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Reporter breaks "unbreakable" phone(news.bbc.co.uk)
2 points by transmit101 16y ago|0 comments
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by transmit101 16y ago
> One thing I learned was that most short words are negative or at least excessively blunt. There's an interesting reason for that. Although English contains elements from numerous languages, it's two primary ancestors are French and th
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'Artificial life' breakthrough announced by scientists (news.bbc.co.uk)
2 points by transmit101 16y ago|0 comments
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The Teenage App Tycoons(bbc.co.uk)
44 points by transmit101 16y ago|10 comments
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Ask HN: voiceover hacks
2 points by transmit101 16y ago|1 comments
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by transmit101 16y ago
MacRuby
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Black hole "hurled out of galaxy"(news.bbc.co.uk)
1 points by transmit101 16y ago|0 comments
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How OSX executes applications (2006)(0xfe.blogspot.com)
1 points by transmit101 16y ago|0 comments
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by transmit101 16y ago
I perma-deleted my account several weeks ago. I was fed up with watching the not-so gradual erosion of privacy which has been occurring since I first opened my account in 2006. My problem is that the contract, whether legal or implied, that
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A super-fast newsfeed in Redis(rfw.posterous.com)
5 points by transmit101 16y ago|0 comments
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Mankind leaves mark on the planet with the end of the 12,000-year Holocene age(independent.co.uk)
1 points by transmit101 17y ago|0 comments
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Monit 101: A developer's guide to system monitoring(rfw.posterous.com)
2 points by transmit101 17y ago|0 comments
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by transmit101 17y ago
I suppose that one of the advantages of NodeJS is that it can learn from the successes/mistakes of the others. Without having 5-10 years of cruft, baggage and backward-compatibility to worry about. I take your point though. I only know Even
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by transmit101 17y ago
A queue would be a nice addition before the site goes live (it might be possible to employ a Redis list to do the job). I'd love to see how far NodeJS could cope without the use of a queue though. I'm still something of a NodeJS novice but
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by transmit101 17y ago
My only problem in the past about using Ruby for this type of task has been memory usage and stability of long-running processes, but since I started using Ruby Enterprise Edition things are much improved. Before I switched, I would typical
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How NodeJS saved my web application(rfw.posterous.com)
76 points by transmit101 17y ago|10 comments
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Singing 'rewires' damaged brain(news.bbc.co.uk)
6 points by transmit101 17y ago|1 comments
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by transmit101 17y ago
I perma-deleted my Facebook account last week. Whatever the motivation of this acquisition, Facebook simply doesn't appear to do enough to look after my privacy, especially given the personal and sometimes sensitive nature of the data they
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by transmit101 17y ago
Many peoples' personal weakpoint: Listening too much to what other people think about them. This website has all the attributes to become a viral Facebook/Twitter hit, and it's clearly been designed to achieve this. But why not give it a mi
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PayPal to be a way to buy ads and goods on Facebook(latimesblogs.latimes.com)
1 points by transmit101 17y ago|0 comments
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by transmit101 17y ago
Many years ago I ran a record label, and as part of the process of manufacturing I took the source DAT tapes to a cutting studio, where an engineer cut the "lacquer", which is a one-off, soft wax version of what will later be pressed into h
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Slicehost introduce intermediate-sized slices, increase bandwidth(slicehost.com)
1 points by transmit101 17y ago|1 comments
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How we built Secret London in a weekend(eu.techcrunch.com)
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The other way of following first(andrewdubber.com)
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Music Journalism is the New Piracy(eff.org)
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The simplicity shift: surviving complex code(rfw.posterous.com)
1 points by transmit101 17y ago|0 comments
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Lying vs. Simplifying – Ready? Fight (northtemple.com)
1 points by transmit101 17y ago|0 comments
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In Paris, the customer is not always right(news.bbc.co.uk)
23 points by transmit101 17y ago|27 comments
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by transmit101 17y ago
Ok. I've lived in England all my life. Let's highlight a few facts: * Planning laws in the UK exist largely to protect the countryside from being over-developed by often powerful building firms. * Surrey (the county where this man built is
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by transmit101 17y ago
It's highly impressive, but the question has to be asked: is a web browser really the best interface for a system like this? The fact is that audio latency, hardware support and plugin support (amongst many other factors) are always likel

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