May 20, 2012
 

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What Level Programmer Are You?

Everybody’s talking about how programming is the skill that we all are going to need. [Except those folks who might feel that most programming could be turned into wizard-like tools. Insert long discussion about Strong AI.] But what’s a programmer? Is the guy who set up his own Apache Web Server a programmer? How about [...]

 

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More EU Bollocks.

The EU Creed – “Try and Try again there is no do” The negotiations have gone on for months. If you truly believe that it’s about making Greece’s’ debts more affordable you’re mad, this is about setting targets that are impossible to meet, thus creating a situation wherein Greece becomes a third world country outside [...]

 

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Use the ODBC predicate? Mental ODBC + Prolog

While I can kind of see the point of why it might be useful, just like Prolog-Java bridges are sometimes useful if it works – which is almost never. It still seems a bit mental to be using mySQL with prolog. If you really are using prolog, the data you get from prolog and its [...]

 

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Nide - IDE for Node.JS

Pretty cool as IDEs go. If only Netbeans could be that lightweight… Nide is a web-based IDE for Node.JS, designed with simplicity and ease-of-use in mind. You can run Nide locally or install it on your remote server, and access it through your Web browser. via Nide – Beautiful IDE for Node.JS.

 

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RFC 1925 - The Twelve Networking Truths

(3) With sufficient thrust, pigs fly just fine. However, this is not necessarily a good idea. It is hard to be sure where they are going to land, and it could be dangerous sitting under them as they fly overhead. via RFC 1925 – The Twelve Networking Truths.

 

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Motorola want 2.25% of Apple Revenues

Motorola Germany want 2.25% of Apple revenues, presumably from  iPhone and iPad. Chances of this happening? Nil. Florian Mueller of FOSS Patents found new information that suggests Motorola has offered to end the patent dispute and license its wireless patents to Apple — in exchange for 2.25 percent of Apple’s sales. via Motorola wants 2.25 [...]

 

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All your base are belong to us.

Euro zone finance ministers told Greece on Saturday it could not go ahead with an agreed deal to restructure privately-held debt until it guaranteed it would implement reforms needed to secure a second financing package from the euro zone and the IMF. via Euro zone loses patience with Greece | Reuters.

 

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Node.js is Cancer

I have been messing around with Node.js pretty much like I did with Ruby back in the day. Its quite cool, and seems a bit faddy when you get to the nitty gritty. I can’t be bothered to write some actual content I have linked some posts that outline just some of the reasons node [...]

 

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US Recovery Stats - Not Really all that good...

If the US economy really is creating jobs, then you’d expect the rate of creation to be up there with growth. But it isn’t. In the last quarter of 2011, American economic growth was recorded as 2.8%. In that period, roughly 145,000 jobs were ‘created’ according to the Labor stats. That adds up to a [...]

 

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Overcoming Bias : Too Much Consulting?

The puzzle is why firms pay huge sums to big name consulting firms, when their advice comes from kids fresh out of college, who spend only a few months studying an industry they previous knew nothing about. How could such quick-made advice from ignorant recent grads be worth millions? Why don’t firms just ask their [...]

 

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Zynga & its Facebook Problem

Assuming ~93% of ZNGA’s bookings are generated through FB average of first three quarters of 2011, then total net FB bookings for ZNGA for 2011 would be $1,117mm based on FB’s ZNGA rev of $445mm divided by 30%, generating gross FB bookings of $1,484mm for ZNGA, then multipled by the 70% that ZNGA keeps. via Zynga & its Facebook Problem — Tech News and Analysis.

 

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Steve Jobs and Jeff Bezos meet "Ginger" - HBS Working Knowledge

Bezos on the Segway, the benefit of hindsight allows us to call bullshit on that one. You have a product so revolutionary, youll have no problem selling it. The question is, are people going to be allowed to use it?—Jeff Bezos via Steve Jobs and Jeff Bezos meet “Ginger” – HBS Working Knowledge.