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by btucker 16y ago
Sorry, no mirror that I can find. Basically the author was describing his experience needing to wait outside in the cold for a late BoltBus. He didn't mind so much that the bus was late, but wished he knew how late it was going to be. He t
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by btucker 16y ago
This is a nice feature request, but can we try to get out of habit of proclaiming enhancements as "trivial" without knowing anything about the architecture? We all hate it when our customers/clients/bosses do this to us, right? Let's lead
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by btucker 16y ago
I think it's more that they're just one of the many teams competing in http://demoslam.com/
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by btucker 16y ago
If this starts to get traction, I think the printer manufacturers are going to be all over it. It will make for a great reason for people to buy a new printer. Here's hoping some will provide the functionality in a free firmware update fo
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by btucker 16y ago
Isn't this just content_for/yield(:sym)? Or are you talking about something else? http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActionView/Helpers/Captur...
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by btucker 16y ago
Totally agree. Would love this minus the zombies. To me in cheapens what appears to be an incredibly rich learning environment. Not that I have anything against zombies, it just feels like it's trying really hard to appear fun/cool/hip,
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by btucker 16y ago
Just used the first one: JWPHYFA3WP3N. Checking it out now.
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by btucker 16y ago
It's actually a marvel Pipes hasn't been shutdown yet. When that inevitably happens, it will be sorely missed.
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by btucker 16y ago
Boxee has Hulu & Netflix, plus a ton of other sources featuring both user generated & professionally produced content. My only gripe with Boxee is I find it to be very finicky (or at times completely broken) when it comes to playing
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by btucker 16y ago
And here's the video of Michael Larson on Press Your Luck: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_EjKKGSXus
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by btucker 16y ago
I came to request similarly, then noticed that if you make your browser window big enough, you'll find there's a green canvas resize grabber in the bottom right of the canvas (when you hover over the canvas). This is great, but definitely
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by btucker 16y ago
> Doesn't virtually everyone with a modern smartphone have free real-time texting? At least in the US, the cell companies charge a pretty penny for text messages.
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by btucker 16y ago
Very interesting. Looking forward to the post!
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by btucker 16y ago
I'd love to hear more about how they lined up their dealer network.
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by btucker 16y ago
It's a mixed bag. At this time in this kind of disaster I agree it made sense for him to be right there. But in many other types of disasters, the president's presence does little but further complicate the situation.
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by btucker 16y ago
Skip the soundtrack, but a professional voice (and more importantly professional recording) could do wonders for the perceived polishedness of the video. That being said, the content was enough to get me interested!
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by btucker 16y ago
I can see where you're coming from. For people that don't know the history of intranets.com it seems a little odd. FWIW, intranets.com pre-dates basecamp and was acquired by WebEx many years ago.
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by btucker 16y ago
2002 - LootMail - Audio (phone) based interface to your email. Built on top of TellMe (back when they had a service pretty similar to Twilio today, based on VoiceXML. Died when TellMe killed off their "Extensions" program. 2004 - http://
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by btucker 16y ago
Hey, that's very nice! Easy monetization opportunity: Signup to be a Groupon (etc) affiliate & include a little string of text with that day's deal for the user's locale along with a shortened link.
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by btucker 16y ago
I LOVED the wesabe downloadable data import client. The fact that I didn't have to fork over the login credentials to my financial accounts was a huge win & what kept me away from Mint until wesabe closed. But clearly this was not an
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by btucker 16y ago
That's very interesting. So really the trick is to somehow catch people to write a review before they leave. Of course the problem is to post it publicly would expose their identity (since they have a unique address) and possibly open the
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by btucker 16y ago
If I had $500K lying around in Fall '04 I would have been chasing down Mark Zuckerberg trying to get him to take it for whatever tiny piece of the company I could get. Being at one of the first set of "facebook schools" it was very clear wh
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by btucker 16y ago
Here's an approach I've always wanted to try, but never had the opportunity: If the apartment is currently occupied, write a brief informal note telling the tenant you're considering their apartment and would they send you a brief honest re
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by btucker 16y ago
You may want to think about having it store the data locally and 'phoning them in' in batches at some random interval. Otherwise it seems you're going to have some crazy concurrent requests every 5 seconds. Cool idea, though. Very whimsic
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by btucker 16y ago
They should follow [Tapbot's lead]( http://tapbots.com/blog/pastebot/pastebot-music-in-backgroun... ). Play some music, have the volume buttons adjust the volume of the music (thus following the HIG) while also triggering the shutter.
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by btucker 16y ago
Exactly. I'd assume most businesses do nearly all their purchasing through credit/debit card. I know we certainly do. So I don't see how this is such a big deal.
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by btucker 16y ago
Click bait article. But what I find interesting about the whole affair is apple didn't plan for it to happen. Guarantee there'll never be another demo done over WiFi. If they need wireless, I bet they'll setup some very short-range signa
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by btucker 16y ago
Well the concept of projecting something onto a non-native locale for comparison purposes is not exactly groundbreaking. So I'm not sure it really matters which came first. Call me "old fashioned", but I actually find the simpler Google Ma
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by btucker 16y ago
I was just thinking about whether an approach like this could work, so I did some searching and found some research. There's also [Detection of Phishing Webpages based on Visual Similarity]( http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?do
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Using Dynamic Analysis and Template Matching for Phishing Detection(waset.org)
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