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by jchrisa 11y ago
tldr: Light badges that breed patterns by communicating with each other. Worth skimming the illustrations are great. "I wanted to make a bit of lighting that my campmates could use to stay safe – and optionally stay classy by offering
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by jchrisa 11y ago
If you don't mind spinning up your own server instances, our open source mobile JSON stack handles application level concerns like access control and data routing. Might be worth taking a look, as it gives you access to a whole open so
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by jchrisa 11y ago
We have a mature JSON database with p2p sync capability, that is open source under the Apache 2.0 license. http://developer.couchbase.com/mobile We have native implementations for iOS, Android (Java), Windows (C#), and play
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by jchrisa 11y ago
I was hopeing that it'd be gamified protein folding.
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The City of London – eaten by code, replaced by robots?(contributoria.com)
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Oblique Strategies(en.wikipedia.org)
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by jchrisa 11y ago
Good take. There is some hope from the new information-driven ways of organizing, that at least they can make cooperation more profitable than hoarding http://breakingsmart.com/season-1/the-zemblanity-of-containe...
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by jchrisa 11y ago
I'm not sure if CockroachDB has multi-DC async replication, but the challenge I've always found in this stuff is ensuring the transaction also commits on remote replicas in an all-or-nothing way. Maybe I didn't read close eno
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by jchrisa 11y ago
It took me a couple of years after college working in restaurants etc before I had the skills to pat the bills. The only way I could afford the time to teach myself code was due to the relaxed schedule that comes from knowing you can ask yo
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by jchrisa 11y ago
"Of course, we care about our wages, and we wouldn’t work without them." - maybe a sign it's time for a career change?
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Rethinking Work(mobile.nytimes.com)
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I've been thinking about this for a while http://thenewstack.io/why-art-could-become-currency-in-a-cry...
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The problem is that it's not decentralized enough. Bitcoin is still scarcity economics when we are ready for abundance.
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The EFF blog post was also posted to HN https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10133669
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Bitcoin Technology Piques Interest on Wall Street(nytimes.com)
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Why Paris Is Going Car-Free for a Day(attn.com)
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by jchrisa 11y ago
A little reading would let you know that there is a significant chunk of happily married people who don't think monogamy is for them. They think honesty is more important. I don't know if these folks are AM users or if they'v
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by jchrisa 11y ago
Bitcoin's problem is that it pretends to be distributed when it's really decentralized. Or vise versa, depending on your definition of those terms. What I mean is that Bitcoin is a distributed way of building a global variable (th
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by jchrisa 11y ago
Ha! I just used a cheapo off the shelf website that featured slide to unlock on web forms for spam prevention. Not posting the link because I don't want Apple breathing down their neck.
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The lambda architecture and the split between the heavy slow processing and the interactive processing reminds me of how a few of our customers are blending Hadoop and Couchbase for similar use cases: http://www.couchbase.com&#x2
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US has 5% of world's population, but had 31% of its mass shooters from 1966-2012(phys.org)
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If you are interested in mobile JSON databases, we've been working on our network-enabled native databases for iOS, Android, C# and PhoneGap, since 2010. The library size is less than 500kb and we are compatible with the Apache CouchDB
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by jchrisa 11y ago
The price is called your sanity.
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by jchrisa 11y ago
They are called TempCFO, but cost more than that. Saved my bacon.
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Twitter should print out these comments and throw darts to pick their new executive team.
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Not to mention that generations of cops are selected from folks who think alcohol is the only legit psychoactive substance. If more cops had experience with mind-expanding drugs, they'd be better at their jobs (both from having a broad
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by jchrisa 11y ago
At Couchbase we did a survey of developers (this was ages ago) and the biggest motivator for NoSQL was schema flexibility. Not having to coordinate migrations is seen as a productivity boost. [1] The other thing document databases can offer
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by jchrisa 11y ago
I ride an ebike and I take more longer faster trips than I used to, so I'm getting more exercise...
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The electric longboard is the non-goofy version of this.
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Maybe they are just about catching lies, so if you are honest about it, no problem?

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