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Hummingbird: Real Time Web Traffic Visualization(mnutt.github.com)
140 points by sstrudeau 16y ago|33 comments
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by sstrudeau 16y ago
You can save some money in the outer boroughs but the entire metro region is more expensive than _any_ other American metro region for most lifestyles; and much more expensive than _most_.
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CAP Confusion: Problems with 'partition tolerance'(cloudera.com)
10 points by sstrudeau 16y ago|0 comments
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Easy Magic and Hard Magic(commadot.com)
2 points by sstrudeau 16y ago|0 comments
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by sstrudeau 17y ago
I'm sure if Adobe's lawyers can find any hook for a lawsuit, they'll be all over it.
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by sstrudeau 17y ago
Right, but if you were to change the battery in your Prius (and publish instructions on how to do it) you might void your warranty but you're not going to get sued under the DMCA. It seems insane to me that something that could have dangero
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by sstrudeau 17y ago
tl;dr? Yes. The article indicates even enameled cast iron works well.
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by sstrudeau 17y ago
I've been using Backblaze. Love it. It's the perfect "I don't have to think about it" backup system. Cheap. Off-site. No worrying about usage limits. Automatic.
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by sstrudeau 17y ago
And if you want to help the savvy swap out the automatic transmission for a manual, you'd better have the EFF on speed dial.
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by sstrudeau 17y ago
By teaching them it's ok to break the law to run their own code on a device they own without the approval of the manufacturer? This is progress?
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by sstrudeau 17y ago
And, because Apple actively tries to prevent jailbreaking, these kids will all be breaking the law (DMCA) to hack their devices; which is a real shame.
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by sstrudeau 17y ago
It is also illegal. If Apple didn't go to pains to prevent jailbreaking (and therefore make jailbreaking the device a violation of the DMCA) Doctorow's entire point would be moot, IMO.
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by sstrudeau 17y ago
This is exactly my complaint. I think everything about the iPad and App Store is brilliant and the closed defaults make sense. But preventing everybody from opening the device because most people shouldn't/won't is the problem. This is
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NoSQL vs. RDBMS: Let the flames begin(stu.mp)
145 points by sstrudeau 17y ago|89 comments
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by sstrudeau 17y ago
Diagnosis is work. It costs something. Some businesses roll the cost of diagnosis into marketing expenses ("Free evaluation!"); others won't (e.g., my auto mechanic or my doctor). This guy was asking for a "free" diagnosis. That said, if h
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by sstrudeau 17y ago
A friend's brother pilots a freighters. They always have a couple of armed Gurkha's (Nepalese mercenaries) on board. So some companies are willing to pay for armed security for their ships; but a few armed ships is clearly an insufficient d
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Proposed FTC powers & consumer privacy legislation worry some in online ad world(mediaweek.com)
1 points by sstrudeau 17y ago|0 comments
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Project Manager's View vs. Developer's View(knowing.net)
47 points by sstrudeau 17y ago|27 comments
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by sstrudeau 17y ago
Good point. Unnecessary is not sufficient -- however that fact that fewer than 10% of US households rely on a broadcast signal indicates this technology is trending toward obsolescence.
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by sstrudeau 17y ago
If we assume the facts cited in the article are true: * 99% of households have access to cable * satellite could reach almost all of the rest * 10 million households rely on broadcast TV currently In terms of access (subscription fees aside
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by sstrudeau 17y ago
This is a great idea for an app -- I've occasionally found myself in this exact situation -- and an impressive turnaround from idea to functional. Congrats! That said, the fact that you label it a "startup" instead of an "app" is a pet peev
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by sstrudeau 17y ago
See also: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1187446
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by sstrudeau 17y ago
See also: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1187327
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by sstrudeau 17y ago
We use Formspring for our business so when we saw this story floating around on Twitter we got worried until we noticed the telltale signs of the prank. This was the only story I could find on Google News about it.
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Formspring prank story plagues Twitter(inquisitr.com)
1 points by sstrudeau 17y ago|2 comments
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by sstrudeau 17y ago
This sounds like something that would go high up on our evaluation list for the company I work for -- for us, there's a big space between our bread-and-butter high end advertisers and the remnant networks filled with advertisers that would
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by sstrudeau 17y ago
For the money (free, hosted) GAM is hard to beat. Google just kicked off a major update of GAM and are rebranding it as DFP and will be charging higher volume customers. I haven't looked at OpenX in two years -- would love to hear recent ex
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by sstrudeau 17y ago
I've often thought about this. In the US, addresses are traditionally written in the format: [City], [State] [Zip] The state (and often even the city; there are free datasets for this though they're not perfectly reliable and more expensiv
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by sstrudeau 17y ago
I think the writer suggests that people end the practice of using features that automatically cross-post to multiple "social" sites. E.g., auto-posting your tweets to facebook and buzz -- and start formatting & filtering posts for each
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by sstrudeau 17y ago
Thanks. I realized post-submit that I'd copied a "page 2" URL for that post...

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