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by gnubardt 17y ago
Isn't the sure fire way of validating an email address to connect to the mail server and see if the address exists?
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by gnubardt 17y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Krust_Caribbean_Bakery_%... The company was started with friends and relatives contributing $100 a week after they couldn't get a loan from a bank.
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Susu, or raising your own VC(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by gnubardt 17y ago|1 comments
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by gnubardt 17y ago
Seems like it might be hard to avoid the vista security warning problem, where alerts bother users and they just click through them.
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Redrawing the Route to Online Privacy (nytimes.com)
4 points by gnubardt 17y ago|1 comments
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by gnubardt 17y ago
I end up doing this by cooking vegan (I eat anything but my roomates don't). The constraint of not being able to use any animal products while cooking forces me to think creatively about taste and ingredients.
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Brightcove and Ooyala duke it out for Europe’s video market(eu.techcrunch.com)
1 points by gnubardt 17y ago|0 comments
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by gnubardt 17y ago
Not sure if it's any different or better, but Project Sikuli ( http://groups.csail.mit.edu/uid/sikuli/ ), an api for scripting visual actions in guis could be useful for testing layout and interaction. Here's an example of using it for unit
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by gnubardt 17y ago
The new virtual memory feature of Redis 2.0 allows you to swap data to disk and keep a minimal subset (the keyset, only values are swapped, never keys) in ram (1M keys would require 160mb of memory). You could keep only the most frequently
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Brightcove Introduces Mobile Experience for Adobe Flash Player 10.1(blog.brightcove.com)
2 points by gnubardt 17y ago|0 comments
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by gnubardt 17y ago
Isn't this kind of what xmpp or pubsubhubbub are about, decoupling the data created by a user from a service? I think it would be interesting to see this combined with the personel web server concept seen in Opera Unite, to serve an xmpp fe
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by gnubardt 17y ago
I think it's important not to confuse #3 ( Think like Feynman...Imagine actively. Use the phrase “that would mean…” to force yourself to think on your own terms with your own vivid images. ) with over analogizing. Thinking about a concept c
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by gnubardt 17y ago
Her post on rape jokes was also very good: http://fugitivus.wordpress.com/2009/06/24/a-woman-walks-into... A good reminder (or revelation) of why rape is never funny and should be taken seriously.
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by gnubardt 17y ago
They could use Smart Glass ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smart_glass ) to make the bottom opaque when in balcony position.
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by gnubardt 17y ago
The problem solved by Flash video wasn’t can I show a video? Instead, Flash solved can everyone watch my video? HTML5 video doesn’t provide this solution; it just adds another approach to the incompatibility pile. Isn't support for codecs
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Child Pornography, and an Issue of Restitution(nytimes.com)
3 points by gnubardt 17y ago|0 comments
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by gnubardt 17y ago
they provide a command line tool for running sikuli scripts without the IDE
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by gnubardt 17y ago
The first three are so important and so often glossed over. It drives me crazy when I hear classmates look for the easy way out or avoid a problem because it's "hard." There's no professor in the real world and if something's hard, tough
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by gnubardt 17y ago
Reminds me of the computation via intercourse part in The Diamond Age.
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by gnubardt 17y ago
Or to allow streaming to set top boxes. If they want to compete with netflix that'd be a great way to do it. What makes so great netflix (beyond selection and the ability to drop down to a dvd in the mail) is the ability to easily stream
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by gnubardt 17y ago
The subscription is only for them to mail you a microsd card. You can download the updates for free and load it yourself. http://thewikireader.com/update.html
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by gnubardt 17y ago
Interesting, would be cool to see worked up with one of thse http://www.technologyreview.com/computing/22358/ (I saw Ken Perlin of the nyu media lab give a presentation on that earlier in the year and it was incredible, high resolution an
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by gnubardt 17y ago
5watts is the consumption for the device itself, which includes 512mb of storage. An external hard drive would require additional storage. It's a packaged sheevaplug http://www.marvell.com/products/embedded_processors/develope... You can
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by gnubardt 17y ago
remapping capslock -> esc will make editing so much easier and faster. being able to easily enter command mode has increased my speed more than anything else, it's also really useful in other interfaces, to be able to quickly hit esca