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by mwexler 8y ago
For those wondering, here's what I gathered as some context. Zotero = Your personal research assistant. Zotero is a free, easy-to-use tool to help you collect, organize, cite, and share research. https://www.zotero.org&#x2
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by mwexler 8y ago
Yes, it really was a post in jest. I guess the downvotes show just how funny it wasn't.
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by mwexler 8y ago
And not a single mention of Pournelle's Janissaries. It's as if the Ottomans (or the post's author) had never read this series... https://www.baen.com/Chapters/9780671877095/9780671877095.ht... Ok,
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Cypht Cypht (pronounced “sift”) is like a news reader, but for E-mail(cypht.org)
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by mwexler 8y ago
Wikipedia provided this simple description, which would be nice to see on the RC post (but perhaps they assumed the only folks interested in an RC post would be folks familiar with the tool already): Lazarus is a free cross-platform visual
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by mwexler 8y ago
This reminds me of the old joke: " The company computer was broken, and no one could fix it. They call the old repairman, who takes a look, and says he can fix it for $5K. Desperate, the company says "Anything, just fix it!&quot
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Inside Grab's efforts to map roads in 100 cities across Southeast Asia(qz.com)
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MS releases new Web Analytics tool – Clarity(blogs.bing.com)
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by mwexler 8y ago
And just to point out, there are others that do sell this as part of their business model, so kudos to Plaid for trying to find another way. https://www.forbes.com/sites/petercohan/2018/07/22/maste
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by mwexler 8y ago
This is another "Forbes Contributor" post. This means that it's just a blog post, though, admittedly, Cohan is a smart guy. Does anyone else think Forbes should do more to separate volunteer content from editorially directed
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During Lastpass outage, users frozen out of sites(tomsguide.com)
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Airtable’s Howie Liu Built a $1B Software Giant Emphasizing Substance Over Speed(forbes.com)
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by mwexler 8y ago
FB has already publicly announced some of these changes: https://www.inc.com/peter-roesler/facebook-to-allow-for-firs... https://digiday.com/marketing/wtf-what-are-facebooks-first-p... Basically,
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Outline: secure access to the open web(opensource.googleblog.com)
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by mwexler 8y ago
Ah, the latest company to replicate ql2's WebQL from the 90s. https://www.directionsmag.com/article/2901 and still at https://www.ql2.com . Props to Ted Kubaitis who developed WebQL on the side and g
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by mwexler 8y ago
"If I hadn't put in the initial legwork" might better be read as "If I hadn't invested up front in some startup costs from experts who know things I don't". Paying for Lawyers and Accts seems crazy, when
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Feds Force Suspect to Unlock iPhone X with Their Face(forbes.com)
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Spotify asking family-plan users for gps data to prove they live at same address(qz.com)
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by mwexler 8y ago
Wow, someone saying nice things about Dreamhost. A rare thing to see.
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by mwexler 8y ago
Well, it's not really fully replaceable in your car without other work. That is, I have SXM in my car radio, integrated in the system. It's the only option. All else is bluetooth or cable plugins, a different interface to manag
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TwoSigma Analyzes Time-Series of New York Hall of Science Usage(twosigma.com)
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Blog of Brantford Games Lab, Run by Scott Nicholson, Prof of Game Design and Dev(bgnlab.ca)
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by mwexler 8y ago
Videos on this page do include some build shots. The 8 minute video is especially well done.
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by mwexler 8y ago
Maps are not just roads. POIS, transit rails, pedi paths all play a role,esp in cities. And OSM does well with path data but it's POI data is disappointing compared to Google. Transit stations are in the data but no info about what
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by mwexler 8y ago
Frink has been around for a long, long time, and the author has had a great sense of humour about some of the units he's thrown in. While I rarely need the tool, it's great to know that I can deal with cubits whenever I need to.
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by mwexler 8y ago
This article has many, many problems, and misrepresents what's actually being proposed. No data is shared in either way without clear consumer opt in. No bank is randomly giving data to Facebook. Facebook is not buying data from t
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by mwexler 8y ago
Even after reading the article, and seeing the video, I kept waiting for someone to say "April Fools! We are just a little late".
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by mwexler 8y ago
You should look at Snowplow ( https://snowplowanalytics.com/ ) which offers a good amount of power and can be self hosted or run at AWS, and is fully open source. That being said, Adobe's product has truly "enterpr
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by mwexler 8y ago
Or use the original self-hosted-at-scale open source solution, Snowplow ( https://snowplowanalytics.com/ ). These guys have been solving self-hosted digital analytics for years now, and have consistently proven to be one of
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by mwexler 8y ago
Every time I see someone compare ACID approaches to BASE approaches, first thing that comes to mind is the struggle it took to come up with words to match the BASE acronym and force it into being. More examples of such somewhat-cleverness

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