March 2011
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Mar 25th
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Thinking about business developers  →
Granularity of tools seems to separate different developers. Professional developers use scripting tools, Business developers visual tools. How much granularity can BizDevs stomach, we may have reach the limit already.  Then, that points to Enterprise App Stores? Ok, but how to deal with overlapping business logic and customization, back to Professional Developers… Ideas?
Mar 25th
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Mar 25th
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Mar 23rd
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Mar 22nd
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MapReduce is Possible in SQL →
Until very recently one of the more difficult operations to perform in SQL was a top-K query, for example, finding the five highest priced items in for every store in a retail database. But so-called window functions, which make such queries easy to express, have become part of the SQL standard and are now natively supported in Postgres. Window functions are powerful because they provide a...
Mar 21st
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Mar 20th
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Delivering Happiness via Wifi
On the Delivering Happiness Bus they have plenty of wifi, all multiplexed through several wireless carriers. Here you see them all hooked together via USB.
Mar 19th
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Mar 18th
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Mar 17th
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The Greatest: colamonstrosity replied to your... →
side note: Fascinated by Tumblr’s reply/reblog. thegreatest: colamonstrosity replied to your quote: The fact is that Chinese parents can do things… Looks like she’s getting the publicity she wants for her book. She’s not even a mainland native, based on her surname. She’s prolly from the southeast (where Chinese seem to be stricter for…
Mar 16th
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Some Perspective On The Japan Earthquake →
I run a small software business in central Japan. English-language reporting on the matter has been so bad that my mother is worried for my safety, so in the interests of clearing the air I thought I would write up a bit of what I know. - MicroISV on a Shoestring  
Mar 15th
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ABC News - Japan Earthquake: before and after →
Mar 14th
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Mar 14th
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Must Have iPad Apps For Designers and Developers →
Mar 12th
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Mar 9th
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Dear Apple: You're not "Post-PC" until you cut the... →
Mar 7th
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Everything You Know About Fitness is a Lie →
Makes sense, during cadet camp, never any fancy gym equipment. Lot of weights, obstacle circuits and running.
Mar 6th
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Mar 6th
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OS X Lion Interface Tweaks →
9-bits: UsabilityPost goes over some of the finer details in the next version of Mac OS.
Mar 5th
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Mar 3rd
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Mar 3rd
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“Apple is the most vertically integrated company in the world.”
– Why Nobody Can Match the iPad’s Price - Wired.com (via davemorin)
Mar 2nd
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Usefulness from McD's
Mar 1st
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