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nephics··on How I earn a living selling my open-source web-based invoicing application
As far as I can tell it is AGPL licensed PHP code, you can download the code, run it, and modify/fork it freely. Code is open source, but it is not developed in the open.
nephics··on The problem with self-published books
A book club for startups. It could be interesting, but how would it solve the problem of prioritising what to read, if everybody is expected to read the same?
nephics··on “Please let me know if I should stop developing apps for Google Products”
Authentication via third parties are not an inherently Bad Thing. Mozilla Persona shows how third party authentication can be done, without risk of user base hijacking,
nephics··on SQLite compiled to JavaScript through Emscripten
Demo page at: http://syntensity.com/static/sql.html

See more details here: http://badassjs.com/post/18857332551/sql-js-sqlite-compiled-...

nephics··on If you're using Node.js, you're doing life wrong
Unfortunately, this way of stating unqualified arguments as basis for reasoning is quite prevalent on the Internet.

Keeping it to node.js bashing, this guy takes the discussion to a slightly lower level: http://youtube.com/watch?v=1e1zzna-dNw

nephics··on The Future of CouchDB
It would have been a bold move, if Damien had left the "Couch" name with Apache CouchDB, and released his CouchBase product under another name. Also, this would have liberated him from having to distance himself from CouchDB, Erlang and Apache, when promoting his new product.

CouchDB is dead, long live Apache CouchDB.

nephics··on [dead]
Yeah, it doesn't work in Firefox :-/ See issue on Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=656099
nephics··on [dead]
Source available at: https://gist.github.com/1388372

Announcement: https://twitter.com/#!/kaptencybear/status/13929274842664550...

nephics··on WebGL demo of easing equations running on the GPU
There are more WebGL and other experiments on the same site: http://aerotwist.com/lab/
nephics··on Hacker News IRC chat room? (the 2nd)
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=85191
nephics··on Top 9 Must Have Add-ons for Internet Explorer 9
I had expected Google Chrome Frame to be the first entry on the list.
nephics··on Neat Algorithms - Harmony Search
It's not different. Both are random search algorithms packaged in a (somewhat complex) human abstraction. The convergence properties are the same as for other search algorithms using meta heuristics, including the classic simulated annealing algorithm.
nephics··on (Ubuntu) 11.04, a leap forward
Ubuntu 11.04 (and in particularly Unity) made me realize that the best thing about free software is freedom of choice, so I installed Debian.
nephics··on Microsoft spend $7.5m on IP addresses ($11.25 each)
Can someone point to resources that outline what the web developer community can do to speed up the general transition to IPv6? Are there any startups that today make their services available via IPv6?
nephics··on WebSocket whiteboard with chat
But it is not working with iPad's safari version
nephics··on “The Dirty Little Secrets of Search” – Additional Information
IMHO the problem is Google's reliance on the pagerank algorithm. Prohibiting automatic back-linking is fighting the symptom, instead of coming up with a cure.
nephics··on Amazon DevPay
It is a shame that not even Amazon is challenging PayPal's monopoly in Europe. Neither Amazon DevPay nor Amazon Simple Pay is available in Europe, and Google Checkout is only available in the UK.