May 2012
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Dwight's blog: Why MongoDB is (somewhat)... →
dmerr: MongoDB (which I work on) is at the feature-rich end of the spectrum of NoSQL products. Not compared to Oracle, but compared to say, Amazon Dynamo. This was intentional. The goal was to create something general purpose that can be used, with ease, to handle a reasonably broad swath of use cases….
May 31st
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“In order to stay in existence, we changed many aspects of the service (needless...”
– Announcing FUZZ: Calling All Blippers in the US to Test New Product
May 30th
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Demystifying Enterprise Gamification - @rwang0 …trying to drive process by taking boring things at work and engage the fun level
May 29th
Constant Improvement: Spine.js vs Backbone.js →
hjortureh: Spine and Backbone are two Javascript MVC frameworks that look very similar on the surface but under the hood there are key differences. The purpose of this article is to highlight these differences and hopefully make it easier to choose which framework fits your needs.
May 28th
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Ten Features I Like About CoffeeScript →
9-bits: If you write JavaScript on a daily basis, and haven’t checked out CoffeeScript yet, this is a great summary of some of the benefits you can expect to find. Sure, most of it is syntactical sugar, but anything that can make your code smaller and more readable is a good thing, in my opinion.
May 27th
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Facebook IPO Post Mortem – Killer – but not for... →
Mobile is going to crush Facebook. The logic for Facebook’s price decline is that they have a problem in mobile. They can’t offer all the games they can in a browser. They can’t offer the same ads or branding opportunities. All true… Unlimited data plans, Netflix mobile. All not true…   Reconciledby Mark Cuban
May 26th
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May 25th
B2G: From Browser to Platform (for Coney)  →
in Browsers,Mozilla,Post-PC/Ambient Computing So Coney, notice how by moving to a canonical programming language JavaScript on both client and server, developer productivity may leap on simplicity.
May 24th
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Rich Karlgaard: The Future Is More Than Facebook  →
“Made in the USA” is set to have a major comeback. Who knew? We were all too busy fiddling with our iPhone apps to see it coming…
May 23rd
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May 22nd
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And so corporations begin to open data... →
Dr Rufus Pollock on Nike opening up supply chain data (hiring open data scientist last yr @WardCunnigham ). “Nike is opening up their data because they need suppliers to open up theirs”.
May 21st
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Butterfly Philosophy: Call for Immediate Phase-out... →
Crowd Source toxic phase-outs: suksmaratri: 18th May 2012, New Delhi: More than 80 People Living with HIV across New Delhi who has prominent side effects of toxic Stavudine, came together for a Stavudine Phase-Out Festival demanding immediate phase out of toxic Stavudine (d4T) from India’s National Antiretroviral Treatment (ART) program….
May 21st
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9 Deadliest Start-up Sins →
My #10 - don’t try anything
May 18th
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May 17th
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May 16th
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May 15th
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May 14th
Girls and Robots - Deus Ex Machinatio - Andrea... →
Feeling society’s expectations at only 5 y/o.   
May 13th
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Benefits of abstracting CSS with Sass and Compass. 9-bits: I recently presented at Philly Emerging Tech for the Enterprise on the benefits of abstracting CSS with Sass and Compass. While I don’t thoroughly cover every feature available, the session is almost entirely a live coding session, so it hopefully shows how easy-to-use and powerful these tools can be.
May 12th
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May 11th
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COUCHDB & RubY YOU’RE DOING IT WRONG - @timanglade
May 10th
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May 9th
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“By putting yourself in the path of possible good randomness and avoiding bad...”
– Duncan Watts book Everything Is Obvious: Once You Know The Answer
May 8th
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“Multiplying scales. Dividing helps you make this quarter’s numbers.”
– Seth Godin looks at the contradiction between marketing and sales in basic, mathematical terms. (via 9-bits)
May 7th
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“while it is easy to start a social network, it looks expensive to run a big one....”
– ‘like’ Lex’s 2 fundamental questions … First: will Facebook become a part of everything that happens on the internet rather than just one digital tool among others? Second: can Facebook change digital advertising as profoundly as Google has done in the past decade? Lex in...
May 6th
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RT @Jimmy Wales: Actually, I think +Michael Arrington as CEO of Yahoo is a good idea. http://blogs.ft.com/tech-blog/2012/05/yahoos-new-boss-a-plain-and-simple-bean-counter/
May 5th
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On APIs and Copyright →
Irrespective of my opinion on the subject, what will the impact be should APIs prove copyrightable? It is likely to be extensive, cascading and a lesson in unintended consequences. 
May 4th
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Scaling out millions of tenants using federated hierarchical sharding pattern. Web 2.0 can key driven security, private, shared, map reduced think-think by @SQLServerMike
May 3rd
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May 2nd
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I am not a code monkey: Dear Christine, I wish I... →
iamnotacodemonkey: Ever dream of forming the next Facebook, Google+ or LinkedIn? [Uhm…] UI designer & back-end programmer - please be experienced, have an entrepreneurial mind-set, and most importantly, have time to code! [aka be my code monkey/bitch] A new social network, that appeals to all who want…
May 1st
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