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by cschneid 18y ago
I really like the idea, at least the stock rights part of it. The printing part feels over saturated, but the stock photography part feels like it could be done. Email me, I'd like to talk more about this.
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by cschneid 18y ago
Didn't look close, but this gem might do it: http://twitter.rubyforge.org/ In addition, there are more generic atom parsing gems that make coding quick. The great thing about ruby is the ease of making mini-dsls that make things like this
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by cschneid 18y ago
Code that runs with a purpose. Why is this not an application? I get what you're saying, but a widget is a subset of application. Widget has all attributes of application (code that runs), and then has additional attributes (limited size
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by cschneid 18y ago
Twitter moves fast enough that you probably want to re-fetch every time and display. But you're right, this is a very simple problem, just felt like rails was taking a sledge hammer to it. Not to say it isn't a cool idea, it is.
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by cschneid 18y ago
And then there's the wrinkle of trademarks. Look and Feel is certainly in the realm of trademarks, and I'm sure that 37 signals has their designs trademarked, and their logos, and "getting real", and everything else they've ever created. I
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by cschneid 18y ago
I like the calculator. Beyond simple addition, that's the second most common thing I have to calculate (finance related), and going back to excel and trying to remember the formula names is a pain. As long as it's a mode you can turn on a
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by cschneid 18y ago
What took 5 hours there? I assume it is mostly the design part and css tweaking, since the functionality is pretty damn simple (and a few lines out of a gem). I'm not being snarky, I'm curious where the time went on that project. Also, a s
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by cschneid 18y ago
There was a case where a law dictionary effectively claimed copyright over the page numbers. Since the law itself wasn't their property (and was actually public domain afaik), and there wasn't any other original content in the book, they di
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by cschneid 18y ago
Can somebody explain the outrage? Is there any incentive to being a power user on digg (beyond getting your name on the front page?). Is there any monetary incentive? SEO opportunities perhaps?
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by cschneid 18y ago
Interesting talk, although as he calls out, his ideas are reinventions of other languages. I really like ruby in the historical context of scripting languages. It's a perfect child of perl, has roots in shell scripting, and makes "normal"
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by cschneid 18y ago
The question here is rather incoherent. But the idea of interactive ads aren't old (shoot the duck, etc). Not sure how CAPTCHAs fit in this...
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by cschneid 18y ago
Do it yourself. Dreamhost + One click WP install == working wordpress. You don't even have to ever log into the terminal. Plus having your own domain name makes you look more professional.
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by cschneid 18y ago
The basic idea, yes. But on the other hand, my girlfriend's macbook (white plastic) discolors easily, and even worse, cracks around the edges. It has tiny spacer bumps on the lid that press into the keyboard layer plastic all around the o
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by cschneid 18y ago
Evaluate what you're good at and start a new company? You have run a successful company, only got screwed by the economy. You basically have 13 + 17 - 6 == 24k in debt. If you go bankrupt with the company, that drops to just 13k (assumin
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by cschneid 18y ago
I landed on the page and got lost. Its fine if you haven't setup your sign up yet, but there's not even marketing copy telling me why I'm there, and what I'm supposed to do. What is unique about this photo sharing? Why would I use this ov
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by cschneid 18y ago
Even with all it's features, Vim's direction has always been as a pure text editor. Plugins focus on making editing better, new features help with multiple windows, making modes easier, etc. Emacs is really a platform who's main use is a t
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by cschneid 18y ago
Is there a market for a moderated rentacoder? Think of the difference between yahoo answers and ask metafilter. Same goal, different leagues of quality. /me has a startup idea.
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by cschneid 18y ago
But, since it then allows the developer to use em measurements everywhere, doesn't that allow your override font size to look better on the page?
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by cschneid 18y ago
I might have missed it, but I didn't find a decent browse interface. If I'm starting out searching for internships, I don't necessarily know any search terms to jump off from. An idle browsing of all available positions would make things
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by cschneid 18y ago
I'm not sure what you're saying here. I like Sinatra for teaching the underlying http protocol. Unlike Rails, it doesn't hide things from you, but just tries to make it cleaner and easier to write an app. I maintain that Sinatra:Rails::PH
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by cschneid 18y ago
Sorry for the formatting, I wanted to get it up. My goal with this was to connect the changelog with my previous posts about these new features (that I wrote against the development branch). Didn't expect it to get linked from here...
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by cschneid 18y ago
The explanation I always heard was that the date was the pull date. So NewsWeek was always dated as the day the next issue would come out. For monthly magazines, it's the month that the next issue will come out in.
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by cschneid 18y ago
I looked at it a while back, and it wasn't feature complete enough for me to really play with. It's probably worth another look. For a more complete impl, look at JRuby. You get the nice benefits of a larger virtual machine (the libraries
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by cschneid 18y ago
I had the same idea for a dictionary, which I've been too lazy to execute on. You define an initial term, and it comes up with a definition. Then you can expand out from there, if you don't understand a word. Then you keep recursing until
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by cschneid 18y ago
The arrows on the right of the blocks are misleading. They look like links, or at least active content, but don't do anything.
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by cschneid 18y ago
Even more importantly, you can catch and contain the shitty coders nice and early.
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by cschneid 18y ago
I'd like to take this opportunity to pimp my own personal blog at http://www.gittr.com . I have written a ton of documentation about Sinatra, while learning it. It feels like PHP, but minus the nasty parts. Whereas Rails feels like Java
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by cschneid 18y ago
The only foolproof way is to email it. Why not have a nice ajax widget which calls to the server, and checks if anything is open on the port. Then displays a message saying "there doesn't appear to be an email server at <server>
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by cschneid 18y ago
But he knew when to quit ideas that didn't have hope. It freed his time up enough to move onto other, more promising ideas.
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by cschneid 18y ago
The biggest issue with ASP.NET for me is that it ignores the underlying protocol. The writer tries explaining this away, saying that you can get at the raw http components if you want, but I don't think that matters much when the default u

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