This month
How I learned to stop worrying and love REST - Mike Mayo
By following the REST style, I would have saved myself either A) having to alter my iOS code and resubmit to the store, or B) time spent researching alternate caching methods and implementing them in Rails. As it stands, my partially-RESTful API is going to cost me (and possibly the client) more time before we can call the project finished.
December 2011
Adaptive Images in HTML
Cambodia Tuk-Tuk Drivers Hit a Bump | News | Khmer-English
While demand is sinking, costs for tuk-tuk drivers continue. Sambath has recently invested in a new tuk-tuk and motor, that cost him close to $2,000. Drivers are also required to pay the government $5 annually to renew their operating licences.According to Sambath, living expenses in Siem Reap have risen, especially in the areas of housing and food, making it more difficult for the working class to make ends meet. He said more than a third of drivers' salaries go to room rentals, as most of them come from villages in search of better job opportunities in Siem Reap.
November 2011
About us | Raspberry Pi
We plan to develop, manufacture and distribute an ultra-low-cost computer, for use in teaching computer programming to children. We expect this computer to have many other applications both in the developed and the developing world.
October 2011
High Scalability - High Scalability - StackExchange Architecture Updates - Running Smoothly, Amazon 4x More Expensive
They estimate Amazon would cost them 4 times much.
September 2011
Nanode - Network Application Node
Nanode is an open source Arduino-like board that has in-built web connectivity. It is a low cost platform for creative development of web connected ideas.
RMPrepUSB
July 2011
The right price for digital music. - By Adam L. Penenberg - Slate Magazine
C'est un peu le système de pinboard mais sans la décente.Here's how it would work: Songs would be priced strictly on demand. The more people who download the latest Eminem single, the higher the price will go. The same is true in reverse—the fewer people who buy a song, the lower the price goes. Music prices would oscillate like stocks on Nasdaq, with the current cost pegged to up-to-the-second changes in the number of downloads. In essence, this is a pure free-market solution—the market alone would determine price.
USB based GPIB controller
June 2011
May 2011
Outsourcing Statistics 2011
C3 - The World in 3D
iOS Apps: PocketMoney LITE – Checkbook
April 2011
Helvetimail - josef richter
Future Farm: A Sunless, Rainless Room Indoors : NPR
the need for a product vs the cost of its productionOne of the more dramatic applications of plant-growing chambers under LED lights was by NASA, which installed them in the space Shuttle and the space station Mir in the 1990s as part of its experiment with microgravity.
March 2011
DNS Prefetching Implications - Pinkbike.com
DNS prefetching I thought it was a great idea and assumed it was an optimization that had absolutely no negative issues. I did not fully understand the mechanics and impact that it may cause on an organization. If 350 million queries cost $1600/month, then saving a few billion queries per month starts to be something to consider carefully.
Make: Online | Is It Time to Rebuild & Retool Public Libraries and Make “TechShops”?
Library as places for hacking litterature?Hackerspaces usually revolve around everyone paying the rent (part of the membership, the largest cost of a space) and shared costs. It’s not really possible to estimate the average cost to get one started, but it’s usually whatever the rent is for a year in your local area for a pretty good-sized location.
February 2011
LAUNCH Conference - Blog - LAUNCH002: What I Learned from Zuckerberg's Mistakes
The cost of social glue. Accepting mistakes will happen and take care of them when they happen or avoiding as much as possible the mistakes by a requirement document in advance.Then it really hit me: Developer-driven startups always produce product faster.This stands to reason: our nontechnical people are having discussions and debates while Zuckerberg is coding his next feature. This is why no one has been able to keep up with Facebook!
NoteSlate /// intuitively simple monochrome paper alike tablet device
NoteSlate is low cost tablet device with true one colour display, real paper look design, long life battery (180h !), together with very handy usage and very simple and helpful interface for pen and paper.
Download the bbc.closing.sites.archive torrent
The cost is not in the technical infrastructure but in the social infrastructure managementThe purpose of this project is to show how the entire 172 public facing
websites that are earmarked for deletion have been copied, archived,
distributed and republished online - independently - for the price of a
cup of Starbucks coffee (around $3.99).
January 2011
NoteSlate /// intuitively simple monochrome paper alike tablet device
The Hidden Cost of Free: Problems with the Personal Data Economy | Blog | design mind
But, of course, many of these services are not free at all. Users pay for them with their personal data, whether they know it or not. And at some point in time, the bill will come due. But, like Jeff’s truffles debacle, what remains unknown is the price.




