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by cschneid 17y ago
But there is great value in telling that new user "Hey this doesn't look like an email address, please check it before continuing". Then accept whatever they put in (because really, email addresses are stupidly complex).
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by cschneid 17y ago
This is probably my own biggest trigger for procrastination. I avoid writing an email or calling somebody due to fear, or uneasiness. Then over time, I avoid it further due to fear of lateness. Luckily recognizing this is half the way to
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by cschneid 17y ago
Right, there are non-investment related values to a house for most people. Kids friends in the area, nice neighbors, the landscaping you did last year, etc. So even if you couldn't sell and recoup your mortgage, doesn't mean the value of y
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by cschneid 17y ago
That's what I figured. I was hoping (wishing?) that it would be a nice drop-in, in-process async endpoint for when I needed it. But it looks like the sysadmin side is a bit more complex than that.
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by cschneid 17y ago
Looks handy, does it play nicely in a normal rails deploy? I can see it being really handy as a long polling endpoint in an otherwise synchronous webapp. Before trying it though, I don't know how eventmachine can play nice inside a passenge
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by cschneid 17y ago
I've recommended a friend to implement similar marketing strategies. He has a small mac app (on HN previously), and he's already getting the good blog/twitter market, but I'm guessing he's missing lots of speculative queries. The kind whe
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by cschneid 17y ago
I'm a vim guy myself, but looks like you just need the onSave hook that the vi config at the end calls.
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by cschneid 17y ago
I want a netflix recommendation system, but for friends. I can communicate with anybody on earth, but I only know a handful of people in the immediate vicinity.
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by cschneid 17y ago
About the closest you'll get is the apache POI library. It's mostly an excel 97 lib, but it supports word to some extent.
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by cschneid 17y ago
Thanks for the info on UL, I forgot about the in-wall parts of things, and was focusing on toasters and such. Basically, I'm saying that the government should stay out of it, unless it's actual fraud. It bothers me that it's a monopoly on t
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by cschneid 17y ago
I'm going to argue this from the point of law, rather than the relative value of faked degrees, and if the university system has any merit by itself. From the article, it appears like there are no laws saying you can't make an unaccredited
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by cschneid 17y ago
http://www.projectrho.com/rocket/rocket3t.html This is an ugly site, but it goes through a rational, technology based approach to space, and space warfare. I've linked to the space war part specifically, but it's all interesting. It has
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by cschneid 17y ago
Pitch for free, spec for pay. Doing business analysis is delivering significant value to the client, and you can sell that in particular. You are delivering a spec that's implementable, no matter by who. You're obviously the best for the
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by cschneid 17y ago
I think there's a middle ground. By acknowledging that people come in all shapes and sizes and mindsets, you can consciously find people who compliment you or your organization well. I never think that biology should be used to discriminat
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by cschneid 17y ago
There's a contradiction inherent with that "thinking different" argument. If you accept that women on a large scale (ie, no individual example, but as a group of millions of people) think differently, then it's not absurd to say that they
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by cschneid 17y ago
I like soft validation for emails. "This doesn't look like an email address, verify you typed everything correctly, and resubmit". That way you handle legit typos, without hassling people who have weird emails (gmail plus signs and such).
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by cschneid 17y ago
Pretty generic suggestions, but I thought the art was fun. Well done inc for making me read something I've read a dozen times before.
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by cschneid 17y ago
You touch on a point that swings my view of the political response towards the "do something" end of the spectrum. Climate change, true or false, is tightly tied to pollution. By taking action against climate change (in the traditional wa
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by cschneid 17y ago
Guessing, but it's quite possible they did work in the scope of government funding, exposing it to this kind of access.
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by cschneid 17y ago
Jaxer is server side javascript, with access to a DOM. When I looked at it (more than a year ago now), they accomplished that via a headless firefox 3. I'd guess they still do that, since it worked for them.
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by cschneid 17y ago
Something I've looked at: http://htmlunit.sourceforge.net/ Also, I'm not sure how they do it, but Jaxer ( http://www.jaxer.org/ ) has a headless firefox instance they use. Maybe do it in a similar manner?
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by cschneid 17y ago
As optimistic as you are, saying that politics and self-promotion inside large companies is stupid, you have to remember the environment. By definition, a large company has LOTS of people, and lots of people involved in a project like chang
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by cschneid 17y ago
It makes sense if you think about it. The body is like "I need energy!" and your glycogen stores are like "sorry dude, all out", so it goes and robs the fat-convenience store for its twinkies. The issue is working out hard enough to take ou
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by cschneid 17y ago
Fat is a storage device for lots of stuff. For example, THC (marijuana) builds up in fat cells. Losing weight releases some of that stored up junk. It's not out of the question that some of it would cause you to stink up a storm.
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by cschneid 17y ago
From my superficial experience with OSX Server, it's like Windows Server in the sense that it is OSX Plus. All the normal stuff is there, then server specific stuff is there. That includes both nice GUIs on top of open source stuff (Samba
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by cschneid 17y ago
From what I understand, Maven is a build dependency manager, but not a package manager the way CPAN is. I'm looking for a central place to find packages that do everything. "ohh you need to interact with AWS, here's the package" type stuf
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by cschneid 17y ago
Side question: is there a CPAN or Gems repository for similar open-source Java libraries? I know that Apache has lots of Java libs, but beyond that, I have no idea where to look.
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by cschneid 17y ago
A side project our company (Citrusbyte) has been working on is OpenFriends ( http://getopenfriends.com/ ). It is an universal friending system, which then can be subscribed to by various services (myspace, facebook, forums). We've been bu
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by cschneid 17y ago
"This product is currently in private beta. Enter your credit card details to guarantee your spot in the next phase of release. You won't be charged a cent until you get access" Then do the authorize.net CC storage thing where you don't ev
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by cschneid 17y ago
The mexican place I was talking about is certainly not "authentic", but it's near a university, and serve delicious food (but not really mexican). I don't think slavish attention to old-world detail is the path to a successful restaurant,

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