JackWebbHeller

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by JackWebbHeller 14y ago
Usually a video with 301 views means it's suddenly exploded virally. YouTube 'stops counting' temporarily at 300 views whilst it verifies that a video is being legitimately viewed by many people in a short space of time, rather than people
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by JackWebbHeller 14y ago
>> So? Set up with a VPN that has stateside IPs, or build your own on AWS. Is that a serious suggestion...?!
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by JackWebbHeller 14y ago
It would be helpful if an editor could provide some kind of warning of this in the title. My Netbook is still trying to open this over dialup, and xPUD has ground to a halt.
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by JackWebbHeller 14y ago
The creepiest Numbers Station of them all: UVB-76 - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UVB-76 Just listen to the buzzing sound clip... Sends chills down my spine. Then after years of 24/7/365 buzzing, a Russian voice reads a bizarre encoded mes
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by JackWebbHeller 14y ago
Have you got a source on the whole plastic surgery thing? The difference between the two photos just looks like a man who grew into his looks and got took onboard some style advice.
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by JackWebbHeller 14y ago
HN really needs to hold a "snarkiest response of the year" award.
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by JackWebbHeller 14y ago
Maybe Elon was a really keen photographer.
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by JackWebbHeller 14y ago
Sorry for the double-reply but thought I should point out another issue along the same UK/US-divide lines. I just connected my Netflix UK account to Goodfilms, which proceeds to go and add my Goodfilms queue into my Netflix queue. Netflix U
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by JackWebbHeller 14y ago
Thanks for the Netflix link. Next problem? I'm in the UK, and so of course one of the most well-known English characters isn't available to stream from Netflix UK... sigh I completely agree the segmentation issue. You'd have thought doing
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by JackWebbHeller 14y ago
Thanks for the really useful tool. Great implementation of infinite scrolling too, but perhaps the small footer bar could be fixed in the viewport so we can click the links without more films loading and pushing it down? This is also a bit
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Web moguls' most valuable homes revealed(dailymail.co.uk)
1 points by JackWebbHeller 14y ago|0 comments
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by JackWebbHeller 14y ago
The driver just delivers Nespresso capsules - you can only order them from Nespresso directly online (at least in the UK). Otherwise, you can pick them up from a handful of dedicated Nespresso retail outlets around the UK - where I am presu
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by JackWebbHeller 14y ago
Nespresso capsules can be fully recycled. Every time I order replacement capsules, I also order a recycling bag. At the time of delivery, the driver collects my pre-filled recycling bag from the last batch I ordered and takes it away for re
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by JackWebbHeller 14y ago
> For example, in swimming, only two participants per nation are allowed. Really? http://www.usaswimming.org/ViewNewsArticle.aspx?TabId=0&...
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Olympic Diver Tom Daley abused over Twitter: Police arrest 17-year-old(bbc.co.uk)
2 points by JackWebbHeller 14y ago|0 comments
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by JackWebbHeller 14y ago
As cool as this looks - and don't get me wrong, it looks like great fun - what happens when the iPhone 5 is too big to fit in the guitar dock?
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by JackWebbHeller 15y ago
Why? Just on principal that as soon as a big company buys a little company, the product will inevitably get worse? Nothing has changed for the end user yet, has it?
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by JackWebbHeller 15y ago
Before the interview, write on a small card, "My habit of over-preparation sometimes comes across as arrogance". When asked the question, hand them the card...
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by JackWebbHeller 15y ago
> "I don't see where the market for your platform is, if I want this why don't I just use HTML files on shared hosting?" Because 99% of people don't know how to do this?
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by JackWebbHeller 15y ago
It's appropriate when taken out of context with two generic dictionary definitions...
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by JackWebbHeller 15y ago
The whole debate is frankly embarrassing for both sides... Of course, admittedly more so for Curebit - but I can't be the only one who thinks that DHH's cocky attitude, publicly tweeting things like "Fucking scumbags", is just embarrassin
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by JackWebbHeller 15y ago
Alfred goes a step further with a built-in keyboard-based file browser, web/custom/fallback searches, email, iTunes, clipboard, Terminal, and System integration, and best of all extensions. I can't imagine using OS X without it.
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by JackWebbHeller 15y ago
Reminds me of this XKCD, aptly titled "The Ballmer Peak": http://xkcd.com/323/
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by JackWebbHeller 15y ago
"After sitting at a computer all day, switching to the iPad really is just about the best thing ever." And shortly after... "Really impressed by Facebook's team. They're 10 hours away from the biggest day of their professional lives and
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MG Siegler cryptically announces Facebook's iPad App launches tomorrow(facebook.com)
1 points by JackWebbHeller 15y ago|1 comments
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by JackWebbHeller 15y ago
I remember reading an article in the UK edition of Wired about IEDs. Soldiers soon realised that roadside bombs were heat-detecting - as soon as the heat being given off from a truck driving past was detected, these IEDs would launch straig
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by JackWebbHeller 15y ago
Finally lost my Mario virginity...
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by JackWebbHeller 15y ago
> "The Shuttle suffers from its own Y2K problem"... "A software fix is possible, but it has never been worth the millions of dollars necessary to fix it." MILLIONS of dollars?!
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by JackWebbHeller 15y ago
In exchange for a Google+ invite to jack[@]jackwebbheller.com, I will happily send you the worst three jokes you have heard via email.
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by JackWebbHeller 15y ago
Great work! But I had some trouble getting it to run on my Mac. I think it might be because I use VirtualHostX - http://clickontyler.com/virtualhostx/ - which alters my hosts file. I had to create a host - http://dotjs/ - pointing to my

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