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by heydenberk 15y ago
Would it be possible to use the tweet metadata to cram more data into a tweet?
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by heydenberk 15y ago
This also assumes that their calculation of what's worthwhile includes less tangible stuff, like being seen as a company that is receiving and meeting a high demand for devices and growing in device market share.
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by heydenberk 15y ago
It may be that it's worthwhile to produce and sell them at $100-$150 given the sunk cost of their leftover unassembled bulk componentry.
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by heydenberk 15y ago
HP should do what they should've done a while ago: promise to make WebOS well-supported and well-stocked with apps, and bring the TouchPad into production at $200 or $250 to still undercut the competition but not bleed cash so profusely. I'
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by heydenberk 15y ago
In case there's any doubt this is about "defending Android", head over to http://www.google.com/press/motorola/quotes/ . Each of the four statements from an executive at a major device manufacturer users the particular phrase "defending A
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by heydenberk 15y ago
It's likely anyone who makes a "10 people who don't matter list" will look like an idiot in 5 years, because there's little insight to be gained from trying to understand the tech scene as a series of people who "don't matter" -- a poorly-d
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by heydenberk 15y ago
"Everything should be an API," said Van Roekel, speaking in a briefing on Monday. "The experiences that live outside of FCC.gov should interact back into it. In a perfect world, no one should have to visit the FCC website." Instead, he sa
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FCC.gov reboots as an open government platform(radar.oreilly.com)
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"Twunter."
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by heydenberk 15y ago
It's a shame that an exaggerated article about a browser-sniffing art project that Google worked on is bound to get more attention from the public than, say, the contemporaneously front-paged [open sourcing of LevelDB]( http://google-openso
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by heydenberk 15y ago
It tickles me the way this title blithely summarizes a great deal of 20th century postmodern philosophy.
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by heydenberk 15y ago
(Client-side) JavaScript doesn't have a simple, builtin pattern for module dependency the way Python does, though.
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by heydenberk 15y ago
It seems like being single-file is mostly gimmick. What are the drawbacks to creating a folder with an __init__.py and a handful of readably-long files?
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I stopped reading exactly there.
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> The most accurate analog I can think of to the Bloombeg terminal is Emacs. It has everything and the kitchen sink (News, dining suggestions, email, IM, sports updates, etc.) and clients are extremely particular about functionality. Of
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by heydenberk 15y ago
Yes, undoubtedly . It has a learning curve like any programming language, but even for existing intermediate JavaScript users, the learning curve for CoffeeScript is shallower than the learning curve for expert, best-practices-driven JavaS
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by heydenberk 16y ago
I recently read Gleick's _The Information_. It's a quick, interesting read, although I suspect people who don't share my combination of interest in the OED and Babbage's difference engine may find one of those sections to drag. Like a lot
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by heydenberk 16y ago
It's definitely not strictly "new", but I read a sense of a broader historical narrative in which the current time will at some point be considered the infancy of information physics.
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Information Physics: The New Frontier(arxiv.org)
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There's a pretty lively discourse on the internet about the various benchmarking systems, many of which are grounded in that discourse and have solid and nuanced assumptions behind them. There's also an accepted way to measure performance -
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by heydenberk 16y ago
It's to your great credit that you promote and engage openly with the "competition." FWIW, CoffeeScript + Backbone/Underscore/Docco is, in my opinion, the most exciting thing to happen to JavaScript since the advent of major DOM libraries,