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by mildweed 15y ago
Novelty? Psh. This is old, old news in the form of a fad.
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by mildweed 15y ago
Insurance companies and other large-bore old-money financial industries. Therefore, Des Moines, IA, the headquarters of many insurance companies.
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by mildweed 15y ago
This finally makes sense why Paypal has had their documentation on x.com for so long. x.com == x.commerce And here, I thought they'd been wasting a perfectly good domain name for a long time...
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by mildweed 15y ago
Interesting set of acquisitions by eBay. Bodes well for the company's future-- it sounds like somebody behind the scenes there has a couple of big ideas.
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by mildweed 15y ago
Large data sets should be published in XML. Small transactional exchanges (already contextual) should be JSONP.
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by mildweed 15y ago
http://ryanelmquist.com/cgi-bin/xkcdwiki?title=xkcd
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by mildweed 15y ago
Tab Atkins Jr. Yes I don't think that the existing W3C process is actually useful for HTML, but if we're playing this game, then it's better for it to be published than not.
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by mildweed 15y ago
per Wikipedia: A common distinction made in science is between theories and hypotheses, with the former being considered as satisfactorily tested or proven and the latter used to denote conjectures or proposed descriptions or models which h
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by mildweed 15y ago
Could somebody please point me to a longer yet still intelligent comparison of MyISAM and InnoDB? Thx.
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by mildweed 15y ago
Does this mean that it is no longer the Theory of Relativity, but now the Law of Relativity?
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by mildweed 16y ago
PHP Developers Midwest http://salaryshare.me/520b0119dba651b4a5e0d8e8e3a72603
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by mildweed 16y ago
Yesterday somebody asked why robotics hasn't taken off like it should have by now. Its because people like us didn't have tools like this available till recently. Now we do. Let's go innovate!
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by mildweed 16y ago
Standards-compliant hardware and software platforms. Community documentation. Publicity of successes.
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by mildweed 16y ago
See also: A Quick Web Design Case Study - Apple Macbook Air Call to Action http://voltagecreative.com/articles/web-design-case-study-ap...
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by mildweed 16y ago
I want to be a Greybeard UNIX monk some day.
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Technology employment survey(zoomerang.com)
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by mildweed 16y ago
This is not a part of their core competency. I don't see how this is a good move. If they had bought 10-20 shows, that's a different story...
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Ask HN: Technologist employment survey(zoomerang.com)
3 points by mildweed 16y ago|0 comments
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Web SQL Database vs Indexed Database API ... or both?(stackoverflow.com)
1 points by mildweed 16y ago|0 comments
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RSS-ify Anything(open.dapper.net)
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by mildweed 16y ago
Site is Farked. Youtube direct link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPnehDhGa14
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by mildweed 16y ago
If you can't determine what Palantir is all about by looking at their home page, they will NEVER beat Google or FB. Right now, the first slide asks the nebulous question with no answer, "What powers your intelligence infrastructure?" Market
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by mildweed 16y ago
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1421381
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by mildweed 16y ago
if Android and Apple both integrate QR code scanning into their native camera apps, this problem would be solved.
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by mildweed 16y ago
Congress passed the Defense of Marriage Act, Obama just called BS, now its up to the courts to decide. Yay separation of powers.
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by mildweed 16y ago
Data lock-in. They've got my tax info from the last 11 years. They pre-fill a bunch of stuff based on that.
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ShortStack makes Facebook tabs as easy as Wufoo(shortstackapp.com)
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by mildweed 16y ago
Reminds me of the Trojan Room Coffee Pot (the first webcam on the internet) https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Trojan_Room_c...
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by mildweed 16y ago
Some day, when your fridge, oven, and yes, teapot all have IP addresses, this will finally come into its own.
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by mildweed 16y ago
The Song-Beverly Credit Card Act is a California-only animal. Having said that, it is unenforceable in interstate commerce. The only people who need to worry about this for their online stores are retailers with a business presence in Calif

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