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by gabemart 11y ago
I'm curious about this too. Are these kinds of acquisitions ever a simple buyout, where the founders and early employees take their money and walk away?
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by gabemart 11y ago
Hope it's OK for me to take the chance to plug my own ambient noise mixing app: http://asoftmurmur.com I find ambient noise (at a low, safe volume) to be helpful for concentration.
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by gabemart 11y ago
>How is that any different from any other software project? You talk to the client about their needs, you agree on the price, and you build it. In other software projects I'm used to, you build something to a client's specifica
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by gabemart 11y ago
How do you get a company to pay 35k for a "concept", a product that doesn't exist yet and that you can't be 100 percent sure how long it will take to build? I have some hustle and I know enough about sales to appreciate
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by gabemart 11y ago
> The biggest issue is yet another file for the browser to fetch. There's no reason you can't concatenate jQuery with the rest of your JS.
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by gabemart 11y ago
> jQuery as a library has now become huge > So if you can cut down your cold cache loading times by not > including the full jQuery library, that's probably a win jQuery 1.11.3 is 38.4 KB when minified and gzipped
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by gabemart 11y ago
> More than adults. Girls send, on average, about 3,952 text messages a month, and boys send closer to 2,815 text messages a month The average boy sends 2,815 text messages per month? 94 per day? 6 per waking hour, every hour, every day,
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by gabemart 11y ago
That's not entirely true - it only uses monosyllabic words for IPv6 addresses because there's no other way to fit enough bits into the right number of syllables. For IPv4 addresses, there's loads of space, so I can afford to
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by gabemart 11y ago
Sorry to double comment, but this is exactly how my hobby project hipku works http://hipku.gabrielmartin.net
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by gabemart 11y ago
This is also how hipku stores ip addresses as haiku demo - http://hipku.gabrielmartin.net explanation - http://gabrielmartin.net/projects/hipku/
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by gabemart 11y ago
The linked study didn't find any significant difference in weight loss between diets with a radically different macronutrient composition: > By 2 years, weight loss remained similar in those who were assigned to a > diet wi
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by gabemart 11y ago
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2763382/ > CONCLUSIONS > > Reduced-calorie diets result in clinically meaningful > weight loss regardless of which macronutrients they >
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by gabemart 11y ago
This seems like a really cool project! But how are you shuffling the cards, and how are you identifying unique shuffled decks? It looks like the deck_id is 12 characters, numbers or lower-case letters. That gives a range of 36^12 or around
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The Hotline Miami Story(youtube.com)
1 points by gabemart 11y ago|0 comments
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by gabemart 11y ago
> You could allow contestants to buzz in as soon as possible, but have the system wait until Alex has finished reading the answer I think one of the reasons Jeopardy! is so popular is that it makes the audience feel smart. I'm not a
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by gabemart 11y ago
> If it was because they were following advice they read > somewhere because worried it would influence their offer, > I'd try to dispel that myth within the context of > Automattic. If knowledge of a candidate's previ
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by gabemart 11y ago
>$9 - $11 / year for perfectly good certs So long as you don't need any subdomains, right?
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by gabemart 11y ago
I would suggest adding "in mice" to the title.
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by gabemart 11y ago
I think this is offering 3g rather than 2g, but I wasn't aware of that, thanks! It seems like UK carriers are lagging behind rather badly in this regard.
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by gabemart 11y ago
> Pay one rate for data around the world > > In 120+ countries, data usage costs the same $10 per GB > as it does in the US (data speed is limited to 256kbps/3G). > Check email, get directions, and
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by gabemart 12y ago
Georgia Dusk (by Jean Toomer) The sky, lazily disdaining to pursue The setting sun, too indolent to hold A lengthened tournament for flashing gold, Passively darkens for night’s barbecue, A feast o
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by gabemart 12y ago
As the (dead) sibling comment points out, my (non-lawyer) understanding of US copyright law is that simple collections of facts, when compiled in a way that requires no creativity, do not enjoy any copyright protection at all. I would be su
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by gabemart 12y ago
Did anyone else think the left flyer looked cleaner (although still very muddled)?
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by gabemart 12y ago
I found it amusing that an article on this topic has a newsletter signup dialog appear immediately upon scrolling down. I'm sure the effectiveness of such a technique follows the same kind of curve as the other techniques discussed in
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by gabemart 12y ago
My sugar cravings don't feel like cravings, they feel more like hunger. I can eat a delicious meal of whole foods and be full to the point that it's physically uncomfortable, but I still feel ravenously hungry for sugar. It's
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by gabemart 12y ago
Very clean looking. I'm not so keen on the default "start playing from the beginning" icon though. To me, it looks too much like a "loop" toggle. Also, it would be nice if the caption toggle had a visual on/off
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by gabemart 12y ago
Comments here seem very negative. If they do some basic tracking of users between accounts, e.g. based on IP address, cookies or browser fingerprint, they could easily do some kind of probabalistic determination of whether or not a potentia
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A Soft Murmur – mixable ambient sounds for Android devices(play.google.com)
2 points by gabemart 12y ago|0 comments
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by gabemart 12y ago
Yeah, unfortunately there's a persistent problem with the One where playing more than a few audio streams simultaneously results in stuttering or crashes. I've looked into it but never found a reliable workaround. Every few months
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by gabemart 12y ago
In case anyone is interested in getting this functionality on Android, I run a competing service that has an Android app: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.gabemart.a...

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