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by ethank 15y ago
So is there a good grid comparing batman.js with backbone and knockout.js?
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by ethank 15y ago
Ahh, that is super sweet then. Missed the Thrift.
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by ethank 15y ago
By their very nature, decentralized processing systems have exponential complexity, so this is very welcome to see released. But oh how I hate having to go back into Java :)
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by ethank 15y ago
Qwikster.com was registered in May 2010. This was not an overnight decision and I doubt even the contrition in the blog post wasn't well planned.
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by ethank 15y ago
Been working from home for six months and this echoes a bit too painfully close to the truth. My wife kicks me out daily right now.
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by ethank 15y ago
A lot of the Waldorf style schools ( http://www.whywaldorfworks.org/ ) seem like this in the US. I went to a "multi-year" school where my classes were K-3 and 4-6. They were very much rooted in "pace" based learning instead of year based, a
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by ethank 15y ago
I have a discussion board that I've run for over ten years. While I'm not as invested in running it anymore, the reason I keep it online and active and maintained is because it contains within it the narrative histories of a group of people
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by ethank 15y ago
I don't delete any data, and in fact on my Drobo and RAID on our home server I have files going back to Jr. High. I often look at how my parents remember things, like my dad remembering his now deceased parents and realize that memory for m
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by ethank 15y ago
Then why even put Metro on if they are striving for only half a level of perfection? Why not wait until they've got it solid before releasing? What would make me very pleased is if they delayed 6 months to get it right rather than rush it o
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by ethank 15y ago
What kills Google+'s utility and might kill Facebook's stream is the lack of a way to keep track of my high-water mark of what I read through the stream, and always feeling the perception that the software is keeping things from me. Whereas
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by ethank 15y ago
I disagree actually. I think cohesiveness should be a pre-requisite for the release of this.
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by ethank 15y ago
I'm speaking from the beta. The act of going between a "traditional" looking UI and Metro and what is available in each is very disjointed.
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by ethank 15y ago
Metro to me, and I hate to say it, reminds me of MS Bob, and frankly of the original Windows 3.1 except where in that case it was a layer on DOS, this seems like a gloss on Windows 7. I hope for the sake of innovation I'm wrong, but it is f
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by ethank 15y ago
Actually it's my sister that has Crohn's. My wife's brother doesn't have it and neither do I.
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by ethank 15y ago
This will end well. Newspapers have ALWAYS been the bastian of technological innovation, especially with proprietary products. Why I remember Delphi, CD-I, "download a PDF of our Quark Files!," and hell, the BBS I ran for one. 60 year old n
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by ethank 15y ago
It's my dad's sister. Crohn's can be genetic and it seems to be more common in Eastern Europe (Ashkenazi) descendent Jews. See here as a jumping off point for that: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medical_genetics_of_Jewish_peop...
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by ethank 15y ago
Why was Microsoft in such a hurry as to release a preview of an OS before the ecosystem was capable of handling it? Explain how putting this out with substandard hardware does anything to bolster confidence from either users or developers?
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by ethank 15y ago
Actually Microsoft hardware has previewed unfinished hardware which didn't debut at all, or was radically changed: Microsoft Spot Digital Home Courier Tablet And don't get me started on their abandon-ware hardware projects (Networking, WebT
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by ethank 15y ago
Again, "the question is: which approach is right?" assumes that either company COULD change their approach. Should they? Don't conflate what is reality with what could be. If that was the case there wouldn't be an iPad (or X-Box, or Metro).
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by ethank 15y ago
No, what is being discussed is using a developer build of a very alpha-state software as a comparison point against something released that has tens of millions of devices in the market.
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by ethank 15y ago
Not to defend Gruber here (since for some reason he is unpopular on HN), but I think that he does understand what you claim he doesn't. The point of his polemic is not that Microsoft is fundamentally different than Apple in approach and exe
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by ethank 15y ago
My wife, sister, dad and aunt have Crohn's. This will be great for them. My wife when she was first diagnosed at 19 was desperate to find information online about the disease. In fact, we were setup on a blind date and these posts are what
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by ethank 15y ago
Have you looked at the iCloud API docs? It's a very different beast indeed than Dropbox.
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by ethank 15y ago
Indeed. If you've ever worked with Drupal in large scale production environments, the need for this is abundantly clear. As for scope, we were launching at times 5 sites a week.
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by ethank 15y ago
Having supervised or been involved in the build of about 300 Drupal sites I can say: Small Core! Seriously, since I didn't have to use Drupal I haven't in new projects. I found that the conflating of configuration in the database (at least
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by ethank 15y ago
You do realize Gang of Four was pretty daring too.
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by ethank 15y ago
It's worth noting that Dave Allen has major, indie and entrepreneurial experience. He's the founding bassist of Gang of Four. I really like this essay for the fact that the problems of the industry are not solved by anything that exists at
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by ethank 15y ago
Here's the problem with "serving musicians" 1. They are the highest-touch clients you can get. 2. They don't want to pay money for anything. They want their managers to pay. Their managers will gladly pay, but then go to the label for them
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by ethank 15y ago
Slacker didn't make it because Slacker is as close to a traditional radio station as you can get. Their biz-dev SVP is an old school (but not old!) college radio promo guy, who I worked with. They are old MusicMatch and Rio guys that run it
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by ethank 15y ago
This is always my favorite page on Apple's site: http://www.apple.com/pr/products/

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