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kottke: Twitter is broken for me so I'm moving to this text file. (kottke.org)
1 points by joshwa 18y ago|0 comments
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MIT's Guru of Low-Tech Engineering Fixes the World on $2 a Day(popularmechanics.com)
20 points by joshwa 18y ago|11 comments
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by joshwa 18y ago
http://www.mysociety.org/2007/more-travel-maps/
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by joshwa 18y ago
OP said DSLRs, but for video the same thing applies. Downres to something reasonable for sharing, and limit the output-quality transfers to the ones you know you want. This is how even professionals shooting 50-200GB/day do things-- nobod
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by joshwa 18y ago
Living on the UWS and commuting to midtown via riverside park/west side highway doesn't count as a long commute. The only reason it's long is that you choose to bike it rather than take the subway. Living in central Jersey (or hudson valley
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by joshwa 18y ago
Do you all need all 5GB of photos? Probably not. I'd venture that: -- the total number of shots can be edited down to the 'keepers' -- web-resolution is sufficient for 95% of the photos being traded Have everyone edit out the losers, batc
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Rearchitecting Twitter: Brought to You By the 17th Letter of the Alphabet(randomfoo.net)
1 points by joshwa 18y ago|0 comments
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A Couple of Caveats on Queuing(laughingmeme.org)
2 points by joshwa 18y ago|0 comments
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by joshwa 18y ago
Jotspot used to be like this until they were bought by Google...
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by joshwa 18y ago
Just pretend you're in emacs-- C-c C-t C-v enter.
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Tangible Interface: your physical keychain == your password(kk.org)
5 points by joshwa 18y ago|1 comments
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Dark Launches, Gradual Ramps and Isolation: Testing the Scalability of New Features on your Web Site(25hoursaday.com)
7 points by joshwa 18y ago|1 comments
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Delighting with Data(tomtaylor.co.uk)
22 points by joshwa 18y ago|2 comments
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by joshwa 18y ago
dupe http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=213669
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by joshwa 18y ago
Title should probably mention that this is about Yahoo...
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by joshwa 18y ago
or tumblr?
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by joshwa 18y ago
too many cooks in the kitchen. MS needs a strong product management voice ala Jobs/Schiller to cut through the crap and insist on a coherent, consistent, and comprehensible product vision and user experience.
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by joshwa 18y ago
There are three separate conveyor systems-- one for smalls (envelopes), one for parcels (boxes), and one for irregulars. Factor in the complexities with the physical layout (branching), any data cleaning that has to take place (mislabels, e
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by joshwa 18y ago
There's a really excellent hour-long show on NatGeo called Ultimate Factories that did a great episode on the UPS Worldport. http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/series/ultimate-factor... Check your local listings, it's been playing rece
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Google Datastore and breaking RDBMS habits(groovie.org)
2 points by joshwa 18y ago|0 comments
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Twitter's failwhale is from iStockphoto(istockphoto.com)
6 points by joshwa 18y ago|4 comments
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Singing/Dancing Stuffed Animals-- Stripped to Reveal the Robots Beneath(s3.amazonaws.com)
4 points by joshwa 18y ago|1 comments
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by joshwa 18y ago
Especially amusing are all the comments by "bzzagents" sent to comment on the post.
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by joshwa 18y ago
How about trying the recently-discovered "fasting" method? http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=199394
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by joshwa 18y ago
I'm imagining the interaction to be a little like a bayesian spam filter-- a training period, followed by occasional corrections. The UX is key, as you indicated-- imagine a nice tight grid of matches for one person (each cropped to just th
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by joshwa 18y ago
I would totally use something that used facial recognition to automatically tag all my facebook or flickr photos with my friends names/profiles. Anyone here with facial recognition experience care to chime in?
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by joshwa 18y ago
> I wonder why someone hasn't already transitioned Twitter to a publish-subscribe architecture internally, and used a bunch of queues to buffer the impact of load spikes ( a slow tweet is not the same as a dropped tweet! ). c.f. Starlin
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Zillow banned in Arizona(azcentral.com)
1 points by joshwa 18y ago|0 comments
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by joshwa 18y ago
check the unread counts on your feeds
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What Newspapers Still Don’t Understand About The Web(publishing2.com)
6 points by joshwa 18y ago|0 comments

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