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by bls 19y ago
I think when you say "firefox os" you really mean "browser-based UI for Linux," right? You are already supposing that Linux (an actual operating system) exists underneath. Isn't Internet Explorer + Windows Explorer + Web Folders pretty much
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by bls 19y ago
Just like everything on scribd, this would be much better as an HTML document.
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by bls 19y ago
On the right hand side of the screen, you can sort the comments chronologically.
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by bls 19y ago
I've never seen a single blog post wander in so many directions. Fogbugz. The nuclear arms race. Korea. The virtues of the Korean writing system. Japanese WWII atrocities. Fogbugz. Ruby. Tourism in Asia. Open source. The irony could be mist
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by bls 19y ago
STOP sending emails right away, until you've corrected the problem. Every email that you send now that gets flagged as SPAM is being counted against your IP addresses and domain name. You are making the problem worse in your testing. Sign u
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by bls 19y ago
How are you going to deal with piracy? I have been in Thailand for about half a year. While I was here I had a lot of software ideas to help Thai kids learn English. But, the licensing of high-quality language materials to embed into the so
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by bls 19y ago
What are you using on your workstation? If you are using Ubuntu on your desktop, I would deploy Ubuntu on the server also. This allows you to combine your desktop and testing machines into one. Then, you only need a dedicated staging (virtu
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by bls 19y ago
This site is designed for a touch screen system that lacks a keyboard. That is why it is pre-populated with a default set of items. On a device with a full keyboard, it would be faster to just type your list in. I think it is pretty smart.
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by bls 19y ago
I can't get this to work. I tried to delete this comment: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17545 because it includes my email address. But, I don't see any link for deleting it.
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by bls 19y ago
You can already create links in web pages that will dial a phone number when activated with mobile phone browsers. Similarly, I assume that the email integration is going to be basically "mailto:" links. Maybe they will have support for HTM
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by bls 19y ago
Be careful when implementing some of the suggestions from this presentation, especially if you are trying to be accessible to mobile phone browsers and/or people who use screen readers. For example, some screen readers are really noisy whe
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by bls 19y ago
But, they aren't in any mobile phones that I have seen. I am going to end up buying a Verisign cert just for that reason.
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by bls 19y ago
Comodo and other SSL providers will give you free certs that don't cause any warnings. But, they only last 3 months instead of 1 year.
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by bls 19y ago
This article is very interesting. However, the headline strongly indicates that it was submitted here to smear Sun. Firstly, the headline is at odds with the conclusion in the article; the article states that they would have preferred Sun'
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by bls 19y ago
Obviously, free is better than $19.95. But, I think $19.95 per day is a pretty good price too. I would rather pay browsercam.com $20 for instant results than wait around for hours (the current wait time on the browsershots.org cue is over t
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by bls 19y ago
You switched from Google to Yahoo for privacy reasons? Yahoo! has already demonstrated their total lack of ethics regarding privacy by helping the Chinese jail thought criminals. Whereas, Google has designed all its systems and its business
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by bls 19y ago
The 99% effective statistic came from the author of codinghorror.com. His CAPTCHA for every comment is a single static image of the word "ORANGE" in a slightly stylized but plainly readable font. I've seen other bloggers claim that simple a
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by bls 19y ago
(a) The user's email address should be used as the username. PRO: The user doesn't have to remember yet another username for yet another site. PRO: Email addresses are more or less unique. PRO: Entering the email address does not require a
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Usernames: allow, require, or forbid users to user their email address as a username?
11 points by bls 19y ago|19 comments
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by bls 19y ago
"2 + 3" and codinghorror.com's "ORANGE" CAPTCHA are 99% effective. There are many (mostly unpopular) sites without effective protective measures against SPAM. For attacking these sites, botnets are effective. Almost all popular sites have s
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by bls 19y ago
news.ycombinator.com already does this, passively.
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by bls 19y ago
Email confirmation isn't a CAPTCHA: If you can write a robot to sign up for reddit.com, then surely you can write a robot to send a "HTTP GET" request for every link in your email account. There are three obvious purposes for email confirma
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by bls 19y ago
Why invent a new language instead of using Javascript? The goals of JavaFX are the same as the goals of Java ME and Java SE. Java ME and Java SE have basically failed to live up to their expectations. Why not fix Java ME and Java SE instead
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by bls 19y ago
How do you expect to differentiate yourself from pickydomains.com?
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by bls 19y ago
What makes you think that the price is $4,500? In almost all cases, these prices are very negotiable. Keep in mind that the owner probably paid less than $10 for it. Even considering overhead, $200 is a very good return on the sellers inves
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by bls 19y ago
I use a Lenovo T60 running Windows XP, with Ubuntu 6.10 running in a VMWare virtual machine. VMWare Workstation is really cheap and VMWare Player is free. You can find many preconfigured Linux virtual machines on VMWare's website. Power man
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by bls 19y ago
(1) Less UI clutter, (2) instant response time, (3) automatic Bluetooth sync with my phone, (4) offline ability (I live in Thailand and my internet connection is not 100% reliable), (5) an easy way to get stuff from my email to my TODO list
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by bls 19y ago
mashable.com is censored here in Thailand. Do have an alternative source?
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by bls 19y ago
That is exactly what the operating system's virtual memory system does. But, there comes a point where there is too much swapping.
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by bls 19y ago
I also want to point out that it is easy to waste a lot of time looking for the absolute best productivity solution. The reason I picked GTD is because it seemed reasonable and other people claimed success with it; I didn't want to waste a

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