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by jschuur 16y ago
At best, the issue I can see here is that Square would make it easy to very quickly and casually skim a card without having to look at it, or be seen writing down the info from it. A marginal advantage if you already have access to the card
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by jschuur 16y ago
Great writeup. I'm just starting to get up to speed on using EC2 and work with Rails too. Did you save that AMI in a way where it's reusable for others? It sounds like you were manually spinning up new instances. Have you had a look at Clou
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by jschuur 16y ago
Are you referring to this edition with the comment on how up to date it is? The release date says Feb 2011. Is that just for the ePub version of older material, or is this a revised edition?
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by jschuur 16y ago
The 37 Signals answer is a good immediate reaction, but there is some due diligence that Google can do here, that can be used for longer term product development, as well as a sanity check of the current state of their product: * Review the
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by jschuur 16y ago
This app is useless until Felicia Day, Scarlett Johansson or Jenna Fischer accept my friend requests.
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How Kindle’s new Public Notes could change the way we read ebooks(teleread.com)
3 points by jschuur 16y ago|0 comments
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IOS Notifications: No More, No Less(macstories.net)
6 points by jschuur 16y ago|3 comments
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The Economics of Blogging and The Huffington Post(fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com)
9 points by jschuur 16y ago|0 comments
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Developing web apps in 2011(mir.aculo.us)
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by jschuur 16y ago
Agreed. As long as there's not a tech angle, I'm happy to see them off the site. Events like what's going on in Egypt are important, but it's not why I come here.
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by jschuur 16y ago
One more point... You seem to be at the same point as me with my 'project' (I loathe calling everything a startup) and keep coming up with more ideas. Resist temptation! Have the core idea out there as a site that at least _some_ people can
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by jschuur 16y ago
There's degrees of launches. If you're going for a limited soft launch, just tell your friends, prevent indexing via robots.txt and limit expectations on the site. And don't post it here ;)
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by jschuur 16y ago
The help page says email adresses are swapped. It would be nice to see some kind of blind, double confirmation process, where both sides get to briefly interact first before that is done. Sometimes, you just want to get to know someone else
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by jschuur 16y ago
Ditto. I clicked 'Help a fellow hacker' thinking it would lead to a page about that process, or with a list of people needing my skill set, but now it sounds like I might be contacted by someone who took the time to write me a personalized
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by jschuur 16y ago
Whatever curriculum you come up with, make sure that by the middle of the semester, students have a working and public site, so that they can spend the rest of the semester experiencing how actual end users use and respond to it and you can
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by jschuur 16y ago
I think early adopters are smarter than that. They don't need to be lured in with the offer of free stuff. The very reason they're early adopters is because they grasp the potential for a new service and how it fits into their lifestyle. No
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by jschuur 16y ago
Your incentive driven approach seems to overcomplicate what you're trying to solve. You're creating a commitment and operational overhead for a new service where it's not really needed. If I'm an early adopter, it's because I already love t
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by jschuur 16y ago
I would recommend against committing to a certain amount of articles per day in you Expectations post. Run the site for a few weeks/months, see how much good content you come up with that you want to post, and how much work you can put into
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by jschuur 16y ago
Somewhat related, Steve made a great post 5 years ago about news addiction and how he doesn't watch/follow the news anymore. http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2006/09/overcoming-news-add... Highly recommended, even though I fail completely
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by jschuur 16y ago
I've been using and publishing my one personal email address for over 10 (15?) years now, and I sign up o a ton of new web sites and notification lists. So far I've never been harassed by spam that I can't get rid of, and it takes me 10 sec
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by jschuur 16y ago
Well in that case, I find it hard to have sympathy for the ISPs wanting to make even more money. Their bandwidth charges should be equal to their own costs, plus a little room for profits. A little.
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by jschuur 16y ago
What I don't understand is why ISPs are giving their content providing customers fixed rate access. From the article: "In both cases these charges are generally flat fees, not linked with usage..." This doesn't sound like double dipping at
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by jschuur 16y ago
Maybe there was some kind of automated system that locked down the page/account when other people outside of Facebook tried to repeatedly log into it and hack it?
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by jschuur 16y ago
Related and very recent: http://hivelogic.com/articles/setup-guide-rails-stack-with-p...
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by jschuur 16y ago
@cgs1019: It's been a a while since I've read the commenter guidelines, and I was due for a refresher. Without wanting to drag this out (and I'll end this thread after this comment), I did nothing that goes against those guidelines. I'm sar
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by jschuur 16y ago
I was making a joke because at first I misread the word 'meditate' as something else. I'm beginning to realize that there's a humor tax on your karma if you're prone to make sarcastic jokes in well meant questions. Seems only fair. But to a
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by jschuur 16y ago
That's kind of a personal question. Oh wait, MEDITATE? No, not that one. Takes too long.
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by jschuur 16y ago
The title of the article says 'Less Than $20/Month'. And the body even says less than $19.99.
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The truth about TV ratings, online viewing and sci-fi shows(blastr.com)
2 points by jschuur 16y ago|0 comments
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by jschuur 16y ago
Wouldn't it be fun if this actually extended the seconds progressively towards the end?

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