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by jskopek 18y ago
An even better implementation of this, on the Google Maps API site: http://code.google.com/apis/maps/signup.html
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I'm also confused about who this service appeals to. Flickr is incredibly popular across a whole age range, and was pretty much built around sharing and tagging photos. Most people who want to share photos but don't know (or care) about fli
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If you're asking about the quality of his writing, it's up to snuff. That said, having read his last book and excerpts from this one, it's probably not fair to try and compare him to a journalist. Neil chases stories and ideas that are both
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I find it strange that presentation tools haven't been created for educational environments. Most professors use powerpoint to deliver presentations, but it's clear Microsoft never designed it for use in a teaching environment. What if ther
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Proposal: Changing a presentation course on the go(nunito.wordpress.com)
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I'm amazed SQL injection attacks have the level of prominence, and are as common as they appear to be, in the field of web security. Anyone with more then just a cursory understanding of web development should be protecting their commands.
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That an unlikely scenario. Pop-up ad blockers became popular because they eliminated a genuinely obtrusive method of advertising. Current online advertising is a pretty good compromise of unobtrusive vs. self supportive. If a company like f
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A couple months ago I built a reporting tool for a client using Flot, only to have to switch over to Google Charts after users started complaining. Flot, and all other Canvas-based JS charting solutions, are really impressive applications o
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One of the biggest problems with using Canvas to render graphs is the lack of exporting functionality. I built a reporting tool over the summer that used Flot, but ended up having to switch it with Google Charts because users couldn't copy/
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I'm really impressed by the performance monitoring features FathomDB offers, especially the ability to sort the most processor and disk intensive queries over the last couple minutes/hours. I've done a little bit of googling and there seem
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I'd hate to be your S/O
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They're still valuable, only not in a advertising-driven model. As a platform though, it has a ton of value; when the majority of a company's employees are connected on a system they use personally on a daily basis, there's a lot of potenti
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Except google isn't going anywhere; it's one of the pinnacles of advertising success
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He's actually pricing himself pretty low here. Can you imagine the publicity a band would get if they actually hired him to tour for 5 months?
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The most prominent change, in my opinion, seems to be the idea of bringing suspend/resume to servers. I'd imagine this would only be implemented in multi-server clusters, with extra hosts powering down but never totally interrupting service
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by jskopek 18y ago
Looks like an extension on the Google Charts API. Google Charts offers an incredible API, and for the low cost of free, but I'm disappointed that Google still hasn't made any inroads into offering an secure HTTPS interface. Google actually
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by jskopek 18y ago
Online integration with the amazon store isn't just another feature point though, it's the company's primary direction with the product. The content acquisition problem is just as important, or even more so, then the hardware problems for a
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It would be interesting to know if churches were designed with ginormous ceilings primarily for this reason, or rather to be designated as the center point of a town. I have definitely noticed a much different style of thought every time I
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While the kindle's proven to be a big sales hit for Amazon, I think it's likely that a hybrid video/music player will win out as an entertainment device over a hybrid text/music player for most consumers
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I'm in the exact same boat as you - a Canadian hoping to move to the States for work in the coming months. I've found a potential employer, and we've done a little research into the matter. What we've discovered is that the US-based employe
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by jskopek 18y ago
Normally I'd agree with you, but this is a 10 second diversion, and you have to be a robot not to find the concept cute and unique.
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They could also purchase the full domain name (charge37signals.com) and have it redirect to charge.37signals.com; that way they account for all possible permutations.
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I wonder how many people here would use IE8 if it was really the best browser out there. Personally, I've been finding myself turning to chrome over FF every time I boot up my Windows partition - I value a quick boot up time and browsing ex
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I've started saving and tagging screen captures of sites I like; this terminology will definitely make it easier to consistently tag/identify layouts.
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I've been thinking of building something along the lines of this, but the data required was always the limiting factor for me. Where do you get your data? Do you use Yelp's API, do a little data scraping, or are there sources with this stuf
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That's one of the classiest offices I've ever seen; just enough magic and wow, without going too over the top. I thought Fog Creek was more or less a one-man operation; is this office being funded by VC money, or is Fog Bugz that successful
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The new features look great, but I'm surprised no one has discussed that screencast. That was the slickest and sexiest product demonstration I've ever seen; I watched the entire thing, and I dont even own a tumblog
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I think you've summed up the dynamics of university relationships better then anyone else I'd known. Speaking as someone who missed out on a big part of first year dorm life, this is exactly what I've seen happen
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There is some (limited) potential for advertising on the google reader site itself, but I think the biggest two gains for google are user analysis and blog search. Your OPML list gives google a pretty good indication of what your primary in
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I'd agree with you on the point the site is trying to make, but what I find interesting is the rationalization for this behaviour. The meat of the article, IMO, is this paragraph: "This system breaks down, however, when products stop costin

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