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by jaaron 18y ago
It's not so much a conspiracy theory as a well documented public argument between Apache and Sun. You can decide who's right, but there's neither conspiracy nor theory there.
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No more Java 7(jroller.com)
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The Apache Software Foundation is 10 years old today(blogs.apache.org)
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by jaaron 18y ago
Those interested in this might also want to check out Babble: http://www.babbleapp.org/ It was created by 10gen as an AppEngine competitor and it's now released under an open source license.
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by jaaron 18y ago
glad to know someone from devhouse is reading hacker news. Both meetups should be great.
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by jaaron 18y ago
Wish I was in town then.
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by jaaron 18y ago
I test against the RC releases and have found some bugs that way. This time, it was testing mod_rails that led me to testing my apps against Rails edge. I wanted to make sure I could run mod_rails on open solaris in this next release cycle
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by jaaron 18y ago
Code jams (game or otherwise) are great. When I was in Pittsburgh, I help start up the Pittsburgh Coding Dojo [1]. Each meeting was split into two parts. During the first part, we broke out into groups to solve a previously selected "code
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by jaaron 18y ago
If the card didn't require a PIN, then they wouldn't need to torture you for it. They could just steal the card. So the risk to security has been moved to your physical person, making you less safe. All biometric security systems have the
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by jaaron 18y ago
I'm torn between blogging about this phenomenon and the goal of keeping Hacker News unknown.
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What makes Erlang processes tick?(lambda-the-ultimate.org)
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Erlang versus Clojure? Rich Hickey explains.(groups.google.com)
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by jaaron 18y ago
I actually go the other way around. I have email forwarded to gmail before then getting forwarded to an email server on my own domain. I use GMail for spam filtering, archiving and sometimes for search and a quick web interface. Mostly I
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by jaaron 18y ago
Web or desktop? For desktop, a new entrance is Postbox, which takes a lot of clues from GMail: http://www.postbox-inc.com Personally, I use gnus: http://www.gnus.org
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by jaaron 18y ago
/users and /profile could easily have extra information. a GET /users could provide a list of all users. the /users/dcurtis might be the blog or home page, while /users/dcurtis/profile is specifically the person's profile. Having a hierar
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by jaaron 18y ago
You mean like elpa? http://tromey.com/elpa/
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Rate my startup: Kanchoo - iphone apps for publishers(kanchoo.com)
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by jaaron 18y ago
Here's how I grok Twitter. Others may have a different opinion: A few years ago, I was working on some contracts that had me regularly traveling. Plenty of friends couldn't quite be bothered to keep track of where I was at any given day,
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by jaaron 18y ago
Which IRC channel?
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by jaaron 18y ago
It's even simpler: Enterprise applications are a cost to the company, whereas commercial software applications are the product. All enterprise app development must be a give and take between functionality and cost. Businesses will differ
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by jaaron 18y ago
If you're using a mac there a lot of note taking programs: - Evernote - VoodooPad - NoteTaker - Journler - viJournal - MacJournal - TAO - DEVONThink - Tinderbox - Yojimbo And that's a list from what I've b
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by jaaron 18y ago
Exactly. Without the ability to enter in other transactions (for example for cash), Mint is just read only . It's a great and useful read only view of your finances, but there's little other functionality.
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by jaaron 18y ago
for several IDEs the settings can be exported or are even stored in a file that can be synched via subversion or some other revision control. I keep all of my emacs customization files in subversion and can quickly replicate my environment
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by jaaron 18y ago
How is this different from Upcoming?
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by jaaron 18y ago
The DOW is a horrible measurement of what's going on in the economy. Don't use it.
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by jaaron 18y ago
That's not the way the commercial paper market works. Many companies use this for payroll and managing cash. It makes sense to use someone else's money when the interest rate is low enough that you can put your own cash into better use. I
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by jaaron 18y ago
I'm not sure about the 550 billion number, but there was a run on the markets that week. On September 19th, the US Treasury put in a guarantee on money market funds [1]. The commercial paper market froze that week as well. That alone put
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by jaaron 18y ago
Absolutely. Still the best distro.
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by jaaron 18y ago
I hadn't noticed till now, but I actually shift my whole hand, using pinky and index finger. Hmm, maybe I should get out of that habit.
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by jaaron 18y ago
Awesome. When you're in town, check out the Web Wednesday group: http://www.webwednesday.hk And feel free to get in touch with me: http://www.cubiclemuses.com

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