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derekorganon SeenBefore: A search engine for what you have seen before

Porn sites are not recorded

derekorganon The love and hate of Node.js

That article could easily be half as long

derekorganon Please Don't Become Anything, Especially Not A Programmer

noob

probably because as they stated they are familar with MySQL. After getting hurt trying out a new technology to them it makes sense they go back to something they know. Will probably lead to more uptime which is what they want.

derekorganon RubyMotion - Ruby for iOS

Looks very promising. I love Ruby and I initially hated Objective-C but I have to admit now I find it very powerful. The biggest missing link here seems to be the Storyboard. Its a really nice option in xCode. Have I missed something, how are layouts defined separately from code?

derekorganon The Creative Monopoly

I agree it is a strange term.

I do think however the article is well written and quite insightful based of course on Peter Thiel's ideas.

Inovation always wins, those that focus on just competing will lose. A country has to foster inovation. the countries that innovate in education could be the big winners.

To be fare to the US, some of there big colleges do that, but it does seem at the grass roots of the system it needs change and that applies to a lot of countries.

derekorganon Is My MacBook Pro Always Listening?

Are you suggesting that my mac book pro is sending this data to some apple server somewhere?

Can you imagine A the traffic that would take and B the amount of useless information that would be recorded. They have millions of computers!

If its not being recorded locally or sent to an external source from a privacy point of view there is no problem. Both of these would be easy to detect by looking for sound files somewhere on the device or monitoring outbound internet traffic.

So is it battery life that you have the problem with?

derekorganon Mapping an EC2 Instance to a Local Drive on OSX

You can also use Transmit to do this.

derekorganon PHP will switch to git

nothing to do with being "cool". Github have created a great piece of management software to view and manage your git repositories. It's easy to use and that is why its popular not used because its popular. Git itself is popular because its easier to use than SVN and is decentralized which is very useful.

derekorganon PHP will switch to git

to be fair the reason is outlined in the post. "... move to a decentralized version control system."