joshwa

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by joshwa 16y ago
Not ready for open signups yet-- I don't even have a homepage explaining what it does, nor any help docs. I'll try to bang some out next week...
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by joshwa 16y ago
FlowThing: an app to organize your search for...anything! (jobs, apartments, cars, air conditioners, match.com profiles, etc) http://twitpic.com/2vedlp http://twitpic.com/2vef3n You get a bookmarklet to save a listing from any site, kee
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by joshwa 16y ago
I have built something along these lines called FlowThing: http://twitpic.com/2vedlp http://twitpic.com/2vef3n You get a bookmarklet to save a listing from any site, keep track of the relevant bits of data (company, square feet, salar
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by joshwa 16y ago
I did that with another user, and it turns out he used his username as his secret phrase! (name withheld to protect the guilty). At least now I know who he's interested in!
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Cyberpunk Style Guide - framegrabs from "Hackers"(phreedom.org)
2 points by joshwa 16y ago|0 comments
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by joshwa 16y ago
Let me know when you have an app to download the videos for offline viewing on my iPhone.
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by joshwa 16y ago
Video! (please please please)
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Air Conditioning Using 90 Percent Less Power(miller-mccune.com)
3 points by joshwa 16y ago|0 comments
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by joshwa 16y ago
"Geocode was not successful for the following reason: ZERO_RESULTS"
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by joshwa 16y ago
The charges only applied to downloading the documents, not viewing them in their HTML5 or FlashPaper viewer.
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by joshwa 16y ago
While interesting, this is a puff piece written by the designers of the helicopter at Sikorsky.
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by joshwa 16y ago
Here's a great article on the biggest car service in Brooklyn-- Arecibo (their base station is around the corner from where I live). Many interesting details about the economics, technology, and politics of the livery business in NYC: http
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by joshwa 16y ago
From http://www.metafilter.com/92727/For-pitys-sake-dont-go-to-la... : ----- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cravath_System How Most Law Firms Misapply the Cravath System: http://www.elsblog.org/the_empirical_legal_studi/2008/07/how... A
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by joshwa 16y ago
http://ask.metafilter.com/76589/So-this-consultant-walks-int... A shepherd was herding his flock in a remote pasture when suddenly a brand-new BMW advanced out of the dust cloud towards him. The driver, a young man in a Broni suit, Gucci
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by joshwa 16y ago
I was hoping not to get into a detailed design critique-- but go spend some time at http://sortfolio.com/ or http://smashingmagazine.com/ and see if you don't agree with me. The concept behind the site is a useful one-- I think you coul
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by joshwa 16y ago
Hire a visual designer.
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by joshwa 16y ago
Ah I didn't see that-- just saw the generated code. Nice. You might want to add that to step 3 on the homepage, and have the button say "download code and images".
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by joshwa 16y ago
Ideas: -- Slice up the background images for me, and include them as css background images -- Hierarchical nesting of divs? (this div is inside this div) -- Integration with some grid framework, e.g. 960gs
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by joshwa 16y ago
Have you tried Greenhopper? Atlassian bought them-- I couldn't bear to use JIRA without it.
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by joshwa 16y ago
I dunno, to me these don't look like anything to sneeze at: http://www.flypfc.com/index.php?i_id=29 http://www.fidelityflight.com/newmotion.htm http://rkaplan.hypermart.net/simulator.html Though you are right in that these are still o
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by joshwa 16y ago
To repeat my previous post on the pilot's license thread: X-Plane: * Has the most accurate flight model -- so accurate that some manufacturers use X-Plane to flight-test models not yet produced. * Can be FAA-certified for instrument trainin
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by joshwa 16y ago
Key phrases from the press release: "announces the development" "announces the internal development" "inspired by the best-selling Flight Simulator franchise" "bring a new perspective to the long-standing genre" "Reinventing these franchise
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by joshwa 16y ago
Needs more parens: (what (wish you (someone (start startup (build (lambda for you))))))
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by joshwa 16y ago
Oracle Database Enterprise Edition: $47,500 per processor, plus $10k yearly update/maintenance.
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by joshwa 16y ago
X-Plane! http://www.x-plane.com/ In active development, unmatched flight model accuracy, huge community of aircraft, scenery, and plugin developers, fly online in VATSIM and IVAO, excellent systems and failure modeling... You can even buy
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How to get a Pilot's License in (just about) a week(davincoburn.com)
180 points by joshwa 16y ago|58 comments
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by joshwa 16y ago
s/cybersecurity/government cybersecurity/
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by joshwa 16y ago
>> Isn't there some prize for doing a google search that nets only a single result? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Googlewhack
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by joshwa 16y ago
Sadly this is a common direct-mail tactic. I get these a few times a year, usually from domain name registrars or for technical magazine subscriptions. There's a lot in the direct-mail industry that just smells, like the fake handwritten ad
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by joshwa 16y ago
Previously: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1475336 (run4yourlives see my comment there ;) )

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