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by lecha 17y ago
This reads like an Onion news story. If only it was...
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by lecha 17y ago
Promising. Anyone care to summarize query capabilities?
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by lecha 17y ago
Interesting approach. They have built a UI-less browser plugin that exposes new javascript API to your web app. That gets me thinking about other possible browser plugins along those lines: - Expose the native filesystem - Fire an event wh
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by lecha 17y ago
Ah yes, thanks. Kindle slipped my mind. It makes sense now. Kindle does have a potential to become a walled-garden ecosystem reminiscent to Apple. There's nothing Kindle wants more than to become an iPod of books and will very likely curb t
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by lecha 17y ago
"we're facing the prospect of Facebook as the platform, Apple as the platform, Google as the platform, Amazon as the platform, where big companies slug it out until one is king of the hill. " The argument makes a lot of sense, but why is Am
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O'Reilly: "We're heading into a war for control of the web." (radar.oreilly.com)
133 points by lecha 17y ago|50 comments
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by lecha 17y ago
A nice point, but isn't this post a bit hollow? After all, you'd expect someone like Seth Godin to put forward a well-supported argument about a radically new approach (new hammer) and its benefits?
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Paul Maritz on Future of the Cloud (first few mins of the video)(youtube.com)
1 points by lecha 17y ago|0 comments
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Economist.com: Mentoring(economist.com)
1 points by lecha 17y ago|0 comments
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Economist.com: Google wants to shake up the digital book market(economist.com)
1 points by lecha 17y ago|0 comments
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by lecha 17y ago
> Support for non-relational databases: Tokyo Cabinet/Tyrant, MongoDB, Cassandra, Google Bigtable (AppEngine, #10192), Amazon SimpleDB, CouchDB, etc Is the intent to create some-kind of common framework that will work with more than one
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by lecha 17y ago
The biggest gating factor in making Kindle available internationally is having to partner with local wireless operator for connectivity. Availability of country-specific Amazon stores have little to do with it IMHO.
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by lecha 17y ago
Note that txteagle model is to split revenue with a mobile provider. This means the agreement between txteagle and a telco with a completely different pricing scheme for SMS messages. USSD is another alternative. From http://txteagle.com/f
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by lecha 17y ago
Maybe my reaction was too brief for some, allow me re-phrase: Web design is a fast-moving field and the topic of credibility and communication of web sites remains key. In this context, I question the 8 year old research as being the best v
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by lecha 17y ago
own management software, using boto ( http://code.google.com/p/boto/ )
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Txteagle: MTurk competitor with a twist(txteagle.com)
7 points by lecha 17y ago|4 comments
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by lecha 17y ago
A paper from 8 years ago? Seriously?
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by lecha 17y ago
"better data can beat better algorithms" well said. Scribd is another good case study of how to present data to rank high in searches. Could this be that the view of documents is different to a crawler than one presented to a normal browser
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by lecha 17y ago
Anyone care to share a real-life GAE performance figures non-free billable account on a long running application?
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by lecha 17y ago
Consider http://code.google.com/p/google-jstemplate/ "Simple and robust browser side template processing for Ajax based web applications" While this isn't a macro processor, it actually solves a related problem of management and separatio
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by lecha 17y ago
Looking at the API, it looks pretty young/raw. API offers two types of primary data structures; Files and Tables. A File is a binary object that can grow and shrink to any size, and data can be written to and read from any position. Table c
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by lecha 17y ago
The focus of this and other comments here seems to be to critique how this UI works for the majority of Google users. IMHO there's room for several alternatives interfaces for any popular service. > 8% surveyed (by Google) in Times Squa
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by lecha 17y ago
Re. geographical redundancy, see comment http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=422574 : "Amazon keeps at least 3 copies of your data (which is what you need for high reliability) in at least 2 different geographical locations. " I can't fin
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by lecha 17y ago
YUI includes a similar-looking baseline framework. Anyone care to compare the two?
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by lecha 17y ago
Jobs is one of the most deliberate, careful and calculated when it comes to public statements. More on PR see http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html While the post highlights the PR bit you can see though, it does include a couple of us
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by lecha 17y ago
Can anyone comment on why Amazon Payments still not available outside of US? Amazon.com operates and accepts payments in EU and Canada. AWS is available in EU. Payments service is available for close to two years. There must be something so
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by lecha 17y ago
I think there's "something" here. To summarize the answers to the question I've seen so far: 1. File/print server. Very real use-case. 2. Control motors, device controllers around the home that can be connected via USB. What if a 40$ comput
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by lecha 17y ago
Also note, PhDs with a job offer get a multi-year year income tax exemption.
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by lecha 17y ago
So the problem is growing number of people don't pay enough attention to a particular subject or social interaction. They are in the state of continuous partial attention. Here's a simple test if you have this condition: Consider news/tweet
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by lecha 17y ago
Abstract: A method and computer program product include defining, by a user, a time template including a plurality of predefined time intervals for scheduling meetings. The time template is applied across a collaborative system. Translation

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