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Remember The Milk can sync with your iPhone calendar(blog.rememberthemilk.com)
150 points by hopeless 15y ago|56 comments
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by hopeless 15y ago
It's also interesting how U.S.-centric this thinking is: your sneaky 3am deploy in the valley could mean a mid-morning outage in London. Actually, an 8am deployment in Europe has the advantages of a rested brain and a few hours before Ameri
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by hopeless 15y ago
I think the non-obviousness part is calculating and taking the photos at the apex of the curve because I didn't immediately get that. Also, why 36 cameras (why not 20, or 72)? I think the bar for non-obviousness in patents is ridiculously l
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by hopeless 15y ago
"his iPad" My kids will often unlock my phone to get at the Peppa Pig game but something inside me still thinks it's not right that a 2yo has his own iPad. I don't know what. It's probably irrational but I can't help feeling that books an
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by hopeless 15y ago
What a legend and a decent guy too! How many other "celebrities" would keep in touch with a student they met in a queue a year ago? Legend.
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by hopeless 15y ago
I do like the use of the word "only" to describe a $29k monthly income! ;-)
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by hopeless 15y ago
(as a full-time Java and occasional wannabe Rail programmer) I think there will always be a huge % of website where raw performance doesn't matter. I don't recall PHP being a high performing language either. But, for those websites that are
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by hopeless 15y ago
Garmin are mentioned twice in the post, and they really have screwed up. 5yrs ago the GPS market was exploding but even then the writing was on the wall. Unfortunately, Garmin is such a conservative, engineering-led, company that it didn't,
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by hopeless 15y ago
If you actually read my comment, you'll see I also encouraged him to go back to a full-time job.
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by hopeless 15y ago
It's really great to hear someone follow up on a previous post For what it's worth, I still think you did the right thing. That job obviously wasn't going anywhere and sounded pretty miserable. Perhaps your mistake wasn't the quitting but t
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by hopeless 15y ago
We always did need those algorithms. There was a paper a few years ago on decoding gaussian-blurred documents to reveal the redacted passages. The only safe way is to completely remove the original pixels, e.g. by drawing a black box over t
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by hopeless 15y ago
oh wow, are any of these supposed to be profitable business? I see very little real pain being solved by most of these ideas. Most seem to be social media things, productivity clones or "The AirBnB of [whatever]". http://www.oyoglasses.com
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by hopeless 15y ago
Indeed. And held the camera steady. I have motion sickness now, and I'm sitting at my desk :(
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by hopeless 15y ago
You're right, I'd forgotten that one
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by hopeless 15y ago
I'm in the same boat. I probably have 20 programming ebooks in PDF form that I'd love to read properly. I also have the same number of photography books. Because of the photography books I'm considering an iPad but really want to wait for a
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by hopeless 15y ago
The future's looking bright for Go. I've recently been looking at some new languages: Scala, Haskell, Clojure, Node.js etc. Go was the only site to put code samples (live ones at that) on their front page. Language/framework creators tak
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by hopeless 15y ago
My point wasn't that Siri wasn't any good (or even that Voice Control was bad — it worked when I needed it) but that users neither know not care about it. In fact, the only users who knew about it probably discovered it accidentally by hold
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by hopeless 15y ago
Thank you! I'm glad someone understood the point I was making. For all the majority of iPhone 4 users know, Siri could have been in their device all along the they either didn't know or didn't care. Let's think this through. The use cases f
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by hopeless 15y ago
How many people ever tried using the Voice Control in the iPhone 4? Siri is one of those features (awesome technological achievement notwithstanding) that's great to demo but largely irrelevant (or even unknown) to most users. It's this gen
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by hopeless 15y ago
This is nonsense: 90% of the time the problem exists in your code and no amount of Googling or Stackoverflow questions are going to help with that!
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by hopeless 15y ago
According to my doctor, ibuprofen does not not have this rebound property and is preferred over codeine-based drugs like Solpadine which definitely can cause rebound headaches. But, in general, yes headache medications can actually cause he
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by hopeless 15y ago
It is better in the UK (than Ireland). At least you have PayPal's Website Payments Pro which many subscription services/code/widgets can use. Ok, it's not ideal but it's doable.
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by hopeless 15y ago
I've always had headaches but some months are worse than others. I wear glasses for driving but generally not for every day wear (it's a psychological thing) and I've generally put it down to that. After 3-4 days of a constant splitting hea
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by hopeless 15y ago
I wish I could dig up the HN story from a few months ago. Basically JS encryption is horribly broken and essentially worthless Edit: ah, here it is http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2935220
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by hopeless 15y ago
That's interesting. So U.S.-East seems the best option for supporting both the U.S. And most of Europe. Although if you're slightly less concerned about the U.S. Then the EU seems a reasonable conpromise. One thing I doubt is the uniform pi
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by hopeless 15y ago
I have no idea what the backstory is here but that press release is the most unprofessional thing I've seen in a while. Did a professional PR person write or vet that press release? If so, they should be fired. Does Oracle do anything to ma
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by hopeless 15y ago
I'm not convinced by this and it might put me off the Kindle Fire altogether. Distributing the processing just seems like it's ripe for introducing problems. One of the best things about modern mobile devices is that their web browsers beha
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by hopeless 15y ago
Sugru is the business. I love the stuff. Last night (with one small sachet) I added a focus confirmation chip to a manual SLR lens, replaced two missing feet of my netbook, filled in an annoying embossed Belkin logo on my iPhone case and ad
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by hopeless 15y ago
To all those designers comparing their pricing to car sales, consider this: I can wander around a car sales lot and browse the cars and their prices. I don't have to invent a "car spec" or give you a budget, I can see for myself what I ca
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by hopeless 15y ago
I trialled TextMate v1 but didn't like it enough to pay for unmaintained software. I would consider buying v2 iff it has some sort of release schedule and commitment to maintenance.

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