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by mwexler 15y ago
As much as I'm a huge fan of Nathan Marz and his work with Clojure and Cascalog... I am hoping this book is about how to make Big Data accessible to programmers across multiple languages. Nathan, do you think you'll be including pseudo-cod
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by mwexler 15y ago
We should probably define "major". If your site is visited by tons of mobile visitors and you use the geo functionality to impact user experience, then for you, it may be. However, most sites continue to have far more desktop usage than m
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by mwexler 15y ago
Apropos of nothing: I may learn things from HilbertSpace's comments, I may agree or disagree with them... but I never have a problem identifying them, usually from the first sentence.
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by mwexler 15y ago
While much of the anger makes sense, why do folks keep harping on Google for using 3rd parties for their marketing? I know of no media or marketing company of any reasonable size that doesn't outsource some part of their marketing to anot
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by mwexler 15y ago
Besides full content plays like Drupal, I've enjoyed working with Textpattern ( http://textpattern.com/ ). It's easy to format content with textile, and it has a nice mix of plugins and template atomics that give you great power over the l
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by mwexler 15y ago
What does this mean for classics like Spectre? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spectre_(video_game) It's been around for a long time on multiple Apple platforms. Will Atari start attacking not only recent entrants, but also ones who were
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by mwexler 15y ago
Given some of the recent HN hubub over open source contribution (projects complaining about rude users, users complaining that they aren't seeing features they wish), I can't help but notice similar strains here in the free with ads-freemiu
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by mwexler 15y ago
Oh my goodness. So, I'm not alone. We should start a support group.
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by mwexler 15y ago
To be fair, it's one click on Amazon, 2 on Bn.com, free on both sites. Chances are, you won't have to fill out anything if you've purchased from either before.
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by mwexler 15y ago
All these comments are true. But let's not make the similar error to say that correlations are bad. Sometimes, knowing what caused something is the necessary answer, and for those, a root cause analysis and proper experimental design for
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by mwexler 15y ago
This has actually been a part of Sharepoint for the last few years. It's called Excel Services ( http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms517343.aspx ). It's very clever that they extended it to SkyDrive.
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by mwexler 15y ago
US users do have it, but it's an additional fee on top of the regular metered data plan on most US carriers. For example, AT&T charges $20 additional per month to activate it, and adds 2 gb to the monthly allocation as part of the plan
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by mwexler 15y ago
This is fantastic. Sad that so many feel we need it, but great to have.
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AppMobi open sourcing HTML5 mobile libraries(appmobi.com)
2 points by mwexler 15y ago|0 comments
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by mwexler 15y ago
Interestingly, in many franchise operations, you are paying not just for access to brand and supplier relationships, but for that mighty operations manual. In effect, you are paying for the right to use their vetted process for your own bu
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by mwexler 15y ago
Very true. Conversely, the water-based "won't stain your clothing" ink fades very quickly, which is pretty bad for archiving. Perhaps you can guess which one I used when I "commented" things around my house a few years ago.
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by mwexler 15y ago
He is co-founder of the Mahout project with a pretty extensive background in text analysis. I suspect he's familiar with the algorithms. In fact, he may be showing the reader that they _aren't_ as magical as one may believe, by showing th
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by mwexler 15y ago
I've done this (read: had to do this to save my sanity) for years now. Learnings: Most inks (like inkjet printers, pen inks, and even pencils) fade (esp if in light for extended time) and laser toner will stick to other surfaces in heat, s
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by mwexler 15y ago
Double Edged Sword. While many times I am interested in the country I am in, in many cases, I'm getting info for the next country I am going to. It's frustrating to have to change a default box from where I am to where I want to go, or ev
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by mwexler 15y ago
Hmm... lots of us in the email marketing world did stuff like this years ago. Almost every top-flight email marketing vendor can do this today. Perhaps I'm missing what's the truly new, but customized emails linked to when/where they are
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by mwexler 15y ago
I'm pleased that most of the commenters recognize that SQL has a need and is it's own language, for good and bad. I really expected to find a troll popping out "NoSQL rulez" type comments, and the level of understanding of how and where SQ
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by mwexler 15y ago
That's fair. I originally had the word "devalue" in the comment, but I pulled it out. Why? No one is forcing the analyst to participate, but instead, they absorb the costs to get exposure or growth (or fun). Whether that's a fair tradeo
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by mwexler 15y ago
This stuff is great. The rewards/prizes for the best model are so minimal compared to what it usually costs to build a great model via a consulting contract or hiring a high quality miner. Similar to Mechanical Turk, we've managed to creat
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by mwexler 15y ago
Ok, so lets say you want to keep Google Reader as your back end, but want a new front end (ala the various apps on iOS). Is there a good alternative online front end (open source or paid) that can replace Google's front end, but still off
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by mwexler 15y ago
Great site, interesting idea, but doesn't sync very well with Google Reader, so kind of a burn-the-boats jump.
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by mwexler 15y ago
It's very sad that I wrote that entire comment and didn't think of Hypercard. I agree, it would be interesting to have Hypercard "The Next Gen" on iOS devices... it did have a very good approach to solving what I mentioned above.
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by mwexler 15y ago
Game dev is great, but I'd love to see tools like this that let do more advanced scripting in a visual fashion without the emphasis on the visual aspect, such as sprites or animation. Processing is great at displaying things, but not so gr
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by mwexler 15y ago
I particularly enjoyed this part of the rider: " Bus and train tickets: If you buy bus or train tickets for me, do not give my name! Big Brother has no right to know where I travel, or where you travel, or where anyone travels. If they ar
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Rent a Mac in the cloud for development(macincloud.com)
322 points by mwexler 15y ago|171 comments
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by mwexler 15y ago
It's the nickel and diming of modern services. Every service is just a buck, just a fiver, just a tenner. I used to get usenet with my ISP, now I pay for it. I used to get luggage for free with my flight, now I don't. We've literally tur

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