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by cfinke 13y ago
You see, the problem with Amazon Prime is that you are shipping almost entirely via the USPS. I've never received a package from Amazon via anyone but UPS.
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by cfinke 13y ago
so you'd have bought about 1.3 million bitcoin There weren't even 1.3 million bitcoin in circulation at that point [1]. If you bought every bitcoin, you could have accumulated about 1.1 million BTC for $850. [1] http:/&#x2
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by cfinke 13y ago
The earliest price I can find for BTC is $0.074 USD/BTC from about a year later, but if you bought $1000 then, you'd be sitting on about $9.7MM worth of Bitcoin today.
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by cfinke 13y ago
The iCache (from 2007) had an interesting solution to the security issue that everyone is mentioning: [A]ctivate the device with a fingerprint on its biometric strip, scroll through a list of cards on its screen and choose one. Out pops a
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by cfinke 13y ago
See how this idea has progressed in six years: Here's how it works. Users register their cards on the company Web site and upload the information into the iCache. When they want to use it, they activate the device with a fingerprint o
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by cfinke 13y ago
The N900 was the most frustrating touchscreen I've ever used in a consumer device. I stopped using it solely for that reason.
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by cfinke 13y ago
Although the entire section isn't going to be woodlands: Hantz Woodlands' goal is to have at least 15,000 trees planted and 50 blighted structures torn down in two years on parcels of land that weave in and out of existing neighb
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by cfinke 13y ago
"The license has no restriction as to [...] type of systems or products that may be used in conjunction with your User Content." vs. "solely for the purpose of displaying, distributing and promoting your blog." That&
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by cfinke 13y ago
Before SearchMe was shut down and had its assets liquidated, I built the tool that took all of the screenshots for the search results. (SeRPs were presented as a series of screenshots rather than a list of links; see http://techc
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by cfinke 13y ago
You mean Not Invented Here.
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by cfinke 13y ago
We take pretty much everybody: http://automattic.com/map/ (There are 14 Canadian Automatticians as of this writing.)
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by cfinke 13y ago
Confirmed; the Canadian contingent of Automattic is a good-looking bunch.
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by cfinke 13y ago
Join us at Automattic: http://automattic.com/work-with-us/ We all work remotely -- all 200+ of us. You may have heard of a few of our products: WordPress.com, Akismet, Gravatar, and likely the most relevant to you, th
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by cfinke 13y ago
If you're not familiar with Dopplr, this short infomercial has all you need to know: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXNgBs5DPLg
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by cfinke 13y ago
Haha, it probably hasn't been that clean since the picture was taken three years ago.
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by cfinke 13y ago
As long as we're sharing pictures of our homemade desks, here's mine: http://i.imgur.com/vFAThh.jpg Oak, oak, oak, and more oak. I love oak. And here's a full build album, including pictures of my wife'
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by cfinke 13y ago
How about "People who answer legitimate questions with two non-answers"?
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by cfinke 13y ago
the '3 lines' button that no one has a good name for. It's called a hamburger button: http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2013/03/18/whats-a-hamburger-but...
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by cfinke 13y ago
Here's mine, from six years ago: http://www.chrisfinke.com/2007/01/20/the-a-to-z-of-me/
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by cfinke 13y ago
A screenshot proves nothing: http://i.imgur.com/puRHX20.jpg
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by cfinke 13y ago
Aardvark was a search-by-IM engine that was acquired by Google in 2010.
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by cfinke 13y ago
I tried it when you posted it, but I gave up on it when it took 15 seconds to load any content after logging in :-(
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by cfinke 13y ago
More importantly, no one outside of this conference has even used the iOS7, so really, truthfully, everyone needs to shut the fuck up. False. I'm thousands of miles away, and I've been using it since a couple hours after it was
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by cfinke 13y ago
I may not know anything about design, but I know what I like.
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by cfinke 13y ago
Our mail system is already a travesty. Elaborate?
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by cfinke 13y ago
My two-year-old son is mourning the loss of The Backyardigans. Time to buy the episodes on iTunes and fire up Requiem+pyTivo.
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by cfinke 13y ago
The announcement at http://gopollgo.com/ hits all the acquisition bingo spots: * "We are excited" * "It has been so rewarding * "We're so excited" * "we couldn’t be happier" * "thanks to all our users," * "As of today, we'll no longer be
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by cfinke 13y ago
If you're changing your sprinkler configuration, you're doing it wrong. Or your lawn is dying because there hasn't been enough rain. Or your lawn is dying because there's been too much rain. Or you're resodding a part of your lawn. Or yo
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by cfinke 14y ago
Is my experience growing up really that uncommon? Or is having a 3D printer just an expensive substitute for having friends that are in to making and fixing stuff? In the same way that C++ is just a verbose substitute for having friends t
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by cfinke 14y ago
I can't remember the last time I needed a replacement part for something and it was just a monoblock plastic piece. As the father of two young boys, I could make a full-time job of printing replacement plastic pieces for broken toys.

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