neeson

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by neeson 13y ago
Out of curiosity, did you notice a bump from being mentioned in the movie Drinking Buddies?
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by neeson 14y ago
Thank you. The unintentional irony of people who've completely misinterpreted a very short, accessible paper and then try to use it to make fun of other people's intelligence...
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by neeson 14y ago
Well this is interesting. Third story from the top is about how Reddit is kickbanning a bunch of sites (e.g. the Atlantic) for nasty SEO, then a5seo submits an Atlantic story, his history is full of submits by the Atlantic, and he has stea
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by neeson 16y ago
Here you go: http://leaflabs.com/devices/maple/
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by neeson 16y ago
Thank you. This is exactly the kind of thoughtful, quality post that contributes positively to the discussion.
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by neeson 16y ago
Oh great, it's you again. Apparently you're not getting it. Start engaging this community more intelligently or go back to 4Chan.
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by neeson 16y ago
Thank you for the numbers. Point well made.
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by neeson 16y ago
To rephrase what you just said: Mexicans, because of their ethnicity, are less able to understand (for instance) mathematics, even when given the same amount of instruction, than people of the ethnicities that characterize the population of
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by neeson 16y ago
Correct, I'm not addressing your argument. What I'm doing is scolding you for highjacking this thread with your simple-minded ideology. I've always come to this site for interesting and novel ways of looking at the world. What you're offe
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by neeson 16y ago
Dude, we get it. You're a libertarian. It's very exciting that you've figured absolutely everything out and can offer a ridiculously simple solution that civilizations for the last ten thousand years have somehow overlooked. It's just to
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by neeson 16y ago
Am I missing something, or is Winer unaware of the EP101TC? My uneducated bet is that at <$399 it will be the non-iPad iPad to beat.
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by neeson 16y ago
Highly recommended.
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by neeson 17y ago
http://esa.un.org/unpp/
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by neeson 17y ago
I think you might be on to something there...
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by neeson 17y ago
Starting launching a startup in this space, but then took a sharp turn and launched Urbantastic.com instead. The idea was to improve the user experience - basically by putting a Pandora-like system in behind a Google-like front end. We lau
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by neeson 17y ago
I've worked at two social ventures that had non-profits as clients (Web Networks, and most recently Urbantastic.com). There emphatically is something wrong with non-profits. Just because there are some excellent ones (Sturgeon's law applie
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by neeson 17y ago
http://urbantastic.com And here's where I talk about it: http://blog.urbantastic.com/post/81336210/tech-tuesday-the-f...
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by neeson 18y ago
There's a layer (written in Clojure) between the client and CouchDB which does authentication, permissions, etc.
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by neeson 18y ago
So far, all the HTML that a given page will need is part of the same document. The templates for the dynamic content are all stored inside a hidden div. I expect that eventually this will cause too much of an up-front load time, so I'm pla
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by neeson 18y ago
Author here. Here's the relevant line in the post: "[..]web browsers are not the only clients that will use Urbantastic. Mobile devices, search engine spiders, screen readers for people with disabilities, and RSS readers all need the same d
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Why I chose Clojure/CouchDB for a new site(blog.urbantastic.com)
81 points by neeson 18y ago|33 comments
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by neeson 18y ago
Thanks for posting that link, Visitors was precisely what I happened to be looking for...
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by neeson 18y ago
I recommend staying off of GAE. I was prepared for some bumps, but the failures that I've experienced have, to put it bluntly, made me lose a great deal of confidence in Google in general. Even if it were more stable, I would still be migr
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by neeson 18y ago
Interestingly enough, one of Clojure's selling points is that the basic data structure is not the cons-pair (rather the implementation details of storage are abstracted). It is clearly a lisp, however.
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by neeson 18y ago
I'm surprised that Iron Sky hasn't come up. It's an online collaboration, and the trailer looks frickin' awesome: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xn4DW1uvsAE From Wikipedia: Iron Sky is produced in collaboration with an on-line community
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by neeson 18y ago
Dude. Little harsh there...
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by neeson 18y ago
There's also the survivorship bias to consider...
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by neeson 18y ago
Ditto.
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by neeson 18y ago
np
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by neeson 18y ago
My business partner and I have both quit our day jobs and are now in the middle of starting a company to solve this exact problem; we launch in two weeks. I'd love to give more details, but we're trying to maintain a very low profile for t

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