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Show HN: JackDB - Database development in your web browser(jackdb.com)
5 points by pdog 14y ago|0 comments
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by pdog 14y ago
Can you share a link to the actual application?
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by pdog 14y ago
I agree, but the mutation has a ridiculously high selection differential, one that probably can't be explained by a single factor.
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by pdog 14y ago
> Various ideas are being kicked around to explain why natural selection promoted milk-drinking, but evolutionary biologists are still puzzled. [...] Those who couldn't drink milk were apt to die before they could reproduce. The succe
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by pdog 14y ago
I can't be the only one for whom this presentation is completely broken on the iPad (scrolling to fast and skipping multiple slides).
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by pdog 14y ago
Where did you write this to? I'd like to close my account as well.
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by pdog 14y ago
Minor nitpick: Dunbar's number[1] hasn't been proven. -- [1] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunbar%27s_number
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by pdog 14y ago
The entire market is down today.
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by pdog 14y ago
Like a phoenix, it rises again.
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by pdog 14y ago
The word "customer" already has negative connotations. For example, see Jay-Z's song, "You're Only a Customer," where the hook exclaims: You're only a customer (uh) Walkin' in the presence of hustlers You spend money all night long "All nig
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by pdog 14y ago
The actual headline is "Versatile 'GlassBox' Engine Powers New SimCity" and it goes into a lot more detail than just the new graphical approach.
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by pdog 14y ago
Interesting. How does PostgreSQL with hstore compare to a dedicated key-value data store?
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by pdog 14y ago
> I can’t talk about the way we actually implemented it. It's all there, right? In obfuscated, minimized, but still-readable JavaScript.
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by pdog 14y ago
Maybe for some games, but for others it's nice to see some elements of great story-telling. Of course, you still want to have good game mechanics, interactivity, graphics and fun, but the medium has evolved to the point where you can tell a
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by pdog 14y ago
What are some specific differences between iOS 5 and iOS 6, when it comes to app development?
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by pdog 14y ago
The beginning of the Century of Humiliation is usually dated to the eve of the First Opium War and the widespread addiction and political unraveling of China that followed. Though many other wars were fought and lost during this period.
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by pdog 14y ago
Racetams, and in particular piracetam, have been studied in an extensive number of clinical experiments. Their effects aren't poorly understood. http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=piracetam You might want to filter the research by time t
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by pdog 14y ago
When you say "some historical basis" do you mean the Opium Wars[1] and the Century of Humiliation[2]? They were pretty bad, so perhaps there is more than just a "convenient narrative" (as you acknowledge). [1] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wik
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by pdog 14y ago
They do just leave it parked. Exceptionally rich people who buy Lamborghini and other exotic cars usually have several or even dozens of them. For the most part, they just sit in the garage.
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by pdog 14y ago
Seeing this (supporting over 10 million hits a day on an Amazon EC2 micro instance), it makes less and less sense to host a site entirely on Amazon S3.
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by pdog 14y ago
First I've heard of Chilling Effects. Their website ( http://chillingeffects.org ) looks like a conspiracy theory website, but I guess take-down requests are rather conspiratorial.
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by pdog 14y ago
Mentally, the first twenty minutes matter most. Physically, it's the last twenty minutes.
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by pdog 14y ago
Previous discussion (two years ago, with comments): http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1565764
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by pdog 14y ago
Meanwhile, it's highly unlikely that a Googler would be named "Most Attractive Employee ."
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by pdog 14y ago
All progress depends on the unreasonable man. However, not all unreasonable men are responsible for progress.
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by pdog 14y ago
Oracle doesn't have to be one DB server. Check out Oracle RAC for instance.
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by pdog 14y ago
Postgres and Oracle?
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by pdog 14y ago
Stock market indexes are generally forward-looking. We'll see QE3 "priced into" the market before we see its effects.
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by pdog 14y ago
http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=piracetam You might want to filter by time to get more recent studies, but there's a vast body of knowledge built over decades.
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by pdog 14y ago
Bernanke is pumping up the stock market to help President Obama get reelected. </conspiracy-theory> It's incredibly hard to predict how these massive macro changes affect us on an individual or company level.

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