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by siculars 16y ago
Just walk into http://www.generalassemb.ly/ . At any given time you would be hard pressed to find a non-Apple laptop. Where the nerd goes - the herd follows.
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by siculars 16y ago
Great blog post from the perspective of an educated enthusiast feeling their way around and trying to take advantage of new hardware to solve old problems. For those that are interested in the intersection of databases and ssd's take a look
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Twitter’s new search favors Groupon?(poynter.org)
1 points by siculars 16y ago|0 comments
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by siculars 16y ago
"Typing in a domain name and clicking "search" on instantdomainsearch.com immediately takes you to the GoDaddy" That is not exactly correct. Doing a search returns data from instantdomainsearch.com itself. Only once it is returned do you ha
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by siculars 16y ago
Vote scarcity. The way all these karma systems work now is that you, the user, have unlimited votes. But ask yourself, when did you ever value anything you had unlimited quantity of? There needs to be some limit to the number of up or down
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Three Big Pigs(youtube.com)
1 points by siculars 16y ago|0 comments
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by siculars 16y ago
It's called "garden leave" in the UK, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garden_leave .
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by siculars 16y ago
I was at that Yammer talk last week at the Riak meetup in SF and what people should take away from this talk and others like it that will no doubt be given in the future recounting a successful deployment of a nosql product is that it is cr
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Kinect & Pufferfish Eye of Sauron(youtube.com)
1 points by siculars 16y ago|0 comments
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by siculars 16y ago
Looks like this guy built a zookeeper lite on top of riak_core. That looks interesting. For those that don't know, the "riak" nosql product is actually comprised of many submodules that each handle a certain portion of the overall applicati
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by siculars 16y ago
That's the one. All the api's I'm using here return json. The only tricky part when dealing with these api's is making sure the json can be parsed, trapping errors, making sure variables exist before calling them... that kind of thing.
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by siculars 16y ago
I use that on my HN mashup... http://hnfluence.com/ Also my nyt mashup... http://influentialtimes.com/
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by siculars 16y ago
"The old show_ads did lots of work: loading additional scripts, gathering information about the web page it was running on, and building the ad request to send back to Google." Tracking users and crushing privacy. Sucking down clock cycles
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by siculars 16y ago
Any viable competitor to the Paypal tyranny would be quite welcome. Competition is a good thing.
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by siculars 16y ago
Thanks for the heads up on this.
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by siculars 16y ago
I've been wading through this muck for quite a while, I'm well aware of these "standards". I'm not looking for standards, per se, I would be far more interested for a product specific api. Think Twitter, FB or Google. Standards by committee
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by siculars 16y ago
>I think the true tipping point will be when people of a new generation (readers of HN perhaps?) become hospital administrators and with that bring a new culture and view of technology. I have very little hope of that happening. Hospita
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by siculars 16y ago
I take my hat off to what Drchrono is doing in the space. They are moving the discussion forward. It's a fact, Dr's love the iPad. They want more medical and healthcare related apps on the iPad. Drchrono's platform is a big win. Nevertheles
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by siculars 16y ago
My Rules for Negotiation: 1. Always be willing to walk away. 2. Never, ever, take the first offer. 3. Never take an offer immediately. Always sleep on it. 4. Never base your worth on "comps" aka. comparable salaries. You are an individual w
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Homemade Pulse Laser Gun(youtube.com)
3 points by siculars 16y ago|0 comments
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by siculars 16y ago
Re. File size growth in Couch: Couch files are written in an append only fashion so that all operations are considered appends, such as updates. The main upside is durability meaning the file is always readable and never left in an odd stat
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by siculars 16y ago
I've given a few talks about NOSQL in general and Riak in particular and blogged[0] about both. I agree with all of your comments and will try to add a bit. One of the major driving design considerations of Riak is that of predictable scala
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by siculars 16y ago
Mark Beeson (@m242), you, Sir, are #winning.
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by siculars 16y ago
Oooh. 5.5 billion /pinky raised to mouth/. Add a zero or two and cut the years in half and you may have something. That kind of money in this kind of economy is rather inconsequential. Anonymous electro cash. That's the win. I am not a fan
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by siculars 16y ago
I'm a huge fan of Node.Js and the direction it is taking. It has become the middleware stack of choice for all my new applications. My new stack is: Nginx / Redis / Node.Js / Riak Node.Js has bindings for practically everything, is simple t
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by siculars 16y ago
I'm not so sure. My step father just showed me his brand new verizon iphone he got the other day. He switched from bberry then tried and returned the android.
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by siculars 16y ago
I haven't. Just signed up for a beta account. Looks very cool though.
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by siculars 16y ago
Congrats on the launch! I've actually found myself using Convore more often than I thought I would. Particularly because I'm often in places that block irc. Have you looked at distributed counting in Cassandra for your counting needs yet[0]
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by siculars 16y ago
What about pirates? why no pirate love? Arrrrrrrr.
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by siculars 16y ago
Oh, oh yes. Thank you kindly. I was literally about to embark on this very feature. Let's take a closer look...

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