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by dkasper 18y ago
That is awesome, this is the first time I have really used Twitter.
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by dkasper 18y ago
If you have an iGoogle page with Gmail you can still get to your messages.
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by dkasper 18y ago
Second time this has happened to me in the last month. Last time it was a very brief outage (like 10 minutes).
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by dkasper 18y ago
So,this may be a minor grievance, but why is the last name field white unlike the first name and email field even though it is required?
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Why Reddit and Digg are doomed but Metafilter isn't(blog.crankingwidgets.com)
1 points by dkasper 18y ago|0 comments
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Google Developing Formal VC Arm(news.cnet.com)
15 points by dkasper 18y ago|4 comments
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by dkasper 18y ago
I like the idea of making all the news have a more uniform format. Rss feeds do this, but only to a certain extent. Also, if it got successful enough they could hire their own reporters. It would be great to do video clips as well as text
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by dkasper 18y ago
Seems like they need a technology section, "RoR vs. Django", "Emacs vs. Vim", etc.
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Opposing Views: A New Debate Site Where Experts Go Head To Head(techcrunch.com)
1 points by dkasper 18y ago|1 comments
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by dkasper 18y ago
I was surprised when I opened up the page and it was showing the map for Bellingham (where I live). I was instantly intrigued to see what was going on because I connected with seeing the familiarity of the map despite the unfamiliarity of
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by dkasper 18y ago
Yep, those sound like the kind of users Seth Godin would call "laggards", and trying to build a business around them is usually not the best idea.
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by dkasper 18y ago
He only said he's going to come with an idea a day, not actually implement it!
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by dkasper 18y ago
Seems like it definitely violates Krug's "Don't make me think" principle, but if it's the best we've got then I guess it's ok for now.
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by dkasper 18y ago
That's why there are things like kerning and ligatures.
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by dkasper 18y ago
I've seen mention of KGS (kiseido go server) but not IGS (internet go server). I play on IGS because generally the players are a little bit stronger there (not that I am ;-) ). http://www.pandanet.co.jp/English/
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Y Combinator Diaries Week 5(theglobeandmail.com)
22 points by dkasper 18y ago|6 comments
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by dkasper 18y ago
What's the business model for the site? I don't even see any ads!
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by dkasper 18y ago
I was just talking about the kindle with one of my housemates. I don't have one, but my boss does, and apparently loves it. E-Ink is definitely a cool technology. I've heard some people say there are some things that should be changed in
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by dkasper 18y ago
Are you guys avoiding using IMDb's data since it can't be used commercially? http://www.imdb.com/interfaces
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by dkasper 18y ago
From the article: "There are lots of great open-source projects out there, especially in the development world." I think that covers Emacs, gcc, gdb, and git at least... He's not ignoring the great free software, he's pointing out that onl
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by dkasper 18y ago
Perhaps it would seem more Googly if it were called "Google Rooms" instead of Lively.
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Google Launches Virtual World (Rooms) Called "Lively"(techcrunch.com)
36 points by dkasper 18y ago|45 comments
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by dkasper 18y ago
What's better about it?
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by dkasper 18y ago
You could get the 2 largest cities in each country from here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_cities_and_seco... Or this has the capital and cities larger than the capital: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_capitals_and_l
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Prius to go (partially) solar(reuters.com)
4 points by dkasper 18y ago|0 comments
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The conflict between the ways humans and computers measure time(gcn.com)
1 points by dkasper 18y ago|0 comments
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by dkasper 18y ago
Wow, control click on something in firefox and it seems to highlight the containing box (div perhaps).
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by dkasper 18y ago
Another good example of this is in microprocessor architecture. A long time ago instructions were added to the x86 architecture to make life easier for assembly programmers. These instructions are large and take many clock cycles to execut
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by dkasper 18y ago
No no, I mean that I don't use the Emacs bindings because other things don't work the way I want, like tabbing. So when I'm using the c# bindings I find myself running strange commands accidentally.
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by dkasper 18y ago
:q! heal wounds emacs &

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