figital

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by figital 17y ago
So glad to see PostgreSQL bubbling up these day's as it's been my DB of choice for many years. I'd love to see a more portable version and of course something like mySQL's group_concat(). If you are game for trying it out be sure to check o
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by figital 17y ago
It made drudge about 15 minutes ago.
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by figital 17y ago
summize has been working all along ... you can see some tweets occasionally going through during the attack.
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by figital 17y ago
Sorry that was spam (although joke spam). I've been clicking around on identi.ca for 10 minutes ... the navigation is really clunky ... I'd think delicious could handle the traffic and keep users if twitter went down (it's almost the same t
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by figital 17y ago
http://identi.ca/figital
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by figital 17y ago
identi.ca is up
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Del.icio.us starts to pay attention again(flickr.com)
1 points by figital 17y ago|0 comments
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by figital 17y ago
What happens when everyone has an 8 hour netbook battery and a 5G hookup?
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by figital 17y ago
Most of the noSQL information I've read appears to be more focused on caching, speed, scalability, distribution, etc. To me SQL is a query language, not an RDBMS. "noSQL" is unfortunately misnamed (and rhetorically loaded) although it's muc
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by figital 17y ago
I'm not sure if I'll be trying that. ;)
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by figital 17y ago
Dial this: * 002 * 6175551212 # ... replacing the second string of numbers with your own. That should direct your caller to Google Voice messaging for busy/unreachable/no-answer on your iPhone (or other GSM network) but will still give you
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GSM codes for replacing iPhone VM with Google Voice(geckobeach.com)
41 points by figital 17y ago|10 comments
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by figital 17y ago
Not really, just the fact that I was eating later in the day. The hunch is that the energy being used to digest food while sleeping is now being used to re-energize my brain. I rarely need an alarm clock anymore.
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by figital 17y ago
I accidentally noticed this a few years ago and have been waking up refreshed ever since (prior to this I was consistently groggy in the morning my whole life). I attempt to eat a large breakfast, a normal sized lunch, and then a light heal
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by figital 17y ago
Then your desktop becomes more portable, collaborative, hackable, and open. Windows or OSX could make their local scripting environments more open and universal but they have 0 incentive. So eventually the browser will do it. Inefficiencies
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by figital 17y ago
The key with these is to be able to get to a good browser experience ASAP. http://eyeos.info ..... you have to open the "Applications" folder and then look for "eyeNav" ... (drag that to the desktop) Personally I'd want to see a Firefox i
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by figital 17y ago
I wouldn't mind using this initially for checking email and web browsing .... if I could edit code remotely & productively via sshfs or similar in something like Bespin. It's not something that's "better" than a traditional desktop ...
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by figital 17y ago
Thanks for the rec. I just noticed Sean Layman's Baseball Archive which looks to have individual plate appearances from 1973-2008 and is available in a SQL-ready format: http://baseball1.com/content/view/57/82/ This looks like it might be
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by figital 17y ago
@lionhearted where do you get your raw basedball data? it's certainly a fun way to learn/teach data mining but the folks at the top certainly are not going to be publishing their formulas. ;)
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Moneyball Update(sports.espn.go.com)
8 points by figital 17y ago|5 comments
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by figital 17y ago
---"I wrote Mongrel and then gave it away, on the hopes that it would help a bunch of other people, and that giving it away would come back to me in some way. Maybe a job, or some respect, or hell maybe my own company doing more software li