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by dacort 16y ago
Gave a go on my own rendition a bit ago: https://gist.github.com/745726
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by dacort 16y ago
Sharding gotchas: You can't shard an existing collection that's surpassed 50GB. All collections are currently created on the primary shard of the database. (Although this is slated to change: http://jira.mongodb.org/browse/SERVER-939 ) If
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by dacort 16y ago
> Why do you hate that? You wouldn't be using your phone during the night anyway? I wanted to chime in on this. I may not use my phone at night, but it is certainly receiving notifications and SMS messages throughout the night. This mea
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by dacort 16y ago
I created a Gist for this here - https://gist.github.com/745726 - would love to see some forks. :)
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by dacort 16y ago
Looks like somebody decided to spam the heck out of Twitter with those compromised passwords. http://twitter.com/#!/delbius/statuses/14235293116792833
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by dacort 16y ago
There's a decent list of VPN service providers here: http://www.thesparklabs.com/support/vpn_service_providers/ SparkLabs also has a sweet/simple OpenVPN client for OS X that I use and will be coming out with a server sometime in the near
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by dacort 16y ago
Second time I've heard of this happening fairly recently. Another incident, same cause. http://www.bigdoor.com/blog/bigdoor-api-service-has-been-res...
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by dacort 16y ago
Poor man's remote command execution (when compiled with -DGAPING_SECURITY_HOLE): nc -l -p 80 -e /bin/sh And then just telnet or netcat to that port and you get yourself a shell.
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by dacort 16y ago
I do most of my mockups on pen and paper. I can draw quicker than I can use a mouse. I can scratch things out, jot down notes anywhere around a mocked up screen. And information transfer is faster (for me). To each their own, though. That m
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by dacort 16y ago
Does anybody else not have the export feature yet?
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by dacort 16y ago
Whenever I have a Rails app that I'm not sure where it will go or how much effort I want to put into it, I deploy it on Heroku. It's dead simple, just runs (most of the time), and is zero cost until it starts getting substantial traffic.
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by dacort 16y ago
Wow, I've been wanting to do this for a while to raise awareness. Great implementation by plugging it into Firefox - well done.
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by dacort 16y ago
I hope they stick to their word on this. I'm tired of the search results on the Graph API disappearing for hours at a time.
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by dacort 16y ago
+1 for these comments as well. Better to do something crazy now, knowing you can always fall back and recoup your losses, rather than finding yourself down the road with more serious responsibilities you can't ignore at the same job hating
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by dacort 16y ago
I didn't see a word about /what/ you want to build. Most people leave their jobs and pursue startup life, which is not glamorous, because they have a burning, necessary passion to build something and solve a problem. And it's that passion t
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by dacort 16y ago
Your comment influenced me to chip in a little to help Abraham get there. He's a great hacker and has already made an impact on the Seattle scene. It took me a while to realize I wanted to build/run a startup - anything I can do, however li
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by dacort 16y ago
Shouldn't I be allowed to customize my profile URL with a string other than my email address? Why force me to expose my email if I want something other than a 21-character numeric id?
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by dacort 16y ago
The thing that really bugs me about Google profiles is that they're directly connected to email addresses. I guess Google thinks their ability to deal with spam is good enough that putting millions of their user's email address publicly ava
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by dacort 16y ago
This should be redone with % of homepage consumed by advertising over time.
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by dacort 16y ago
Psh, the night is just barely getting started out here on the West Coast!
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by dacort 16y ago
In no particular order: http://g.raphaeljs.com , http://vis.stanford.edu/protovis , http://highcharts.com , http://www.fusioncharts.com/ (Flash) [edit] Some commentary: I've used Fusion Charts in the past (on tweetstats.com) and it pro
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by dacort 16y ago
You can also execute SQL-like queries within a Google Spreadsheet. Surprised the heck out of me when I found that out.
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by dacort 16y ago
It doesn't support VBA, but it does support Javascript...
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by dacort 16y ago
http://www.websolr.com ?
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by dacort 16y ago
Incorrect. The 140 characters includes the length of the t.co link (19 characters), not whatever the original link was.
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by dacort 16y ago
As I interpreted it, Twitter is not going to longify links. The display_url entity will be the exactly link passed in by the user. So if a user pastes in a bit.ly link, it will still show the bit.ly link.
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by dacort 16y ago
One also has to wonder what altitude they were at.
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by dacort 16y ago
I second this. At the very least, link to somewhere where you describe what changes were made (and how to revert if I so choose).
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by dacort 16y ago
If you use the iPhone app, it can sync your friend's pictures on Facebook with the corresponding contact in your address book. How does it do this? By having you upload all contacts to Facebook including their name, email address and phone
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by dacort 16y ago
Ouch: http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=relocating+from+seattle... 76% more in Manhattan. Housing is 164% more expensive.

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