ambirex

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by ambirex 13y ago
When looking at languages like LiveScript (or CoffeeScript) I say to myself: "Javascript has been around for 18 years, how long will this be around for?" Not saying not to use it, but my use case has to overcome that question.
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Automattic acquires Lean Domain Search(thenextweb.com)
2 points by ambirex 13y ago|0 comments
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Boxee to discontinue its Cloud DVR service on July 10(thenextweb.com)
1 points by ambirex 13y ago|0 comments
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by ambirex 13y ago
After looking at their portfolio, I'd say that high-cost/low-audience apps are hard to make profitable. Let alone building a business around such apps. That being said, some of their apps look beautiful. Wish them all the best of
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by ambirex 13y ago
When I compare this to the Parse/Facebook deal, this seems like a more natural transition. I actually doubt it has much to do with Pocket, instead I think is exactly how Marco put it, grown bigger than a single person could manage. Congrats
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by ambirex 14y ago
This is pretty fun thought experiment. Let's actually say CNN has close to 100% market penetration, making the number of users around 25 million. if say 5% of those would be willing to upgrade to a premium for $25/year that would make the p
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by ambirex 14y ago
Built my own scraping some of the free sites, You can do basic make and year off plain VIN, then scraped some of the free sites with break downs of the various VINs to build a a map.
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by ambirex 14y ago
I have built something very similar to this is the past, here are a couple of observations: Scraping: - Dealer web sites are run by a handful of different data brokers, for the most part if you find a good way to scrape one (say dealer who
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by ambirex 14y ago
Some decent packaging, too bad about them using a wall wart, otherwise it looks pretty nice.
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by ambirex 14y ago
An interesting read (albeit a month old), but it didn't take that long for him to turn the full feed back on - http://battellemedia.com/archives/2013/03/ive-turned-full-fe...
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by ambirex 14y ago
Host appears to be down: Github of the project: https://github.com/GoodBoyDigital/pixi.js Text from the article: We are extremely proud and excited to announce that pixi.js is now available on github along with examples and documentation!
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by ambirex 14y ago
Seeing the boom in alternatives, someone should start making a feedburner competitor.
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by ambirex 14y ago
Perhaps the "decline in usage" had something to do with the thoughtless redesign they implemented.
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by ambirex 14y ago
Short story, my own system with over 16k links. Back in 2004 there a competing service to delicious called Furl ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Furl ) it would save a snapshot of page you were saving. The only downside was it was slow so I m
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by ambirex 14y ago
"File:///"
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by ambirex 14y ago
One of the more interesting parts of the call is them saying they are abandoning their conservative guidance for a more "likely" one.
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Web developer(seancoates.com)
3 points by ambirex 14y ago|0 comments
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by ambirex 14y ago
I'm having a hard time giving this current dust up any credence. There has been one user who has come forward saying there was unethical behavior from the UK sales office, the CEO said there have been a couple reports. I'm not seeing a wide
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by ambirex 14y ago
http://arewefastyet.com/ still is being updated and has IonMonkey scores. V8 is still in the lead in 2 (out of 3) of the benchmark suites.
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Rss.js(rssjs.org)
2 points by ambirex 14y ago|0 comments
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by ambirex 14y ago
Except for the fact that Clippy popped up unwanted and Siri you have to ask for.
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by ambirex 14y ago
The same people who are doing the cdnjs have been planning do a CSS one as well, https://github.com/cdnjs/cdncss
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by ambirex 14y ago
From time to time I re-read Larry Wall's "Apocalypse 5" - http://www.perl.com/pub/2002/06/04/apo5.html?page=6 It is still in interesting look into why regexs are the way they are. Also if you are familiar with this quote: "Some people
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by ambirex 14y ago
AppFog just expanded their free tier to be able to use 2GB memory and 50GB of transfer.
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Introducing django-lazysignup(stereoplex.com)
1 points by ambirex 14y ago|0 comments
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by ambirex 14y ago
"Imagine if Apple removes Terminal itself in the next version of OS X, or decides iMessage is the future and gets rid of Mail.app?" I kind of lost respect for the article at this point, Mail.app, really? I see them removing built in support
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by ambirex 14y ago
Sounds like typical MS naming issues, although 8 looks like it will be clearing it up some (with the exception of recent "Surface for Windows RT")
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by ambirex 14y ago
I agree to a point, but a satisfied customer is less likely to come back to close a ticket. I prefer a system the automatically closes a ticket after a period of inactivity.
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by ambirex 14y ago
It really shouldn't be a major issue to fix, I've encountered this before. Since they are using S3 (guessing by the second to last comment - http://support.droplr.com/discussions/suggestions/153-https#... ) they can use amazon's SSL url so
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by ambirex 14y ago
Clang isn't as much a game as it's basis to build better sword fighting games.

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