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by padobson 15y ago
If you're a programmer and you're taking time off to learn and build things, then I can't see how it could hurt you with future employers. "Why did you take the time off?" "I was building this thing that has since been forked 200 times on G
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by padobson 15y ago
I just got finished building one for a client and I'm getting ready to start another. So there's always a market if you solve the problem well. Coincidentally, I'm looking for a python coder to work with on this next one. If anyone is inte
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by padobson 15y ago
What kind of lifehack would it be if we could fully understand lucid dreaming to the point we could teach everyone to do it on command. What would the benefits be for entertainment, education, and psychological health? If you were getting y
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by padobson 15y ago
The foolishness of Microsoft significantly messing around with hardware started with the XBox - their most successful hardware line to date. I wrote a post about it a month ago: http://pdobson.com/post/16681986243/microsoft-should-own-the
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by padobson 15y ago
I'm not sure iCloud can work in Apple's walled garden. The whole point of cloud storage is to make things accessible seamlessly across all devices. People who use a Mac at home and a PC at work or own an iPad and an Android phone are going
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by padobson 15y ago
I had two problems with this post. First: 'NeXTStep was not “just warmed over UNIX”.' It was, and so was Mac OSX. What Gruber doesn't seem to get is that warmed over unix provides a much more stable OS than Windows NT or DOS. He should be p
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Tech Needs more Bees and Flowers, Fewer Wasps and Lemons(pdobson.com)
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by padobson 15y ago
This might be one of the best comments I've ever read on the web. These gadgets are EXPENSIVE. If you're clearing $15.00 an hour and you buy a smartphone, that's 15-40 hours of your life that you've dedicated to that little machine. You can
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by padobson 15y ago
I had a Wordpress blog for about two years on one of those $4/mo hosts referenced in the post, and I was getting the same slow, lousy performance. I hosted it myself for a while and also decided I hated the headache. I knew I was going to d
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by padobson 15y ago
If I'm reading this right, it says he was being considered for Presidential appointment in 1991? Would that be by the Bush Administration? Clinton didn't take office until the beginning of 1993, but I suppose its possible he was making pote
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by padobson 15y ago
Here's hoping FedEx or UPS are the first buyers of commercial drones. Same day shipping from anywhere won't be far around the corner.
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Your Customer should Ignore You(pdobson.com)
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by padobson 15y ago
I was waiting for the disruptive argument in this thread. The fact of the matter is that Javascript is currently (and for the forseeable future) client side language that runs without a plugin. If you want your entire stack to run on Javasc
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Squeezing the Lemon: Introduction(pdobson.com)
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Ask HN: Has a startup ever tried renting out women's shoes?
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by padobson 15y ago
The first thing I did was check to see if I could test a mongo query... ...and then I remembered I'm an idiot.
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by padobson 15y ago
I am beginning to gather from this SO post as well as the other HN link to ShareFile, that REST is not something that can be summed up in a paragraph on HN or SO. This is why the arguments over it are getting heated without seeming to go an
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by padobson 15y ago
But, and excuse me if I'm wrong on this I'm looking for clarification, you should be forcing API clients to sign their requests with some sort of token - which might as well be a cookie. The difference being that a browser keeps track of th
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by padobson 15y ago
For discussions sake, here are the constraints on REST from wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/REST#Constraints
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Take a Pneumatic Tube to Work(en.wikipedia.org)
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Amazon S3 is serving 762 Billion Objects; 500,000 peak Reqs/s(readwriteweb.com)
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by padobson 15y ago
I love this because it is effectively disrupting wall street from a legal perspective. You don't need giant public markets anymore when you have the internet, and entrepreneurs that know how to build applications that generate money from lo
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Microsoft Should own the Living Room, How Google Can(pdobson.com)
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by padobson 15y ago
Apple's supply chain (still thinking about it from NYT article on Sunday) is a big reason that Android's numbers aren't even bigger. I ordered my ASUS Transformer Prime 3 1/2 weeks ago, and Amazon says I'll still be waiting another 2 weeks
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by padobson 15y ago
This is true for me. Now I just need a simple interface to list out everything I need to do, and then move it to a calendar so it gets done.
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Lean Consulting for Local Customers(pdobson.com)
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by padobson 15y ago
What sort of twisty-turvy world have we found ourselves in? A right-leaning Supreme court upholds tennants of the 4th Amendment - the go-to civil liberties ammendment - at the same time a Democratic administration seeks to weaken said ammen
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by padobson 15y ago
I think this is the best write-up I've seen of a full Javascript/CoffeeScript stack. I've always been hesitant to get too far away from my LAPP(ython) stack, but I'll almost certainly be hacking something together with these components to s
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by padobson 15y ago
Also, relevant tweets for New York and San Francisco are already pretty easy to guess for anyone following technology news or national news. Chicago, Atlanta and Miami had much more diverse results and organic feeling results - provided twe
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Switching from dlvr.it to ifttt.com(pdobson.com)
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