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by dsims 15y ago
Mary Had a Little Lamb http://goo.gl/doodle/3aEE Works on my Android phone too, even the keyboard (Motorola Droid). Can't press the record button though.
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by dsims 16y ago
They also say "Netflix cannot be the first word in the application name. It can be used in the naming of an app as “x for Netflix” or “x with Netflix”, “x’s Netflix Manager”, etc." http://developer.netflix.com/docs/Branding In their appr
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by dsims 16y ago
Thanks! I designed it so that the site can be used even if you don't have a Netflix account, but maybe that's a very small use case I can drop. Ideally the page would be full of your friend's ratings, but yeah, I should fill that empty spa
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Show HN: Friends on Netflix
8 points by dsims 16y ago|5 comments
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by dsims 16y ago
Do you limit the number of photos? Seems like if the number of photos in the pool far exceeds the number of votes coming in, each photo would only ever have a handful of battles. I've build a similar voting system before but the purpose w
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by dsims 17y ago
http://feedscrub.com is such a service
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by dsims 17y ago
I moved noisy feeds out of Google Reader and into FriendFeed. I use the FriendFeed notifier http://friendfeed.com/about/notifier to have items popup on my screen in real-time. If you follow a few key people & feeds on FriendFeed, al
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by dsims 17y ago
Here is the Facebook Developer blog post: http://developers.facebook.com/news.php?blog=1&story=246 I look forward to the day Facebook can totally stop managing passwords. That means my grandmother will be using OpenID.
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by dsims 17y ago
Interesting that the results are given as an image: http://ff.im/2W5UQ You think they did that to stop screen-scraping?
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by dsims 17y ago
I used this http://decafbad.com/2009/01/twitter-friend-faves-opml/ to create an OPML file, and then edited it so it contained status feeds instead of favorites. I just stumbled up on this too, which is probably a better idea: http://www.
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by dsims 17y ago
On my own blog, I almost went so far as to offload all comments to twitter. Basically, each blog entry would have a corresponding tweet that you would @reply to. But then I concluded that most people don't want their comments on blogs f
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by dsims 17y ago
You can also add twitter feeds to Google Reader (Google apparently does not have to adhere to API limits). I do this for any twitter accounts <s>I stalk</s> that I don't want to miss.
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by dsims 17y ago
Only if I needed instant notification would I follow something in Twitter instead of a RSS reader (a steady news feed probably fits twitter better). It's actually much easier to miss a particular post on Twitter as the stream quickly fl
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by dsims 18y ago
I constantly had times where server load was going through the roof, bringing my site to a crawl or unavailable for hours. Support was responsive, but the problems never went away. Use it for a personal site or maybe a test project, but n
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by dsims 18y ago
Even if Twitter Search somehow becomes useless due to spam, Twitter itself will continue to be useful.
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by dsims 18y ago
Nice. Maybe they saw my comment?
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by dsims 18y ago
I wanted to check out tapinko.com, but they block Chrome browsers. Is that what they meant by taking on Google?
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by dsims 18y ago
And when and if you do get that huge growth, all these cool features don't always scale well. I think scaling issues is what really slows down innovation with the big guys.
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by dsims 18y ago
At first I thought "No", but now I'm leaning toward "maybe". If you can't reply in 140 characters, provide a link to more info. If you get the same question over and over, add it to your FAQ and tweet the link so that all your followers c
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Can you provide support via twitter?(friendfeed.com)
2 points by dsims 18y ago|3 comments
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by dsims 18y ago
A good compilation of programming podcasts at StackOverflow: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1644/what-good-technology... I enjoy Geek Speak for basic tech news discussion: http://geekspeak.org/ This American Life is not science or t
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by dsims 18y ago
I would say that, at first, most people do NOT know that greyed-out boxes can't be changed. They only know after attempting to click on it a few times. The key is to make it not look like an edit box, then people won't think they can inter
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Better Than Owning - access trumps possession(kk.org)
26 points by dsims 18y ago|13 comments
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Don't make 'readonly' fields less readable(secretgeek.net)
7 points by dsims 18y ago|7 comments
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by dsims 18y ago
whiskey = (fellow == jolly_good) ? clear : piss_on_em; (99-04)
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by dsims 18y ago
What if they allowed duplicate names? Navigating to twitter.com/username would then display everyone with that name (like how Wikipedia handles it). The chances that you are following more than one person with the same name is pretty slim
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by dsims 18y ago
Contact information should not be an identifier. It's like when a B&M store uses your phone number to ID you. I don't want them calling me and I don't want your website to email me. The URL is simply a pointer to my identity, which is