I'm glad database technology with its deep (and provable) mathematical foundation like SQL is free from these distractions. I mean what if there was this huge push of Object-Relational Databases in the 1990s and 2000s, including XML-native databases? I mean what if there was this massive claim that normalization is just an old man's fetish, and a bunch of geniuses figured out you could store things in memory and flat files like the punch card days? And then they created this huge buzz on hash tables, and key value stores with some magic serialized JSON could be ankle deep in linked key/values stores and scalability and all such things were claimed but seldom proved. And then mathematics of normalization hit them in the face, so they have to invent a new buzz word for normalization while still pretending SQL is an old man's fetish. More acronyms I say!
Good thing "better" is so scientifically quantifiable statements like "10x better" are meaningful, actionable statements, and not just feel-good rationalizations. I mean, what if it was 8.8X better? What if, as in the case of MovableType vs Wordress, it was just .8X better with a free price tag?
All these revelations are timed too perfectly. It is obviously a crypto-currency conspiracy to drive credit card transactions out of the comfort zone of mainstream Americans, and subtly migrate the shell-shocked populace into accepting the underworld's own spawn -- a hoarded and cracked crypto-currency. Well, it would be if I ever finish my sci-fi distopian short story on it.
Well, according to much of Branding/USP theory, focus is a good starting point for a USP. The other providers (S3, box, etc) may also be HIPPA, but this company is driving the point home -- we only do HIPPA. I have no idea if this is a strong enough differentiation, just pointing out it's not necessarily anti-USP. And price is never a factor in government-compliance and government contracts.
Kickstarter's staff is full of self-embracing hipster narcissists. They don't deserve the success they've had with old school video games. I personally know some of the people involved in these million-dollar campaigns, and Kickstarter has treated them with indifference at best. Real world Karma doesn't come from clicking a DOM element, but real world Karma will be visiting Kickstarter soon. It's already showing in the rise of competitors that would not have stood a chance if a this self-satisfied narcissistic bunch was not in charge of Kickstarter. The trouble with competitors is they don't understand the internal, gamified elements of the backer-base.
Or say any other type of crypto-ledger that is not participating in the currently fadish pump-n-dump bitcoin schemes. And I post this comment knowing I will suffer the down-vote rage of bitcoiners.
One does not usually go out of business with enough cash reserves to refund your customers. That being said, they should offer some sort of self-hosted open-source promise: if we go out of business, we will release the code for our former customers to maintain.
I wrote you a sticky note encrypted with a Caesar-cipher based on the one published in the 1964 Encyclopedia Britannica. I affixed it to the door of the first stall of the men's bathroom of the 3rd floor of the engineering building. Please reply by February 7th 2014, as the final meeting is scheduled for October 2014 and there is barely time to coordinate with Eagle, Moe, and Fixie. Given the custodial hazards of stall-based sticky note networking there will be a follow-up note soon. -- exxegoexsrgi
Usually anything with the word 'hacking' in it means some worthless tripe the talentless toss back and forth to prove how they "get it." The root word is 'hack' as in bad writer, not 'hacking' as in coding.
He most certainly means Quora, which because of it's dark patterns I refuse to visit even when it ranks. Stack Exchange on the other hand, has another google problem. Many of the top results are "closed as blah blah blah" -- so you arrive from google to a Stack Exchange page which has your exact question, excitedly you click, only to find it closed and unanswered.
Road trips with multiple cars were down right dangerous. Cars weren't as reliable back then, and you could never tell if one car had disappeared from a flat or car trouble. Meeting points, pulling over, middle men for pay phone tag. The CB radio did change things -- watch movies from the CB era and you see the rise of information exchange.
Today you can still have a car chase on the I-70 in the middle of Utah and the cell phone won't matter to your plot, no reception, no gas either. Just need to change your setting.
I guess I'm in the minority, the website strikes me as templatey and filled with millennial narcissistic fluff (the same bogus fluff of Kickstaters with it's endless no one thought of this until we did). The amazon reviews are far more persuasive.
Can we tranche all the cryptocurrencies, including bitcoins, repackage the tranches into pools, then sell them to insurance companies as AAA-rated bonds?
Funny how the volatility of gold prevents it from being a currency (see egold, etc). But the volatility of bitcoin is magic rainbow-spewing miracle of portents.
Remote work job postings are usually a haven for scammers, commission-only jobs, and MLM. But this looks great so far. I hope this stays as clean and legitimate as it is now. My sister's boyfriend just bought Ferrari with the cash he made working from home, click here!
I'm going to copy and paste this into any empty or default text README.md's I find in projects I'm assigned to work on. Perhaps Github should also post it as the default README.md for any new project.
I don't know if "surmounted" is the right word. Kickstarter has made deliberate choices to operate this way. Kickstarter favors the backers, not the campaign. They surely know well how the system operates, and it's not an obstacle per se, but a rule of their game.