edd_dumbill

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by edd_dumbill 14y ago
Exactly! It's a very cynical view of the media and unfortunately one I encounter too often among tech vendors. This statement makes everything else seem like sour grapes, regardless of the facts of the matter.
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by edd_dumbill 14y ago
Just one nit: tell us more about who you are. When dealing with something like health insurance data (or really any service, to be honest) I like to know there's a human or corporation behind it. Your contact page just lists an anonymous em
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Hipster Stack-Powered Voting Gizmo(blog.makezine.com)
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by edd_dumbill 15y ago
This is a somewhat ungrateful perspective, just after the Eolas patent case was thrown out. Yes, the W3C process takes about half the lifespan of many HN readers. Yup, it's not ideal. But it's the only game in town and it's been going on so
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by edd_dumbill 15y ago
Working here. Try again? It's hosted on Tumblr.
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by edd_dumbill 15y ago
Thanks Lio. Let me know what you think. Also, I got rid of the background. Seems my evil plan to hypnotize the population of HN might not actually work out.
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by edd_dumbill 15y ago
This came out of me needing an excuse to write some Clojure, and wanting to model a simple coin-tossing game. What started as a guide to Clojure for busy programmers probably makes a right-sized holiday hacking project.
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Learn Clojure as a holiday project(edd.me)
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Looking for data/viz startups for Strata showcase in NYC 21 September(strataconf.com)
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by edd_dumbill 15y ago
They're not out yet. I'm waiting eagerly to see what degree of openness they offer. My bet is that in this first release they'll offer a compromise between openness and Google's desire to keep Google+ a service that works well for its users
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by edd_dumbill 15y ago
It is a long bet, but I think the inherent advantages (in both improving search quality and in declawing Facebook) for Google of making the social features commodity will lead this to happen. It needs to happen slowly, as there are lot of u
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Google+ is the social backbone(radar.oreilly.com)
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A rough guide to JVM languages(radar.oreilly.com)
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by edd_dumbill 15y ago
#5 is a catchy way of saying there's an excellent complement of open source libraries and support. Though I sure get that for many HN readers the fact that many people are doing something is a cause to question, not follow!
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Seven reasons you should use Java again(radar.oreilly.com)
4 points by edd_dumbill 15y ago|2 comments
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by edd_dumbill 15y ago
Line-based processing is still important! This work reminds me of an article I wrote 11 years ago covering Sean McGrath's work on PYX—a line-based format for XML—see http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2000/03/15/feature/index.html . That work derive
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Mesos project has me insanely excited(edd.me)
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by edd_dumbill 16y ago
Yes, planning to.
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Which programming language do you want to learn next?(edd.me)
62 points by edd_dumbill 16y ago|84 comments
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SMAQ stack for big data(radar.oreilly.com)
5 points by edd_dumbill 16y ago|0 comments
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Platform agnostic productivity tools(bitten.twiceshy.org)
2 points by edd_dumbill 16y ago|0 comments