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by rnicholson 16y ago
I wonder if this move has more to do with killing off Solaris than with Oracle directly trying to screw PostgreSQL.
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by rnicholson 16y ago
I have a 32GB wifi-only model. I use it daily, and I would buy it again. I use it for surfing, watching videos off iTunes U, reading (via Kindle app), checking mail, etc. It basically replaced my Kindle DX and ThinkPad but, not my iMac or o
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by rnicholson 16y ago
Well, I initially just saw it as 'just more of the same' -- and questioned why is that good? Don't know. Trying to find out. Amongst all these other improvements over other C family languages that I read, why not syntax too? Perhaps as alna
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by rnicholson 16y ago
From the PDF: Rust is a curly-brace, block-structured statement language. It visually resembles the C language family, but differs significantly in syntactic and semantic details. I'm not a programming language buff, but why curly-braces
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by rnicholson 16y ago
sorry didn't know it was a dupe.
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A (fab) Approach To Web Apps(jsconf.blip.tv)
25 points by rnicholson 16y ago|2 comments
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Bespin 0.9a1 released: multiple Bespins, code completion(mozillalabs.com)
2 points by rnicholson 16y ago|2 comments
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Announcing Jetpack SDK 0.5(blog.mozilla.com)
1 points by rnicholson 16y ago|0 comments
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Google scrambles to save Internet license in China - Yahoo Finance(finance.yahoo.com)
1 points by rnicholson 16y ago|0 comments
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The DNA of Our Behavior(blog.placebook.com)
1 points by rnicholson 16y ago|0 comments
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by rnicholson 16y ago
I like to use 'particular' instead
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by rnicholson 16y ago
Interesting move here. Apple is essentially providing a baked-in capability to "skip" ads within Safari on the desktop while simultaneously preparing to launch their own Mobile ad service.
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Ranking the Most Powerful Supercomputers(technologyreview.com)
2 points by rnicholson 16y ago|0 comments
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by rnicholson 16y ago
Yeah the only thing that found that is close for Mac is Changes - http://connectedflow.com/changes/
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by rnicholson 16y ago
Seems nice. Although, just makes me wish Beyond Compare was available on the Mac as a native app.
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by rnicholson 16y ago
Could something as niche as StackOverflow be supported through a donation system like Wikipedia?
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by rnicholson 17y ago
You should read http://corte.si/posts/security/hostproof.html and http://corte.si/posts/security/crypsr.html . Was also discussed here - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1226277
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Plans for broadband: Pipe Dream(economist.com)
1 points by rnicholson 17y ago|0 comments
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by rnicholson 17y ago
http://thisweekinstartups.com/2010/03/twist-46-with-david-he...
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Millions of Buzz users, and improvements(gmailblog.blogspot.com)
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by rnicholson 17y ago
He also talks about the upcoming changes in Subversion, such as Working Copy Next Generation (WC-NG), which he believes will cause a number of Git users to convert back to Subversion. If I've already left for git (or other dvcs) why would
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by rnicholson 17y ago
rake notes:custom ANNOTATION=fucked
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Latest Developments in Ruby 1.9.2(gihyo.jp)
41 points by rnicholson 17y ago|3 comments
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by rnicholson 17y ago
Finally got around to reading 'Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?' Blew me away. So much better than the film adaptation.
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by rnicholson 17y ago
Also, after launching a feature, we have to go back in the code base and remove the old version (maintaining separate versions of all features on Flickr would be a nightmare). But overall, we find it helps us develop new features faster an
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by rnicholson 17y ago
This article reminded me of this documentary - http://www.tilt-movie.com/
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Researcher busts into Twitter via SSL reneg hole(theregister.co.uk)
2 points by rnicholson 17y ago|0 comments
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by rnicholson 17y ago
Dupe from yesterday - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=934752 but is marked [dead] for some reason.
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by rnicholson 17y ago
Isn't a little early to be doing performance comparisons for Go?
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by rnicholson 17y ago
I think its time we stopped with that madness.

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