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Pay Attention to Second Order Effects: Unintented Consequences(nytimes.com)
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by scw 19y ago
From Avi Bryant http://www.avibryant.com/2008/01/dont-panic.html : It's not perfect yet - there's no images, just text, and the parser is pretty basic and doesn't know about tables and stuff
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by scw 19y ago
More likely The Simpsons: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Simpsons#Influences_on_lang...
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by scw 19y ago
Meet your reddit brethren: http://reddit.com/info/5yw4h/comments/
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by scw 19y ago
Read more on Slicehost -- its exactly that; you have full access to a virtualized machine, and can do pretty much anything.
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by scw 19y ago
A pet feature I wish they had was exposing a way to download the actual Xen image your site is hosted within. Then you could be developing your production server sans internet, and rsync the resulting image.
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by scw 19y ago
It would be helpful to know something about your requirements: as you move away from commodity hosting, the hosting world becomes more complex in what it provides. I've been very satisfied with my Slicehost ( http://www.slicehost.com/ ) acc
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by scw 19y ago
For anyone interested in how the brain operates, including its ability to adapt to new sensory input, I highly recommend Jeff Hawkins' book On Intelligence: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_Intelligence
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by scw 19y ago
There is no evidence presented that backs up the claim that Linux is being displaced by Apple usage; even stated is that in the time monitored Linux web users doubled (albeit to a still minute fraction of the total users). The assumption t
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by scw 19y ago
Interesting, it is reasonable to suspect that many brokerage houses (with billions invested in R&D and very intelligent individuals) are using the same approaches to the problems with the added benefit of a human driver behind the wheel
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by scw 19y ago
Evaluate the space before settling on Drupal -- if your friend has experience, it should make the evaluation that much easier. There are a number of high quality CMS systems available, and just being familiar with one isn't a sufficient re
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by scw 19y ago
Naming probably mattered more in the era of phone books and neon signs: if you didn't recognize the name as relating to the service you wanted, it counted against the name. These limitations aren't present with a URL; a short meaningless
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by scw 19y ago
I have an x61s, and highly recommend it. Lightweight (<3lbs), durable, great battery life, performs well (Ubuntu 7.10). If you are willing to wait a few months, a mac ultraportable is in the works and likely to be released: http://ww
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Context-Aware Image Rescaling(rsizr.com)
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by scw 19y ago
Ambient. It never taxes my brain and helps me focus: Brian Eno (Music for Airports, Apollo: Atmospheres and Soundtracks), Sigur Ros, Four Tet, Cliff Martinez (Traffic, Solaris).
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by scw 19y ago
It sounds like an extension of the T9 predictive text system present on every cell phone I've ever had. If so, it'll probably suffer the same difficulties: There are many more edge cases when you have fewer keys. Typing titles, acronyms a
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Excel as a database(neopoleon.com)
2 points by scw 19y ago|1 comments
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Neal Stephenson travels the world following fiber cables (1996)(econ161.berkeley.edu)
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by scw 19y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F-bomb
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by scw 19y ago
A good, in-depth background on the company and their methods: http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/115/open_features-flight... Seems like domain expertise in difficult fields is increasingly being valued.
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by scw 19y ago
Plone/Zope are difficult, but the compactness of Python combined with the clarity of the design make digging in not terribly difficult. Understanding every aspect of the stack is difficult, Zope is everything from the HTTP server to the (ob