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931.
by bprater 18y ago
Cool, didn't know that existed in the spec. Looks very powerful.
932.
by bprater 18y ago
I don't know why all airports don't offer something like 15 minutes of Wifi for watching an ad. Nothing drives me more nuts than being offering Wifi for $10 a day and only needing to check my email for a minute or two.
933.
by bprater 18y ago
You got me excited that Kathy was posting again!
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by bprater 18y ago
Great stuff. When a committee's job is to make sure that each individual in the room does what is necessary to keep their employeement with the company, the life is ready to be sucked out of out of the company.
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by bprater 18y ago
Yes. Totally amazing hack. The stuff I like to see here. (A few more tech details would be righteous but I'm sure the hackers here have ideas on how they could do the same thing.)
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Leo Laporte Livecasting iPhone 2.0 Launch Right Now...(twitlive.tv)
3 points by bprater 18y ago|0 comments
937.
by bprater 18y ago
No specific feedback on the startup, but I don't care for it when folks send images via email. Put it online, where I have more control. I guess I do have advice: why not focus on a 1-click way for getting images onto a webpage they can ema
938.
by bprater 18y ago
I'd be curious how difficult it would be to migrate from a traditional setup to this setup.
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by bprater 18y ago
Compressed air is dangerous if it is released too rapidly, especially if it's pointed at your eye or someone breaks the cap off a bottle. Otherwise, compressed air is used in every car shop in the world for. Pneumatic tools may not require
940.
by bprater 18y ago
Gas vapors are dangerous. Without the air, you can drop a lit match in a gas tank, without a 'big boom'. However, in an accident, you'd want to pick the compressed air tank. The tanks are very strong. Gas tanks in cars are built with very f
941.
by bprater 18y ago
Can someone make the rest of the article available?
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by bprater 18y ago
Twitter isn't your standard Rails application. It was hacked out with Rails because it was easy with Rails. Nobody clearly understood that Twitter wasn't a traditional Rails app until it was too late. The biggest scaling issue with framewor
943.
by bprater 18y ago
Wow, I didn't realize that Japan's population was similar to the US. You really do learn something everyday... I agree, the desire for India and Chinese to bolster the middle class is at the heart of the problems we will face in the next fe
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by bprater 18y ago
The only disadvantage would be if the dollar continued to slide. But if you don't immediately need the capital and plan to return in the near future, I'd leave it overseas.
945.
by bprater 18y ago
And they predicted the demise of the motion picture... And they predicted the demise of radio...
946.
by bprater 18y ago
A new niche play might be to figure out how to adapt the dating genre to the iPhone. Maybe a GPS-based play. But I think the key continues to be -- find a good niche. But not so nichey that only 8 people are interested.
947.
by bprater 18y ago
One of the things I learned while playing Warcraft was the importance of scalable interfaces. When I first started, I was lucky to get my character to move across the screen in a straight line. I didn't know what a mod was, I just wanted to
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by bprater 18y ago
Man, if I could only figure out what's launching.
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18 Project Ideas from Seth Godin(sethgodin.typepad.com)
52 points by bprater 18y ago|20 comments
950.
by bprater 18y ago
He handles it surprisingly well. A good lesson for all of us that have crap hurled our way.
951.
by bprater 18y ago
Pretty impressive. What quality would you say, Quake I?
952.
by bprater 18y ago
Agreed. When I first saw Gmail without folders, I was like wtf!idiots. Then I used it a bit and I was like wtf!sweet. Same thing with Google Maps. I heard about them using Javascript and I was like wtf!idiots. And then I finally got to see
953.
by bprater 18y ago
Gezus overload. Looks like useful tips, but oh my. Some visual examples would be helpful, too.
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by bprater 18y ago
It's unfortunate, too, since many of the small guys that will use EC2 to scale will eventually need enterprise-level help in the future.
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by bprater 18y ago
I notice that he mentions that his database is remote. I would really like to try this so that I can establish scale with EC2 without moving my database. Has anyone done this? Do you establish a tunnel between the two locations? How does th
956.
by bprater 18y ago
One of the advantages of Growl being run at the OS level is that all apps can fire to Growl and the user see it. An in-browser Growl is going to be limited to firing events only while the user is on the same page.
957.
by bprater 18y ago
Mmmm... this should be juicy hacker fun for a few days!
958.
by bprater 18y ago
Mostly, poor ROI is due to bad targeting. Advertising on NBC and advertising in "Mississippi Dog Breaders" journal are worlds apart.
959.
by bprater 18y ago
Although I resonate with your sentiment, I don't like to see families hurting by paying higher gas prices. Say what you will about the state of the American mind, the bottom line is this: we drive big vehicles, gas prices aren't going down,
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by bprater 18y ago
If you are a Y!Hacker that is waiting in line, good luck! Should make for a fun story in 20 years!

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