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Check Out This Nearly Undetectable ATM Skimmer(consumerist.com)
1 points by rockarage 15y ago|0 comments
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by rockarage 15y ago
This is not a Ruby vs Node.js benchmark because Node.js is still a layer above the V8 Javascript engine. Moreover Node.js was optimize for things like concurrency and this is similar to what eventmachine is optimized for. The difference is
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by rockarage 15y ago
Actually this is a bad idea if you want to improve your ideas. The internet is not the problem, the problem is how you use the internet. You can use the internet to learn about 3rd world problems and expose yourself to different cultures an
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HP's TouchPad Is Officially A Bomb: Best Buy Wants HP To Take Them Back(businessinsider.com)
4 points by rockarage 15y ago|0 comments
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Minority Report preCog like software "sending the police before there’s a crime"(nytimes.com)
64 points by rockarage 15y ago|24 comments
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by rockarage 15y ago
If that's true he must have been misquoted because there is no way anyone who writes Ruby code, will compare Ruby to Node.js
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by rockarage 15y ago
node is evented and non-blocking it is very good at handling concurrent requests, so a proxy built on Node will perform much better than one built on say Ruby. -Jim Patterson, director of platform at Yammer It is unfortunate that the "di
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What happen to Jonathan's Card fund? People are bidding nearly $4,000 for it(cgi.ebay.com)
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1DollarScan Scans And Digitizes Your Books For You “For A Dollar”(techcrunch.com)
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by rockarage 15y ago
Brilliant people work at Apple. This is an eco friendly and business savvy move. Because not only is this great for the environment this will provide rare earths metals (without the digging) for new mac products.
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by rockarage 15y ago
or Remember: it's easier to share a Hardcover book when an ebook has restriction.
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Rework sales: Paper ain't dead yet(37signals.com)
8 points by rockarage 15y ago|6 comments
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ICloud beta for Developers - Apple Developer(developer.apple.com)
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by rockarage 15y ago
A mondern day steve jobs would be a cofounder he wont spend his time looking for one of these jobs the article mentions.
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by rockarage 15y ago
He's right Twitter spam is a problem. Spam is one of the things that really hurt myspace, and now it has moved big time to Twitter. I just wonder how many of the millions of new twitter signups are spammers / spam bots.
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by rockarage 15y ago
The writers conclusion about so called masters of facebook not making money is wrong. The investors are in it for the money, there is no doubt facebook is generating a ton of revenue and i think they manage to make some profit too, like Zy
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by rockarage 15y ago
I will recommend Wix Lounge, it's a free workspace that also has tech and design workshop, your goal fits well with what they do. See: http://www.wixlounge.com/ http://blog.wix.com/2011/06/the-wix-lounge-nycs-hot-spot-for...
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by rockarage 15y ago
I agree with most of what you said, but I think you are trying to assert that academia is altruistic ? Academia is not altruistic. The Universities are in the billion dollar education business. They are just labeled non-profit yet they make
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by rockarage 15y ago
yeah, but that's what they are claiming, the app has a link to another app and they want to sue over that. There is not in app purchase.
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by rockarage 15y ago
Totally agree with this. Celebrities and thought leaders will make or break Twitter. If they leave all bets are off.
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by rockarage 15y ago
It seems Lodsys was able to successfully patent the hyperlink, U.S. patent system has some serious problems. Patent trolling is not the only problem, the patent office granting patents, where the is no merit, is another big problem.
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by rockarage 15y ago
Yes it has loud obnoxious green look, techcrunch used green before, but I never payed much attention to it until now. And the headlines font size is loud with a Huffington Post attention whoring feel. That said, I agree with others, the nav
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by rockarage 15y ago
Agreed, but Lean startup is not just about overfunding, it also means not building your product in secret, which is what they did, which is why they are in mess. "Eric Ries, the Lean Startup philosophy says the last thing you want to do is
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by rockarage 15y ago
"Software company dedicated to helping parents of chronically ill children research treatment decisions sued for billions for patent infringement." This actually happens, only replace "software company" with "pharmaceutical company". Johnso
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by rockarage 15y ago
This is similar to facebook going from php to c++ via hip hop. ( http://developers.facebook.com/blog/post/358/ ) Very few companies will ever reach the scale of twitter and facebook. Building with ruby, php, python.. whatever your team is
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by rockarage 15y ago
Thanks for the link and the recommendation. Since the previous post is almost 3 years old I will to learn about more recently started open source python projects, specifically anything with social sharing.
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Ask HN: What are some open source Python Projects I can learn from?
10 points by rockarage 15y ago|4 comments
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by rockarage 15y ago
I agree, but isn't ironic you promoted Onswipe by saying "Apps are bullshit" ? Ins't poetic justice / Karma that "rude explicative ridden" comments are now directed at you ?
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by rockarage 15y ago
Back in 2000, Amazon did not face the same type of competition Groupon faces today. There was no Facebook or Living Social, Google did not have 30 billion in the bank. Groupon is now competing against Facebook, Google and Amazon(Living Soci