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http://www.enleiten.com went for that approach, but hasn't really gotten over the chicken-egg problem wrt public user lists. Still, might be interesting.

Huh, I've been quite happy with backgroundrb lately, both for repeating (cron-style) background work and for deferred processing. We've had little trouble tracking worker status on…

Strictly speaking, Vegas does have open container laws. You aren't allowed to carry a beverage within 100 feet of an establishment with an off-sale license. Of course, enforcement …

Given the difference in market cap, I'd be surprised if either could afford it - GS =~ 60bn, MS =~ 40bn, WB =~ 33.5 bn on 835bn AUM. They're not exactly small, post A.G. Edwards.

Amazon isn't sacrificing predictive power because they want to give you the explanation. They're just including profit margin in the data to give recommendations that are valuable …

Of course, you can use cmd-; to toggle Option between Meta and system (and ESC works as Meta anyway).

Or even (defun last(thing) (car (reverse thing)))

BSDi merged with Walnut Creek, then sold its software operations off to Wind River in 2001. That was a bit of a rocky period for FreeBSD releases, if memory serves, since a good ch…

Joyent.

I particularly found the explanation of Gresham's law to be the best I've seen...

That works great, unless you want to survive. The right order is 1) Build the product 1) Sell the product. You won't know for sure what you're actually building until you're trying…

1. Network extensively. Not just with fellow tech entrepreneurs -- you should also make friends with the local small business community in general. They've done this the hard way, …

+1 for YUI. The Yahoo team has done an astonishingly good job of demonstrating what javascript looks like if you treat it as a language worth using well, as opposed to forcing it t…