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by joshwa 18y ago
My Fortune-100 employer just did almost the same thing-- buried the Reply All in a submenu under 'Reply'. It hasn't stopped the stupidity of people emailing their lunch orders to the entire division. Now I know that the EVP of site developm
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by joshwa 18y ago
Ha! I'll report back in 3 weeks when I finally hear from them.
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HN now blocked by WebSense: URL Filter category Hacking;Information Technology
9 points by joshwa 18y ago|5 comments
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by joshwa 18y ago
Hopefully Jeremy Zawodny will drop in here and give an answer, since he left Yahoo and is working on mysql stuff for Craigslist now (including search, I believe). See also: http://crazedlist.org/
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by joshwa 18y ago
5-10 cookbooks a year sounds terrifying. The QA on those must be terrible--not sure how they could afford that number of recipe testers for each title. I tend not to buy any cookbook that has a number in the title or is part of a 'series'.
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by joshwa 18y ago
> Most magazines don't operate like this. Yes they do: Gourmet: Cookbooks, PBS show Saveur: Cookbooks, Travel Tour Packages Bon Appetit: Cookbooks (at least) Food + Wine: ? Cooking Light: Cookbooks, pretty sure there was a TV show for a
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by joshwa 18y ago
See also-- NYTimes Congress API: http://open.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/01/08/introducing-the-con...
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Willard Wigan makes tiny sculptures that fit on pin-heads or within eyes of needles(youtube.com)
2 points by joshwa 18y ago|0 comments
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by joshwa 18y ago
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0017T7Q00/ http://www.mr-lee-catcam.de/index.htm
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by joshwa 18y ago
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=144580 http://www.seriosity.com/attent.html
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by joshwa 18y ago
http://trixietracker.com/
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by joshwa 18y ago
http://highscalability.com/
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by joshwa 18y ago
Instapaper is the bomb. And you don't even have to register-- just pick a username (no password necessary). The iPhone app is also really killer.
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by joshwa 18y ago
http://github.com/fiveruns/data_fabric/tree/master Or monkey-patch activerecord yourself to use a shard-index.
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by joshwa 18y ago
I can't for the life of me figure out what planbookedu.com does, even after watching the screencast. It's a calendar? With only all-day events allowed? And with TinyMCE? What am I missing?
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The Perils of Zero-Gravity Videography(pogue.blogs.nytimes.com)
2 points by joshwa 18y ago|0 comments
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by joshwa 18y ago
Another reason NIH makes sense for Google is that since they compete in so many markets, the shifting alliances and mergers and whatnot for their vendors could mean that they could end up in a situation where a competitor buys a vendor whic
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Video of a very inefficient concrete drill (read description)(youtube.com)
4 points by joshwa 18y ago|2 comments
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by joshwa 18y ago
Comment from the author: > chances are you're reading the post out of a larger context to what I've written about. Check out Why we chose Git, a rebuttal. ( http://unethicalblogger.com/posts/2008/11/why_we_chose_git_a... )
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by joshwa 18y ago
"Limited Life Experiences + Overgeneralization = Advice" - Paul Buchheit
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Esoteric Programming Languages (Piet, Chef, Ook, and more)(dangermouse.net)
1 points by joshwa 18y ago|0 comments
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by joshwa 18y ago
And yet gmail is still in beta?
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by joshwa 18y ago
http://xhtmlized.com/ has done good work for me
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The Battle to Open the Pentagon's UAV Interface(telstarlogistics.typepad.com)
3 points by joshwa 18y ago|0 comments
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by joshwa 18y ago
m.tripit.com
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Notes from Adobe installer management(blogs.adobe.com)
3 points by joshwa 18y ago|1 comments
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Vinylscrobbler: packet sniffing Shazam to update Last.fm from analog sources(skillsmatter.com)
1 points by joshwa 18y ago|0 comments
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by joshwa 18y ago
...and Solaris doesn't even ship with GNU grep or find! I have to do crazy perl gymnastics to replicate grep -C (though that's mostly because our crazy systems group refuses to allow non-Sun binaries).
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by joshwa 18y ago
cool!
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by joshwa 18y ago
http://osx.iusethis.com/ http://www.versiontracker.com/

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