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The Great Garbage Patch of the Pacific | Occupy.com(occupy.com)
3 points by jchrisa 14y ago|0 comments
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by jchrisa 14y ago
Important topic. Here is an in depth look at touch vs click, how to sprite images, etc http://maxogden.com/fast-webview-applications.html Also I think local data and avoiding network round trips is key to reliable consistent high performa
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Fast Webview Applications(maxogden.com)
1 points by jchrisa 14y ago|0 comments
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by jchrisa 14y ago
Here is a more modern argument for a guaranteed basic income. http://www.amazon.com/Whats-Wrong-Lunch-Democracy-Forum/dp/0...
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by jchrisa 14y ago
It made it better linkbait but confused some commenters...
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by jchrisa 14y ago
The is not from 1998, it's satire of all the we got bought blogs in this latest round of angel consolidation...
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The World Wide Web is Moving to AOL(brianbailey.me)
200 points by jchrisa 14y ago|54 comments
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by jchrisa 14y ago
I would much rather encourage a new developer to contribute, than get a few bucks for a feature. The new developer's involvement is usually worth much more than any amount of money.
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by jchrisa 14y ago
Thinking like this may make the idea of a universal basic income appealing. Good book I enjoyed on the subject: http://www.amazon.com/Whats-Wrong-Lunch-Democracy-Forum/dp/0...
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Why mobile sync?(blog.couchbase.com)
1 points by jchrisa 14y ago|0 comments
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by jchrisa 14y ago
It's just the nature of the global namespace. Makes the world look small. Although I can see how this would have some short term appeal to use Firefox. I may give it another spin hope it's fast and stable.
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Lycra in the streets of the Netherlands(bicycledutch.wordpress.com)
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by jchrisa 14y ago
My startup sells database software to other coders. I think for this kind of startup, remote people are essential. They can get a perspective on your product and the perception of it in the marketplace, that you just can't get when you set
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by jchrisa 14y ago
I get stutters with Sublime Text on my ancient MacBook Pro, but I'm often crushing the io systems (like a big Dropbox resync at the same time as a database compaction), so that may explain some of it.
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by jchrisa 14y ago
Interesting distinction between worker and decision maker.
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by jchrisa 14y ago
Is it fair to repost a comment from the original article? That's what I've done here: Who exactly do you think you are talking to? I work in a call center and had a meeting where if we didn't work more efficiently and faster we would be det
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by jchrisa 14y ago
It may be that the only cure for nanotech is more nanotech -- once the genie is out of the bottle. That doesn't mean we have to go down that road.
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Why MySQL 5.6 is no real threat to NoSQL(blog.couchbase.com)
5 points by jchrisa 14y ago|2 comments
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by jchrisa 14y ago
The gist of the nytimes article was "don't eat poison" -- eg subtract stuff. Arguments against superstitious and irrelevant additives are missing the point.
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Gluten-Free for the Gluten Sensitive(well.blogs.nytimes.com)
2 points by jchrisa 14y ago|0 comments
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by jchrisa 14y ago
The mobile sync system we've built gives you fine grained control of conflicts. It's got a native iOS API and is more like CoreData than Dropbox. It's been used by a bunch of AppStore apps over the last year, and we just announced a more po
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by jchrisa 14y ago
This company builds tech for using municipal water supplies as a power distribution system http://www.lucidenergy.com/
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How a Boat-Plane Hybrid Shattered the Sound Barrier of Sailing(wired.com)
148 points by jchrisa 14y ago|19 comments
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by jchrisa 14y ago
Not date yet, but we are hiring for an Android engineer https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/mobile-couchbase/Cxe...
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by jchrisa 14y ago
Couchbase Lite is native code for iOS and Android, weighing in at significantly less than 500kb. It's part of your app runtime, so for something like an Android PhoneGap app, you'd include our library to a normal PhoneGap container and then
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How to Move from MySQL to Couchbase Server 2.0: Part 1(blog.couchbase.com)
1 points by jchrisa 14y ago|0 comments
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by jchrisa 14y ago
We've been working on this for a number of years, so you can't imagine how good it feels to have the big picture coming together. I'm happy to answer any questions about eg "when should I use sync vs regular REST API style network programmi
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Get Started with Couchbase for Mobile(blog.couchbase.com)
10 points by jchrisa 14y ago|8 comments
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by jchrisa 14y ago
I was thinking about making one with a magnetic (manual) treadmill, so I can amble instead of being paced by machine... has anyone tried this? Amazon has a decent selection: http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_ss_i_1_10?url=search-alias...
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by jchrisa 14y ago
My favorite thing about JavaScript... must be a matter to personal taste.

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