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by lazylland 13y ago
what's really worrying is that in all this time I've never seen a convincing benchmark, to motivate diving 'head first' into Datomic. For all the hate that the MongoDB guys get, they alteast piqued interest with some arr
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by lazylland 13y ago
The really stupid trend in laptop (and most portables) design is non-user replaceable batteries!! What can be at most a 10 USD, 30 second affair is now a drive to the service centre, a two week (if lucky) wait and a 100 USD bill ...
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by lazylland 13y ago
My paranoia in installing extensions is finally justified. If Amazon is pulling these kind of stunts, then imagine the kind of mischief the smaller apps are pulling off. This whole "scorched earth"-style permissions model that use
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by lazylland 13y ago
I hope government IT departments take these threats seriously and start updgrading/isolating the still significant numbers of Windows XP systems that have access to critical databases.
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Probably written by a bot : Hadoop Poses a Big Data Security Risk(eweek.com)
1 points by lazylland 13y ago|0 comments
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by lazylland 14y ago
I'm sure this is just a weekend hack for folks here, but the presentation really looks chilling. As a side note: is there anyway to participate in Google+ or Facebook without enabling the location features ?
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Raytheon's "cyber stalker" tech demo(guardian.co.uk)
5 points by lazylland 14y ago|2 comments
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by lazylland 14y ago
I love this about designers - they are so passionate and so convinced about the latest design fad, when in reality the only constant is change. People just like "new" things ... one season its faux leather, another season its gray Helveti
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by lazylland 14y ago
"There's no UI better than one you already know, and no UI worse than one you thought you knew but now haver to relearn." I hope this doesn't become the epithet of Windows 8!
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by lazylland 14y ago
I'm more interested in the HN comments here. Personally, I felt it was an inconsistent, and pretty tame take on an iconic brand (I'm not a fan of the new Windows logo either). Check out his HTC 1 concept.. a bit dated but still interesting
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by lazylland 14y ago
People just don't seem to be comfortable with grey. And this is a problem I especially see with newer devs: there has to be one right way that fully solves a problem. The balancing act between seat-of-the-pants thinking and methodical
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by lazylland 14y ago
"Twitter succeeded (as it were) because people used it", and they did because the Twitter API is basically the "Hello World" of using a web service ! This meant ANY platform where a developer cared to bring out a Twitter client had it, an
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by lazylland 14y ago
I'd like to think the essence of a start-up is in the passion of its team to produce something new / fascinating / challenging ... If you want to mainly establish a sustainable business model, just run a traditional service business. Ther
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by lazylland 14y ago
Aside: What a blast from the past .. "Three years ago, a ballistic Bill identified the phone consortium Symbian as enemy number one and this year singled out Nokia for particular attention" and mentions of handsets like " Siemens S55, Sony
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by lazylland 14y ago
I'm just curious as to how just accessing local resources would compromise a live CD environment ..
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by lazylland 15y ago
The best way I've seen to get feedback on such issues is while you type. I just saw the result list, and I'm a bit overwhelmed with the output. I've resorted to writing the draft in MS Word where I get basic grammar checks as I write.
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by lazylland 15y ago
This has serious legs, martin. Well done :) A similar idea has been in my "would-be-nice" list for eons, but its amazing to see it actually work. Wishing you great success! Happy hacking !
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by lazylland 15y ago
I don't think apps have a major impact on purchasing factor for the general public. I would imagine that the most important web properties would already have Windows clients. I feel the real reason is that the hardware so far has been reall
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by lazylland 15y ago
"weaving rigorous science with the emotional and spiritual into a transcendent experience" .. the level of hyperbole .. i worry .. i worry ...
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by lazylland 15y ago
Upvoted for "coding takes very little time" ! Most often, you are making 100s of small but significant decisions of algorithms, runtimes, libraries, memory footprints etc that the actual coding part ends up being the less significant aspect
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by lazylland 15y ago
'de-authenticating' a "machine" can be done just by clearing your cookies ! AFAIK, there's nothing machine specific about the two factor authentication .. It was pretty disappointing for me really .. I would have liked to actually authentic
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by lazylland 15y ago
Try this : https://github.com/balupton/History.js
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by lazylland 15y ago
But I didn't think that he used the terms too loosely. What do you think was lacking/superflous in his arguments ?
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by lazylland 15y ago
Here's something I've observed: i) most successful "RESTful" APIs don't really follow all the REST principles (e.g Flickr, Amazon, Dropbox). My thumb rule is this: If an API does not start from a "mother" URI that gives you the most updated
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by lazylland 15y ago
I recall having an easy time de/serializing XML in C# ... you don't HAVE to get into the syntax business if you don't want to. And I think the Java also has something analogous in the JAXB library
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by lazylland 15y ago
The first thing to do is to shake of the "feeling" about your product. Don't forget about the fact that you have been able to get customers pay for some value you created. Secondly, follow "nudge's" advice of picking a niche. No product can
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by lazylland 15y ago
Why is it so difficult to make a private copy of this spreadsheet ? There are no download links, or an easy way in Google Spreadsheet to copy a document via URL !?!!
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by lazylland 15y ago
Keeping your development machine powered off over the holidays is not really a stretch. Why waste so much power ?
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by lazylland 15y ago
So you're visiting your parents for Thanksgiving, and you get a call "LATCH! there's some issue with the thingamajig that we deployed before you left, urgent fixed required or the universe will ... be okay really; but could you please look
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by lazylland 15y ago
IMHO, REST's "software design on the scale of decades" is a lofty claim that has probably been validated only when the "application" in question is a web browser with a human user consuming hypermedia.

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