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by scorpion032 12y ago
Google, Apple, Facebook are the tech companies. Even though they are enterprises, the term enterprise software often refer to the other companies, who use tech as an aid to run their main businesses. Think about Box, MobileIron, and many su
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by scorpion032 12y ago
I guess we can all surely expect to get a couple more of MongoDB mugs this year.
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by scorpion032 12y ago
The best LaTeX editor I have found is [Latexian]( http://tacosw.com/latexian/ ) In a discussion on Latex Editors, I find it surprising how it was not mentioned even, so far.
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by scorpion032 12y ago
Static Site Generators seem like the Twitter client of today (which itself has been the "Hello, World!" of Web 2.0) Here is a site that compares 270 of them: http://staticsitegenerators.net/
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by scorpion032 12y ago
Thats the difference between knowing and being. Those that learn how to be good by books, that are not actually good, try to sugarcoat and wonder why being good doesn't work for them. For it to be effective, it has to be genuine.
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by scorpion032 12y ago
That is much more accuracy than with which humans can crack recaptcha. I'd estimate my own accuracy rate to be 90% or less.
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by scorpion032 13y ago
A good start. But... The USP of Evernote isn't that you can take notes from anywhere as much as anything can be a note (An audio clip, your current location, a picture etc) and that can be very well organised, grouped and saved in the
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by scorpion032 13y ago
There seems to be a large team of Google Maps based in Bangalore. Probably one of the reasons why India went first, for the Indoor Maps.
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by scorpion032 13y ago
coffeescript and cson, specifically.
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by scorpion032 13y ago
Sublime is written in Python. I'd imagine, all of this is written in Javascript and compiled/rendered with v8.
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by scorpion032 13y ago
Github folks are awesome mostly. I'd have imagined they would have made it a liberal license if they could. But they are the venture invested company now. Need to show returns 10 to 100x the investment in a few years.
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by scorpion032 13y ago
If for storage of data, I'd use and only use a RDBMS like Postgres. Not Mongo.
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by scorpion032 13y ago
I used to use SourceTree. I moved to using GitX: http://rowanj.github.io/gitx/ and seem to prefer it much more. SourceTree feels too cluttered. Gitx has better UX and appeals to me as someone that prefers to view more
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by scorpion032 13y ago
The same argument could be made for house hold locks. An experienced lock smith could open an average house hold lock in probably minutes. (not to forget most people are neither skilled lock smiths nor photoshop editors) That doesn't m
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Angular and Mobile(docs.google.com)
2 points by scorpion032 13y ago|0 comments
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by scorpion032 13y ago
Do you anybody else that uses Google App Engine?
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by scorpion032 13y ago
Where does Alexis work out of, if they don't have any space in The Real City.
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by scorpion032 13y ago
Cannot be emphasised enough. Less than 1% of Oracle's market cap; and pretty sure they could complete their offering with a NoSQL database.
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by scorpion032 13y ago
Looks like that.
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by scorpion032 13y ago
It is an engaging story; a real account of a startup's successful exit explained very keenly, containing a lot of valuable advice. Great read!
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by scorpion032 13y ago
"An invasion of armies can be resisted; an invasion of ideas cannot be resisted" - http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Victor_Hugo_quote This generation is going to be rewrite in Javascript/v8, everything tha
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The iPhone 5c and the iPhone 5s(apple.com)
1 points by scorpion032 13y ago|0 comments
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by scorpion032 13y ago
Just as interesting are some of the visualisations, the author (of this ipnb) has done for some of the media houses in India. Done using powerpoint, but for a print publication, as good as it could be. (which are linked within this ipynb.)
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by scorpion032 13y ago
A "polymath" is a person whose expertise spans a significant number of different subject areas. Greeks celebrated such great thinkers. Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Galileo Galilei, Nicolaus Copernicus, Francis Bacon and Micha
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by scorpion032 13y ago
The "should" use was meant for the general populace, those that adopt something, after the tipping point in a bell curve, to give a sneak peak into what hackers use today. - Not to hackers, who can themselves choose what they want
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by scorpion032 13y ago
Thats actually 5 people of the interviewed-analysed 373. (And not 5%)
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by scorpion032 13y ago
- I did not create a test group. I did a statistical analysis of all the interviews on The Setup: http://usesthis.com/ - Among this group, the number of people who were tagged linux was about a fourth: https://gi
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by scorpion032 13y ago
“When it comes to computers, what hackers are doing now, everyone will be doing in ten years. Almost all technology, from Unix to bitmapped displays to the Web, became popular first within CS departments and research labs, and gradually spr
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by scorpion032 13y ago
The analysis is entirely available here: http://nbviewer.ipython.org/urls/raw.github.com/becomingGuru... Perhaps there are other slugs "gvim" and the like, which also have a 2 each users. I will verify t
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by scorpion032 13y ago
Hey, I am the author of the post. Here are some clarifications: - None of the values are the %. They are the actual number of people that said they use that ware. About 70 people said they use iphone 4 and about 40 people said they use the

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