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by davidalln 17y ago
I think that all the backend of this uses drop.io's ( http://drop.io/ ) API to get the phone number. This (quite cleverly) adds a simple interface to it. I would also check out Twilio if you're interested ( http://www.twilio.com/ ).
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by davidalln 17y ago
I guess what I'm saying is that it feels forced when someone promotes their own blog in a comment, especially on a popular story. But I will read their blog if I like their comment and possibly subscribe to it. Perhaps the best way to incre
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by davidalln 17y ago
No, I find it annoying (although I can't speak for the community as a whole) when people try to draw such attention to their websites and very rarely click on links to blogs and personal websites on blog or social news comments. If I find a
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by davidalln 17y ago
I too certainly got this holier-than-thou sense from reading the article, and I also felt that it missed the point. Pair programming doesn't work for everyone not because of those pretty dumb reasons. Pair programming doesn't work for every
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by davidalln 17y ago
In my opinion, textbooks will forever be the dominate student resource and people who call for its death are a bit naive. As a student in a very tech-oriented school, I have experienced attempts to bring knowledge exclusively digital and on
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by davidalln 17y ago
Reminds me a lot of Logo. I think back in 1st grade computer class it was a turtle we controlled as well. Also, in AP Comp Sci we went over the basics of functions by making a turtle move across a plane. Why turtles?
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by davidalln 17y ago
Maybe it's just me, but I couldn't figure out precisely what you guys did within five seconds of looking at the page, and that is for me a turnoff. I think it's part the color scheme, part the in-your-face layout, and part the overwhelming
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by davidalln 17y ago
Great find. In general I'm a huge fan of the style, but there are some instances where it is inappropriate, such as for GetSatisfaction. It looks very unprofessional and doesn't really sell their service very well. A website that is trying
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by davidalln 17y ago
That's an excellent idea! However, I posted the AP source to official confirm this tragic news.
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by davidalln 17y ago
A bit more reputable source: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_obit_billy_mays
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by davidalln 17y ago
And so it begins. It will be interesting to see what other teams will do now with such a tight deadline.
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by davidalln 17y ago
As someone who loved the StatTweet service this past college football and basketball season, it's a shame to see that Twitter has done this and refuses to communicate effectively with you. Best of luck with http://stat.us/ , I'll be certai
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Ask HN: What is the best way to "teach" programming?
2 points by davidalln 17y ago|1 comments
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by davidalln 17y ago
> Now they need a kind of apprenticeship: real tasks to work on, the freedom to experiment and to risk failure, but in an environment that models respect for commitment. As someone who just got out of an AP Computer Science class, I cou
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by davidalln 17y ago
Search itself is simply too hard to judge. Since many of the results in the top 10 (at least in my test searches) were the same but perhaps jumbled a bit, I personally think it doesn't matter that much. Day to day I use search for two thing
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by davidalln 17y ago
Apparently it has been taken down (or so one of the commenters on TechCrunch said).
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by davidalln 17y ago
Google Code Page: http://code.google.com/apis/wave
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by davidalln 17y ago
margin-right: 5px (CleverCSS) vs. :margin-right 5px (Sass) But it is nice to see a Python implementation of such an excellent tool.
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by davidalln 17y ago
If you're interested in that, check out: http://www.deskography.org/ There are some pretty crazy and inspiring setups on there, and you can share your own.
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by davidalln 17y ago
I'm a high school student working on a startup in my spare time. I picked "part time", but with summer coming up...
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by davidalln 17y ago
Maybe it's just me, but it took me a good while to figure out what you guys do when looking at your homepage. I'd make sure to emphasize that you are a group remote conferencing application, even if you are still in private beta. Your sloga
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by davidalln 17y ago
Sort of like Readability by Arc90? http://lab.arc90.com/experiments/readability/
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by davidalln 18y ago
I dunno, this article seems a bit too similar to smashLAB's article 3 weeks prior. http://www.ideasonideas.com/2009/01/startup_fail/