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by kiwidrew 15y ago
It's "barebones", meaning you need to purchase memory and storage too. And power consumption is going to be at least 10 watts, which is an order of magnitude more than the rPi. Still, if you are in need of more horsepower and/or need to r
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by kiwidrew 15y ago
That's pretty much the precise reason that I don't tend to use these so-called "collaborative consumption" services more: it takes a lot of effort to ensure you get a quality experience. It's great that Exec is doing all that work up fron
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by kiwidrew 15y ago
Amusingly, this is almost certainly due to the legacy backend systems which still use a six-bit character set, and this set doesn't include helpful things such as lowercase characters or the + symbol.
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by kiwidrew 15y ago
It's hard to tell what your target market is. Much of the marketing material on your website seems to be aimed at general consumers with difficult-to-ship items. How much "hand holding" do you offer them, given the fact that owner/operato
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by kiwidrew 15y ago
Do Amadeus and Travelport not also host airlines? And there is HP/EDS who also host some major airlines. Plus SITA, which hosts many smaller airlines. Regardless, all of these systems are very ancient. It's refreshing to see a new genera
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by kiwidrew 15y ago
The schedules come from OAG, the fares come from ATPCO, and the availability (number of seats available on each flight in each booking class) comes either directly from the airline or through one of the three GDS providers: Sabre, Amadeus,
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by kiwidrew 15y ago
At the risk of alienating vegetarians: Meating with Friends (or just "Meating")
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by kiwidrew 15y ago
No, it doesn't. Every major airline publishes their fares, schedules, and availability in a standardized format; furthermore, all of this data is available from a single collection point. If Google wanted to allow international searches,
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by kiwidrew 15y ago
I'm currently learning the (traditional, not simplified) Hanzi, which are pretty much just the Kanji; I'm interested in using your app to help my learning. Is it possible to add some Kanji to the free version so that I can try it out?
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by kiwidrew 15y ago
> Think about these massive Middle-Ages cathedrals done before we had Newton's Laws and modern notions of engineering. How did the architects do it? Well, they were hackers with a large budget. The architect usually had never built anyt
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by kiwidrew 15y ago
What if the recipient's user agent does not display images? At least with a text-based signature, the message still goes through, even if it isn't fancy. Actually, as a recipient, I'd be annoyed to have this trigger gmail's "show images?"
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by kiwidrew 15y ago
Actually, China did get rid of timezones and daylight savings: officially, everywhere is on "Beijing time" (GMT+8). This understandably causes problems in the far western provinces such as Xinjiang, so everyone just observes an unofficia
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by kiwidrew 15y ago
My use for software like this (I use shellinabox [1] on my server) is being able to access a secure Unix commandline from absolutely any Internet-connected machine in the world. Most recently, I was able to rebook an upcoming flight in Sabr
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by kiwidrew 15y ago
But the GPS satellites and receivers already correct for these relativistic effects. Specifically: "The engineers who designed the GPS system included these relativistic effects when they designed and deployed the system. ... Further, each
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by kiwidrew 15y ago
Awesome. I like seeing the price right there on the front page. It's not clear if you support sending postcards to international addresses, though. Is it $2 to anywhere in the world? (That's fantastic value if so, because it's 98 cents
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by kiwidrew 15y ago
I've just updated to the 11.10 beta2, and my experience so far has not been promising. My main gripe (as expected) is that the Unity desktop is the only option now; while it is possible to install GNOME 3 and use that, it lacks the polish
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by kiwidrew 15y ago
I'd like to see two or three different price points. Some of the names and logos are much higher quality than others. Seems that $250 is too high for some folks and too low ("a steal") for others. I'd suggest something like $100 for a mi
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by kiwidrew 15y ago
I'm thinking of applying for the next round. Even if your product doesn't suit the local market, and even if you don't plan on keeping a presence in Chile after the six months is over, consider this: you'll be spending lots of time around
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by kiwidrew 15y ago
It's unlikely that the Delta fare from NYC to MSY and the American fare from MSY to LAX permit end-on-end combination with each other, so it would have to be issued as two separate tickets. What happens if your Delta flight to New Orleans
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by kiwidrew 15y ago
Well, if one narrows down the options a bit, it becomes far more tractable. Considering that Google's flight search only works for domestic return trips of 15 days or less (it didn't seem to give me results for anything longer than that?)
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by kiwidrew 15y ago
Yes, using a shortest path tree [1], it is possible to efficiently (for some definition of "efficient") calculate the best path from a single origin node to all destination nodes in the graph. Dijkstra's algorithm is the standard impleme
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by kiwidrew 15y ago
Ah, right. For the kNN/GiST support in Postgres, distance has to be defined in such a way that it is computable given only two data values; furthermore, I'm pretty sure it has to be both symmetric and satisfy the triangle inequality in or
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by kiwidrew 15y ago
It’s rather powerful: as long as the origin airport is one of those shown on the map, and the destination airport is reachable via a domestic flight on one of the major airlines (AA, AS, B6, CO, DL, F9, UA, US), the search results come back
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Google launches Flight Search with booking links to airline sites only(tnooz.com)
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by kiwidrew 15y ago
Yes, it is possible. Postgres supports custom data types and operators on those data types, and (using the GiST subsystem) you can create indexes using those custom operators. Unfortunately, there is a caveat: this will more than likely r
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by kiwidrew 15y ago
Metafilter seems to have a fair amount of success with this strategy ("take it to meta"), but often it requires the moderators to intervene and remove a few comments. I suspect that having active moderators and a clear procedure for handli
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by kiwidrew 15y ago
I rather like how Go decided to handle this, using "type switches": switch x := node.(type) { case Node: // x is of type Node in this block case Leaf: // x is of type Leaf in this block } ( http://golang.org/doc
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by kiwidrew 16y ago
I'm pretty certain that this was inspired by Neurocam. For a thoroughly entertaining read -- which raises more questions than it answers -- I recommend an article from 2004: http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/12/17/1102787276356.h...
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by kiwidrew 16y ago
Glad you're enjoying Adioso! We love traveling to Asia, and we're hoping to include flights from the USA in the next month or so. Stay tuned, there's plenty of good stuff coming up. :)
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by kiwidrew 16y ago
I can't help but imagine the terrible implications this has for new startups. Want to launch your awesome new webapp? Too bad, because your domain is "too new" and so nobody's DNS will resolve it yet. And so your first task will be to go

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