y ago
This is all I could find, from 2011: http://www.learnvest.com/2011/01/a-money-lesson-from-faceboo... I believe the figures were also based on an earlier $50 Billion valuation.
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by ericcholis 15y ago
Any Visual FoxPro refugees out there? It was the first language used for a serious project. It's still one of my favorites due to nostalgia. I do fire it up occasionally when I need a quick tool written for the office.