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by jazzdev 16y ago
If open platforms are the most innovative environments, then why is the closed iPhone platform so innovative? by just about any measure, the iPhone software platform has been, out of the gate, the most innovative in the history of computin
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by jazzdev 16y ago
Should society try to increase our standard of living or our happiness? The happiness research also provides another reason for not trying to "fix" the gap between rich and poor: It is not immediately clear, however, why growing inequality
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by jazzdev 17y ago
Yeah, good article. Thanks for the link. I liked this statement from article: "Most governments release a ton of data on economic trends but not enough on trust and other social conditions. In short, modern societies have developed vast in
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by jazzdev 17y ago
The task queue has the same 30 second limit. Follow either of those links above and you'll find: the lifetime of a single task's execution is limited to 30 seconds You still have to do more coding to chunk the work.
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by jazzdev 17y ago
I love the scroll wheel function, but scanning the article titles is easier if I don't have to scroll. Scrolling requires additional work to refind your place in the scrolled view. If I can avoid scrolling I can keep my mouse over the Mor
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by jazzdev 17y ago
The 30 second per page limit can be a pain too. If you need to manipulate (i.e. validate, import, export, etc.) more than a few hundred persistent objects, you'll need to write your code to do it in chunks.
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by jazzdev 17y ago
There's no lock-in on the Java side. Change a few lines in jdconfig.xml, add the datanucleus-rdbms jar file, add a JDBC driver jar file and you're app will run on Tomcat or Jetty with MySQL or any database with a JDBC driver.
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by jazzdev 17y ago
Makes me wonder why there are 30 articles per page. I guess pg has a really big screen.
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Using Arc (Jarc) with App Engine(blog.fandle.com)
7 points by jazzdev 17y ago|0 comments
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Java access syntax from Jarc - less dots, more filling(blog.fandle.com)
4 points by jazzdev 17y ago|0 comments
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by jazzdev 17y ago
I think the voting indicates: data, code => cool => upvote statement by some organization with no data, no analysis => boring => downvote
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Using s-expressions instead of XML(blog.fandle.com)
29 points by jazzdev 17y ago|23 comments
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by jazzdev 17y ago
The article claims that even a change from 50:50 to 48.7:51.3 (19 men, 20 women) would have a very large effect. But I doubt the marriage market is liquid enough for a change that small to have a large effect because I don't think it would
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by jazzdev 17y ago
The article mentions Price Fixing in relation to gas prices, and how fixing the prices caused gas prices to go up due to hoarding. The gas price fix caused shortages at the pump, not higher prices. Because most rational sellers won't sell
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by jazzdev 17y ago
The basic premise is that a predator does low-risk deals with a large upside. And they can do that because they are well-informed. Turner knew he can use his billboard business to advertise a TV station. Paulson buying CDS's because his
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by jazzdev 17y ago
First of all, the Dvorak vs. Qwerty situation isn't as clear cut as it is commonly made out to be Indeed. Reason Magazine did an in-depth article on this a few years back. http://reason.com/archives/1996/06/01/typing-errors
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by jazzdev 17y ago
Where the rock stars go is where you will find great software and the company culture that works is "stand back and let the rock stars do their thing". That culture can't exist in the enterprise. XBox is an interesting counter-example. Mi
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by jazzdev 17y ago
The formula for Coke is a recipe and recipes aren't copyrightable (in the USA) unless "accompanied by substantial literary expression in the form of an explanation or directions". See http://www.copyright.gov/help/faq/faq-protect.html#reci
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by jazzdev 17y ago
* The general plan will be to de-emphasize points and to add more types of flags.* I'm anxious to see this experiment. If flags are not binary, I'm curious how the number of different types of flags will be used to bubble up articles and c
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by jazzdev 17y ago
my assertion, in friendly disagreement with you, is that popularity DOES correlate with validity to a useful degree here Unfortunately, this doesn't scale. It is true now and that makes HN valuable. As HN grows there may be more people
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by jazzdev 17y ago
Yea! File upload works now. Now I shouldn't need Camino any more.
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by jazzdev 17y ago
I can’t even imagine what a Perl grammar would look like Since there's no BNF for Perl it would be hard to visualize its grammar.
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by jazzdev 17y ago
>The big surprise for me is how much the mere voting power of the new users is changing the character of the site. If you don't want the character of the site to change then don't allow new users to vote. It annoyed me on StackOverflow
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by jazzdev 17y ago
What motives me is what Dan Pink calls "purpose" or wanting to make a difference in the world. I spent 9 years building software to make the lives of telephone support workers better (by helping them create and re-use solutions to common pr
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by jazzdev 17y ago
The Hacker Crackdown by Bruce Sterling (non-fiction). Interesting history of hacking.
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by jazzdev 17y ago
Almost every market worth being in has two winners Treacy and Wiersema in "The Discipline of Market Leaders" claim there are often three winners in every market. The price leader, the feature leader and the intimacy leader.
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by jazzdev 17y ago
(-> #(animate panel) Thread. .start)) >I doubt you’ll ever see such impressive Java Interop mixed with Closures in other languages! Rhino is pretty impressive too: new Thread(function () { print("\nrun"); }).start()
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by jazzdev 17y ago
>Also, I don't understand why the HN community should view this as hostile Building a company based on merit is admirable. Building a company by getting the government to use its (not insignificant) power is not admirable (by the HN com
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Pigeon transfers data faster than S. African ISP(usatoday.com)
1 points by jazzdev 17y ago|1 comments
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Goodbye BlackBerry(blogs.forrester.com)
1 points by jazzdev 17y ago|0 comments

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