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by gr366 17y ago
TiVo
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This looks like another case of those controlling the means of production and distribution primed for disruption. There's no shortage of "iTunes for Books" ideas out there, but imagine giving authors a means to distribute their work without
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I had been wondering what the uptake of OpenID (or OAuth) logins would be given the amount of friction removed by the various providers' login offerings. It's not surprising that the majority of logins are coming through Facebook, just thro
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I think Rails had a lot to do with Ruby being the initiator. Rails introduced enough of a paradigm shift with its philosophy of making development fun, and it had a better level of visibility via 37signals than other options (say, Django fo
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I was a long-time resistor of Instapaper because I had my "to_read" tag in del.icio.us. But I would only very rarely return to that tag and go through items I had bookmarked. Plus I'd feel the need to come up with tags for an article I hadn
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I think the point was that there are too many options: Now you shop on the Internet, and you can buy from anywhere on the planet. The options for any particular purchase approach infinity, or so it seems. So while you may get tons
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Muchas gracias por esto. Puedo practicar mi español mientras leyendo uno de mis blogs favoritos. Pero, yo espero que Ángel no se traduce los posts sobre los Yankees. Puedo vivir sin ellos. :-P
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The sample is pretty good. If I were an ambitious sports journalist, I would use Stats Monkey to generate an initial boilerplate article of a game (drudgery anyway if a computer can do it) and use all the time I saved to do actual in-depth,
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I think the point about auto-generated documentation being near worthless is an important one. A project I'm working on has a requirement that the documentation be auto-generated and available at a URL on the build server, but nobody reads
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Isn't that what Streamlined was trying to do? It looks like it was EOL'd a few months ago. Their site now mentions looking at ActiveScaffold as an alternative http://activescaffold.com/ Not to say they are trying to replicate Django's adm
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Great point. Pagination in harmony with the content (splitting across sections or chapters of a longer article) is valuable to a user. It's easier to bookmark or remember I was on page 4 of that Ars Technica review, or to send a specific UR
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Who feels like they got the most out of their particular level of educational attainment? With years of hindsight now, I believe I could have made a lot more of my educational career — delving in to things that really interested me rather t
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Comparing employee experience at Gap, UPS, Starbucks & Apple(greatergood.berkeley.edu)
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Dear Bandwagon (email rant sent to Gruber)(pastie.org)
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"The Mezzanine" by Nicholson Baker and "White Noise" by Don DeLillo
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While mooism2 is correct and flags don't mean languages, I think it's a common enough pattern on web sites that you can just choose one or the other (USA or UK) for English. But you should then be consistent with spelling. It depends on how
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Great post. Having worked in large companies, it's difficult to imagine organizations used to massive death march projects adopting this mentality, even if there's a better chance of coming away with viable shipping products. And in a simil
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Nevertheless, it's encouraging to see Google officially support what many consider an essential tool in running modern web applications. It's also helpful to have cron integrated with the GAE dashboard, so I can see everything scheduled to
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by gr366 18y ago
Judging by the few comments on Twitter http://search.twitter.com/search?q=37signals+gig+board , there weren't enough gigs being offered to make it a viable product. Looks like they were caught somewhere between their Getting Real "Blank Sl
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I think you're right that "what is the future of local news?" is the real question, rather than "what will replace newspapers?" Working at a newspaper (online dept.), I think these organizations still haven't come to the realization that pr
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I think using a Twitter account to generate what amounts to a flashmob of customers for your mobile restaurant could be considered a tech-savvy business maneuver. I've driven by @kogibbq when it was in full swing, and the crowds are big.
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I'm reading this thread while drinking a latte that cost nearly $5. Yes, I would pay $5 for a year of HN... even if there were still trolls.