n8agrin

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by n8agrin 17y ago
There is a difference between unfamiliar and unconventional. Text rendered in a white font, in a language I can recognize is familiar. Text written in Klingon, rendered in dingbats is unfamiliar. In my mind the designer _should_ be uncon
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by n8agrin 17y ago
Copied below is the article. I was having a hard time reading it on his blog with the bright orange background. ========================================= "Lack of Flash in the iPad (and before that, in the iPhone) is a win for accessible,
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by n8agrin 17y ago
The article is completely unsubstantiated. Well, I was able to put all the pieces together on this one, finally, and I now understand exactly what is up: Facebook has rewritten the PHP runtime from scratch. Look if it's true, this is cool
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by n8agrin 17y ago
Safari 4.0.4, Core i7 iMac and the cpu didn't feel a thing here. Player played the movie beautifully.
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by n8agrin 17y ago
To me this isn't about making phone calls over IP. This is about video conferencing over IP. I'm guessing that Apple has toyed with forward facing cameras in their iPhones and their iPads and I'd be willing to bet they pulled them from th
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by n8agrin 17y ago
Either you see the simple computer as some harbinger of the death of the PC, or you are an Apple fanboy who thinks the thing is a magic wand. Guess what everybody. It's neither. Your blanket statement is foolish and naive. The range of op
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by n8agrin 17y ago
I whole heartedly agree with what Yehuda is saying here. If you're not writing a game and don't need direct access to the hardware (i.e. camera support on the iPhone/iTouch) I find it very hard to understand why you would _want_ to write a
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by n8agrin 17y ago
I agree that the A4 chip is interesting. But to me the biggest news is that Apple is supplying the iPad with 3g access and an unlocked SIM. Not that the majority of people will buy an iPad, but they are preempting what I think we'll see in
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by n8agrin 17y ago
I miss spoke. Splunk handles multiple TBs per day easily in a distributed environment.
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by n8agrin 17y ago
Go to macrumors.com on Wed, they usually do exactly that.
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Cool. Splunk also does this and it's good to know that people don't perceive Splunk to be capable of operating this way so we can fix this perception.
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by n8agrin 17y ago
Interesting. Do you know which version of Splunk you were using? Our latest version has vastly improved our query performance over large datasets. Re. an open source log indexer: Agree, this is a space that will eventually become dominated
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by n8agrin 17y ago
I don't mean to come off sounding like a mouthpiece for Splunk, but Splunk does work with "cloud" data (hurray for buzz words), it is dead simple to use out of the box and recognizes many special fields like timestamps without any configura
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by n8agrin 17y ago
"We want to be like Geordi in Star Trek, who can see everything on the Enterprise with a few finger presses. I wish there was such a thing! The closest we can get is ganglia, which monitors OS-level events (it can be hacked for apps)." I di
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by n8agrin 17y ago
Actually I once saw a neurologist talk about how the brain and computer science might be related and he basically said that an oversimplified explination of the brain is that it's a hasH table. Now if only I could remember who it was that g
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by n8agrin 17y ago
I think the "paleos", as it were, are quite serious and don't think of this as just a "silly trend". That said, whether or not there truly is any nutritional benefit over eating, say 80% vegetables, and going to the gym is probably hard to
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by n8agrin 17y ago
I'm sorry but there is no way I would subscribe to this diet. According to the article being "paleo" means excluding bread and I'm going to assume cheese, beer and wine as well. Well that's where I draw the line. I don't think they realize
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by n8agrin 17y ago
Is there a point in reposting one comment from the article completely out of context with no added commentary of your own?
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by n8agrin 17y ago
Create a modular UI framework that allows modules to import their own stylesheets. You hit this problem really quickly.
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by n8agrin 17y ago
From the article: All it took was 5 super-connected people at Kickstarter (especially Andy Baio) to take a concept we worked hard to refine, tweak it with Amazon Payments, and then take credit. You could say that that's capitalism, but I
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by n8agrin 17y ago
I completely agree. How could this point have been missed by the USPTO? Does copyright really not factor into patent decisions? It's infuriating.
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by n8agrin 17y ago
Depending on the reading of the patent, one could argue this covers the entirety of the browser => server request cycle and not just AJAX. Obviously this is absurd, but perhaps more so is that the patent system upholds this kind of non
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by n8agrin 17y ago
Wow, this really rang true with me: "It's not that I'm altruistic. I'm sacrificing nothing. I've just learned what makes me happy. And doing it this way made me the happiest." I often think about how this mentality equates to business. For
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by n8agrin 17y ago
What a huge disappointment. I was really looking forward to this as an example of how one could work themselves into the hardware market as a start up, and as healthy competition to any other large touch-capacitive device to come out in the
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by n8agrin 17y ago
In case you didn't get this in-joke, this is Jason Fried's speach @mrshoe was referencing in his comment: http://www.justin.tv/clip/b897875d2e8cd907
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Flickr Season: Beautiful info vis showing frequency of tags by season(static.kueda.net)
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My favorite part: This function checks if a particular variable has a value defined. Or it does, unless a 3rd party script sets the global undefined variable to something else. This single line of code anywhere in the page will bring Closu
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by n8agrin 17y ago
While a nice idea, it would be worth finding out why github abandoned this very concept in favor of gemcutter.org before diving in head first. I trust the github guys as being far more competent than most in all matters of distributed sourc
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by n8agrin 17y ago
Oh come on. Why is it that every 3 months there is a new article defending Perl's vitality? I don't hear many people claiming Perl is dead. Does anyone who likes and uses Perl care, and I mean really care, if Perl maybe be deemed "dead" by
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by n8agrin 17y ago
Four paragraphs of fluff. The author makes one interesting point I would love to hear more about, "I think the biggest change will be in our perception of privacy." but, why? Sadly, they never delve deeper into that topic.

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