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by joshwa 15y ago
too bad there's only the major scale. the full 12 tones would have been pretty fun...
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by joshwa 15y ago
I always preferred http://pastie.org/ as it's the prettiest and most readable of the bunch. You can select from a good list of syntax highlighting color schemes, for instance (and they have Twilight and Vibrant Ink...) Here's an example I
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by joshwa 15y ago
Evernote is a great product with some surprising UI deficiencies-- did you know you can't tag multiple documents at once without drag/drop? That was a dealbreaker for me.
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by joshwa 15y ago
There is related lawsuit pending between a professional photographer and Agence France Presse, who stole the photographer's photos of the Haiti earthquake from TwitPic without permission, and sold them to newspapers around the world via an
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by joshwa 15y ago
Plenty of enterprise software products have "Download" pages, but they're usually for evaluation versions. I tried clicking two different download links on the home page: https://img.skitch.com/20110503-pa1axqcg8njxqc4t4gcd756j16.j... Bot
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by joshwa 15y ago
I keep wanting to try Puppet, but they have very effectively hidden the OSS version. Where the hell is it?
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by joshwa 16y ago
You can see how agreeable a comment is by how far up the page it is. Except if it's nested. Sometimes the most useful comments are replies to less-interesting top-level comments. In this case the lower-scored item is positioned higher up
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"We were launching hypersonic bricks at Mach 5, Mach 6"(defensetech.org)
4 points by joshwa 16y ago|0 comments
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by joshwa 16y ago
Fantastic photos from Victorville: http://www.airliners.net/search/photo.search?placesearch=vcv... and Davis-Monthan: http://www.airliners.net/search/photo.search?placesearch=KDM...
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by joshwa 16y ago
Useful list of tiling window managers for OSX: http://superuser.com/questions/162849/tiling-window-manager-... I use Divvy, personally, but I'm not super-hardcore about tiling all the time.
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Why the password "this is fun" is 10 times more secure than "J4fS!2"(baekdal.com)
421 points by joshwa 16y ago|170 comments
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The Usability of Passwords(baekdal.com)
5 points by joshwa 16y ago|4 comments
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Life Beyond Distributed Transactions(ics.uci.edu)
2 points by joshwa 16y ago|0 comments
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appCode: a new Objective-C IDE for Mac and iOS(infoq.com)
7 points by joshwa 16y ago|0 comments
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Remembering LineDrive: forgotten, beautiful driving directions(somethingaboutmaps.wordpress.com)
72 points by joshwa 16y ago|12 comments
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by joshwa 16y ago
Meta-discussions can be tiresome Why? Let's talk about this. MetaFilter (one of the longest-running communities on the web) has a policy where all meta talk goes to a separate silo (MetaTalk) so that discussions on actual topics don't g
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The New York Times to Begin Charging for Web Use on March 28(nytimes.com)
76 points by joshwa 16y ago|121 comments
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by joshwa 16y ago
I'm curious about what I view as two contradictory points in the article: If I create my own language/syntax layers as I go through the various layers of my program, how does that make it more maintainable? This obviously works for the sing
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by joshwa 16y ago
How about a sample before I surrender my email address?
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by joshwa 16y ago
http://matrix.itasoftware.com/ has a great feature (among MANY others) that will show you a calendar of a month's worth of fares.
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by joshwa 16y ago
Perhaps this is a candidate for the Enterprise provisioning model, rather than the general-audience App Store?
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by joshwa 16y ago
good point! Or it could be a long i, as in Giza? Gizable as in: Gizz Guys Geez Jizz Jyes Jeez ? EDIT: coincidentally, not 5 minutes later I came across this: http://gizmodo.com/5749451/how-the-hell-do-you-prono
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by joshwa 16y ago
Gizz (as in gizzard) or Guys?
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by joshwa 16y ago
The vast majority of "design jobs" out there are from marketing types wanting whatever trendy bubblegum is fashionable this minute rather than solving customers' real problems.
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by joshwa 16y ago
OP is blocked by WebSense-- Access to this web page is restricted. Reason: The URL Filter category Pornography is filtered. Is the site nsfw?
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by joshwa 16y ago
1. Fix healthcare costs: single-payer. Really. That's it. $600B in administrative savings alone, which doesn't take into account the cost reductions that the system will achieve by negotiating rates downward.
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by joshwa 16y ago
c.f. Spring, EJB, JBoss, anything J2EE, etc.
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by joshwa 16y ago
Flag it and move on.
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by joshwa 16y ago
"43 Ways OAuth Will Murder Your Children"
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by joshwa 16y ago
My Startup Advice: Stop writing "startup advice" articles and put that energy into building your freaking product.

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