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901.
by sh1mmer 18y ago
What about things like Hadoop HBase or Bigtable? Surely those are aiming to replicate an RDBMS like environment but on a massively more scalable platform.
902.
by sh1mmer 18y ago
To answer my own question (I wish I'd been able to copy from the iTunes window :( ): This update contains many bug fixes and improvements, including the following: * Enhancements to Maps -Google Street View -public transit and walking dir
903.
by sh1mmer 18y ago
Anyone got a link with a list of the update features?
904.
by sh1mmer 18y ago
It would seem to me that they should have planned on this kind of scenario. It doesn't have to be specific they just have to be able to plug some words into a statement about something tragic, but uncomfirmed on their network. It's basic ri
905.
by sh1mmer 18y ago
I was at Mashup Camp this week and one of the guys from IBM pointed me at a library called Flare ( http://flare.prefuse.org/ ) which has a number of prefabricated visualizations you can run on data. The discuss we had was along the lines of
906.
by sh1mmer 18y ago
The bottom line, if Detroit wants money it needs to justify why it's not just going to sink it into the same failed structure it currently has. Mitt makes some excellent points, it's not that we shouldn't support this industry, we should ju
907.
by sh1mmer 18y ago
This seems like SubEthaEdit but for the web. Maybe it was the barrier to entry or the technical wrangling to get it working that killed SEE; But even among Mac-heads I haven't seen it being used in years. I'm not sure how much this will fly
908.
The Inspiration of Ownership(mikewest.org)
1 points by sh1mmer 18y ago|0 comments
909.
by sh1mmer 18y ago
Personally my feeling is that chemical imbalance is the symptom not the cure. It takes a very mature society to practice preventative medicine. We clearly aren't that society (look at the obesity epidemic). I'm sure that people who are ment
910.
by sh1mmer 18y ago
I think this clearly shows education doesn't have too much to do with mental health. People with a lot of education can be just as sad and disheartened as anyone else. Layoffs aren't a happy time for anyone, but for someone who was already
911.
by sh1mmer 18y ago
I wonder where the media get these random stats from. "We asked 3 engineering students and 2 of them said they would consider an engineering job over a banking job" I'd be surprised if anyone could plot a graduating trend in such a short pe
912.
by sh1mmer 18y ago
I think Mr Winer forgets the element of competition. Advertising is not just about highlighting good products it's also teaching consumers to pick your good products over your competitor's good product. Is generic Ibuprofen different from A
913.
by sh1mmer 18y ago
Disclaimer: I'm an evangelist. So I think the problem is that some horrible sales shills are using my job title. I wish they would stop, or die. Either way. The concept of evangelism (in terms of the word) is someone who believes in somethi
914.
by sh1mmer 18y ago
It's interesting to me that the spammers can recover their operations in merely a few days. Few organisations I can think of could move their entire infrastructure to another provide from a hard shutdown in that amount of time. I also find
915.
by sh1mmer 18y ago
This is easily the most interesting thing I've read all week. I was talking to some of our systems engineers about the size of the Hadoops clusters at Yahoo. I was pretty impressed with having access to thousands of machines with 10s of pet
916.
by sh1mmer 18y ago
I think that's really smart. There isn't much point building your own search engine now unless you are very large. There are normally a few great alternatives with some kind of partnership arrangement out there to use instead.
917.
by sh1mmer 18y ago
I've not really had trouble reading yCombinator on my iPhone and I can't vote up stories on your 3rd party site. So I appreciate the sentiment but I don't see the point.
918.
by sh1mmer 18y ago
I'd love to see more details of this or follow on research. They did an excellent job. None of the suggestions here would be surprising to a UX expert but having them in context is really helpful.
919.
by sh1mmer 18y ago
I disagree, I think it's nice that someone trusts this community enough to invite some of them to share a part of their life with them.
920.
by sh1mmer 18y ago
As numerous commenters on LH point out there are two obvious omissions from this list "Things" and "OmniFocus". I personally prefer Things, paired with the desktop client it's easy to use and effective. Out of all the GTD apps it's the one
921.
by sh1mmer 18y ago
I'm sick of seeming posts like this. No one else can tell you if IE matters to your site. You (I hope) have statistics on who uses your site you can see if a significant part of your community uses IE6. If it's less than 10% maybe you could
922.
by sh1mmer 18y ago
I sometimes get depressed knowing that I won't be able to read everything, or even a sliver of a fraction of it.
923.
by sh1mmer 18y ago
I don't see any evidence of statistical analysis on this at all. People are touted raw figures as valid without any removal of bias. More than that while it's cool it's 20% that still leaves 75+ % as IE and I'd be surprised if most of that
924.
by sh1mmer 18y ago
I saw this at OSCON. It was pretty neat but pretty slow. It's nice to see people homebrewing though.
925.
by sh1mmer 18y ago
The implication of division is also a really false one. Last week we had a summit about OpenID usability and Google as well as all the other major players in this space were there. People really want to find a good solution for users. This
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by sh1mmer 18y ago
Google are just testing an approach called "federated login" which they think is the usability solution to the so called "URL problem" which is that Joe Average doesn't know what a URL is or how it should be formatted let alone what his or
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by sh1mmer 18y ago
This is totally untrue. I sat in a room with every one of the major players last week. There is discussion and there is a sense that everyone wants to be in the same place. We haven't reached the exact solution right now but believe me we a
928.
by sh1mmer 18y ago
It's just a Yahoo account. I was logged in so I didn't notice. Sorry about that.
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YQL: SQL for the Web(developer.yahoo.com)
4 points by sh1mmer 18y ago|4 comments
930.
by sh1mmer 18y ago
I'd also like to see this compared on a range of javascript test suites like John Reisig did recently. Good job on the quick test results though.

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