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One factor seems to be the vertical integration. It seems like these days there are a bunch of large companies succeeding by having the users of the hardware involved tightly with …

Check out meteorjs. Javascript has a huge amount of buzz and usage these days, and meteorjs is a fairly simple fully integrated environment that allows you to do just about anythin…

It seems to me that we have been doing this more and more as memory has gotten bigger and bigger, we care more and more about performance, and more and more people are writing more…

This model doesn't seem to consider risk. If you finance 75% of your home value, your equity is 4x as volatile as the market.

This model doesn't seem to consider risk. If you finance 75% of your home value, your equity is 4x as volatile as the market.

Not sure why anyone would think it was a bad thing to make a watch lighter and stronger.

I was interested in NoSQL. Went to a Mongo pres. Both examples would have been easier and faster in SQL. Even the SQL I used 20 years ago. I asked for an example that would show pe…

Is there anything like this for ruby?

They allow some small number of articles for each browser before putting up the wall. And I think you can defeat it by removing your cookies. I think that qualifies it for free lin…

I think the fault is in the whole idea of giving reduced sentence for confessing. I understand that a confession is easier and there should be some incentive to make one, but it se…

Um... That graph goes up to 600. Kind of an epic fail when it is an article about the fastest computers in the world.

I will keep using wget.

IMO, the issue is that real security is inconvenient, and my email is just not that secret.

I have a great deal of respect for Hawking, but... Lately it seems like he has said a couple of crazy things. We (as in most humans) are NOT going to get off the earth. Earth will …

I'm guessing cheap disks.

Isn't this the same as the rumor mill?

That's a very venerable program.

As many have said, this happens often in the stock market. And in other markets. All of these numbers are just numbers on paper, not actual cash in someone's pocket. This is one of…

I guess the ethos OS will not support any windows less than 1280 px wide.

Sure, the panel is getting cheaper. But transportation, installation, and land are not. It is still likely that panels will be more cost effective than more complicated, expensive …

I'm digging hub! Thanks for the link to the cheat sheet.

Yes. And that is one big reason why a corporation is not a person.

I find it hard to tell what will happen with Bitcoin tomorrow, much less in 5 months... I am under the impression that there's a decent chance that by August, the Bitcoin story wil…

To me, this is one of those hypothetical possible eventualities that I don't pay much attention to. It's very likely that for the foreseeable future, printing shoes will be more ex…

Just spent way too long a time drooling over that Dell 31.5 inch 4K monitor!