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781.
by catch23 17y ago
they might cheat and just use activex objects. Of course this means that office won't work on non-windows computers, but I have a feeling they won't care about supporting those.
782.
by catch23 17y ago
as another poster mentioned, the trick works on usb and built-in laptop keyboards as well. Basically if you're typing on any kind of keyboard, you're vulnerable :-) secure wireless keyboard might be more secure only because there is less p
783.
by catch23 17y ago
Sounds like something else may have caused the founders to leave, maybe there was some friction between the top brass?
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by catch23 17y ago
> At one point Michael was angry at one of the producers on the project because he was treating everyone terribly. Rather than create a scene or fire the guy, Michael called him to his office/lounge and one of the security guys threw a
785.
by catch23 17y ago
so all cutting edge companies should be named like that? Aren't all startups in the tech scene "cutting edge"?
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by catch23 17y ago
Seems typical. InterContinental Hotels Group does the same thing for their Holiday Inn & Crowne Plaza brands. Hotel owners just sign up to be a Holiday Inn franchise and IHG reaps the franchise fees year after year. IHG controls ever
787.
by catch23 17y ago
Are you using them as a colo? That's usually one of the first things I do when I setup a machine to be shipped off to a colo -- make sure that a remote boot doesn't require console interaction. Reduce the grub menu timeout to 5 seconds, a
788.
by catch23 17y ago
do all coders listen to techno? I find myself much more efficient when listening to jazz.
789.
by catch23 17y ago
Sadly the majority of motherboards out there can't handle more than 8GB of memory. Single 4GB chips around $80 now (fully buffered), so it should seem like normal motherboards with 4 slots should support 16GB normally.
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by catch23 17y ago
in javascript: 1 == '01' --> true 0 == 'x' --> false 1 == '1' --> true true == 'asdf' --> false '-2' == 2 --> true '-2' == 0 --> false Seems like in javascript, the coercing is much more sane. In php, all of the abo
791.
by catch23 17y ago
They will almost always help if they've invested in you by giving you access to their rolodex or providing direct advice. Even angels who don't get a board seat will want to help you if they've invested in you. If they aren't helping you,
792.
by catch23 17y ago
15 cents can buy a bowl of dried ramen. Maybe Microsoft is feeding hungry entrepreneurs?
793.
by catch23 17y ago
at the clojure meetup in SF after JavaOne, rhickey was bombarded with requests to put clojure on git. rhickey responded that he was still learning "the git"
794.
by catch23 17y ago
Why would there be need for thread safety in ruby? There's a global interpreter lock so there's really only 1 thread running at any time -- every line of your ruby code should be atomic. The more threads you schedule, the more the interpr
795.
by catch23 17y ago
Agreed. The price seems too high for most startups to bother with, unless you're well funded. Maybe there should be a flat rate thing?
796.
by catch23 17y ago
firefox plugins aren't really all that hard to begin with. i'm not sure if you're gaining much with this framework
797.
by catch23 17y ago
+1 for presentation. If I go to a restaurant and order a dish that looks like crap, it generally tastes like crap too.
798.
by catch23 17y ago
I'm guessing the food-lover audience is broader and probably more appealing. burntgarlic would be a cool domain name. As a computer geek, some of the food questions I've always had rarely relates to anything computer related. Here's a fe
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by catch23 17y ago
Another similar app: http://www.presdo.com
800.
by catch23 17y ago
I think it's one of google's answers to wolfram alpha
801.
by catch23 17y ago
well this is a geek site. when explaining it to non-geeks, you could just say it's email on crack.
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by catch23 17y ago
Also to be clear, their stuff is truly beta which is why they are limiting the users to a small set of developers. Sometimes while using the site you'll get a 500 error that will force you to refresh the browser page.
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by catch23 17y ago
It is an amazing way for google to push their gadget platform though. I'm an early beta user of wave and I think it's pretty cool how you can just "email" a bunch of your friends a gadget that works inline the conversation. So you could e
804.
by catch23 17y ago
Robots can work on as many waves as you like. Minimally, a robot can just be a participant in any wave you want it to be a part of. You could technically have 5 Eliza robots in a wave, all talking to each other -- although that would prob
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by catch23 17y ago
There are quite a few motorcycles over 600cc displacement that get better than 60mpg. Even their 1000cc displacement ones get 65mpg. The BMW F650GS has a 4.6 Gal capacity and gets 65/75mpg, that would get you around 300-350 miles on a sin
806.
by catch23 17y ago
I worked in the marketing department of a large hotel company before -- they measure this stuff all the time. The one that I worked at employed 6 statisticians with PhDs who ran experiments in SAS with direct mail campaigns all the time.
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by catch23 17y ago
Publishers put their stuff on github now, there's more packages there than RubyForge.
808.
by catch23 17y ago
when someone says 'ass' do you think of the donkey? or when someone says 'bitch' do you think female dog?
809.
by catch23 17y ago
I think most startups get by without the majority of those tools. Some of those might actually slow you down. Free isn't always "free" if you have to invest time learning the quirks of each tool.
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by catch23 17y ago
He could start a company without cash flow since none of his employees would ever cash their paychecks!

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