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I’ve worked on a few projects with vendors that had data but no easy way to share that data with external systems. Typically, the story goes, we have this data in an ERP, CRM, Ware…

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 ab…

AWS http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/dev/website-hosti... Costs me about $0.50 a month to host a simple, static site.

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.mojo…

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 ti…

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 …

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 transactio…

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 over…

That was only one of many charges. http://www.wired.com/images_blogs/threatlevel/2012/02/ccips....

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 authori…

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.…

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 overs…

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…

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.

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 sch…

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…

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 …

"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.

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 …