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by gry 17y ago
ticgit keeps tickets in a git branch of a project. Yeah, it ain't mainstream, but it might become so... http://wiki.github.com/schacon/ticgit
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by gry 17y ago
Likewise, here story about a coffee shop which uses Twitter place to go orders. http://blog.mrtweet.net/twitter-to-go-how-one-local-coffee-s...
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Ask HN: How do you think and play?
5 points by gry 17y ago|1 comments
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by gry 17y ago
Seems on the up and up to me. Originally published in 1955 in the Reader's Digest by Jerome Weidman. The table of contents are highlighted in this eBay posting, corroborating the byline. http://cgi.ebay.com/Readers-Digest~November-1955_W0Q
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by gry 17y ago
Just to clarify, to the best of my knowledge, they are private, not profitable and sharing code/knowledge. This amazes me . I never said they were amazing ; a different distinction. I'm in total agreement with you.
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by gry 17y ago
Rails was extracted from Basecamp. The authentication mechanism is something of their own MVC design. The most popular authentication libraries do store salted nonce hashes by default.
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by gry 17y ago
No doubt. I am studying this further, for sure. The info from a public-facing, private company is striking. I'm amazed how much code and knowledge Facebook has already given back to the community given their state. Though perhaps being priv
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by gry 17y ago
Let's not call it cold fusion. Let's call it an "an experiment which produces excess heat". It removes the helium argument, no? My understanding is cold fusion is the (improper) name given to this phenomena, which nobody can replicate relia
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by gry 17y ago
And news.yc is the ultimate authority in [topic for topic in science]. ;) I caught the segment earlier tonight. Found it fascinating and enough to send me on procrastination adventure; not enough to speak about. I don't understand it. Sure,
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by gry 18y ago
I could stomach buzzwords if loose ideas were argued. This is very Linda Richman. Topic and talk amongst yourselves. It's hard to discuss something when there is little to discuss other than nitpicking a broad idea. I get what he's suggesti
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by gry 18y ago
Blocking Google is a gambit to get aggregators (Google, others) to negotiate a licensing fee. (Aggregator license revenue + site revenue + declining print revenue) > (site revenue + declining print revenue). It's a tourniquet.
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by gry 18y ago
This is why tiny URLs are a solution to a problem the web doesn't have. Agreed, it solves little to nothing with the web. It is, however, helpful to Twitter and the problem/limitation SMS has. To my mention earlier, URL shorteners are gro
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by gry 18y ago
Right. What I'm saying is the HTML is cruft. <a href="hxxp://somereallylongurl.com/1234">link</a> vs hxxp://somereallylongurl.com/1234 vs hxxp://shortner.com/1234 The client will automatically href it. You're not saving anyt
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by gry 18y ago
Link shorteners shorten the URL itself, they have little to do with the HTML tag. hxxp://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=549620 vs hxxp://bitly.com/cjVY Given the 140 character limit, a 50% savings is monstrous. Having Twitter auto-link on dis
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by gry 18y ago
It started because the newspaper industry is looking for new ways to mitigate declining revenue, IMHO. If the newspaper industry was doing well, we _probably_ would be hearing about how they're giving away news to drive eyeballs to sites --
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by gry 18y ago
I wonder how the discussion would've been had Jason used GS' site itself to note concerns. It'd be a sanctioned and public forum. Would people be discussing public vs private airing of grievances? Probably not.
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by gry 18y ago
It is a big improvement over what they had; I think they present what they do now more than ever: the black box says we help work -> via four products. I expect a website to do one, maybe two things well. I'm a hard sell on three. The m
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by gry 18y ago
Its akin to the United States moving to the metric system or the internet to IPv6, methinks. Both are wonderful in theory, but the transition is painful. The only way I see it becoming pervasive is either a) another recession and a stimulus
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by gry 18y ago
Because 1000 units in one day is simpler in concept than 24 units in one day. A hour has no solar equivalent, unlike a day or year. It is simpler, _less_ arbitrary and parallels most of the world's measurement system. It sends the time zone
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by gry 18y ago
Reminds me of Joseph Campbell. "...namely, that if you do follow your bliss you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while, waiting for you, and the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living. When you
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by gry 18y ago
After using Drupal, Rails and web2py, it feels like I spend an awful lot of time finding out where a framework begins an ends -- the core philosophy which often times isn't quite articulated. Using Sinatra, and potentially Juno, there is a
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by gry 18y ago
As always, it depends. Arguably, http://example.com/users/dcurtis/profile is short, but not too short. If a website/service is centered around people, it makes _more_ sense. Else, the longer URLs seem to make more sense. http://www.amazo
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by gry 18y ago
Winer's argument rides on adding metadata, ergo why the SMS discussion is important. For Google to play in his argument, they need to solve the SMS problem, or ignore it altogether. The way I see it, since both are communication tools, this
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by gry 18y ago
His speculation on Google 160 character limit is curious. Twitter made it 140 to allow for usernames and the colon prefix. There is a real reason for it, not a sacred "140 characters is arbitrary and magical" feeling Twitter is holding on t
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by gry 18y ago
HTTP headers suggest GWS/2.1 (Google Web Server 2.1). The GSA seems like a pretty keen estimation.
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by gry 18y ago
Reminds me of the current Louis CK meme floating about. System 7 is running on your phone. While it in itself right now isn't the most amazing thing, the series of events leading up to it is.
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by gry 18y ago
It it is a problem to solve. Hackers need little excuse beyond that. I think that's why most people appreciate the hack.
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by gry 18y ago
I think P3P never gained traction in part because it was too early. I don't remember in 2000-2002 people getting in huffs over privacy policies. They weren't common then. Terms of use were -- deep linking policies. Heh. One of the major P3P
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by gry 18y ago
I've been toying with a Creative Commons like service, one where as an organization, you can choose the criteria which meet your privacy policy. This would have a "visual vocabulary" akin to the CC badges or nutrition facts on food for diff
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by gry 18y ago
When VOIP is pervasive on phones, I think it will start to make the cell network the secondary choice to WiFi (already is for me). The only value the cell network for me is a phone connection. This is providers' moat. I'd like to see a cell

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