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Re:Google: Search, plus Your World on Tuesday January 10, 2012 @11:49AM (#3447662)
If I find an interesting blog post about a vacation on Google+, I can add that author in my "vacation reviews" circle. Further vacation posts by that blogger would also show up on my feed. Why wouldn't that be a good use of personalized results?
Re:Show HN: The Honeybadger on Thursday December 29, 2011 @01:00PM (#3404530)
This is quite a time saver and works well most of the time. However, I get this message for a few sites "Honeybadger could not retrieve any data about this site or he simply doesn't care."

e.g. sites, http://www.westelm.com/ http://www.bedbathandbeyond.com/

How is this "Faceweb" approach different from Phonegap? I believe Phonegap too does progressive enhancement as described in this article
Re:How Do I Cassandra? on Tuesday November 22, 2011 @02:17PM (#3266918)
How does the ring range work with nodes going down and new nodes being introduced into the cluster. As per slide 38, it appears to be a static range.
Re:Stop writing good code; Start writing good software. on Saturday November 19, 2011 @12:30PM (#3255705)
Touching multiple files for micro-changes, eh?

Don't knock on OOP cause your colleague does not understand encapsulation or basic principles like SRP (Single responsibility principle).

Re:They rap for funding (startup hustle) on Wednesday November 16, 2011 @05:49PM (#3245497)
Enjoyed the video. Loved the second rapper(Ryan Johnson???). Seem to be willing to hustle to get attention which is great.

But I still don't understand what undrip does. Their about page has a bunch buzzwords which makes me think they are in the social media, content consumption space. But seriously guessing here. They don't have a mission statement either. Come on guys. Give us something.

Re:The Rootkit Of All Evil – CIQ on Wednesday November 16, 2011 @04:38PM (#3245193)
I don't see reasons for such dramatic headlines.

Isn't this similar to your syslog (on linux atleast)?

There is no indication that this logging is being used for anything but debugging purposes in case of failure or crash.

Re:2012 Will Be The Year NFC Breaks Big--Just Not In The U.S. on Tuesday November 15, 2011 @11:27PM (#3241773)
What is so phenomenal about what Tagstand is doing? It appears to be just client side NFC with a library like zxing

http://zxing.appspot.com/generator/

What am I missing?

Re:The Quiet Health-Care Revolution on Thursday October 13, 2011 @09:27PM (#3109532)
This is an amazing article. Go CareMore!!!
Re:Grained.org - Online grained gradient image generator on Saturday October 01, 2011 @09:07PM (#3061695)
Ron. Pretty awesome. Just playing with it on Chrome and am pleased with the effects. Adding more than one gradient would be a useful feature as others have noted. Keep up the good work