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by justindz 18y ago
I recently ripped standard accounts out of my web app and put in OpenID support with the ability to assign a password optionally in case all your OpenID providers magically go down at once. I'm very sold on some kind of login/password non-
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by justindz 18y ago
Clearly something isn't working. Look at that sentence.
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I'm a fan of Smultron as well. I've been using it for a few years. I don't maintain a large, complicated code base so I haven't felt anything lacking. The editor itself is nice, it handles multiple files and interacts with Finder pretty
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by justindz 18y ago
Interesting. My company's offshore IT shop is headed by a woman and many of our talented senior developers and team leads are women of varying age, marital and parental status. I don't have much counter-evidence to this post, but it makes
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Depending on how accurate and fine-grained the detection is, this could make for some great pixel manipulation or bending-warping in an image editor or 3D modeling program given the finger size vs. the display size. I don't see this replaci
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Java? Just kidding.
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Grapes, bags of spinach, you name it. The trick is to not stock munchies that you don't want yourself to code on. If you don't have it, you can't eat it. The other trick is to not cut out all snacking but stock up on snacks that fill the
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by justindz 18y ago
This has always been a topic of interest to me. The "System" (as much as/if there is one) is designed to facilitate a certain objective. In our case, economic growth and individual wealth. For brevity's sake, I'll skip the digression abo
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by justindz 18y ago
Correct. Blaine Cook blogged (in the post this article riffs from) that they don't use ActiveRecord, for example. I believe someone has made the defensible claim that most of their activity occurs via clients (twhirl, alert thingy) and SMS
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The other problem with a group karma system is that coders will obsess about it and spend their karma distribution time not writing code and not really getting better as a result of doling out positive karma. And then Sr. Architect X annou
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by justindz 18y ago
I think he was getting at something about industry language preeminence not changing much every 10 years. C in the 80s, C++ in the 90s, Java in the 2000s, QBASIC in the 2010s. Not that the languages themselves take that long to change int
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by justindz 18y ago
I had a similar thought to your first point when reading this. The author is claiming that webmasters have to build two sites rather than one, thinning resources and reducing quality. This is because if Google determines one is spam, they
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Let me try again: I have a free invite. Tweet me.
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I have an invite. Tweet me.
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by justindz 18y ago
I would love to see some of this cash go towards supporting simple db or couch as an alternative to Postgres for some app types. I love Heroku. Some of their opensource bits are nice too. I'm enjoying building my app in the cloud.
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Spartan design can be fantastic design and also does not necessarily indicate a lack of features. Fantastic design is product first and marketing second. Marketing is about convincing you that you need something via a channel that is not t
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by justindz 18y ago
I think the comment in the testimony was regarding cost of "premium" bandwidth as something that would have crushed a search startup.
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by justindz 18y ago
Twitter has an extremely low barrier of entry and it's so off-the-cuff that it's a great place to non-blog without cluttering your blog with stuff that's less topically relevant or more random. I find that valuable, though I could live wit
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by justindz 18y ago
I messed with something neat about 2 1/2 years ago for Flickr. I saw it surface again recently: http://labs.systemone.at/retrievr/
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Pointing to the fact that a lot of apps being built on Rails/Django/etc. (but not all of them) make sense with something like a doc-oriented DB.
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Ask YC: Does Net Neutrality Decision Threaten Your Startup?
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by justindz 18y ago
I hope it changes as well. Competitive living is really unhealthy. We measure ourselves against others because that is the easiest measurement and we measure ourselves against others like us and near us because that is the most readily av
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by justindz 18y ago
Amen. I'm not eval'ing their move one way or the other, but I would suspect that they have more inside info about their company, product, the deal and business plan. By definition, you know.
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by justindz 18y ago
The Google Talk Labs Edition will launch a YouTube video in the chat conversation based on a link someone chats to you so that it continues to run while you continue to chat. This is, of course, not any kind of universal standards-based so
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by justindz 18y ago
Seems like the argument is that the Semantic Web (or downcase) has merit but requires coded trust relationships between data providers to work. So, the problem is that intelligent people are busy working on things that rely on the problem
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by justindz 18y ago
The moment I open a novel by Neil Gaiman and a display ad pops out either asking me to punch the monkey or telling me that I might be interested in something ghostwritten by Tom Clancy is the moment I become a Luddite.
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by justindz 18y ago
When I was earning my CS degree, my program was transitioning away from the "liberal arts" college towards the "engineering" college. I came in on the tail end which still had more diversified course requirements. As a consequence, I pick
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by justindz 18y ago
And most busy people's morning breakfasts are not significantly portioned enough to risk indigestion against a workout that is probably about 5 minutes at the max (1.5 min. for rest time plus .5 min. for timing wrong plus 3 min. for doing L
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If only widgets were edible.
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by justindz 18y ago
I've been wrestling with "what to learn next" recently and had kind of narrowed it down to learning Javascript (probably using Rhino) more fully and trying Erlang as my first functional language. I think this nudged me towards Javascript.

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