pj
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- December 31, 2008 (17y ago)
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I've created an awesome database application that is great for small businesses and one of the niches I'm considering selling it to are retail stores that want to put their inventory online. This market is dominated by…
- Compendium of Beginner Erlang Resources (spawnlink.com)
- IBM uses DNA to make next-gen microchips (reuters.com)
- Diapers: Are they necessary? (sfgate.com)
- Online Entertainment Shopping -- the new drug... (economist.com)
- Intelligence may be a Darwinian liability (scientificamerican.com)
- The first software patent ever granted (wired.com)
- The web is still very fragile (qrimp.com)
- The Future of Man--How Will Evolution Change Humans? (scientificamerican.com)
- How Spellcheckers Work (pcplus.co.uk)
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I like Reversi (a.k.a. Othello). I think because it is so simple, yet so complicated. It's counter-intuitive. It's a metaphor for life. Which board game do you like best and why?
- Online playgrounds: Virtual worlds for children (economist.com)
- What happens when a newspaper disappears? (economist.com)
- Monetising social networks: Tweeting all the way to the bank (economist.com)
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This is just an idea I'm going to throw out there. It seems a bit odd to suggest it because any link is a good link, right? Maybe not. Anyway, something like this in a bit of javascript would prevent people from linking…
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Sometimes I accidentally click the wrong arrow, voting up when I meant down or down when I meant up. If there was a hover over the arrows it would be clearer which I was currently pointing at. They are so little any bit…
- Hey, Fred, the VC Model is Broken (thefunded.com)
- Hack your own fireworks for the 4th of July (sciencefriday.com)
- MapReduce (NoSQL): A major step backwards (databasecolumn.vertica.com)
- The Capitalist Manifesto: Greed Is Good (to a point) (newsweek.com)
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The end of retirement article made me wonder about this. What was your first job, how old were you, and how much were you paid? My first job was stacking bricks from an old building they tore down behind my house. I was…
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I've noticed almost every potential client, when they are considering buying our product or paying for some services, they always say things like, "This is our entry point." or "I see lots of potential later." "I know…
- Visualization of the Netflix Database (magamaps.com)