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by bcl 17y ago
The HN front page has been defying all logic as of late...
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by bcl 17y ago
rsync uses ssh by default, no need for -e anymore unless you need to specify a key or port or blowfish (which you can all do with ~/.ssh/config)
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by bcl 17y ago
FlashBlock handles that nicely in FF. Nothing is loaded until you click on it.
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by bcl 17y ago
Instead of calling this a decline I would call it a consolidation. Google Reader does everything I need a RSS reader to do. It works on my desktop and it works on my iPhone, need to synchronize between them since it is all on the web. All t
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by bcl 17y ago
It depends on the number of machines. When I have 3 or 4 they get names (currently using Firefly characters), but when I have say 20 or more they get numbers. Or they get both so that my scripts are easier to write. For me it also depends o
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Streaming Local Video With Your Roku(blog.brianlane.com)
3 points by bcl 17y ago|1 comments
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by bcl 17y ago
Instead of saying the competition 'sucks' I would instead explain why my product is superior to their. Accentuate the positives of your product, not the negatives of the competition (which, if they have already used the competitions they al
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by bcl 17y ago
I'm curious as to why your expenses were so high? Advertising and server charges should be the bulk of that, correct?
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by bcl 17y ago
This is an update to my previous post about being rejected for looking like a Polaroid - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=974784
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SharePics Accepted by Apple after a quick redesign(blog.brianlane.com)
1 points by bcl 17y ago|1 comments
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by bcl 17y ago
I wonder how much the contractor charged us taxpayers for this system?
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by bcl 17y ago
Not a terribly useful article. 2. Tell people your competition sucks - unethical. 4. Seed your site using Mechanical Turk - unethical, depending on the type of site you have. 5. Have a blog - should be 'Have a Popular Blog' He leaves out us
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by bcl 17y ago
I think this demonstrates why people should be more careful about what they post in public forums, under their own names. The ability to make associations like this is only going to become easier.
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by bcl 17y ago
Same here. I've been using them for years with no problems. These stories worry me enough that I do an annual review of the other options out there -- but none of them are as good as PayPal. I also don't keep funds in my PP account, as well
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by bcl 17y ago
Very, very true. Just as no battle plan survives contact with the enemy, no product idea survives contact with the customers. From the ground up you need to plan for change, keeping your development cycle flexible so that you can adapt and
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by bcl 17y ago
This is similar to what I found. It is still faster to use my local DJB dnscache than any of the ISP DNS servers. And Google DNS was slower than the rest. I did notice that level3 and OpenDNS seem to cache better -- they get considerably fa
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by bcl 17y ago
I don't like them. With a screencast I have to sit through it at the pace of the presenter. With an article I can read at my own pace and skim it if needed. ETA: Good point below, screenshots enhance an article more than a screencast would,
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by bcl 17y ago
Here is what google is serving up: [bcl@lister tmp]$ dig www.google.com ; <<>> DiG 9.6.1-P2-RedHat-9.6.1-7.P2.fc11 <<>> www.google.com ;; global options: +cmd ;; Got answer: ;; ->&#6
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by bcl 17y ago
Do you mean the icon on the searching dialog? That's part of Apple's Game kit PeerPicker class. If I get rejected for that they really are cracked!
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by bcl 17y ago
Note that they don't seem to be proxying opendns's domain...
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SharePics rejected for looking like a Polaroid(blog.brianlane.com)
9 points by bcl 17y ago|5 comments
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by bcl 17y ago
Very cool! I've often wondered how they come up with the operating systems they show in movies. On occasion it will look like the real thing, but often it is something completely different. Another cool site is the collection of screenshots
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by bcl 17y ago
Yes OpenID it does provide your email address. That's why my gravatar icon shows up wherever I login with OpenID. You don't need to type in a long URL to login using OpenID. If you have a domain you can use it to delegate the OpenID provide
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by bcl 17y ago
Why is that? I have my own OpenID (using phpMyID) as well as ids from various places and I have had almost no problems using it. The biggest trouble was when I tried to associate multiple IDs with my StackOverflow.com account -- ended up th
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by bcl 17y ago
OpenID is a good solution for this. Single login and the service can pull your email info from it. I haven't seen anyone do OpenID in an iPhone App yet.
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by bcl 17y ago
This looks like a pretty amazing accomplishment, I'm somewhat skeptical of it, especially since the source blog only has 2 posts on it. The technical details are fairly detailed, but I really want to get a look at the code and schematics. O
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by bcl 17y ago
The added benefit is that even if your app does eventually fail you have learned a bunch of new things that you can now apply to work, your next app, life and the broken plumbing you've been meaning to get to. This is how I learned CSS and
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by bcl 17y ago
Buy it from DigiKey for $6.65 - http://search.digikey.com/scripts/DkSearch/dksus.dll?WT.z_ci... Looks like it would be useful to have one or two lying around for misc. projects.
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by bcl 17y ago
You might want to start our by reading "Drunkards Walk", and then walk away and find something a bit less chaotic to throw your money at.
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by bcl 17y ago
In defense of the Roku boxes, they do have their place. I dropped Dish a few months back for 100% Roku based tv viewing. The box just works. Yeah, it is a bit limited, and with a queue of 250 movies it becomes difficult to find things. But

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