Maxious

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by Maxious 14y ago
If you attend a global event with a $6,000 ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TED_(conference)#Controversies_... ???) ticket, you may have more than 100 attendees http://www.ted.com/pages/tedx_faq#A13
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by Maxious 14y ago
OpenStreetMap has been tested like this http://povesham.wordpress.com/2009/07/15/openstreetmap-and-o... http://www.ucl.ac.uk/~ucfamha/OSM%20data%20analysis%20070808...
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by Maxious 14y ago
"Note: Not supported for iPod Touch 4G or earlier. Most functionality is not available on iPhone 4." ... with many negative comments from iPhone 4 users who ignored that note. The video looked so good compared to Layar on Android - is the h
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by Maxious 14y ago
> for x in range(10): setblock(x,0,0,DIRT) So how long before they add line drawing turtles to Minecraft ;)
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by Maxious 14y ago
Self sealing comic book bags. $127.50 per 1000.
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by Maxious 14y ago
Spoof news website, other headlines involve people dying from doritos overdoes http://www.cheapassgamer.com/forums/showpost.php?p=10101402&...
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by Maxious 14y ago
Good news isn't as exciting as bad news ;)
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by Maxious 14y ago
http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/joylent.com It's not just you! http://joylent.com looks down from here. edit: 11:12 UTC it's back up again.
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by Maxious 14y ago
> curl http://joyent.com/ curl: (7) couldn't connect to host Doesn't look like an SSL issue... Tracing the route to joyent.com (165.225.132.33) [...] 8 * * * 9 65.125.14.38 [AS 209] 312 msec 316 msec 308 msec
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by Maxious 14y ago
The Victorian studies also show that the number of fines from a specific speed camera typically goes down over time, presumably because repeat offenders get fines/lose their licences http://www.camerassavelives.vic.gov.au/home/statistics/
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by Maxious 14y ago
The bad performance of count() and the lack of difference in performance between single and double quotes came as a surprise!
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by Maxious 14y ago
No more complicated than a car name - RX8, S40 etc. Also if you spell out the numbers as words, Google will still find those cars.
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by Maxious 14y ago
The weirdest thing about that is Bing app and Google in safari crash so much. Did nobody think to test plan B and get some workarounds in place?
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by Maxious 14y ago
Sounds like Government-as-a-Platform would be useful here. SF rolls out an API to access BnB permits of the kind you would need to rent out an apartment. Except since they claim AirBnB is illegal, it would be a blank text file ;)
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by Maxious 14y ago
If you expand the hidden comments on Jeff's apology, Jeff "co-founder and CEO of the company" explains how proud he has been of the sales people despite "a few complaints": >Was the sales rep over eager and trying to hussle to get a dea
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by Maxious 14y ago
To be perfectly clear why this is downmodded, in the OP the developer's agency is contacted and asks for clarification. Titanium then contacts his client instead, it was not unnecessary do to so to contact the developer because they were al
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by Maxious 14y ago
Should be plenty of papers on the Prokudin-Gorskii images on how to overcome this.
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by Maxious 14y ago
"David Lindberg, Executive General Manager at Commonweath Bank, shared his vision of what the future may look like and the very probably demise of ‘cash’. Already more than 50% of transactions at 7-Elevens use contactless payment methods. O
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by Maxious 14y ago
"The fact that no studies have produced findings that contradict the 10x claim provides even more confidence in the 10x claim. When I consider the number of studies that have been done, in aggregate I find the research to be not only sugges
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by Maxious 14y ago
I didn't know Google finally released the transit API! http://googlegeodevelopers.blogspot.com/2012/06/public-trans...
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by Maxious 14y ago
OSM absolutely do not provide free high traffic tile serving! http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tile_usage_policy Perhaps a commercial OSM partner like MapQuest, MapBox or Cloudmade are providing the tiles?
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by Maxious 14y ago
Workflowy Pro has custom themes and fonts ;)
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"This website is offline No cached version is available" definitely missing ;)
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by Maxious 14y ago
Why do you need to do a MySQL upgrade you say? "Up until MySQL 5.5 (released December of 2010) the UTF-8 support was severely hobbled." [missing some Japanese characters, including those used in many people's names, and accents] http://mzs
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by Maxious 14y ago
Does anybody else find it funny that you can't contact Krit using Krit or phone or SMS? But you can contact them via email, facebook, twitter or tumblr ask? And doesn't this miss the whole engaged consumer phenomenon - I don't want you to f
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by Maxious 14y ago
RFC 6238 TOTP: Time-Based One-Time Password Algorithm describes how to implement your own google authenticator if you wish http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6238
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by Maxious 14y ago
Just to be clear one of those users was a Dropbox employee who had a document containing user details including but not limited to email addresses (some that had only been used for Dropbox). These details were then provided to spammers
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"Page Could Not Be Loaded We're very sorry, but the page could not be loaded properly. This should be fixed very soon, and we apologize for any inconvenience. Debug Info: Status: 503 Response: Service Unavailable XID: 1889032339 AppFog" U
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The vandalism by the local chapter this year has been hilariously misguided. They destroyed a GM crop experiment that was investigating the damage GM crops do, attacked a building they thought processed cage chickens but actually cut off th
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by Maxious 14y ago
I think you meant trawling ("Trawling is a method of fishing that involves pulling a fishing net through the water behind one or more boats.") Trolling would be quite a different thing ;)

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