zipdog

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by zipdog 16y ago
Draw each screen of your system, describing the function of every element on the screen. Deascribe what data you want to store and how it relates to any other data. Then go shopping for a developer (odesk or a local web business) to make a
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by zipdog 16y ago
Thinking about the questions at the end, Microsoft is (or was) really good at backwards compatibility (and making it easy to import other formats into their own). This is their weakness: they are focused on getting content into their own fo
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by zipdog 16y ago
When I watch Hulu I expect ads, but when I watch YouTube I don't - having to watch an ad before a video implies some quality to the video, whereas YouTube is often hit and miss - it's the expectation they've built up after so long hosting f
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by zipdog 16y ago
I wouldn't be surprised if Watson leaves the contestants in tears this time - not because of some sadness at losing to a machine, but the sheer intellectual drain of a large number of very quick decisions based on intuition - which is what
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by zipdog 16y ago
"Market the hopes and dreams of a generation of engineers to Microsoft" .. ah, that's Plan A again
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by zipdog 16y ago
It sounds like your self-esteem could do with a boost. Other things may work better, but I'd suggest getting involved in some sort of craft group (make pottery or whatever). 1. It's hands-on and you'll be making and creating, so you'll get
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by zipdog 16y ago
If phones are destined to become nothing more than screens, then a heads-up display in a pair of glasses is practically all you need (plus a little 'pebble' in your hand with a couple of scrolls/buttons to interface with it).
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by zipdog 16y ago
One of the major reasons that Nokia lost to the iPhone is that Nokia never respected their external developers. Its the apps that really give the iPhone its staying power against Nokia phones. Nokia (at least internally) acknowledge that mi
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by zipdog 16y ago
Abstract (I can't access the paper) mentions aerobic exercise training and lessened memory loss. But I like the title.
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by zipdog 16y ago
It seems like there needs to be a real break between the collectors of data and the analyzers. At the moment heaps of data is collected by the same teams that analyze it, but just as an API opens up a codebase to new ideas, so would a stand
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by zipdog 16y ago
I can't even access half the published papers I want to read, so I suspect the scientific community will need to solve that problem (ie how to throttle the publishers) before any thought of allowing versioning and revisions to papers. As we
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by zipdog 16y ago
I'm interested by the nosedive in attention to netbooks. Obviously the media has gotten bored and moved onto tablets, but have consumers really moved past netbooks? I thought they filled a real niche and would be significant for a lot longe
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by zipdog 16y ago
Although it would complicate matters, I'd prefer the license to be by song or by band or similar. Otherwise they'd either need to track your listening/downloading habits to make payments to artists fair, or else just make the payments on th
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by zipdog 16y ago
Except that software patents don't even function for the little guy, because even if it was only 'little guys' using software patents, it would cost too much to check your code against every other existing patent
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by zipdog 16y ago
One of the foundations of America's success in the earlier years (up to the beginning of the 20th C) was its general disregard for IP laws. British manufactures were constantly complaining about American's using their designs, manuscripts,
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by zipdog 16y ago
> On pharmaceutical companies: Neither good or bad, but they do a great deal for society. I've begun to wonder if the bad rap that pharma companies get is actually a result of hiring so many people out of academia. The complaints I've
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by zipdog 16y ago
There's an argument that unpopular military rulers are beneficial to American foreign interests. Essentially, they are more reliant on US military aid (which boosts the Mil-Ind Complex) to ensure a continued hold on power. Any ruler who was
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by zipdog 16y ago
Interestingly, Warren Buffett has actually tried to win money off Bill Gates using an intransitive game: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nontransitive_dice#Warren_Buffe...
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by zipdog 16y ago
The rise in availability of entertainment (books, movies, etc) is actually having the opposite effect: the bestseller is more important than ever. With so much to choose from, people are more likely to go on recommendations, and the trend i
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by zipdog 16y ago
The big advantage I see from a weekend of coding is that (using the Funnel idea of work processes) you really move down the funnel very quickly to focus on a clear result (and then if it doesn't work, move back up the funnel until you see a
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by zipdog 16y ago
If you can get a sense of what a permanent Java position in NYC would pay, you can convert that to a contract rate using a rule of thumb: $40/hr contract is about $40k/yr permanent Knowing the cost of rent in NYC, $40k / yr sounds very low
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by zipdog 16y ago
The potlach was a tribal event where wealth was destroyed, but my reading of Mauss, etc is that it bought peace within the community by reducing the gap between what people had and didn't have. The power of envy in small communities seems t
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by zipdog 16y ago
So, the article actually argues that a popular tech term "cloud" has become a buzzword (naturally) and so is overused. Well, duh. Meanwhile cloud computing (being location-independent computing) is as strong as ever, and will remain so.
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by zipdog 16y ago
I think it says a lot about the technological community that the solution to IPv4 has been around and viable for over a decade, but it's only as we reach the terminal stages that uptake really kicks in. Same thing basically happened with th
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by zipdog 16y ago
Not the most important question of the day, but I like etymology. tldr: both hard-g and soft-g are correct (though the originators of the format wanted the latter)
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by zipdog 16y ago
I know quite a few people who have lost important data, and yet still don't do proper back-ups (which is crazy given a 1 Tb drive is $70)
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by zipdog 16y ago
Basically, seems the author is tired of owning nothing after 18 months of writing a blog about it. Minimalism began long before 2009
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by zipdog 16y ago
The wikipedia dump is great, but I've started using http://wiki.dbpedia.org/ which has an API to query the dumps. Thanks for these, iisbum. I wish more public data was available in db, xml or similar structures - too often I find myself s
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by zipdog 16y ago
If Egypt changes government, it will be interesting to see whether the decision to turn off the internet becomes seen as a crucial motivator for the coup. The internet is getting close to a basic amenity: if the govt shuts of the water or e
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by zipdog 16y ago
Great idea, and good execution, but to me more of a good indication of where things are going than a complete idea. It also highlights the need for more semantic knowledge within resources like Wikipedia. Grabbing the first paragraph (as t

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