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An Explanation of Computation Theory for Lawyers(groklaw.net)
2 points by knuton 13y ago|0 comments
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The Cognitive Style of PowerPoint – Ten Years Later(fusedasone.com)
1 points by knuton 13y ago|0 comments
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by knuton 14y ago
Well, this is only for stubbing an API, you don’t build an actual API, so nothing in the filesystem is changed when you PUT, POST or DELETE. What does change though is the state in the working memory, specifically in the stubb server proces
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Stubb: Build REST API mocks using your file system(github.com)
46 points by knuton 14y ago|7 comments
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by knuton 15y ago
Please don’t vote for this article, it’s full of half-truths and misconceptions. You can not “fake” scope. When you call `call` on a function and pass an object as an argument, you are calling the function as a method of that object. This h
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by knuton 16y ago
The National Geographic article, the author links to, states that The effects of the Chernobyl catastrophe are still being felt today—whole towns lie abandoned, and cancer rates in people living close to the affected areas are abnor
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by knuton 16y ago
I think these are still intensely private affairs.
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by knuton 16y ago
I love your logo! a. “Orders” and “Jobs” both lead to only a sign-in form. I would expect some short information and more explicit motivation for signing up there. Does it make sense for the “Orders” item to even show up in the menu for unr
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by knuton 17y ago
May I seize the opportunity and ask why MySQL is the prototypical Open Source SQL database software (LAMP, etc.), when PostgreSQL is considered to be so much better? (This is a serious question.)
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by knuton 17y ago
I don’t think that you are short sighted. I think Facebook et al. think they are “long sighted”, when in fact they are overly optimistic as to their longterm success. All this talking about how they will worry about making money later presu
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by knuton 17y ago
I agree. Consider twitter on the other hand. I would argue that while it may have been introduced to solve a certain “problem” (communication hub for friends/local groups, “I want to have a dispatch service that connects us on our phones us
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by knuton 18y ago
I think ICQ is still the instant messenger in Germany, judging from personal experience. Wikipedia has statistics on different services’ user bases: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instant_messaging#User_base
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by knuton 18y ago
Yes, I think that could be it. Thank you! But man, this is expensive material. Crazy expensive.
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by knuton 18y ago
Does anyone know where this course ‘Big History’ that he is talking about is being held? Is it on iTunes U? I can’t find it.