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by gregstoll 16y ago
I used Bloglines for a long time, and finally switched away a year or two ago after the lack of innovation and some frustrating problems got to me. It's sad that Google is the only real game in town when it comes to web-based RSS readers -
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by gregstoll 16y ago
My respect for how hard it is to convert from .pdf to HTML just went waaaay up. Scribd must have really thought displaying in HTML5 was worth a lot of trouble if they went to all this effort to be precise!
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by gregstoll 16y ago
An ETF is an Early Termination Fee, which you have to pay if you leave your contract early. It protects the carriers since they're subsidizing your phone.
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by gregstoll 16y ago
Very good news for WebOS since HP doesn't have their own competing mobile OS.
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by gregstoll 17y ago
Interesting, but I'm doubtful that the Justice Department or FCC are going to regulate an ad network that only runs on a particular (albeit a very popular) kind of phone.
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Someone is spreading a nasty rumor about formspring.me(gregstoll.livejournal.com)
2 points by gregstoll 17y ago|1 comments
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Developing for Palm's App Catalog: a review(gregstoll.livejournal.com)
1 points by gregstoll 17y ago|0 comments
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by gregstoll 17y ago
As someone whose written a few WebOS apps, this shows great promise - building UIs is much easier than doing it by hand. Looking forward to trying it at home where I have the emulator installed!
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Stay out of the middle(60secdirector.blogspot.com)
2 points by gregstoll 17y ago|0 comments
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by gregstoll 17y ago
I'm guessing the submitter is making a suggestion to deal with the _why/Zed Shaw articles.
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by gregstoll 17y ago
Damn Interesting had a piece on this a while ago: http://www.damninteresting.com/this-place-is-not-a-place-of-...
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by gregstoll 17y ago
Honestly, this is no big surprise. I can definitely see the benefit for Palm providing syncing support, but if they thought it was going to last very long they were only fooling themselves.
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by gregstoll 17y ago
I wrote an extension similar to this at http://gregstoll.dyndns.org/~gregstoll/passwordhash/ but for some reason I'm hesitant about changing over to this scheme.
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by gregstoll 17y ago
I'm working on an interactive US map using canvas. See http://gregstoll.dyndns.org/marriagemap/
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by gregstoll 18y ago
Wow - I just started playing with R a few weeks ago and this is a great resource. Browsing for a neat-looking graph and being able to see the source is awesome!
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by gregstoll 18y ago
It seems like you should be able to quantify defense by keeping track of the points scored by the guy you're covering... Glad to see my hometown team developing new basketball statistics :-)
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by gregstoll 18y ago
Or just do everything twice - if it really runs seven times faster than "today's best technology" than it shouldn't be an issue. It's a very interesting idea...wish they had more details in the article.
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by gregstoll 18y ago
Very neat - I like the "Commands using <whatever>" feature. The "Popular functions" box on the right has some command names running together ("perl" and "ping", "uname" and "uniq") for me on Firefox 3.1b2 on Windows.
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by gregstoll 18y ago
The Firefox equivalent is Flashblock ( https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/433 ) which I can't live without!
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by gregstoll 18y ago
My good zones are 2-5pm and 9-11pm. I try to fill the other parts of the work day with administrative stuff or studying existing code, when possible.
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by gregstoll 18y ago
Ah, tracked down the problem - it was related to a last minute URL change I made. It should work now, sorry!
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by gregstoll 18y ago
Thanks for the info. I'll take a look at it sometime soon...
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by gregstoll 18y ago
That's weird - are you still seeing this?
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by gregstoll 18y ago
OK - now zip should function as a postcode as well. (characters permitted, up to length 10)
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by gregstoll 18y ago
I tried to distinguish by adding good tag and filtering capabilities, eg. looking for a place that serves asian food that takes less than 10 minutes.
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by gregstoll 18y ago
That's the problem - all the restaurants on the site were entered manually by me (and my friends). Taking a quick look at the Yelp API TOS, it looks like you might be able to use their data. (but of course I'm not a lawyer)
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by gregstoll 18y ago
Sorry about that! Good, clear domain names are a little hard to come by. I probably should have thought of a more clever name...
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by gregstoll 18y ago
Yeah, the big problem is where to pull data from legally. I'm definitely open to suggestions! Went ahead and added NYC as a city.
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by gregstoll 18y ago
I went ahead and added a location for Cambridge - let me know if you're able to add locations or not, since I haven't tested the geocoding in the UK...
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by gregstoll 18y ago
Thanks! I'll see what I can do - sadly the database schema is somewhat tied to the US right now, but as long as Google or Yahoo geocoding works over there it shouldn't be too bad...

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