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I was quite disappointed to find the article is not about actual unicorns :-( Where have all the great journalists gone...

I can attest that the methodology really does work - at least for my son. I bought it when he turned 6 and he was able to learn with just a tiny help from me. Thanks for building a…

Well written. The topics are explained carefully and the interactive examples are very nice. Thank you Ben! How did you embed the examples into the post?

Interesting read... until the phrase "big data".

That is true. For the right candidate, that is an option.

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What's the advantage of using something like this over CoreData - which is built in?

As if Google's Go programming language was not already named poorly enough, now somebody creates a CD service called Go. Very confusing!

I do wonder if this is a valid technique if your sales target is businesses, not individual consumers. Perhaps some variant?

Concurrent materialized view refresh and upserts would both be huge in my opinion.

Here's a gist I created a couple months ago that kind of explains the performance characteristics of goroutine per loop vs. partitioning with goroutines https://gist.github.com/nat…

This is on 7.0.2 on an iPhone 4s. Crashes Safari reliably 4 times in a row. Maybe it's just my bad luck. Anyway, looking at it on my laptop now. It looks great!

The linked web page crashes Safari on iOS 7. Mobile first, eh?

It doesn't mention which version of PostgreSql. I hope it is 9.3. It's got to be at least 9.2 since it supports the Json datatype.

It would be interesting to see the results of this weighted by state population.

If you've never read Eric's blog, I highly recommend it for anyone into language design and implementation (C# or not).

This does bode well for sites like AngiesList.com which charge a small membership fee (to end users), don't allow anonymous reviews, and allow businesses to respond publicly to ind…

What is really interesting is not the product itself, but the animation that progresses as you scroll down the page. Very neat! Basically instead of time controlling the sequence o…

He was visiting his terminally-ill father.

"There's no chance that the iPhone is going to get any significant market share. No chance. It's a $500 subsidized item. They may make a lot of money. But if you actually take a lo…

Wow, this guy seems like a very angry person.

This article seems to misinterpret scale-up vs. scale-out. >Yahoo and Facebook are excellent examples of how Hadoop can scale up; but little is usually said about how Hadoop can sc…

You really should get off HN and enjoy the sea.