paul_houle

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by paul_houle 17y ago
Just to fill in come context, SIOC is an RDF vocabulary that describes web content and communities. In my mind, any site that's based on a CMS or a database should export a version of itself in SIOC: SIOC, for instance, makes it possi
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by paul_houle 17y ago
The "private beta" is a web 2.0 trope that's going to disappear in web 3.0. It's something you can afford to do when you've got a rich sugar daddy, but when you're trying to make a profitable site on your own dime, you've got to start ea
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by paul_houle 17y ago
Class-D amps aren't a common project for the electronic enthusiast: although the theory of the Class-D amp is beautiful and simple, there are a lot of details in the construction that are hard to master. Using an evaluation board, as th
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by paul_houle 17y ago
I got a PhD but never found my voice writing as an academic. For a while I thought I was a bad writer, but I spent a year or two, a few years later, where the bulk of my income came from writing. I found it was more profitable to write
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What Reia's Creator Likes And Doesn't Like About Scala(unlimitednovelty.com)
5 points by paul_houle 17y ago|0 comments
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by paul_houle 17y ago
Maybe it's the state I'm in, but whenever I've looked into high deductible plans it doesn't seem that they save much money. Most of health insurance premiums go to pay for very expensive treatments, usually at the end of life. Routine me
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by paul_houle 17y ago
How come people aren't looking at this from the other angle: a twitter client could pre-preemptively look up URLs from url shortening services and annotate the tweets with the full URLs? For that matter, how about a twitter client with a
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by paul_houle 17y ago
Frontier DSL, which also serves communities around Rochester, NY has also been talking about a bandwidth cap -- at a ludicrously low 5 GB/month. Frontier serves a number of rural areas where they're the only option people have for service:
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by paul_houle 17y ago
That's very possible. No matter how I interpret it, Prozac made my life like a Phillip K. Dick novel.
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by paul_houle 17y ago
Personally I'm not a fan of antidepressants. For me, Prozac had the side effect of extra-sensory perception: I couldn't do anything without having immediate karmic effects on people I knew who lived hundreds of miles away. I'd be sittin
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Economists: Stock Market Volatility Increases With Time Horizon(papers.ssrn.com)
1 points by paul_houle 17y ago|0 comments
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Marc A: Not Letting Your Content Be Used Is Entirely The Wrong Strategy(blog.digitalarmm.com)
2 points by paul_houle 17y ago|0 comments
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2-Fluid Liquid Salt Reactor Could Produce Energy With Minimal Long-Lived Waste(cns-snc.ca)
1 points by paul_houle 18y ago|0 comments
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by paul_houle 18y ago
This is ludicrous. You might have been able to blame labor unions for the economic problems of the 1970's, but capital has been ascendant everywhere since the 1980's. Power has become increasingly concentrated in the hands of the rich, a
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by paul_houle 18y ago
I'm in a rural area with monopoly DSL from Frontier. These days they use repeaters to service people that are more than 18k feet from the CO: http://www.flickr.com/photos/paul_houle/3340856649/ If you're far from the CO they use an ordin
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by paul_houle 18y ago
I don't agree with this. Jeff's post had some thoughtful things to say about designing rules for communities. He's thinking a lot about what the rules should be for his community at stackoverflow, and comparing your rules to other people'
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BASE scales better than ACID(queue.acm.org)
7 points by paul_houle 18y ago|0 comments
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What linux sysadmins should know about ext4(ibm.com)
1 points by paul_houle 18y ago|0 comments
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First Class Functions And Logical Negation in C#(gen5.info)
3 points by paul_houle 18y ago|0 comments
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by paul_houle 18y ago
My sites have done OK w/ advertising since Fall 2008, but I'm more weighted towards PPC and CPA. Web advertising has it's challenges, but it's clear that advertisers are wildly overspending on offline advertising, and that much of that s
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by paul_houle 18y ago
There a lot of people chasing the kind of opportunities that he advocates: ones that have strongly superlinear scaling. That kind of investment comes with a possibility of an explosive gain, but there are many opportunities out there tha
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by paul_houle 18y ago
this is why i like hacker news: anything about PHP gets downvoted into oblivion on reddit.
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1990 BBC Documentary On Hypermedia Starring Doug Adams And Ted Nelson(video.google.com)
1 points by paul_houle 18y ago|0 comments
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by paul_houle 18y ago
I can't say if it's really "hacker" news, but it's definitely sugoi!
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ICANN Gets It Wrong: Variable Domain Name Pricing Is A Clear And Present Danger(circleid.com)
2 points by paul_houle 18y ago|0 comments
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Mysql Sharding For A Site That Gets 5 Billion Views Per Month(jurriaanpersyn.com)
68 points by paul_houle 18y ago|9 comments
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by paul_houle 18y ago
I like that article!
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What do you do when you've caught an exception?(gen5.info)
9 points by paul_houle 18y ago|5 comments
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by paul_houle 18y ago
(1) have a really cool product that makes them say wow, for instance: http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/fusioinio-iodrive-flash,... (2) pay 'em
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by paul_houle 18y ago
I like the term "software developer" because it's vague about what you actually do: I mean, you could be doing software construction, project management or you could be the owner of the company -- one can be a "web developer" much like a

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