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by btucker 16y ago
I wouldn't say there is a trivial fix. One option would be to encrypt the search term client-side with blowfish (or some other 2-way hash scheme) and use that as the url string.
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by btucker 16y ago
My knee jerk reaction is this is a giant step towards the web as we know it becoming "GoogleNet". I hope they get some sizable competition in this space.
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by btucker 16y ago
This made me curious about the economics for a 3D printing on demand service. Looks like there are already some players in the space making it work: http://www.shapeways.com/ http://www.buildparts.com/ http://www.zoomrp.com/
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by btucker 16y ago
The more I find out about the guy, the less it's sounding like religious extremism...
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Did the "Time Square Bomber" comment on a Peter Schiff YouTube video?(stream.btucker.org)
1 points by btucker 16y ago|1 comments
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by btucker 16y ago
Very true. But also remember that in '06 your mother wasn't on FB.
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Ask HN: Is there a market for a "Facebook circa 2006" clone?
9 points by btucker 16y ago|14 comments
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by btucker 17y ago
Is this what Adobe was complaining wasn't available & their excuse for why flash video on the mac sucks?
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by btucker 17y ago
The money may be in landing some university contracts. Get them to offer it free to students. They could then use it as a marketing ploy for how seriously they take safety. That said, I think the big flaw in the whole thing is the burden
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by btucker 17y ago
Most people have been well seasoned just to click through any warnings. I think the solution is just to allow anyone to install an alternative "unlocked" OS on the device. You'd have to jump through some hoops to do it, but once you did yo
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by btucker 17y ago
I came here to say this, you beat me. Also, it's important to note the context of this "conversion". It's sending a message to someone you don't know. No one likes to send cold emails, so pre-writing the message takes a lot of the burden
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Ask HN: What became of Steve Yegge's "Rhino on Rails"?
33 points by btucker 17y ago|18 comments
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by btucker 17y ago
Rael Dornfest's http://www.blosxom.com/ ? I'd say that blazed the trail ~10 years ago for this type of software. I know for me at least, Blosxom was incredibly eye opening.
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by btucker 17y ago
i agree those were the inflection points, but the iPod was completely revolutionary from an interface perspective. The click wheel, the large screen, the easy to navigate UI; these were things which hadn't made it to a portable media playe
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by btucker 17y ago
I don't buy it. We all know the thing'll be jailbroken in short order. If a kid wants to tinker with an iPad I'm sure there will be just as many ResEdit-esque opportunities to hack it.
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by btucker 17y ago
This is what I was wondering. If this is true that what we're talking about is linking against proprietary libraries that already exist on the user's machine, then I don't understand the argument against it. By the article's logic they sh
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by btucker 17y ago
funny, i created this exact same thing about 4 years ago. Got it all working and then lost interest before launching it.
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by btucker 17y ago
Lots of possibilities, but think backtweets.com as an example of something which would be much easier to accomplish if such an API existed.
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by btucker 17y ago
A reverse lookup for finding all the shortened URLs associated with a given canonical URL.
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by btucker 17y ago
For the most part I agree, but giving out full path names definitely can make exploiting other holes easier.
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by btucker 17y ago
Correlation, I'd like to introduce you to Causation. And yes, she's way out of your league.
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by btucker 17y ago
While I agree there's likely a correlation to the two criteria you mention, there's a third which is think is more at the core. That is that for a ton of ISP subscribers the concept that email doesn't need to be coupled with their internet
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by btucker 17y ago
That's a very valid point since for most people gems.github.com comes after RubyForge in the source list. Oy... makes me think running 'gem install' without --source is just a bad idea.
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by btucker 17y ago
But is that also true for previously github-hosted gems? Can I push a gem called 'why-hpricot' for example?
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Gemcutter.org as a RubyGem source scares me(stream.btucker.org)
13 points by btucker 17y ago|9 comments
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by btucker 17y ago
Thanks! (I'm one of the programmers) Yeah, that kind of stuff definitely is in the pipeline, as is just adding lots more data. We felt from the beginning that is was the linking between the datasets that was most interesting. Unfortunatel
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by btucker 18y ago
Hi All- I'd love any feedback on this. Thanks for checking it out!
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Quotably now has a reddit/hacker news-style view of links on twitter(quotably.com)
3 points by btucker 18y ago|1 comments
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by btucker 19y ago
yeah, unfortunately it is. At present it uses the same threading algorithm as twitter does, namely: if there's an @username in a tweet, assume it's responding to the last tweet of that user. I may look to do something smarter down the roa
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by btucker 19y ago
example feeds: http://quotably.com/TechCrunch http://quotably.com/davewiner http://quotably.com/Ross note, there are also RSS feeds for anyone's conversations, just add a .rss to the end of the URL. ie: http://quotably.com/Ross.rss

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