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by pj 18y ago
I prefer not to have google reading my emails.
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by pj 18y ago
How much more productive would the world be if it didn't have to worry about hackers breaking into our sites?
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by pj 18y ago
Well, I think if we can keep "bad" people inside prisons, then surely we can keep "bad" people outside a solid concrete block with no windows and nothing inside that is really useful outside. We don't worry about people stealing a chunk of
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Ask HN: Think Obama would approve a wireless network cloud owned by the people?
1 points by pj 18y ago|2 comments
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by pj 18y ago
http://mathworld.wolfram.com/BayesianAnalysis.html It wouldn't be that difficult to implement this. Run your RSS feeds through a program that will look in the articles for words you are already familiar with. If you read an article, you
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by pj 18y ago
I don't have a problem with this bill one bit. There is a time to look good and there is a time to put on the work clothes and get busy and right now is one of those times. We've been relishing in our own gluttony for years now, building hu
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by pj 18y ago
Well put.
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Promoting open government - Track my Tax dollars(economist.com)
2 points by pj 18y ago|0 comments
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by pj 18y ago
Yep, that's right. Could this be a subtle move to require people use google Analytics instead of their own log file analysis?
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by pj 18y ago
A nine-week course at Singularity University will cost $25,000. The first three weeks will be spent studying 10 different subjects, with the next three weeks focusing on one in detail. The final three weeks will be taken up by a special pr
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Cloud Computing is for everyone -- except stupid people(elasticvapor.com)
1 points by pj 18y ago|0 comments
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by pj 18y ago
So what you are suggesting here is not: "Do away with CSS" but rather, "Add some stuff to CSS" This isn't new. Computer Science is called computer science because it can change. Algorithms can be shown to be less efficient than another alg
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by pj 18y ago
* that doesn't mean they wouldn't be much more productive using something better suited to layout* What would you suggest is better suited to layouts than CSS?
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by pj 18y ago
MCD is still doing really well for itself despite the critics. The food there now is much better than I remember it being in years past. I have a lot of respect for how they handled the whole Super Size Me thing. It's kind of sad that peop
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by pj 18y ago
Do we really want this kind of bickering around here? There's a time and a place for every technology. Everything has pros and cons. There's no perfect solution. There are lots of good solutions. Sometimes CSS is one and sometimes Tab
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by pj 18y ago
People attack the giant and the giant is Wal-Mart. They are bad because they are golliath. The truth is, they provide one stop shopping for millions of customers who previously had to drive to many different stores to buy groceries, clothe
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by pj 18y ago
If you look at the Platform as a Service space, a lot of development work is done automatically. For example, upload a spreadsheet and the data persistence layer is inferred from the data itself, no need to manually create the tables, the
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by pj 18y ago
Nope. Too sweet.
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by pj 18y ago
A lot of people don't consider SQL programming. Usually we think of more traditional programming languages, but SQL is at the root of most information systems. A lot of programmers don't know SQL, it can be difficult -- it is difficult. B
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by pj 18y ago
As clients and vendors we rely on each other for survival. If the vendor provides value, but goes out of business because of late payments, the clients relying on that vendor are going to be worse off too. Pay your bills. Give money for go
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by pj 18y ago
The cloud is the most perplexing place on the internet. The cost savings are so dramatic, it's a waste of time to do ROI. Applications up and running in a week that used to take 6 months. The Cloud seems too good to be true, but it's not. I
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by pj 18y ago
The two are not mutually exclusive. You can do business while learning programming. Programming /will/ help you in business because with programming you can find answers easier. The first thing I would do if I were you and I know what I k
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by pj 18y ago
Funny how the last line of the article says, Looking back, we (incredibly) should have heeded the advice of bad-boy chef Anthony Bourdain, who wrote our epitaph in Kitchen Confidential: "The most dangerous species of owner ... is the one w
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by pj 18y ago
These guys do heatmaps: http://crazyegg.com/
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by pj 18y ago
JavaScript is /way/ better than good enough. It's terrific. It's the only programming language many people need to produce really amazing websites and web application that make the world a richer and more promising place for a lot of peop
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by pj 18y ago
Flash is not as standard as you can get. The web standards are HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. Flash is neither of those. The specification is not controlled by a governing body. It is controlled by one company. Talking about Firefox plugins
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by pj 18y ago
1. It's client-server all over again. But without the problems of deploying an application to thousands of desktops. 2. Web UIs are a mess. These arguments are the same for the desktop apps. Powerbuilder looks different than .NET looks
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by pj 18y ago
The holistic view is exactly why Adobe Air is bad. It's not standard and it limits accessibility.
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by pj 18y ago
Because it is an entire life's drama in one episode and sometimes there are three. It's always the same scenario, but they're always different people. So you get to know them very well by how they react to the news. They are real life stori
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by pj 18y ago
A little OT, but if The Singularity could result in our extinction, should we just stop right now?

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