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by charlieok 13y ago
I agree that Svbtle and Medium have a similar look and overall design sensibility. But in the interest of giving credit where it is due... Svbtle's announcement is dated March 22, 2012 http://dcurt.is/codename-svbtle https://news.ycom
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by charlieok 13y ago
Rather than place the present day at midnight on the clock, how about placing the present day on the current value given by the Doomsday Clock [1]. Then, with a little arithmetic, you can label midnight with the projected date of Doomsday :
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by charlieok 13y ago
That looks cool, but it's solving a different problem. The app I linked to is basically a clock that shows you your local solar times (day, night, golden hours, and twilight) at a glance, and can set alarms by them. If you want to wake at c
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by charlieok 14y ago
If you happen to use an iPhone, I highly recommend Sol: http://www.juggleware.com/blog/2012/01/sol-sun-clock-for-iph... I'm not sure what the equivalent on Android might be; if anyone knows, hopefully they'll weigh in.
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by charlieok 14y ago
How about a friendly footer: “Short, one or two word replies are not only ok, they are much appreciated!”
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by charlieok 14y ago
Glenn Greenwald always has lots of interesting points to make on issues like this one. http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/apr/20/boston-m...
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by charlieok 14y ago
Obligatory SNL reference: http://www.hulu.com/watch/285711
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by charlieok 14y ago
I'm fairly confident that comic is the reason this thread's article is getting a bunch of attention now.
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by charlieok 14y ago
With the billions of dollars pumped into election campaigns, it's odd that a political party wouldn't keep at least a small team on the code to continually test, update, refactor, and generally improve the quality. Fred Brooks, nine women /
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by charlieok 14y ago
Hmm, now I kinda want to use the app to see if/when anything gets posted about me. But I don't want to help this become more of a thing. And I sure as hell don't want to give it access to my Facebook account. Edit: saw the “no boys allowed”
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by charlieok 14y ago
Homebrew is ok, and it has arguably improved the situation on Mac OS X a great deal, but I think we can do better still. Using homebrew, one tweaks recipes in ruby code until they work. Why do we not have a common (and widely adopted!) way
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by charlieok 14y ago
I dislike this whole trend. How about we start thinking in terms of leaving the user's default environment, and system, alone, and “installing” software into nice sandboxed areas where we can easily enable/disable it, or delete it with a si
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by charlieok 14y ago
Something like PostRank needs to exist again. Hopefully in this second blooming of RSS post-reader, we'll get some attractive offerings in that area.
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by charlieok 14y ago
How does Persona avoid the identity provider seeing what services you log into? (Assuming the provider has implemented the distributed version of the protocol, not Mozilla's fallback IdP)
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Persona is distributed. Today.(identity.mozilla.com)
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by charlieok 14y ago
I personally don't mind unread counts. That aspect really depends on the way you use it. I used to have a ton of unread items sitting in the feed reader; now everything is either immediately discarded or immediately shunted into Pocket. (A
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by charlieok 14y ago
The feature I want on RSS readers: Volume sliders. A volume slider per feed, and perhaps also a global one. If a feed is posting too much stuff, but I still like some of the stuff on it, I'd prefer not to unsubscribe if I had a better optio
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by charlieok 14y ago
How is this going to interact with plugins that cover similar ground (e.g. DoNotTrackMe, Ghostery)?
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by charlieok 14y ago
"White House APIs aim to balance a truly RESTful API interface with a positive developer experience (DX)." Aren't those two things on the same side? When/how would they be in conflict?
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by charlieok 14y ago
Funny, given all the insanity of the past week, that this hasn't caused much of a stir in all the years github has been around: http://shop.github.com/products/fork-you-shirt-mens-medium I also remember having a laugh over their “fork que
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by charlieok 14y ago
The first priority of an institution (any institution) is to preserve the institution.
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by charlieok 14y ago
And in fact, Google did this most specifically to Microsoft. http://www.zdnet.com/google-drops-exchange-activesync-suppor...
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by charlieok 14y ago
It's worth separating clients from servers, and noting which clients can sync with which servers.
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Introducing Open Badges 1.0(blog.mozilla.org)
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by charlieok 14y ago
yeah, pretty much
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by charlieok 14y ago
“We’re getting closer to a world where technology takes care of the hard work—discovery, organization, communication—so that you can get on with what makes you happiest… living and loving.” Just lie back and let yourself sink into the goo.
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by charlieok 14y ago
Not for me it isn't
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by charlieok 14y ago
Pick up a tablet (Android!), connect it to Wikipedia and google's Translate service, and you're a few steps closer to Douglas Adams' universe than he had the opportunity to see. Wikipedia launched just a few months before his death. He actu
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by charlieok 14y ago
So... 1. Match on proximity/intrest 2. Man puts $X in escrow associated with woman's profile (and not any other profile at the same time) 3. Woman sees that guy put $X in escrow 4. Woman agrees to meet 5. They go have a nice dinner 6. The c
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by charlieok 14y ago
“The one question that Mr. Woo could not answer is how to develop a version of Grindr that works for straight people and women. The company tried to release an app called Blendr, but it has been far less successful that its predecessor. It

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