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by markerdmann 14y ago
I've been following Parse for a while now, and I agree with technogarden. Their platform is impressive, and they're adding useful new features at a rapid rate. It would definitely be cool if they open-sourced the platform, but, in the meant
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by markerdmann 15y ago
Heroku is an impressive example of founders not selling out their users. They had multiple suitors before Salesforce, and any one of those offers would have made them millionaires. They only said "yes", however, when Salesforce agreed to gi
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by markerdmann 15y ago
I think you're spot on. A fun game is to ask the person using this kind of language whether they consider themselves an A, B, or C player.
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by markerdmann 15y ago
I use the traffic query a lot (e.g. 'traffic google.com'). You can also pit sites against each other: http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=dropbox.com+vs+airbnb.c...
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by markerdmann 15y ago
Sorry, I guess I went off on a tangent not directly related to the link you posted. :-) You're absolutely right. Have you used the new Wolfram Alpha UIs for anything serious yet? How did you find them?
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by markerdmann 15y ago
The problem with Wolfram Alpha is this: it's awesome when a query works, but often it either doesn't understand your query on the first try, or it just doesn't have the data or computation you're after. Siri has the same UI problem. You e
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Google Wallet PIN cracked on rooted Android devices(theverge.com)
2 points by markerdmann 15y ago|0 comments
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Transactional memory going mainstream with Intel Haswell(arstechnica.com)
10 points by markerdmann 15y ago|0 comments
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Look, Ma, No Hands: Operating a Laptop With Eyes Only(pogue.blogs.nytimes.com)
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UK denies Alan Turing posthumous pardon for homosexuality(forbes.com)
3 points by markerdmann 15y ago|0 comments
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Realizations of Rounded Rectangles(uiandus.com)
1 points by markerdmann 15y ago|0 comments
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TPM-backed SSL(blog.habets.pp.se)
5 points by markerdmann 15y ago|0 comments
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by markerdmann 15y ago
This article tries hard to give coders a warm, fuzzy feeling about how important they are. As a coder working on a startup, I can tell you one thing I've learned: coding (at least for me) is not the hard part. If your dream is to be an entr
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by markerdmann 15y ago
Hm... I've only made one small contribution to a python project in the past few months (riak-python-client), but I'll put my name here just in case. PyCon was amazing last year, and I'd definitely love to go again. http://github.com/marker
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by markerdmann 15y ago
Great project! One bit of feedback: I wish clicking the bookmarklet would keep me on the page I'm bookmarking instead of taking me to bookmarkly.
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UK Reveals Plans for Becoming “Graphene Hub”(spectrum.ieee.org)
2 points by markerdmann 15y ago|0 comments
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ACM Queue has launched a new online programming challenge(queue.acm.org)
1 points by markerdmann 15y ago|0 comments
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getaddrinfo() edge case behavior on Windows, Linux and OS X(klickverbot.at)
1 points by markerdmann 15y ago|0 comments
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by markerdmann 15y ago
Another approach, if you want to create something for a lucrative market but you're not a user, is to co-create your product with customers. This piece on how to identify a monetizable pain is great: http://www.forbes.com/sites/nathanfurr/
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Building Memory-efficient Java Applications(domino.research.ibm.com)
85 points by markerdmann 15y ago|15 comments
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Swarms of flying robots: "we developed a way to change between formations in 3D"(spectrum.ieee.org)
1 points by markerdmann 15y ago|0 comments
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by markerdmann 15y ago
Does anyone know why companies mostly want to hire full-time coders instead of freelancers/consultants/contractors?
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by markerdmann 15y ago
Here's a link to a PDF of the paper referenced in the article: http://www.tau.ac.il/~nogaa/PDFS/misbios.pdf
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CMU's Bar-Joseph gains bio insight w/computers + computer insight from bio(news.cs.cmu.edu)
2 points by markerdmann 15y ago|1 comments
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Microsoft Kinect Could Make Its Way to Laptops(wired.com)
1 points by markerdmann 15y ago|0 comments
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Free book on Bayesian machine learning by David Barber(web4.cs.ucl.ac.uk)
146 points by markerdmann 15y ago|11 comments
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CityHash: new hash function by Google (faster than Murmur)(code.google.com)
86 points by markerdmann 15y ago|29 comments
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Turing Fellowship works to fill New York’s engineering pipeline(gigaom.com)
1 points by markerdmann 15y ago|0 comments
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Amazon Lights the Android World on Fire(blog.flurry.com)
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Facebook to file for $75-100B IPO Wednesday(marketwatch.com)
2 points by markerdmann 15y ago|0 comments

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