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by SteveC 16y ago
How does the WakeMate communicate with the phone to set off the alarm? Bluetooth or Wifi?
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by SteveC 16y ago
While not related to the content of the article, the title reminded of Eagle Computer. Its CEO, Dennis Barnhart, bought a Ferrari and accidentally drove over a cliff and was killed on the day of their IPO. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eagl
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by SteveC 16y ago
"Urgh, Rails..." You can hardly blame Rails for your programming error.
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by SteveC 16y ago
I have a similar rule when it comes to business advice. It's only useful when coming from someone made rich through their own business. Of course there will be exceptions, but I've found this rule works from my own experiences. Maybe a more
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by SteveC 16y ago
Koyaanisqatsi
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by SteveC 16y ago
It may come down to the mainstream game industry's aversion to risk. The high cost of game development has meant fewer risks are taken. Perhaps the stealth genre is considered to difficult to get right or there isn't enough interest to make
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by SteveC 16y ago
Flash does have an unresponsive script warning. If a script is taking to long to run a box will pop up asking if you want to stop it or let it continue.
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by SteveC 16y ago
What drawbacks are you thinking of? Lack of colour and refresh time?
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by SteveC 16y ago
The domain name seems to be wrong or expired.
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Ask HN: Living overseas with a profitable online business
113 points by SteveC 16y ago|95 comments
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by SteveC 16y ago
Feynman's brown-throated thrush anecdote isn't saying that names don't serve a valuable purpose. As you've shown in your examples names are a tool to help us reference knowledge, but they are not the knowledge itself. Unfortunately people d
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by SteveC 16y ago
Mongrel 2 and now a book on Python. The man is a machine.
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by SteveC 16y ago
Some companies do, others don't. Often what you think would be your business model turns out to be totally wrong and you need to change it. Even if you have a business model you should still be looking for others until you know the first on
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by SteveC 16y ago
You're thinking too deeply into that example. It's just a thought exercise to better understand how gravity works and easier for people to grasp.
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A short list of computer history documentaries & films(stevencummings.name)
1 points by SteveC 16y ago|0 comments
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by SteveC 16y ago
As an uncle with 18 nieces and nephews I can tell you that most of them don't have anything better to do.
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by SteveC 16y ago
He did this http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/4/2010/09/500x_p...
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by SteveC 16y ago
My experience has been the same regarding chargebacks. High volume of transactions, very few chargebacks, all or most refunded (I can't remember for sure).
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by SteveC 16y ago
I use the European PayPal which I believe has different regulations (for the better) than the American one. I've never encountered a problem with getting funds in 3 years of heavy use. We have had a few chargebacks which in some cases were
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by SteveC 16y ago
For minimalism to work you need strong content. This website doesn't have that. Even with strong content this design still has plenty of problems. That link hover effect is awful. It feels like I'm playing whack-a-mole. You also limited the
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by SteveC 16y ago
I offer both a monthly and yearly for a $9.99 p/m subscription. 24% of my customers pay yearly. The yearly comes with two months free to encourage customers in that direction.
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by SteveC 16y ago
Check out these screencasts (links below). Even if you never work with Rails or Ruby it'll give you an idea of how to contribute to other projects. http://railscasts.com/episodes/50-contributing-to-rails http://railscasts.com/episodes/11
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by SteveC 16y ago
I'm confused. Did it work because people felt more full and ate less, or did they eat the same amount but the water reduced the number of calories the stomach could generate from the food?
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by SteveC 16y ago
YouTube listed the reasons why they still use Flash over HTML 5 http://apiblog.youtube.com/2010/06/flash-and-html5-tag.html
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by SteveC 16y ago
I'd pay for a Kindle version.
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by SteveC 16y ago
How do you do your development? Do you work on the actual hardware or use an emulator?
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by SteveC 16y ago
Facebook is more for existing friendships, not finding new ones. From speaking with people, it seems most people reject friend requests from people they don't know.
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by SteveC 16y ago
Would this be possible as a Facebook app? That would help get past the initial chicken and egg problem any project like this would have. I'm about an hour away from the nearest decent sized city so something like this would be useful for fi
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by SteveC 16y ago
It's having problems with Opera. The text is really huge.
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by SteveC 16y ago
When writing regular expressions I always use this website to test them out. http://www.rubular.com

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