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Agreed, this seems silly to build your own which likely performs worse than PosgGIS and has way more bugs. At least the article could have addressed why that would not work for the…

As mentioned in the article: The group’s next challenge is finding a way to keep the suit tight. To do this, Holschuh says there are only two options: either maintaining a constant…

Surprised nobody has mentioned this yet, but if you use (or can move to) Namecheap for your domain registration, they provide free DNS service that includes dynamic DNS [1]. The sc…

Interesting in the 5 years since this was written, what the friend claimed would happen has come to pass. Car2go runs several all electric car sharing fleets in various cities. I'v…

How is this helpful? You do realize that the iPad Mini won't ship until next Friday, and that people may want a head start on testing their app on a smaller screen. And additionall…

I am going to upgrade my iPad 3. I mean you can sell it to Amazon for $400, and buy a new one for $500+tax. Doesn't seem like a bad deal to basically lease the iPad 3 for six month…

Traffic is one of the main things I use Google Maps for on my iPhone. How does the traffic in Apple Maps compare? I'd hate to lose that.

She'd only get 1/4th of that equity per year, and the salary is given in a yearly amount.

I thought she mentioned it was a 4 year vesting for that equity, which means 1% = $80k. But then that values the company at $8M, which also doesn't match the asserted $5M.

The article and the headline do not mention it, but FYI, this takes place in the United Kingdom.

Agreed. This article is stupid because it extrapolates from a few cases he's seen personally (and it was his coworkers messing up; I'm sure he's such a good developer that he's nev…

Groove™ huh? Aren't you infringing on Microsoft's trademark? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Groove

Does anyone know if the MacBook Air works well with say Ubuntu?

Have you looked at 99 Designs [1]? I havn't used it, but it looks useful! [1] http://99designs.com/

Does this system have transactions and ACID guarantees?

Not a lot of info on their website. But it strikes me as similar to VoltDB ( http://voltdb.com/ ). Especially the emphasis on OLTP queries. Is it based on the same paradigm of sing…