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ewang1
13y ago
Do you know how PayPal does it? They have a 30 day auth validity, and in some cases there's an option to extend the auth past the 30 days. We use PayPal a lot for our e-commerce store, and have verified the 30 day auth with near 100% s
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ewang1
13y ago
Most likely for tracking parts during production.
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ewang1
13y ago
This patent was issued on 2/28/2012. It's the related application that hasn't been issued.
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ewang1
13y ago
Or Facebook can just as easily block them from API access.
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ewang1
13y ago
Actually, it's 1/2 chance since it's either "yes" or "no".
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ewang1
13y ago
An alternative is the embedded version of the Google Docs viewer.
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ewang1
13y ago
I don't see that being much of an issue. When you're out in public, most expectations of privacy are gone anyways.
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ewang1
14y ago
I would imagine "writes" are still being written to the database, which then triggers the re-generation of the appropriate flat-file(s).
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ewang1
14y ago
Exactly. But they are still limited by advances in the underlying battery technology, which they did not invent.
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ewang1
14y ago
Haha, until we run out of the materials needed to print paper money...
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ewang1
14y ago
Or convert them to hex before sending to client. And you can convert them back to decimal on the server side.
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ewang1
14y ago
Issues of liability would be interesting to deal with...
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ewang1
14y ago
This actually exists now [1]. All that is left is to scale it up. They could probably even make versions of the pods that'll work with existing tracks. [1] http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7148731.stm
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ewang1
14y ago
I think restaurants pre-authorize your card for some percentage over the actual tab, and then just capture the final amount including tips.
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ewang1
14y ago
It defaults to Celsius, so you'll have to change it to Fahrenheit.
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ewang1
14y ago
perhaps b/c it's much faster to make it in html5 than in Obj-C?
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ewang1
14y ago
One easy way to solve this problem would be to do it like how Github distinguish between personal and organization repositories (with a context switcher dropdown). On the backend, this would involve converting all current accounts into "sub
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ewang1
14y ago
hey bryan, did you guys use an existing library for the barcode scanning functionality or wrote one up from scratch?
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ewang1
14y ago
In LA, the Uber black rates are approximately 20% more than the same trip via taxi. So since it all works out to the same, it doesn't make sense to not go for the Uber black service.
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ewang1
14y ago
even if you can't buy it, the tagged image data is going to be pretty valuable... couple it with an image matching engine, and they can charge for API access.
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ewang1
14y ago
you could do a game. i've seen people getting really addicted to those iOS logo ID games. for the incentives, just use something like kiip.
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ewang1
14y ago
Why is there a $0.05/call charge to set the caller ID? This feature is already available on Tropo at no cost.
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ewang1
14y ago
This is possible, but the features would be limited to only on/off and basic dimming.
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ewang1
14y ago
LOL, the goophone website even tell consumers to avoid getting a fake goophone and to report all fakes...
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ewang1
14y ago
http://youtu.be/gBr3RHhTpPk?t=1m9s
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ewang1
14y ago
Use your email and get a temporary pass on NBColympics.com. Although it only lasts 4hrs but I assume you can use a different email after that and it might still work.
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ewang1
14y ago
Is the site only partially cached in CloudFlare or something? Seems like with your "Always Online" feature, a dead server should trigger CloudFlare's "Always Online" feature and show a cached version for all the pages.
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ewang1
14y ago
what about the fax communications api? or are you guys interfacing with physical copper lines via some kind of fax server?
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ewang1
14y ago
Apparently the NZ police refiled the paperwork using the proper procedures.
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ewang1
15y ago
I think it won't be considered derived work if you simply include the Meteor library as a separate script tag. But I don't think Meteor separates out their library code from your Meteor client side code. In addition, if you minify the conca
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