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Yeah I understand the reasoning behind it. But, for me personally, I would rather we didn't cover one subject spam with another.

Or if we do let's at least change the topic each time so we can all learn about something new instead of just reading love stories about Erlang every couple weeks.

Yeah but it comes with built in applications and a platform that you can develop on top of. That's the part I find most interesting.

I think the "College Foxes Hauling Boxes" guys screwed up. They probably shouldn't ever have gone on the show at all but since they didn't take the offer all they've done is broadcast their business model to millions of people across America.

It actually makes more sense to me that they would announce a tablet in Sept. and then deliver it early next year. If this device really does include 3G, as we all assume it does, it would have to go through the FCC process like the iPhone, which would mean they would have to announce it before it hit the FCC to avoid any leaks.

Here's hoping Sept. 15th brings a MacBook Touch

Yeah Heroku is awesome, I'm really enjoying their new deployment platform.

I love the MakerBot guys and I can't wait to grab one of these machines for myself. As soon as I can justify the price ;)

These are some of the same arguments that people made to 'prove' an iPhone wouldn't work. Then once they actually see the product they are the first in line to pick one up.

This is why the 'Web will Win over native apps' because if you serve your app through the web you don't have to deal with anyone's 'Chickenshit approval process'.

+1 for zombies

So now we know why IE sucks so bad.

No, I'm a bad Hacker :(

I'll jump in there again and file a bug report.

I've been looking at this software for a week or so. It has great potential but it's not ready to deploy just yet. I've already found about a half dozen bugs and crashes with the demo data that ships with the source.

However, once the bugs are ironed out this is going to be great.

Yeah I understand that. What I'm asking is if anyone has any experience with ad sales and could share their insight into it.

I knew a guy who dated a girl that used to date a guy who worked in the IT dept of a company that used to have Exchange and then switched to Zimbra but now uses Google Apps. For what it's worth

;)

Can't wait for Apple to steal this idea and make it better ;)

All of the things you mentioned are stored in database files, so yeah it's all about file sharing.

Although I would disagree that pizza delivery is a piece of data ;)

This RRW article about the Mifi hardware says it runs linux and is capable of hosting applications.

Very cool: http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/watch_out_wifi_here_com...

Your last line got me thinking: aka Rabid speculation time.

What if the Apple 'Media Tablet' that is supposed to launch with Verizon service had this same feature? It's got an internal 3G connection but it can also broadcast a Wifi hotspot with Bonjour!

That would be an amazing gadget.

Rails

This game is awesome, I've purchased a bunch of more 'in-depth' iPhone games but I've had the most fun with this one. I would definitely suggest trying it out.

I've built a Git datastore that works in much the same way. I constructed it to interface with Rails in a manner as close to ActiveRecord as I could. I actually ended up basing it on the CouchRest module for interfacing Rails and CouchDB, so there are a lot of similarities.

As soon as I find some time I'll do a full write up for anyone that's interested.

"The importance of words in a document can be based on where they appear, rather than on how often"

Umm, this is already taken into account. Search is so far beyond basic 'this word appears 10 times so it must be important' that it's not even funny.

It would be really fun to get some Nvidia personal supercomputers together and provide a CUDA supercomputer as a web service. Would it be a viable business? I don't know, but it would be fun.

http://www.nvidia.com/object/personal_supercomputing.html

I'd like to think that I fall in the top 10% if not the top 5. Check out my page on working with rails and feel free to contact me if you're interested. http://www.workingwithrails.com/person/12559-brandon-pollet

Very nice explanation, thanks for your input.

I have read a little about the Filter/View system of CouchDB and I didn't really get the point as it just felt overly complex. Your blog/comment example helped though.

I've already made that facebook app, it didn't do so well.It was called iGot, as in "check out what I just Got." It let users put products on their profile and post a short review. I only had a couple dozen people ever use it.

It sounds similar to work I did on an Energy Trading floor. We had a system that would price out financial contracts and energy assets over various time frames to manage the investment risk.

Unfortunately we didn't use Ruby, we were stuck with Java and Matlab, but the HPC Computing Cluster was cool.

It seems to help my focus. I noticed a few months back that when I start up some soft music, like Coldplay, I tend to get more done. I think it quiets the ADD part of me that feels the need for extra stimulus. Also, when I'm listening to music while programming I tend to not check the web as often to see what's going on, that alone will boost your productivity. I don't really know why it works, but for me it does.

I fell in love with this site over the last few months. Not only were the numbers almost dead-on but the daily updates were all well written and insightful.

Great work!

This is blowing my mind. The implications for AI and genetic programming could be huge.