johndbritton

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by johndbritton 14y ago
Live example (works in chrome): http://labs.tokbox.com/try/
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by johndbritton 14y ago
They're just getting started, give them a break. Maybe shoot them an email and set up a Skype call to give them some advice.
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by johndbritton 14y ago
I also purposefully exposed my email address and it was replaced by an @facebook.com address.
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$10,266,845 Successfully Raised by Pebble on Kickstarter(kickstarter.com)
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by johndbritton 14y ago
Is it possible that by not publishing the talk they'll draw more attention to it? He should re-record and publish the talk on his own and use the "Streisand Effect" in his favor. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect
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by johndbritton 14y ago
Good idea, I'll add this.
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by johndbritton 14y ago
bummer, better get to it.
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by johndbritton 14y ago
Yeah, that's the Yahoo geocoding service acting up again.
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by johndbritton 14y ago
Google has a really low rate limit for geocoding, so I'm using a geocoder from Yahoo. Not much I can do about the quality of the less well defined locations.
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by johndbritton 14y ago
I originally tried to use the MarkerClusterer from Google but that didn't work because at the closest zoom level the pins directly on top of each other weren't clickable. The Spiderfier is much better suited for this problem (lots of peopl
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by johndbritton 14y ago
I used an excellent library called OverlappingMarkerSpiderfier. You can find the code on github here: https://github.com/jawj/OverlappingMarkerSpiderfier There's also a link in the credits.
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by johndbritton 14y ago
I don't know how postal codes work internationally and I'd imagine that geocoding them might be a bit easier but not as simple as it could be. I'm a big fan of giving users a map and letting them drop a pin at a specific zoom level. This le
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by johndbritton 14y ago
You're probably not in the 500 top users by reputation. Click "show more users" a few times and you'll show up as long as you have your location in your profile.
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by johndbritton 14y ago
I recently discovered the Travel StackExchange site and thought it would be cool to see where my fellow travelers live so I built a map using the StackExchange API. A nice side-effect of the shared API was that my app works for all StackExc
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Show HN: StackMaps - Interactive Maps of StackExchange Communites(johndbritton.com)
34 points by johndbritton 14y ago|21 comments
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$495 Box from Livestream for Broadcasting without a Computer(new.livestream.com)
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by johndbritton 15y ago
nano
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IPad 3 Announced - Quad Core A5 Chip, Retina Display, 4G LTE(apple.com)
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Staying Alive: Passing the Fiesta.cc Torch(blog.fiesta.cc)
1 points by johndbritton 15y ago|0 comments
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by johndbritton 15y ago
Seems like a very good way for the original authors to plant a backdoor and take over your botnet. If you didn't write it yourself, you'd better be very careful.
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I've only ever been afraid of three things: electricity... [video](youtube.com)
2 points by johndbritton 15y ago|0 comments
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How a Poet Learned to Program(johndbritton.com)
21 points by johndbritton 15y ago|5 comments
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Scaling High Availability Infrastructure in the Cloud(twilio.com)
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by johndbritton 15y ago
I recently made the same move, Lime Chat supports full-screen and is much simpler than Colloquy.
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Writing the Perfect Job Description(pith.org)
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by johndbritton 15y ago
Back in September I went through a similar exercise and wrote down some details about it here: http://johndbritton.com/2011/09/30/consciously-deciding-to-l...
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by johndbritton 15y ago
About time.
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by johndbritton 15y ago
tl dr; TED Talks spark discussion, let's watch some together and discuss. The group will be facilitated by a program.
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Let's Talk TED Talks(johndbritton.com)
29 points by johndbritton 15y ago|4 comments
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by johndbritton 15y ago
I've met tons of really interesting people while traveling. I Couch Surf with interesting strangers all over the world and some of them end up becoming very good friends. http://couchsurfing.org/people/johndbritton

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