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An excellent graphical comparison between Google’s App Engine and Amazon EC2. Google seems to offer a better whole product solution that Amazon EC2 because of their ability to leverage on web frameworks, toolkits and their social graphs. Amazon seems to be stronger on the infrastructure side - The flexibility to integrate with most client-side codes (as opposed to …
Valid points made. But it does not address one key issue - how difficult it is for business guys to convince smart hackers to work together.Does a Business Guy have a Place in Software Sta …
Tuesday before New Venture Creation Lesson:
Everybody was discussing their holiday plans for the Labour Day long weekend excitedly. Shao Rong asked me where I wanted to go. I replied “My colleague recommended me to go to Lake Tahoe. I was thinking of taking the train there this weekend and to come back on Sunday. I was pretty taken aback when he mentioned he wanted to …
My personal preference goes for Python rather than Rails. Ruby was too… magical for me to understand at times; and it was too magical for me to comprehend how they worked at the back. I missed the database schema migration on Rails though. Unit testing was done easier.Django is written in Python, which for the most part is comprehensible to me, except for certain …
Another reduction in the barrier to entry to switch to the Mac. Mac users can now launch Windows applicatios straight off an Intel Mac without initiating Windows. Codeweavers have launched CrossOver for the Intel Macs. With CrossOver you can launch applications right off your Mac as if they were a native application. Now that’s an edge over parallel desktop and Boot …
It appeared that previously, RFID tags can only identify groups of objects. Any attempt to track objects individually (for example a specific bottle of shampoo as opposed to the entire brand of shampoos on sale) was costly and ineffective. The advancement in RFID technology now solves this problem.RFID reader can now identify velocity, position of tags The new software will …
It will be interesting to know the impact that this will have on Google. They seem to be eroding their stand of “not being evil”. Increasingly, I see the detrimental effects that being public listed can have on a company’s stand and directions. I don’t think the founders would have anticipated this pressure to maintain profit growth every year when …
Some observance of the finance, credit and expenses issues I’ve observed in the Valley.
The culture is to spend.
It doesn’t matter what your background is - You will learn to spend in California. Basic necessities like transport and food is so expensive - it just does not matter how much you spend.
Customer Service Rules - Money Back guarantee
With a 90 days …
A few observations I’ve made about life in the Southern Bay area - or better known as “the Valley” It’s more related to character development rather than from an entrepreneurship/startup point of view.
It’s not just about entrepreneurship
Entrepreneurs engage themselves in things they want to do, not what other people want them to. People in …
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Web 2.0, Community 2.0, Business 2.0.. What’s left behind? Social Stockpicking! I’ve got to know Weiting, a pretty smart guy I’ve got to know at the E27 Wine Appreciation event at Palo Alto a month back. He was one of the co-founders for SocialPicks, and his team has been working really hard to pump out features. SocialPicks provides a community for stock …
It is true. You search and sniff out information that is most relevant to you. As someone who’s going to graduate soon - I thought this article brought in an alternate view point to …
Somehow, I believe we have this problem too. High pay, low working hours etc. Resonates very well with what I sense around me.mollymeek: Send this to the ST Forum 5: S’poreans Complacent and Greedy Singaporeans are becoming more and more complacent. They think that the government will take care of them. They are unable to go through hardship and are unwilling to work …
A good checklist to guard against cross site scripting attacks. I believe most of the web frameworks (especially RoR, CakePHP and Django) out there should have in-built protection against all these attacks?XSS (Cross Site Scripting) Cheat Sheet
Two inspiring videos. A father who went all out to give his son a normal life, and a young girl who has a talent for playing the piano.Dear parents. Before you start worrying about how badly your child did in school, and whether you need to schedule more tuition lessons to give them a better life in future - Please remember that the most important thing is for your child to …
I’m not sure whether this news is positive or negative. On one hand, Google is making everything free for everyone. On the other hand, free web applications edges out small web start …
Y Combinator is a venture firm based in the States which provides funding, networks and mentorship for early stage web technology startups. The underlying philosophy of the founders are that young hackers are smart, and should start their own company than to be miserably stuck working in cubicles.Peter Christensen toyed around with a few concepts to expand the YC philosophy …
The news:Some of you might have already known that I made the switch a few weeks back from Macintosh to Windows Vista. I went to the PC show with my girlfriend, and we purchased a pair of …
Now airport authorities have the power to download and check the data inside your laptop. > <Taking your laptop into the US? Be sure to hide all your data first | Technology | The GuardianLast month a US court ruled that border agents can search your laptop, or any other electronic device, when you’re entering the country. They can take your computer and download …
Bret Taylor suggested having a Wikipedia for Data. It’s not a novel idea, considering that Freebase is up and I have meddled around with a similar idea concept that I submitted to Y-combinator earlier. Adrian Holovaty, founder of web framework Django and programmer-journalist, also suggested something similar when he proposed a radical approach for newspaper sites to …
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