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> The irony is that none of this might have happened had Bahl's H1B visa had not expired. The special visas granted to skilled workers are good only for six years. Bahl graduated from the prestigious Wharton School at the University of
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15y ago
OneVoice looks awesome! However, you should start thinking of Proloquo2go and their ilk ( http://www.acapela-for-iphone.com/gallery click on 'AAC') as your competition now instead of DynaVox. How is AcapelaTTS working out for you? I know
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Check out http://www.kelo-cote.com/ - it is FDA approved. It is one of the products we made at my past job. It is not a miracle cure but it works.
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It was a relatively small company and people really tried their best to solve problems in efficient ways. I think they missed the obvious solution purely by chance.
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MS Dynamics + lots of customization.
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At my old programming job, people would come up to me all the time asking if I could write programs to automate business processes. One day someone called a meeting to discuss a new software system that would help prevent incorrect box labe
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15y ago
I apologize for not talking about the main topic here but I have to say what an obnoxious website! I can't read the article because it says: Premium Content Area Please complete a survey to unlock this page. Download F1 Racing Ch
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15y ago
I would wait for this to be peer-reviewed before getting excited. Especially since Paul Erdős said about the Collatz conjecture: "Mathematics is not yet ready for such problems." ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collatz_conjecture )
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This is a small app I made for a friend who manages a university website. She wanted a Calendar of Events list that is easy to manage and can be styled using CSS. Now she can manage the actual events using Google Calendars and embed this on
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You're right. I added an underline to the map link. Thanks!
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I made this single-page for my cousin last year: http://southeastcardio.com/ It has a map link (he didn't want to publish an email address).
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15y ago
Pretty sure it would stand up to a targeted attack. Here's a few of my actual password hints: /-/ ** 1m; Feel free to login to any of my accounts. And I do keep most types of accounts separate. Bank password is different fr
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15y ago
I use 30+ different passwords for different purposes. I never write the actual passwords down anywhere but instead I write the hint of the username/password for each site. Here's a fake example: sitename.com: c4 - t/5r sitemore.co
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15y ago
> Spambots can’t fill in the field because they can’t interact with objects in client-side JavaScript; only users can. Not true anymore. What you could do is add a hidden field with value=encrypt(timestamp+salt) and only accept the form
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> I should note that I’ve made a personal decision to scale back some other aspects of my professional life. I’m no longer accepting any new speaking engagements... It is very hard to leave/scale-back unfinished business or commitments
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16y ago
Obama mentioned Abbottabad, Pakistan. I found this interesting 6 day old article: http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5gIlvWfWJc...
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16y ago
It's pretty coincidental that I read the headlines on the front-page and noticed 4 of the top 10 articles are Why this or Why that instead of How: * Why Instapaper Free is taking an extended vacation (marco.org) * Joel Spolsky on Why Lunch
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Samsung 22" (2243: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0012TTX2O/ref=cm_rdp_produ... )
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I use MBA (4GB RAM upgrade, 128GB SSD) for doing a lot of XCode development. XCode4 runs very smoothly and I've never had any speed issues with running the iOS Simulator. It's light, doesn't heat up, and is very stable. I gave up my http:/
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I brought up the same question and here is what the response was: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2491863
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Is it sufficiently secure if the WiFi is setup with WPA2 TKIP and the SSID and passphrase are set to the same value? By sufficiently secure, I mean one node on the WiFi cannot snoop in on other nodes even for HTTP traffic. What if we all op
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I've used http://rewindle.com/ in the past for this.
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The worst thing for any service provider is to delay the initial confirmation that yes, something seems to be going wrong. > http://blog.dotcloud.com/working-around-the-ec2-outage "After one hour, Amazon's Health Dashboard was still p
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16y ago
Mostly http://raphaeljs.com/ and jQuery.
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Ask HN: What can one do to protect against hosting failures?
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This game is awesome. I gave up on a similar HTML/JS game I was making because I could not think of the gameplay/goal/prize: https://zetabee.com/games/bee - I love your 'find pattern' goal. I think with these kind of puzzle games, the har
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Not everyone has a middle-click or even a mouse. I use Cmd+Click (or Ctrl+Click) on HN but on reddit, a single-click works. On a laptop with a trackpad, it is much easier to tap once than to do a keyboard + click or tap.
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Their DNS is down.
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Everything on https://zetabee.com is my side-project.
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Here's XKCD's blue-eyes problem http://www.xkcd.com/blue_eyes.html and solution: http://xkcd.com/solution.html
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