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by ocskills 17y ago
This comment extends further into the realm of speculation than the original post. The article doesn't even mention Apple's understanding of encryption, let alone specifics like algorithms and key sizes. The post only speculates about the m
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Wild Speculation on iPhone 3G S Hardware Encryption(zetetic.net)
10 points by ocskills 17y ago|12 comments
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by ocskills 17y ago
"They will embrace MySQL and Open Source and put their technical expertise on it to ensure that MySQL continues to be the most popular advanced Open Source database." That distinction rightly belongs to PostgreSQL: http://www.postgresql.or
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by ocskills 18y ago
You're misreading the article. The problem has to do with uncoordinated breaking changes to a public API. There were no problems for our apps. Let me draw an analogy: imagine that one day before release MySQL (or pick your favorite DB) deci
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Twitter API: With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility(zetetic.net)
9 points by ocskills 18y ago|7 comments
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by ocskills 18y ago
"You have a dog, and I have a cat. We agree that they are each worth a billion dollars. You sell me the dog for a billion, and I sell you the cat for a billion. Now we are no longer pet owners, but Icelandic banks, with a billion dollars in
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by ocskills 18y ago
The future is here already, and has been for decades. These non-relational database structures are not a new or revolutionary idea. The same concepts have long been implemented in systems like LDAP, X.500, and document-oriented databases li
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by ocskills 18y ago
ASP.NET is a very flexible environment but, like any anything, it takes time to learn. You can tweak view state settings, manipulate caching, tune sessions, adjust markup, and exercise fine control over web control settings. The fact that m
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by ocskills 18y ago
I think there is a big difference between the two. The FSF uses copyright assignment to ensure that open source code is not legally encumbered. MySQL uses the copyright assignment so they can sell code contributed by open source developers
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by ocskills 18y ago
Of note, Sun ironically performed a benchmark between PostgreSQL and Oracle. The results were that PostgreSQL performed very closely to Oracle under several scenarios. http://it.toolbox.com/blogs/database-soup/postgresql-publish... It's n
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by ocskills 18y ago
Feature wise, I don't think there are many things that MySQL can do that PostgreSQL can't given a proper configuration. The main difference is that PostgreSQL doesn't include things like clustering as part of the core distribution like MySQ
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by ocskills 18y ago
It's the act of developing a business plan that is important, not the plan itself. There is also much more to a business plan than just projecting revenues. If you are realistic, planning forces you to actually think critically about thin
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by ocskills 18y ago
Paypal and Google Checkout are both good alternative options to look at. In some cases when you factor in all of the upstream credit card processing charges you'll even pay less.
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by ocskills 18y ago
Hiring salespeople purely on commission is tricky. It shifts all the initial risk to the side of the salesperson. Therefore people willing to work that way often want a big slice of the revenue and aggressive payment terms. While the lack o
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by ocskills 18y ago
I'd take a serious look at Braintree for credit card processing http://www.braintreepaymentsolutions.com/ . I'm not affiliated, we're a customer that uses them for processing. Reading stories like this, I'm glad we do. When we signed up th
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The Seed Conference In Quotes(zetetic.net)
3 points by ocskills 18y ago|0 comments
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by ocskills 18y ago
Autonomous and dynamic resource allocation built on a message queuing system. Could team at Twitter benefit from a chat with the folks at SmugMug?!
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by ocskills 18y ago
I hear what you're saying with regard to clients, but I think you totally missed 37s' point. They're NOT saying "don't mockup at all". Rather, they are encouraging an interactive process with real and usable output that adapts more easily
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by ocskills 18y ago
$3 for a site really isn't that bad, all things considered. It's less than many image downloads on istockphoto.
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Return of the Command Line(zetetic.net)
1 points by ocskills 18y ago|0 comments
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by ocskills 18y ago
Agreed on all sides. The gap between decent and really good designers is huge and great designers are no more a commodity than great programmers. If the author can find a great designer to work with I'd strongly recommend he does. If not,
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by ocskills 18y ago
It's sad to hear he passed. Genuinely fun fantasy novels are hard to come by, but were Robert Asprin specialty. I grew up reading the Myth Adventures books, and amassed most (if not all) of the collection. Then I moved on to Phule's Company
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by ocskills 18y ago
"corporate companies look for money and large numbers of staff. Web development agencies on the other hand look for quality, code is poetry." This is a very naive statement. Web dev agencies are looking for the same thing as corporations: t
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by ocskills 18y ago
I'm actually a developer and I have to strongly disagree with this comment. The same gap exists ( http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/HighNotes.html ) between good designers and mediocre. In my experience, great designers are far from a
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by ocskills 18y ago
Everyone's always talking about the need for a new mobile social network, but one already exists - it's called Twitter. It completely sidesteps the fact that most mobile browsers suck (iPhone nonwithstanding) by building the platform on tex
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Monetizing Twitter for Business(zetetic.net)
2 points by ocskills 18y ago|1 comments