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Show HN: Stratava – CSV files to APIs in seconds(stratava.io)
1 points by mbowcock 1y ago|0 comments
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by mbowcock 11y ago
GE chose to leave Connecticut because of a tax increase on profits made in other states by corporate subsidiaries. They're not the only corporation in Connecticut that's unhappy about the tax. Anti-business or not, it's not e
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by mbowcock 12y ago
AWS http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/dev/website-hosti... Costs me about $0.50 a month to host a simple, static site.
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by mbowcock 14y ago
Earth Class Mail http://www.earthclassmail.com/ I don't know who else saw it, but there was a show called Startup Junkies that profiled this company for 8 episodes. http://www.mojohd.com/mojoseries/startupjunkies/about.jsf
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by mbowcock 14y ago
My understanding is Kingdoms of Amalur was work in progress at Big Huge Games, 38 Studios acquired them and they modded the game to fit the world of Amalur. Which is supposed to tie into their next game.
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by mbowcock 14y ago
It seemed you were arguing against using transactions by default because they didn't roll back a call to a web service. I meant to point out that the issue in your case seems less about db transactions and more about the code and error hand
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by mbowcock 14y ago
The transaction is internal to the database. It's essentially a list of operations to perform, if something goes wrong it provides a list of things to reverse. If the db transaction fails, then there would need to be some code to handle rol
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Greppin in the GNU World(code.google.com)
1 points by mbowcock 14y ago|0 comments
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by mbowcock 15y ago
It's not transactions with the .com that's at issue. It's the fact that a company operating a business the government considers illegal is making money in the US and moving it overseas. It's all about the money. Not .COMs. Running a gambli
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by mbowcock 15y ago
That was only one of many charges. http://www.wired.com/images_blogs/threatlevel/2012/02/ccips....
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by mbowcock 15y ago
The US government has always had dominion over .coms (and .nets). Verisign manages .com's through a contract with the US Department of Commerce. That's where they get there authority.
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by mbowcock 15y ago
But that is already an issue - whether or not you have a .com domain name. The domain name is just an asset and the government routinely seizes assets when filing criminal charges.
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by mbowcock 15y ago
This seems to be the same issue as megaupload. A company outside the US, marketing a service that's illegal in the US to US citizens. Money paid for the service is then moved overseas. (I understand there may have been users in other count
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by mbowcock 15y ago
I believe all lithium-ion batteries have a low-voltage threshold that once crossed they can not be charged again. It's similar to a fuse - once tripped - there's no* getting around it. This protection is to guard against shorts in the inter
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by mbowcock 15y ago
decvax was DEC unix engineering groups vax on uucp/usenet. I believe it was the first system to move email in realtime. Microsoft must have been linked through this vax.
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Programming in Standard ML(cs.cmu.edu)
4 points by mbowcock 15y ago|0 comments
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by mbowcock 15y ago
http://matt.might.net/articles/best-programming-languages/ This write-up describes the basics of ocaml and haskell and some of their individual strengths. (along with scala and scheme)
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by mbowcock 15y ago
Seems like financial/quant computing would be a natural fit. The author mentions ocaml being well suited for general programming needs - Anyone using ocaml (or haskell/f#/etc.) for real production code? Edit: should have mentioned this earl
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by mbowcock 15y ago
For some reason this sentence jumped out at me: "Some lawmakers have noted that PIPA and SOPA would not affect anyone of the Web sites participating in the blackout." I assume the argument being made here is that they're domestic sites and
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by mbowcock 15y ago
"I suppose it's possible there are a lot of intelligent people with the emotional maturity of a 10 year old." I think this sums it up correctly.
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OCaml for the Masses(queue.acm.org)
55 points by mbowcock 15y ago|28 comments
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Python - Parallelizing CPU-bound Tasks with Multiprocessing(eli.thegreenplace.net)
11 points by mbowcock 15y ago|0 comments
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by mbowcock 15y ago
I had the same thought. Maybe for short burst where something is well thought out in your head and all your doing in transcribing. For most coding I find my typing to be more than sufficient. Maybe for something like documentation (but w
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Simply Scheme: Introducing Computer Science(cs.berkeley.edu)
2 points by mbowcock 15y ago|0 comments
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Optimization of Computer Programs in C(leto.net)
4 points by mbowcock 15y ago|0 comments
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by mbowcock 15y ago
As an aside I just saw this a couple of days ago and while activity seems to be slow to non-existent this looks like an interesting project. Webfinger - http://code.google.com/p/ Basically finger 2.0 for the web
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Linux Kernel Newbies(kernelnewbies.org)
53 points by mbowcock 15y ago|8 comments
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by mbowcock 15y ago
This is an interesting implementation of python in the browser. It's a python interpreter written in JS, so you wouldn't need any new software on the users end. http://www.skulpt.org/
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Ask HN: Anyone Using Mozart/Oz For Development?
4 points by mbowcock 15y ago|0 comments
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Advanced Bash Scripting(tldp.org)
120 points by mbowcock 15y ago|34 comments

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