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mgwhitfield

that is insanely complicated, dude. i'd award you points for drawing attention to how complicated the current stack is for deploying something that should be relatively simple.
Rushkoff kicks butt, but his book can come off a little geeky and at times incendiary. In short, you'd kind of say: "hey, just back off and half of the things he is saying aren't issues," and yet most of the population is engaged and actively struggling with what he's talking about, despite how silly it might be.
Re:Is It Nuts to Give to the Poor Without Strings Attached? on Saturday August 17, 2013 @11:48PM (#6231565)
maybe if your idea of giving expects something in return in which case...

also if you sort of prioritize some social connection to supplying money, or you try to think about it with a strategy

. . . is that giving

Re:Is Big Data an Economic Dud? on Saturday August 17, 2013 @10:50PM (#6231414)
doubt it, people just aren't thinking about it right
Re:I cried a week after I moved here on Saturday August 17, 2013 @10:49PM (#6231412)
nice sentiments, you can find it a lot of places, but sounds like you found it in SF
Re:Node.js has passed Ruby on Rails in Google searches on Saturday August 17, 2013 @08:33PM (#6230997)
please note angularjs passes them both

What is an API, can we redefine?

a company said, "you can't mess with our services directly, but we'll give you a way to interact with our services and (mostly) data over HTTP. basically, SOAP is terrible, and this is just like HTTP but we give you a structured response in JSON."and then technical strategy said, "yes, and we can dissuade people competing with us by getting them excited to use the data."then the marketing team...

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