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by jsdalton 17y ago
What surprises me about this, and perhaps where I disagree with the article, is that personal finance is hardly a solved problem -- particularly by web 2.0 apps. I do use Mint and I actually love it. But it's mostly just for checking my bal
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by jsdalton 17y ago
They must read HN. It now says: 2 at a rate of 151 tweets per seconds
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by jsdalton 17y ago
It didn't read at all like a press release, by the way.
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by jsdalton 17y ago
My one gripe so far with the direction of this project (and 0.9 seems to push it even further in that direction) is that it makes heavy use of the to-field-as-command-interface style of interaction, e.g. "subscribe@somegroup.com," "confirm-
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by jsdalton 17y ago
Interesting. I have number-color synesthesia but that test does nothing for me; I couldn't make out the image at all. For that test to work I would think that one would literally have to "see" the color of a number almost as though it were
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by jsdalton 17y ago
My only complaint right now is that it only offers payment via Paypal and Google Checkout. If it weren't for that, I probably would have settled on it.
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Ask HN: Ever run a conference? What's the best software to use?
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by jsdalton 17y ago
Cute. Funnily enough, I've been tinkering around with a service that does just something kinda similar in my spare time. The idea is that it will take a calendar published in ical format and automatically publish calendar events as tweets.
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by jsdalton 17y ago
Well, if you go back and read the article, they actually offer no useful information or opinions about why Tapbots might have been successful, other than the fact that it's "two guys in a basement" as opposed to some big VC-funded venture.
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by jsdalton 17y ago
Yet another 37signals article that's actually about survivorship bias.
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by jsdalton 17y ago
Sadly, I think it comes down to simple economics. The marginal costs to a restaurant of a small amount of additional food on your plate is minimal. The downsides aren't that great either...assuming the price to the customer of a bit of extr
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by jsdalton 17y ago
Yeah, and Twitter is just a database of content items with a 140 character max, right? My point is, user experience does matter...and as Matt's post indicates, they've actually solved (or attempted to solve) some pretty big UI obstacles wit
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by jsdalton 17y ago
Question (marginally related): Why does Twitter have such a great reputation, technology wise? Here they are getting featured by Apple, and yet I have never seen a company with a product so widely used that is also so ridden with technology
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by jsdalton 17y ago
Please feel free to point out if I'm wrong on this, but I don't quite understand why this cannot be solved by stiffening up some of the requirements for the callback portion of the authorization sequence. For instance, the Provider could re
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by jsdalton 17y ago
> I know that the term beta has been somewhat warped... "Somewhat warped"? Try "has warped completely." Gmail still has the word "beta" on its logo, what, five years later? These days, "beta" implies a service that should function dep
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by jsdalton 18y ago
I am starting to come to the conclusion that all the downsides of not supporting IE6 are for the most part mythological (particularly outside of corporate intranet situations like you identify). I mean, if you "don't support" IE6, what is t
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by jsdalton 18y ago
A few people in this thread (and elsewhere when the topic of IE6 comes up) bring up the problem of applications that are dependent on IE6 as a reason why many business users cannot upgrade. I'm curious, does anyone have any actual experienc
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by jsdalton 18y ago
Agreed. The article implies that we all spent our time "hanging out" on Google before Facebook and Twitter came along. That's never been the case though. For better or worse Google has been and is just an extremely useful utility.
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by jsdalton 18y ago
Nicely done, I think this is an exceptionally good idea. The interfaces for the product look great. My one suggestion would be to do some work on the interface of your website itself. Given what you've done on the application interface I'm
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by jsdalton 18y ago
You're right. Looking closer, it also ignores URLs with a fragment after a #. Looking closer still, adding these (@ and #) to the regex would open a whole new can of worms, since the parsing statements below would attempt to convert these t
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by jsdalton 18y ago
Yeah, that's all I did too :)
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by jsdalton 18y ago
I did one in PHP a few weeks back, which was a quick port of a Javascript version I found via Google: function twitterize_text($raw_text) { $output = $raw_text; // parse urls $pattern = '/([A-Za-z]+:\/\/[A-Za-z0-9-_
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by jsdalton 18y ago
I don't actually agree with you, but I upvoted you because I think your point is at least legitimate. I wish people on HN would stop downvoting comments simply because they disagree with them. Different perspectives add value to conversatio
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by jsdalton 18y ago
I used Slinkset to set up an HN for moms/parents at http://www.bababase.com .
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by jsdalton 18y ago
I don't have time to do a screen grab of the fail whale for you. Trust me, I'm not making this up.
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They've been on and off for me all day today.
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by jsdalton 18y ago
Maybe I'm being too optimistic, but could this be the final nail in IE6's coffin? At a minimum, I guess it's more ammunition to justify not supporting IE6, since it's now two major versions (and 8 years) behind the most recent.
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by jsdalton 18y ago
I can't remember where I heard good things about this one, but I believe I did at some point: http://getvanilla.com/ You might also look into whether http://intensedebate.com/ would work for your purposes...it does have threading and vo
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by jsdalton 18y ago
There was a discussion here last week about technical debt, and I think this is a great example of it. You incur debt when you make a decision like this one. When you make thousands of decisions like it, they add up to a whole lot of debt.
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by jsdalton 18y ago
Sounds like you're commenting on the headline without actually reading the article. The article is about speculation that future versions of IE will no longer use the Internet Explorer rendering engine, and instead use either Webkit or an i

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