jasonkester

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by jasonkester 18y ago
A natural feature for this would be to wait until the user leaves your site, then register accounts at all those sites using the supplied username. Then squat on those new accounts and offer to sell them back to people. Collecting emails w
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by jasonkester 18y ago
Pretty much every site with user generated content is overwhelmed with people trying to post spam. For my site, I use a combination of javascript human detection, bayesian filtering, and aggressive human intervention (including single clic
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by jasonkester 18y ago
This would happen: http://www.expatsoftware.com/articles/2008/10/how-close-to-z... (It never occured to me that I was opposed to OpenID until somebody put up a website that required me to use it!)
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by jasonkester 18y ago
Strange. The important conclusion that I read is that OpenID is basically unusable unless you have somebody explain it to you. And then it's still really unintuitive. OpenID needs to go away soon so that something useful can replace it.
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by jasonkester 18y ago
You haven't said what you're trying to put into that Excel spreadsheet. If it's just rows of text, numbers, and formulas, then it's dead simple. - change your response mime-type to application/excel - supply a filename ending with .xls - o
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by jasonkester 18y ago
Firefox served a useful purpose. It forced Microsoft to develop and release IE7. Unfortunately, it didn't go away when that purpose was fulfilled. Hopefully now that Google has put out a browser that can actually hang with Internet Explor
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by jasonkester 18y ago
I ordered an XP "downgrade" box from Dell just yesterday. It was just a tick box on the OS list, and didn't add any cost or force me to jump through hoops. Speccing the same machine through Lenovo's website was a little more painful, but s
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by jasonkester 18y ago
Yours is. Yikes. Fix your CSS so we can read your article in IE7.
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by jasonkester 18y ago
ok. http://wordle.net/gallery/wrdl/35745/reddit_homepage_minus_%...
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by jasonkester 18y ago
Gmail lets you read other POP and IMAP accounts now, so it's most of the way to where we were 4 years ago. They don't yet offer support for Hotmail's wacky WEBDAV interface, but that's not really a problem since most everybody has abondone
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6 things that killed Waifmail (another Diary of another Failed Startup)(expatsoftware.com)
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by jasonkester 18y ago
"D&AD, as you'll have read elsewhere in this paper, is one of the most important dates in the creative industry calendar" That's three paragraphs in, the fourth time that "D&AD" is used. It seems to be the important point of the ar
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by jasonkester 19y ago
It's funny, but internet access is a lot easier to find in the developing world than it is in the US or Europe. In the States, it's all private and corporate DSL with the occasional unsecured wireless router to be found. In rural Cambodia,
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by jasonkester 19y ago
Check out the coast of Honduras and the islands nearby. It's still plenty cheap and there are un-touristed beaches to be found. The little slice of Guatemala that touches the Caribbean is good too. Good luck!
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by jasonkester 19y ago
Wow, thanks! It's amazing to compare the reception of this article here versus Reddit. Over there, 700 people voted it DOWN, whereas here I'm being offered free beer. I think I'll stick around!
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by jasonkester 19y ago
Ah, but you make the mistake of assuming that automated SQL generation == ORM. That's not the case, at least for us. I touch a bit on the framework we use at Expat here: http://www.expatsoftware.com/articles/2007/03/examplecode-pr... Bas
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6 million hits a day. Time to think scale!(expatsoftware.com)
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by jasonkester 20y ago
Hey! I'm Jason, the guy that wrote Twiddla. Yesterday will go down as a pretty good day! We got a little over 1000 signups and tons of great feedback. Tichy, the drawing is done with a Canvas tag and the IECanvas hack to get it to work i