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by kgrin 12y ago
Thanks! I'll check on those two - I think you're right that synonym support will be important.
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by kgrin 12y ago
Hey folks - Kevin from Endorfyn here. We've been working on this for a bit, would love to get some feedback!
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Show HN: Endorfyn: Everything You Like(endorfyn.com)
14 points by kgrin 12y ago|11 comments
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by kgrin 12y ago
Neat; I was just looking for something like this recently (obviously it's not a ton of code to just use the GMaps API directly, but having a wrapper helps). That said - it's possible this has changed, but IIRC the Maps API terms s
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by kgrin 12y ago
As the "someone" in question, I should clarify that the core screw-up was that the invoice emails were going to the account's "master" mailbox, which was unmonitored because the domain it was managing was being forw
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by kgrin 12y ago
They only make money if he skips bail - otherwise, the bail money is returned at the conclusion of the trial (even if he ultimately goes to prison). Bail is just insurance against the accused fleeing (which is why it's set to high for
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by kgrin 12y ago
At least they appear to have a sense of humor about it - apparently there's indeed a statue of Ostap Bender there.
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by kgrin 12y ago
Many lights and transportation networks already do (NYC is one great example). It's not just lights - there are all sorts of inputs into that system. It does take some resources, so you typically don't see that sort of intelligent
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by kgrin 13y ago
Since we're recommending Boston-area bakeries, allow me to put in a good word for When Pigs Fly!
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by kgrin 13y ago
Whenever these cases come up, we tend to look at it with a status-quo bias - assuming that of course this data exists, and it's a question of whether it should be "free" (whatever your interpretation of that term). But in r
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by kgrin 13y ago
Stating the obvious - this is the Heroku acquisition paying off for Salesforce.
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by kgrin 13y ago
I'll say this as the owner of a small consultancy that will (probably) be affected by the new law: I have far less objection to the tax itself than the specifics of how it's implemented. In any case, it might first be worthwhile t
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by kgrin 13y ago
As of a few months ago, MA actually charges tax on SaaS sold to customers in MA - that's been pretty clear. (I got notices from a few of my SaaS providers and everything).
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by kgrin 13y ago
You can make the point about tools being a dead end (which I have no particular insight about, so I'll take your word for it) without being unnecessarily dismissive of the individual as a "chick".
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by kgrin 14y ago
Or, y'know, they got the shirts at a conference.
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by kgrin 14y ago
Curious whether it'll actually have the voice nav, which was (apparently? allegedly?) at issue in the first place. I guess we will (might?) find out soon enough.
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Django 1.5 beta release notes(docs.djangoproject.com)
133 points by kgrin 14y ago|44 comments
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by kgrin 14y ago
Interestingly enough, according to one post I read just today, that's exactly what Chinese factory employers are doing: http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2012/10/18/foxconn_facto...
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by kgrin 14y ago
NB: the actual URL is http://refer.ly (not http://referly.com as linked in the article, which seems like a weird typo when the article is about the company)
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by kgrin 14y ago
I've said this a few times here, and I'll say it again - I was able to start two businesses in Massachusetts precisely because of the MA health reform, i.e. "RomneyCare" (which, for the underattentive, has roughly the same model as the Affo
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by kgrin 14y ago
Not to be overly contrarian, but I wonder to what extent the setting matters. I don't know all the details, but it sounds like it was a workplace yoga studio. What if the call was a work-related emergency? One of the virtues of having an
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by kgrin 14y ago
Then it would be the President.
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by kgrin 14y ago
Honest question: what's the raison d'etre here? Is the Maps API really that annoying that people need a wrapper?
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by kgrin 14y ago
In the direction of giving - either money, or if time allows, something like what Stallman is doing/advocating. The main thing that shifted my views was the notion that even if the money is "wasted" (or might be more effective dollar-for-d
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by kgrin 14y ago
I was on my college debate team; the Nationals final round in 2003 was about this hypothetical ("Give a homeless person a dollar?") I was pleasantly surprised to recently find that it was taped and available online: http://www.parlidebate
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by kgrin 14y ago
The pattern that I've seen fairly often (and use myself) is to git pull into a "working copy" on the deployment target, but do a git archive/symlink to actually build the copy that's served (before doing the service restart). That gives you
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by kgrin 14y ago
No Pun Intended
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by kgrin 15y ago
Interesting... on the one hand, $1500+/month seems like crazy money for a CMS to a hacker (particularly when you could, of course, build at least 90% of any given page fairly easily - though I'm not so sure about the "studio", infrastructur
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by kgrin 15y ago
Sure. Problem 1: the actual upload(s) of the XAP to App Hub just failed sporadically - we got an opaque error code which, when we looked it up, translated to essentially "either there's a problem with your language settings... or there was
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by kgrin 15y ago
Having just had a series of incredibly frustrating experiences trying to ship a WP7 app, and given the awful support (or lack thereof) from MS throughout their buggy-as-all-hell app submission process, my sympathies are quite limited. What

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