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by rikf 13y ago
This is happening in London although with ground based rather then air based sensors. http://www.westminster.gov.uk/services/transportandstreets/p...
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by rikf 13y ago
As another comment already stated they have become a "boring yelp competitor" I think it is exactly this geographical information that they have in this database that is the main value the company has. If anybody wants to compete with Googl
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by rikf 13y ago
Chat is not done right until you include search functionality. There is an incredible wealth of information that is exchanged through mediums like this that just gets lost if you don't have a good search function. So at the moment this is c
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by rikf 14y ago
It does have certain mathematical properties that make it rare. or at least harder and harder to produce as times goes on that leads to scarcity. And as we all know price = demand / supply
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by rikf 14y ago
Basically a single physical server running 10's to 100's of virtualized servers. With all the management challenges that entails.
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by rikf 14y ago
I think you would be surprised I think Tesla's strategy has three stages. 1) Niche high cost vehicle sold in low volumes(Roadster) 2) Medium cost luxury vehicle sold in medium volumes(Model S) 3) Low cost high volume vehicle sold in high vo
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by rikf 14y ago
I dont think its really the cognitive effort that I find annoying but rather the time it actually takes to move my hands from the keyboard to the mouse. I am firmly in the know thy shortcuts camp and find anything that forces me to move han
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by rikf 14y ago
I find it annoying when I have to move my hands from the keyboard to the mouse. I imagine it would be infinitely more irritating and far less comfortable moving my hands from the keyboard to touch a vertical screen in front of me.
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by rikf 14y ago
Take a look at event sourcing. This is a good introduction. http://martinfowler.com/eaaDev/EventSourcing.html
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by rikf 14y ago
Revenue is Vanity, Profit is Sanity
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by rikf 14y ago
Dont forget that even traditional gas stations make most of their profit from convenience store/restaurants.
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by rikf 14y ago
You can develop a-lot of features and hire some (a-lot of) pretty fucking good people for $200m
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by rikf 14y ago
I thought maybe incorrectly that a carbon nanotube based material would provide the required strength? But we currently do not have the technology to build it?
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by rikf 14y ago
Like a smart terrorist/activist/pranker couldnt learn how to pick locks.
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by rikf 14y ago
This is freaking awesome well done guys. Would love to get these for our team and stick them on our kanban board instead of 2d south park characters! EDIT: You should also make some animal shapes for pets!
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by rikf 14y ago
Hey Guys, Completley off topic but I really like your product. One thing I think you can improve on your home page is you have a-lot of images but none of them are clickable to maximize/get more details. Think you could make your homepage m
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by rikf 14y ago
The correct way to do it is as follows. 1) Set up a test environment using puppet or whatever that boots up an image instance and deploys your whole stack to your cloud provider. 2) Deploy your release candidate to this environment. 3) Run
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by rikf 14y ago
Baffling with all the publicity they have surely this character would have been better off with an open and honest kickstarter? Stating they realise they made mistakes in the past how they are going to correct them and what is different or
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by rikf 14y ago
Think is exactly why macbooks are so popular. I think if a laptop manufacturer spent some (a-lot?) of effort on hardware design to compete with Apple then there would be huge demand from developers. As a developer now I have a laptop choice
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by rikf 14y ago
head -c x /dev/random | uuencode - where x is the length of the password you want.
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by rikf 14y ago
There are loads of internet enabled TV's on the market at the moment that in the UK at least will give you access to youtube, lovefilm (similar to netflix), BBC iPlayer and the streaming services that most channels provide. Similarly the PS
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by rikf 14y ago
A Less experienced programmer does not necessarily mean a bad programmer. Its a myth that the best programming team consists solely of rockstar ninjas. I have worked on teams that consisted entirely of very very good programers and it resul
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by rikf 14y ago
> Some people love the iPhone and that is fine- to each his own. I just refuse to believe that the love affair is based on anything other than marketing. I would argue that the iPhone and indeed most Apple products embody a "Quality wit
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by rikf 14y ago
This article talks about using levenstein distance to compare the similarity of two words/sentences another great algorithm for fuzzy string matching is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metaphone it basically compacts a word into its phonetic
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by rikf 15y ago
How ironic that a Murdoch newspaper is "exposing" breaches of privacy.
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by rikf 15y ago
Congratulations its always nice to see people launch with a simple core value add and doing well :)
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by rikf 15y ago
There are cheaper alternatives then Amazon for fulfilment.
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by rikf 15y ago
Its important to note that one of the main things that differentiates between platforms is the quality and quantity of the available content. If you want to build a platform the first things to do is build great development tools for that p
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by rikf 15y ago
Another advantage of hitting the gym is that there is plenty of evidence linking cardio fitness to brain functioning. http://scholar.google.com.ar/scholar?q=cardio+fitness+brain&...
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by rikf 15y ago
I agree the black on bright green text is intense and not very readable. I like the idea but I think you need to tweak the design a little. The layout is pretty good just need to play around with the colors a little bit.

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