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by grncdr 16y ago
OT but I found this amusing: competitor Digg (which has 42 employees and has raised over _$40_ in funding)
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by grncdr 16y ago
Not exactly a counterpoint, but I immediately thought of this: http://earbits.com/play/#/about_us
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by grncdr 16y ago
It could just be that I'm indiscriminate, but I love creating a new system out of nothing, and I love cleaning up gnarly old legacy code. The only programming problems I find demoralizing, (and the ones I think the grandparent was equating
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by grncdr 16y ago
Yes
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by grncdr 16y ago
I've been agitating for my team to try a more lean/kanban approach to planning and executing our work. Nice to see a lot of my half-formed thoughts articulated so nicely ;)
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by grncdr 16y ago
Only one category for singer-songwriter? and only three (two of which are quite similar) for electronic? How does the genre-list expand? How big (and who!) is your editorial staff? Also, are online sales through Amazon only? I'm not compl
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by grncdr 16y ago
27 / Both / Everything
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by grncdr 16y ago
Not to pick on your comment specifically, but I've seen a couple of comments that imply this is the kind of mistake that one would make in a moment of absent-mindedness, and I disagree. Nobody with any semblance of a clue is writing (new) a
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by grncdr 16y ago
Sharding (for free) on PostgreSQL is surprisingly painful
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by grncdr 16y ago
The Xbox Media Center has supported transparent access to multiple archival formats with a variety of compressions (including transparently folding multi-file archives into one file) for years. It's an illusion implemented in user space and
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by grncdr 16y ago
I'm finding the shift+mouse isn't working (using Firefox 4 beta 7 on Linux)
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by grncdr 16y ago
Actually, it makes it more effective if anything. The browser displays it as a single whitespace, but the source isn't altered, (and therefore easily checkable).
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by grncdr 16y ago
I had to read this in a bit of a hurry (on my way out the door) but I would've liked to see an abstract up front in the essay (essentially the last paragraph first). Also, for doing a JS based SPI, what's the preferred solution for a RESTfu
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by grncdr 16y ago
Another one chiming in to say thanks. Backbone is really intriguing and this post does a nice job of walking through the basics of how to use it.
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by grncdr 16y ago
I second gedit, just installed it on my Mac, and it doesn't look like complete ass. (It does however use GTK for file open dialogs etc. so that might put other people off?)
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by grncdr 17y ago
upvoted because I should have thought to look at this first. On the other hand, Alexa shows that traffic increase as being pretty temporary: http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/thesixtyone.com (especially look at the last 6 months)
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by grncdr 17y ago
It does. When the redesign happened my perception was that the attention drove a lot of new traffic/sign-ups, and I'm curious about how many of those users have remained active. Edit: I probably should have made more effort to clarify this
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Ask HN: Still using thesixtyone?
11 points by grncdr 17y ago|18 comments
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by grncdr 17y ago
"How can anyone read your GMail contacts without your logging into your account?" Google (and others) provide an API for doing this specifically to prevent users entering their passwords into 3rd party sites...
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by grncdr 17y ago
When I signed up for facebook it suggested friends that I had no connection to outside of e-mail, and afterwards has suggested friends that again I have no connection to outside of e-mail, so my experience is in direct conflict with yours
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Getting past "Free"(youtube.com)
1 points by grncdr 17y ago|0 comments
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by grncdr 17y ago
Agreed. I can't justify a use case for CAPTCHAs outside the browser, I was just pointing out that such an API is very conceivable. As silentbicycle said, a CAPTCHA is for preventing scripting, so you would (hopefully) still need a human som
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by grncdr 17y ago
I agree with all of your points, but I think many of these costs are minimized by the other point mentioned in the OP: following the UNIX philosophy. The smaller and simpler your service is, the better. If you have a service that can't be a
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by grncdr 17y ago
That would be an easy API to implement, in psuedo-code: do: server->return any errors client->display errors client->ask user for account name client->server->request account name x while ( server-&
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by grncdr 17y ago
Unfortunately, email is a terrible example. While it's possible to have a modicum of security in regards to receiving your e-mail, spoofing emails is trivially easy (unless you use cryptographic signing, which isn't well supported by the ma
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by grncdr 17y ago
As previously said, the financial incentive is simply not there. As much sense as it makes for you to have easy access to your information, there are too many businesses that rely on controlling that access. On the other hand, tools to do t