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by jarin 15y ago
I like what Dwolla is doing, but unfortunately without a faster way to move money out of Dwolla (transfer to PayPal, debit card, etc.) it's pretty useless for me right now. The devs have told me that's completely against all they stand for,
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by jarin 15y ago
I sent in my kit about a week ago and I'm half Thai, so here's hoping!
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by jarin 15y ago
I guess it would depend on how "production" the app is, but I don't know if I would automatically call not handling that edge case incompetence.
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by jarin 15y ago
I think friend lists are part of their basic permission set precisely because it's one of the most appealing parts of the Facebook API. Offline access isn't needed on the majority of sites that ask for it though, it's usually just lazines
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by jarin 15y ago
This is a pretty good bite-size sampling of the workings of some of the nice things we take for granted in Rails (like AREL). Rspec is another one that's worth looking into: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3105755/ruby-metaprogramm...
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by jarin 15y ago
On the other hand, you can still get into the Olympics in a wheelchair ;)
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by jarin 15y ago
This is a lot like the 37signals model of consulting: "sell your soul" to clients until you can afford to take a leap on your own product.
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by jarin 15y ago
What about doing the same thing, but fuzzing a few pixels from each edge to avoid pixel distance matching? You could even make the edges just plain black for a few pixels from each edge. The human eye would be able to complete the image (it
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by jarin 15y ago
If you're trying to imply that I "stole" the comment, I posted it in the article comments after posting it here (note the usernames). Figured it might spark some discussion for people not coming from HN.
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by jarin 15y ago
Speaking of CAPTCHAs, a smaller version of this would make an excellent one. Er, well maybe not, given the ease of programmatic solutions.
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by jarin 15y ago
To me, the scariest thing (which seems to be overlooked) is that this particular strain of Avian Flu is only 5 mutations away from the Avian Flu in the wild. While we're fretting about whether this will get out of a lab, it's not entirely u
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by jarin 15y ago
I can imagine it now, this is the first step in human evolutionary divergence between the Eloi (programmers) and the Morlocks (Mechanical Turkers).
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by jarin 15y ago
I'd love to see this applied to some of the "patriotic" Facebook pages (like the "Being American" page).
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by jarin 15y ago
I seriously cannot wait for the MINOS experiment :)
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by jarin 15y ago
Well, Steve Jobs was pretty famous for that too. Don't get me wrong, I'm just as much of a Steve Jobs admirer as the next guy, but from what I've read he did shame a lot of people at Apple.
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by jarin 15y ago
It's probably more fair to say that the HTML spec is getting closer to what is possible with Flex. Browser support is a whole different issue.
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by jarin 15y ago
Flex isn't THAT bad. It's actually pretty nice when combined with an MVC framework like Mate (SCREW Cairngorm) for developing desktop apps with AIR. Of course, it takes quite a while to read through the documentation for the INSANE number o
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by jarin 15y ago
Wow, this is incredible. Assuming it isn't crazy expensive, I'd put this on everything from my car to my walls. I do kind of wonder how you'd wash clothes coated in this, though. It would be kind of tricky if dirt can get into the fibers bu
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by jarin 15y ago
I don't want to rain on anyone's parade here, but sheet metal and tin snips are pretty cheap at Home Depot. If they weren't $10.00-12.50 each I could see ordering a pack.
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by jarin 15y ago
Just playing Devil's Advocate here, but I wonder how many of the folks bashing this guy thought it was brilliant how Steve Jobs pressured his engineers by saying “If it would save a person’s life, could you shave 10 seconds off the start up
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by jarin 15y ago
Maybe I'm actually a terrible coder and don't know it, but I search through documentation way more than once a day. Saves a ton of time. I always thought a great interview would be something like "Here's a dev machine, make me an app that d
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by jarin 15y ago
Hmm, I interviewed recently at a pretty well-known startup and crashed and burned because I didn't know uncommon HTTP codes and request/response headers off the top of my head. I aced most of the rest of the questions, and I think I got alo
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by jarin 15y ago
I actually think this is brilliant. I'm just going to pretend this email was written to me and act accordingly.
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by jarin 15y ago
YouTube does have automated copyright detection though
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by jarin 15y ago
I imagine it will either be in prefs or via moving the application to the trash can.
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by jarin 15y ago
I ran into that the other day, and was pleasantly surprised. This is how interconnectivity is supposed to work.
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by jarin 15y ago
I did 5 years in the Navy, so I have to try really hard NOT to swear occasionally. I generally don't have a problem around children or my great grandma, but when I'm giving a talk it's pretty hard not to. I don't put swear words in my slide
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by jarin 15y ago
It's easy to say that, but when you're being interviewed by mainstream media it's very easy to get a "deer in the headlights" feeling and just hyperfocus on the interviewer. If you get nervous, the adrenaline can really hamper your brain-mo
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by jarin 15y ago
It seems pretty easy (and cheap), but it seems like it has a lot of limitations that would bug me trying to use it in a real-world situation. For example, you'd need to have a short display name to conserve characters on SMS, but email subs
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by jarin 15y ago
I think he's hit on a very good point: Many minorities are not pushed from a young age to excel in areas that are useful in tech startups. There is definitely progress being made in that direction, but it's probably going to take a decade t

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