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Invisibility-Cloak Breakthrough: software has enabled metamaterials to work with a broad band of freqs(technologyreview.com)
5 points by nickb 18y ago|1 comments
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Apple Shows Us DRM's True Colors(eff.org)
3 points by nickb 18y ago|0 comments
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A Review of the Best Robots of 2008(singularityhub.com)
5 points by nickb 18y ago|2 comments
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by nickb 18y ago
I don't know much about it (i.e. I haven't tried it yet) but from the documentation, it is EC2 but with a lot of 'sysadmin goodies' added on the top of it. Think of it as value-add to EC2. To me this looks like Heroku but with more flexibil
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EngineYard releases Solo: Inexpensive, web-based platform for Rails(engineyard.com)
34 points by nickb 18y ago|23 comments
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'Amazing' worm attack infects 9 million PCs(computerworld.com)
1 points by nickb 18y ago|0 comments
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Typing Errors: The standard typewriter keyboard is Exhibit A... Dvorak not so great either(reason.com)
26 points by nickb 18y ago|32 comments
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Calculating the Size of the Downadup Outbreak: 2.4M to 8.9M infected machines(f-secure.com)
2 points by nickb 18y ago|0 comments
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Text of Steve Jobs’s Letter to Apple Employees (bits.blogs.nytimes.com)
3 points by nickb 18y ago|0 comments
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by nickb 18y ago
Safari Adblock wouldn't help at all with this widget problem. Also, Safari Adblock's crap. If you really want to block ads, use http://glimmerblocker.org/ The site has pretty bad usability with About page as well. You can't even see close
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Chrome gets Mac deadline, extensions foundation (news.cnet.com)
3 points by nickb 18y ago|1 comments
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Google releases The Quick Search Box for Mac(googlemac.blogspot.com)
2 points by nickb 18y ago|0 comments
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by nickb 18y ago
BTW, Aaron's the author of one of the finest books on programming, programming Cocoa/Mac in Objective-C specifically: http://www.amazon.com/Cocoa-Programming-Mac-OS-3rd/dp/032150... If you've ever wanted to write that little iPhone app, p
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Broken Windows Theory of Software Development (sanitycheckfail.com)
3 points by nickb 18y ago|1 comments
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CensorZilla(jwz.org)
24 points by nickb 18y ago|10 comments
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What We Learned By Watching The Crunchies (centernetworks.com)
4 points by nickb 18y ago|2 comments
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ITable - Amazing new multi-touch table that's better than Surface(multi-touch-screen.net)
2 points by nickb 18y ago|1 comments
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Revealed: the environmental impact of Google searches(technology.timesonline.co.uk)
11 points by nickb 18y ago|14 comments
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Fred Wilson's 'My focus group of one'(avc.com)
4 points by nickb 18y ago|0 comments
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by nickb 18y ago
Yes, sorry. Haven't used MFC in a long time so it was slip.
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Microsoft Wins Key Search Deals (online.wsj.com)
1 points by nickb 18y ago|0 comments
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Google cuts temporary workers but murky on details(finance.yahoo.com)
1 points by nickb 18y ago|0 comments
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by nickb 18y ago
After all these years of development, Firefox on a Mac still doesn't feel like a true Mac app. Text fields, for example, still don't work like Cocoa text fields. So all this portability comes with a steep price of never really having a supe
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by nickb 18y ago
Some people never learn what the true meaning of a sharecropper is. If you're developing an app for Twitter, make it a part of your marketing budget and don't build your whole business around it.
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R.I.P. Dr. Dobb's(ericsink.com)
33 points by nickb 18y ago|20 comments
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Salesforce.com outage exposes cloud's dark linings (theregister.co.uk)
2 points by nickb 18y ago|1 comments
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The World's Greatest Chess Scam Happened Aboard The Titanic(richardmarcusbooks.com)
3 points by nickb 18y ago|3 comments
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A Look Back At Kurzweil's Predictions For 2009(kurzweilai.net)
5 points by nickb 18y ago|0 comments
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Getting into space by broomstick(news.bbc.co.uk)
3 points by nickb 18y ago|0 comments
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Gruber's Macworld Expo 2009 Predictions(daringfireball.net)
2 points by nickb 18y ago|0 comments

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