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by PanMan 17y ago
I have been thinking about this last week. First I thought it was some sort of "conspiracy", to make us all buy new data plans. However, the more I think about it, the more it makes sense: Apple just always goes with the newest and latest.
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by PanMan 17y ago
The count in the loop slows it down quite a bit: http://tips4php.com/2010/01/best-way-to-traverse-trough-an-a... Foreach is easier to write, and faster to run :)
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by PanMan 17y ago
That sounds nice, but as long as Flash, Silverlight, iPhones, don't support Theora but do support h264, it's not that practical..
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by PanMan 17y ago
That's only an option if it's a separate iPad app. I guess a lot (most?) iPad apps, especially just after launch, will be existing iPhone apps with some UI tweaks. You can't take an update offline in the appstore without completely removing
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by PanMan 17y ago
How do you determine the "safe for work" part? And what constitutes safe for work? I think my work is a lot more tolerant than some others, esp US based.
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by PanMan 17y ago
Where are your destination numbers from? For US numbers you can text for free by sending an email to a carrier specific email address (nr@something.carrier.com). Clickatell is a good option for international SMS, although they have had some
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by PanMan 17y ago
Everyone? There are about 1.1 billion PC's, and 4.6 Billion phones in the world..
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by PanMan 17y ago
I'm guessing we'll have workstations for those tasks for some years to come. But of all computer usage, how much is web/email, and how much is 3D modeling, sw dev, etc? I'm guessing not that much, if you look at a general crowd (not HN).
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by PanMan 17y ago
Twitter has kinda relaxed limits for search. I have done 1 req every few seconds, and that was fine. Their normal API has more constraints, but it's supposedly not that hard to get your limit lifted to 20K queries/hour..
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by PanMan 17y ago
Why does that make it harder? It's a row of bits sliding by, right? Why does the speed matter? (I'm not saying your wrong, I'm just wondering why it would help?)
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by PanMan 17y ago
Quite interesting: I don't think I have seen (serious) software for handsets that's more expensive than the hardware (for PC's this isn't uncommon). If you want to run this, the costs of an iPod Touch to run it on are almost negligible (wel
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by PanMan 17y ago
Did he declare it? If he didn't it's a big chance it's just luck he didn't get caught. If he did, than it IS strange. In NL we have kinda strict laws against replica weapons.
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by PanMan 17y ago
Crowdflower uses mturk as its main source of workers (they have some other interfaces as well), but I'm not sure that it being a crowdflower job is even shown at mturk (I'm sure some mturk workers will recognize the layout etc). I haven't c
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by PanMan 17y ago
I actually also tried signing up for mTurk. And while I guess it's not how it's supposed to work, I could sign up after looking up a random NY zipcode. Not 100% sure about the billing tho, but I do know non-americans who have used Mturk bef
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by PanMan 17y ago
It's mostly because Crowfdlower does some additional filtering: they have an algorithm that rates workers, and bases it's trust in the worker on how well he does compared to others. It also does some magic on resubmitting a unit as long as
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This week, I employed 1052 people..(martijnpannevis.nl)
25 points by PanMan 17y ago|9 comments
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by PanMan 17y ago
Nice post, but I get different results: For the boys (girlfriends) : http://skitch.com/panman/nq5d5/google For the girls (boyfriends) : http://skitch.com/panman/nq5d2/google Seem to be bore in sync..
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by PanMan 17y ago
I was part of the (4 people) team who build this website, to crowdsource a music video. It uses 4 webservices (AWS SQS, S3, Mturk via Crowdflower and Blip TV API), in the backend. Wonder what you think of it.
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Show HN: Check our crowd-sourcing project: One Frame Of Fame.(oneframeoffame.com)
2 points by PanMan 17y ago|1 comments
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by PanMan 17y ago
And via the Java JVM it's possible to run other languages as well: I have seen PHP, and think there's a ruby version...
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by PanMan 17y ago
While S3 storage is fairly cheap, bandwidth still isn't. I did some math for a video clip I'm working on. And 1.000.000 views (a lot, but not unfeasible for a popular music vid. Some rank 5+ million) still costs a few thousand $... Hard to
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Cloud-based gaming demo with no lag.(tv.seas.columbia.edu)
1 points by PanMan 17y ago|0 comments
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by PanMan 17y ago
I think it's a confusing title: It's now free under 100K pages. But that costed 0.2$ before; hardly a hurdle. If you want tot spider 110K pages, before it would have cost $0.21. Now it suddenly is $100/month. Doesn't seem free to me, or a b
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by PanMan 17y ago
If facebook has 30K servers, I highly doubt they have 25K of them being webserver.. Hyves (a dutch social network) at some point explained about 1 in 4 servers was webserver. The rest was storage, db, caching, proxys, chat, whatnot.
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by PanMan 17y ago
Nicely done. The only comment is that everything seems readable on a small camera screen, exept for the most important part: Your email adress...
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by PanMan 17y ago
But you might be way less likely to click on ads, because you had more training in ignoring them, than those IE users.
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by PanMan 17y ago
This blog posts seems to prove the opposite: Safari users are most likely to spend: http://axod.blogspot.com/2009/06/revenue-browser.html
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by PanMan 17y ago
One of the most interesting applications of running PHP on Java is that it enables you to run PHP on Google's Appengine (yeah, I know, if all you have is a hamer...) See http://www.webdigi.co.uk/blog/2009/run-php-on-the-google-app... Som
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by PanMan 17y ago
I guess they buy their bandwidth symmetrically. Thus, as long as they have more outgoing traffic they can charge for, giving incoming away for free doesn't really 'cost' them much (off-course the do lose income on this, but not real costs).
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by PanMan 17y ago
I don't think so: Most premium-rate callcentres still lose money. It's not that easy to make a profit on 50 cts/min, of which half goes to the telco's.

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