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by smoody 16y ago
the app engine applications gallery is now gone, too. coincidence??? http://appgallery.appspot.com/results?topapps=true
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by smoody 16y ago
I think MySpace still qualifies as large -- perhaps not as large as at its peak, but the peak number is all that should matter... http://highscalability.com/myspace-architecture
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by smoody 16y ago
The home computer industry was most likely a sub-million dollar industry when Jobs and Woz started, so it was certainly a bit easier to disrupt...add color to an inexpensive computer and voila... instant disruption! But I like your moxie! :
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by smoody 16y ago
I haven't read it, but Pragmatic Programmers has a beta of their forthcoming Arduino quickstart book available: http://pragprog.com/titles/msard/arduino
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by smoody 16y ago
I haven't tried this so I can't give you a review of how well it works, but I'm planning to buy one myself: http://eshop.macsales.com/item/Other%20World%20Computing/EXP...
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by smoody 16y ago
i'm in nyc, so it won't work for me, but wanted to say... Nicely done!
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by smoody 16y ago
I didn't read past the first page, but Tibco could be back on the scene if they ever decide to enforce their patent portfolio around publishing and subscribing to content/topics.
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by smoody 16y ago
"App engine is fast and awesome, right now. However, if your site gets really popular, you may consider moving off of it." Perhaps you can explain why you believe this to be true? I thought that the strength of App Engine is that you can st
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by smoody 16y ago
the iPod is no long a product, it has become a feature.
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by smoody 16y ago
not a well thought-out idea. one of the reason current traffic lights work so well is that they can still be utilized by colorblind people. this new idea... not so much.
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by smoody 16y ago
"When the tech-bubble burst, the VC on the company’s board left the VC firm, the firm decided not to invest more money, and the company was forced to sell." Any explanation as to why they were "forced" to sell? This is the weak link in the
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by smoody 16y ago
V. useful. And thanks for putting the source online -- a great help to those of us looking for solid app engine examples.
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by smoody 16y ago
I wrote my first commercial Objective-C program back in 1988 on msoft DOS -- 22 years ago. I am guessing it would probably be a dead language by now if it had not been for NeXT/Apple.
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HTML Email Format Testing and Previews(emailonacid.com)
1 points by smoody 16y ago|0 comments
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by smoody 16y ago
you might be able to use local-drive backup software, a drive at your friend's home, and a pogoplug device to access the drive remotely as if it were a local drive. http://pogoplug.com/ and you could use TrueCrypt to add an additional lev
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by smoody 16y ago
Just a guess, but could it be that they want to be able to authenticate a user in the event that they delete their facebook account and thus their facebook credentials cannot be used for authentication?
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by smoody 16y ago
nicely done! passing this on to my ui/uix friends right now.
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by smoody 16y ago
excellent. thanks!
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by smoody 16y ago
i suspect this is a case of an unexperienced entrepreneur/poster -- a rookie mistake. i can she why someone would sign-up to ask a question. Because I'm a believer of "innocent until proven guilty," here is some quick advice: - specify wher
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by smoody 16y ago
What I don't understand is this: Why do companies (like four square, twitter, etc) wait until after their first multi-hour crash before instituting a "this is how we'll communicate to users when we have downtime" process? I would assume tha
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by smoody 16y ago
but sometimes the single page versions are missing photos, slideshows, and other multimedia/interactive elements. i like words, but i also like the other stuff.
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by smoody 16y ago
i'm sorry, but i'm completely tired of these posts saying that they have the solution to yahoo instant search. there's a difference between some hacker in a basement doing a one-off site that a few dozen people visit over its lifetime and a
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by smoody 16y ago
My personal opinion is that badges won't matter to people consuming newswire content. I suspect that within a year, badges have little-to-no value in apps as a whole (with the exception of gaming apps -- and I consider Four Square to be a g
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Bugaboo App(bugabooapp.com)
2 points by smoody 16y ago|0 comments
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by smoody 16y ago
Virgin is cool unless you're a graphic designer/photographer/interior designer/etc. and you want to get some work done on the jet -- those purple/pink lights throw off the perceived color balance and screw everything up. If Virgin America
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LilyPad microcontroller's success in welcoming women to electronics(boingboing.net)
2 points by smoody 16y ago|0 comments
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by smoody 16y ago
I thought javascript/node.js is the new hotness. It's so hard to keep up with the latest trends!
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by smoody 16y ago
the danger here is, of course, that the person coaxing the wood sculptures might be doing more harm than good. who knows what circumstances led to the sculptures... could they have been done at gun point or other threat? if riches are at st
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by smoody 16y ago
title should read something like "why the open source libraries written for node.js disappoint me" fyi, check out a new realtime framework for node: http://github.com/LearnBoost/nodestream
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by smoody 16y ago
Applause to the LearnBoost team for making a great number of node.js open source contributions.

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