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by joshwa 18y ago
http://www.facebook.com/apps/application.php?id=68992161659 > This application was not developed by Facebook.
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by joshwa 18y ago
This sounds a lot like a student loan, except with a much shorter term and higher interest rate.
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by joshwa 18y ago
Have you talked to the folks at Marlow & Sons? They can probably order you a whole side of local heritage pig. (I notice you're in NYC) Also: Would be interested in brainstorming ideas on 'sales interfaces for local farms' with any inte
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by joshwa 18y ago
The rest of the world calls this role a Product Manager (happens to be what I do, too). cf. Marissa Mayer, Ev Williams, Joe Kraus, Steve Jobs (on a high level), etc. In Fortune 500 hell we call it 'Business Analyst' (because in bizarro ente
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by joshwa 18y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Closed_wing
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by joshwa 18y ago
Why not look for someone to take over as maintainer? I'm sure an appropriate person in the community would step forward. This is the traditional method in most open-source communities... particularly where there are canonical distribution s
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by joshwa 18y ago
Mandatory reading for job-seekers-- Rands' essay on engineering resumes: http://www.randsinrepose.com/archives/2007/02/25/a_glimpse_a... (and a brief update): http://www.randsinrepose.com/archives/2007/12/06/a_brief_gli...
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by joshwa 18y ago
True. I suppose I am conditioned to expect, on downloaded apps, a little dialog box asking if I'm OK with sharing anonymous usage information. I think the standard is slightly different with desktop apps (with the spectre of 'spyware' to be
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by joshwa 18y ago
Yes, developers put this in their apps, which I've downloaded, and collect and share this data without my consent.
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by joshwa 18y ago
Interesting-- I don't recall agreeing to submit usage statistics to either app developers or third parties--- was that in the app store EULA?
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by joshwa 18y ago
An illustrated version of this rant: http://www.betalogue.com/2008/11/13/adobe-cs4-installer/ ...and a response from Adobe: http://blogs.adobe.com/jnack/2008/12/notes_from_installer_mg...
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by joshwa 18y ago
Ev responds: http://brooksbayne.com/post/79132853/the-newest-way-to-game-...
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by joshwa 18y ago
Sounds like del.icio.us... or scribd. ;)
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by joshwa 18y ago
mis-tagged is the same as mis-filed. This is where having a controlled vocabulary makes sense, or at least a periodic orphan cleanup process.
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by joshwa 18y ago
Ultimately a folder (or a tag) is just another piece of metadata, like the ones you listed-- project, contributor, date, revision, etc. The core issues are input (how do I get this metadata attached to the content? dragging to a folder, doc
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Woot.com enlists StackOverflow users to address bot/scripting attacks(stackoverflow.com)
12 points by joshwa 18y ago|3 comments
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by joshwa 18y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coand%C4%83_effect http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/2450/urinal-101-aim... http://ask.metafilter.com/8204/Urinal-Aiming#160007
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by joshwa 18y ago
average revenue per visitor.
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by joshwa 18y ago
Not 'leaked'. But still a good idea, especially when you look at his numbers on average revenue per visitor and compare it to current print+web revenues. Incidentally, my thought was to make articles 25c on the day it's published, free from
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How one guy with a 20yo telephone did $30m in damages in less than one night.(reddit.com)
67 points by joshwa 18y ago|27 comments
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by joshwa 18y ago
That diagonal pointing hand from Pinball Construction Set is permanently burned into my memory (as is its aggravating inconsistent clicking behavior).
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Fake real-life parking ticket leads to malware download(isc.sans.org)
1 points by joshwa 18y ago|0 comments
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by joshwa 18y ago
Or shunt them to a separate silo, like Metafilter does with Ask Metafilter and MetaTalk.
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Need a Creative Boost? Find the Blue Room.(nytimes.com)
17 points by joshwa 18y ago|6 comments
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by joshwa 18y ago
MSFS advantages: -- visuals (though X-Plane 9 closed this gap a fair amount) -- licensed scenery content (scenery library) -- large developer/add-on community (Level3, etc) X-Plane advantages: -- Flight Model (geometry based, not lookuptabl
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by joshwa 18y ago
Again MetaFilter provides some guidance-- a separate silo for site meta-discussions (MetaTalk).
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Microsoft Kills Flight Simulator, Fires Entire Dev Team(gamasutra.com)
31 points by joshwa 18y ago|14 comments
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by joshwa 18y ago
I have something vaguely similar -- http://lunchmapr.com/ Though it's more focused on private/smallgroup sharing. I've been considering a refactor lately to enable more lightweight list sharing, and having some kind of collaborative datab
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by joshwa 18y ago
Canon vs. Nikon ;)
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by joshwa 18y ago
UPDATE: Looks like either my IT overlords removed the block without my asking (the official Change Request Form is still pending), or WebSense removed it from their list.

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