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by d_r 16y ago
This Steve quote is great: "No way, there's no way we're slipping!" ... "You guys have been working on this stuff for months now, another couple weeks isn't going to make that much of a difference. You may as well get it over with. Just ma
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by d_r 16y ago
Hope you can fix it soon. Here are some ideas: Did you verify receipts in your app? If so, could this be the problem? http://forums.realsoftware.com/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=37309 "I had mistakenly used the app name instead of the app bund
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by d_r 16y ago
This is neat. For example: Shanghai skyscrapers: http://j.map.baidu.com/-FNB Beijing Olympic stadium: http://j.map.baidu.com/TjNB Edit: for some reason, the links don't work in Chrome. Firefox works though.
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by d_r 16y ago
From the post: We posted the auction on Reddit and, with the help of a few friends, got to the front page. ... Pretty quickly the story was picked up by Techcrunch ... This part has got to be important. Getting significant visibility for
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by d_r 16y ago
I was also confused about that. I may be misunderstanding how the law works, but isn't it true that group coverage can deny pre-existing conditions only for a limited time (6 months)? In California you need at least 2 employees to qualify f
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by d_r 16y ago
Apparently it was also mentioned in The Facebook Effect http://www.allfacebook.com/facebook-knows-that-your-relation... "Zuckerberg sometimes amused himself by conducting experiments ... he studied who was looking which profiles, who y
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by d_r 16y ago
A side question. If we donate, what stops PayPal from randomly "freezing" his account and holding the money hostage, as they have on a number of other occasions for people having a "Donate" link?
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by d_r 16y ago
I use this product, at times. I think it's an example of a good intention on Microsoft's part that hasn't been executed or marketed incredibly well. Any web developer worth salt has to preview their work on IE6-IE9. And everyone has to ju
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by d_r 16y ago
I have quite a few domains with Namecheap and so far so good. What I like is that their UI is not dumbed-down ("GoDaddy-style") and you can find that darned DNS setting without fishing through 5 layers of navigation. It also helps that they
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by d_r 16y ago
Not to put down people's hard work, but I am yet to encounter a utility company website that has any sort of sensible usability. Multi-digit pin number login names, split into little textboxes, that are frustrating to enter? Check. Only 4-d
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by d_r 16y ago
The other day I wanted to log in to my StackOverflow account. I was presented with this screen: http://i.imgur.com/SwuVJ.png Shoot, did I previously log in to SO with my Google account? With my Facebook account? How can I remember? Or may
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by d_r 16y ago
“A large-scale concert on sale is, in essence, a denial-of-service attack.” And unfortunately, on July 24, service was denied. Fascinating. It seems like quite a few of the would-be-competitors, even given the chance to compete, end up fa
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by d_r 16y ago
...this time I actually destroyed images by opening them up in a text editor and adding/removing text to their raw code. Fuzzing used to create art! (Edit: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuzz_testing )
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by d_r 16y ago
On the topic of sending e-mail, I discovered the following note on my utility company's bill payment page. I'm guessing they have never heard of SendGrid or the like. http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/dennis/GGBF... (They d
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by d_r 16y ago
It amazes me how quickly AWS iterates and adds new features. Also, this is just what I needed for a site I am building (I was trying to figure out which third-party mail provider to use.)
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by d_r 16y ago
E-mail headers can be fun too. For example, Facebook e-mails up to this day contain: X-Mailer: ZuckMail [version 1.00] The X-Mailer header traditionally indicates the mail client that was used to send the e-mail. Want to check if your frien
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by d_r 16y ago
That, and you don't need a top-of-the-line $2000+ Mac Pro to develop (I think those are for video/graphics guys, anyway.) For example, my main dev box is a Mac Mini (and it flies even with 2 monitors, Xcode, Eclipse, and a bunch of other th
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by d_r 16y ago
Is it ever reasonable to pass a redirect URL directly via the GET parameters? One other concern would be the ease of phishing attacks, e.g. goodsite.com/login?redirect= http://www.mybadsite.com User logs in to Goodsite, and is redirected t
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by d_r 16y ago
Funny enough, if 37signals have never written this post criticizing RTFHIG, I would have never heard of RTFHIG. Kudos to 37signals.
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by d_r 16y ago
Lack of silent updates was one of the key reasons I switched from Firefox to Chrome (speed was another.) Seemed like every time I opened the browser to view a webpage I needed to see that very moment , Firefox would pop up an annoying upda
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Apple’s unsolicited idea submission policy(apple.com)
7 points by d_r 16y ago|12 comments
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by d_r 16y ago
I'm surprised not to see more alternatives to GoDaddy for registrars (say, NameCheap.) GoDaddy interface and upselling are simply infuriating and I've always thought of it as a "Wal-Mart for domains/etc," not something a tech-savvy startup
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by d_r 16y ago
Why not just use NameCheap? They have free DNS hosting even for domains that aren't registered with them and I have been using them for several of my domains that are still "stuck" with GoDaddy. I once had a support question about one of su
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by d_r 16y ago
The Reserve Requirements (or Cash Reserve Ratio) is a Central bank regulation that sets the minimum reserves each Commercial bank must hold to customer deposits and notes i.e the amount that the bank surrenders with the central bank. ... A
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by d_r 16y ago
Ah, that sounds lousy. :( I wonder if it's a defective batch or something in my usage pattern that avoids this issue. Have you tried getting a replacement from a Genius bar? They are usually pretty helpful.
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by d_r 16y ago
I got the 13" Air (highest specs: 2.13Ghz+4GB) about a month ago and am completely loving it. I usually have Xcode, Photoshop, (occasional) Eclipse, and a slew of other tools open and it performs like a charm. Most useful "feature": the bat
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by d_r 16y ago
Here comes the fearmongering by the media. Sigh.
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Peter Norvig: How to write a spelling corrector(norvig.com)
2 points by d_r 16y ago|0 comments
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by d_r 16y ago
A nice collection of affiliate links.
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by d_r 16y ago
Not 100% relevant to this thread, but if it helps, I've had success with http://www.icanlocalize.com for localizing apps. They assign a human translator for your strings and are accommodating with custom directions you might have. They'll

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