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by joshaidan 10y ago
Interesting, I wonder why Facebook has this website blocked, preventing me from posting it on my wall.
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by joshaidan 10y ago
The museum of science and technology in Ottawa had a working demo of a stepper switch. When you hear one in action you quickly realize how a rotary telephone works and why it makes the noise it does. I've heard people say it's qui
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by joshaidan 10y ago
Everything is Broken always felt like a theme song for my job in telecommunications at a service provider. Especially the parts about broken lines and broken switches. That's just how universal Dylan's literature really is: Broken
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by joshaidan 10y ago
What I find soothing about it is when there are long pauses. It makes me wonder... what's making people take long breaks?
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by joshaidan 10y ago
What I find cool about this is that I ran it on my profile pic, and when Facebook shrinks it down to the micro size image, you can't tell the difference between the primitive version and the original.
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by joshaidan 10y ago
Yeah I totally agree. Personally I want to find a way to do both. Build a great product that's well marketed. If anything, when you build something great, don't totally ignore the marketing side of things like I often do. I think
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by joshaidan 10y ago
> It's just a wordpress website. You don't need nothing fancy to be successful. I've observed similar products myself, often ones that are more successful versions of my own creations. I've seen stuff built with spagh
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by joshaidan 10y ago
When I was a kid I learned programming by going to the library and borrowing books on programming. This was, of course, before the days of the Internet where you can use google to find those resources. My biggest challenge was trying to fin
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by joshaidan 10y ago
>> The keystroke-based interface was trashed by critics. It's kind of ironic how nowadays I prefer using Vim for coding and other tasks. And I also find myself preferring Markdown more and more whenever I can for a variety of ta
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by joshaidan 10y ago
I read on the website that one of the future project goals is to improve stability on OSX. Reading the artist interviews it sounds like it performs very well in Linux.
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by joshaidan 11y ago
Informative site. Is it possible to add some Open Graph tags to it to make it easier to share on social media?
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by joshaidan 11y ago
I wish this article reached out to the students and tried to tell their side of the story. Good journalism usually tries to hear from both sides of the story--or at the very least give an explanation as to why they couldn't get comment
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by joshaidan 12y ago
Looks good. One positive benefit I can see from churches using this is that they won't have to force their members to join Facebook to stay connected.
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The Electronic Web: An 80s era CBC documentary on digital privacy [video](main.mp4.cbc.ca)
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by joshaidan 13y ago
The story behind the CVV is something like this: CVV is also known as card not present number. Historically it was printed on the back of the card, or on the front using unraised type. This way, if an impression of a credit card was taken (
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by joshaidan 13y ago
One thing that bothers me about "write your book" courses and howtos is that they rarely specify what type of book the course is geared towards. In particular, is this course for fiction or non-fiction writers?
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Santa granted Canadian citizenship(cic.gc.ca)
2 points by joshaidan 13y ago|0 comments
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by joshaidan 13y ago
Now, I wonder what Bill received. Bill should make a similar post about his gift, would be cool.
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by joshaidan 13y ago
Regarding the whole dog thing. I guess if you're ordering something by drone, it will arrive within 30 minutes. So why not just keep the dog inside or in the kennel for 30 minutes?
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by joshaidan 13y ago
Looks like I found my weekend project: "Show HN: Game where you write Python robots to fight crime"
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by joshaidan 13y ago
While there are perhaps many issues regarding whether or not merchants will accept this product for payments, one thought occurred to me. What happens when merchants/banks start offering the ability to make purchases using your smartph
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by joshaidan 13y ago
I wonder if it would be possible to make some kind of API, or way to make it possible for apps to launch worldwide instead of just locally. I know there are challenges for launching for a large area when starting up, but I wonder if there&#
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by joshaidan 13y ago
I like the variable naming in the code. It's good that they didn't use one/two letter variables that span more than five lines of code. Short, meaningless variables names--used for things other than index values is one of my
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by joshaidan 13y ago
I wish they would have shown the eagle landing, that would have been interesting to see.
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by joshaidan 13y ago
That's very interesting. I've seen lots of toll fraud at my work. Often a VoIP device like an Asterisk server or a VoIP phone will be compromised and used to send calls to a premium rate number, usually at a very high call rate. T
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by joshaidan 13y ago
I find it interesting the amount of attention Hacker News is getting from this in mainstream media. It makes me wonder, when people unfamiliar to Hacker News read about it in stories like this, do they get the wrong impression and think Hac
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by joshaidan 13y ago
I have a lot to say in response to this article, but for now I'll just share a quote from one of my computer science professors that I'll never forget: "Just because you're a computer science professor doesn't mean
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by joshaidan 13y ago
>> Should you buy this mediocre Mary Cassatt lithograph for “Price: $185,000.00 + $4.49 shipping”? (Jeff, is WaPo charging you $250 million plus $4.49 shipping? I don’t think so. ) If you have an Amazon Prime subscription, I bet you
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by joshaidan 13y ago
I'm curious, what qualifications are required to become a listener? Do you have to be a mental health professional? Do you have to live in the United States?
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by joshaidan 13y ago
I was sad when they lost the water bottle.

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