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by kiwidrew 16y ago
If you change the window.history.pushState() call to window.history.replaceState(), it doesn't add bazillions of entries to your history, which makes it slightly more practical. javascript:var dashes = ""; var num = 20; while(--num) dashes
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by kiwidrew 16y ago
Both of those editors rely on the contentEditable support of the browser to power the actual editing, and browsers have traditionally done a very poor job at producing valid HTML. They make attempts at "post-validation" and "attribute scru
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by kiwidrew 16y ago
I found a more detailed look at Aloha on Slideshare: http://www.slideshare.net/draftkraft/aloha-editor-contentedi... In particular, there are some screenshots which show table editing, insertion of images, and what appears to be navigati
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by kiwidrew 16y ago
It's flickering on my laptop as well (Fujitsu SH760). Perhaps it's because the dots in the background are so closely spaced?
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by kiwidrew 16y ago
Speaking as the co-founder of a startup that's still in 'stealth mode', this is precisely why we haven't launched yet. We reckon that doing a launch event is a one-of-a-kind stimulus. You can't really launch twice, at least not with the s
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by kiwidrew 16y ago
I assume that doing these radius searches requires far more computational power than a "simple" single-origin/single-destination search, which surely must translate into a higher cost-per-query for QPX customers. Is this perhaps why very f
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by kiwidrew 16y ago
Although it's a bit of a reach to say that they "market" matrix/matrix2... It isn't terribly nice to use, they don't actively promote it, and they don't allocate it very much processing power. That being said, I have always gotten the impr
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by kiwidrew 16y ago
First of all, welcome to HN. It sounds like you might have already answered your question, as you say you don't need the money (yet). In general, the earlier you go out to raise funding, the more it will cost you; when your company is not
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by kiwidrew 16y ago
I'd love to find a PDF of the full paper; we hear so much about MapReduce, and this is essentially the map-reduce approach as applied to graphs. The best reference about Pregel I've been able to find so far is a one-page announcement, publ
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by kiwidrew 16y ago
Yep, that's exactly right. Every metasearch site out there uses essentially the same interface: given an origin, destination, departure date, and arrival date, return a list of itineraries in order of increasing price. Needless to say, th
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by kiwidrew 17y ago
Slightly off-topic, but in case you haven't checked out Cython (www.cython.org) before, please do! It allows you to write Python code which is _translated_ into C code that uses the CPython API. This includes classes, list comprehensions,
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by kiwidrew 17y ago
Come on, give the guy some credit! This is a really nifty use of the OpenStreetMap data, and shows (yet again) what can be done with free and open geodata. That said, the day someone figures out how to generate edushi.com-style pixel art f
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by kiwidrew 17y ago
This is great news! At the moment, the Southern Cross cable (which is half owned by New Zealand's incumbent telco) is essentially the country's only link to the rest of the Internet. They therefore charge monopoly rents. I can't find the
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by kiwidrew 17y ago
Unfortunately, there's a reason why banks and other financial institutions tend to batch transactions together and settle them overnight: liquidity requirements. Basically, the shorter the settlement period, the more cash the banks need to
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by kiwidrew 17y ago
I've always thought it was rather silly (and extremely overkill) to use Windows as the operating system for an ATM. After all, an ATM has relatively simple requirements, which haven't really changed all that much in the last ten years. Of
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by kiwidrew 17y ago
This looks very intriguing. Unfortunately, I can't find a free copy of this paper nor any articles talking about it. Can anyone else dig up either a copy or some additional information?
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by kiwidrew 17y ago
Nice to see that they're going to place new accounts on 'probation' of sorts to (try and) prevent name-squatting.
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by kiwidrew 17y ago
I spent some time in Hangzhou (near Shanghai) last year, and remember asking around about online maps -- none of the usual suspects like Google had anything for China at the time. Everyone pointed me at the edushi.com (which means "e-city"
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by kiwidrew 17y ago
Wow, just wow. The visual effect of so many dice tumbling down the spiral is totally worth the Rube Goldberg-esque design; that's something a random number generator based on thermal noise or cosmic background radiation just couldn't poss
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by kiwidrew 17y ago
Cool find, I like their style. I don't like their unreadable thumbnails.
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by kiwidrew 17y ago
Living in a country that's stuck on the end of an expensive and slow(ish) undersea cable for the past few years, sometimes my thoughts wander towards something like this. Even just a service (US-based) that would download a set of files (H
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by kiwidrew 17y ago
related: cassandra's use of bloom filters http://spyced.blogspot.com/2009/01/all-you-ever-wanted-to-kn... and also related: murmurhash, a hash which is well-suited for bloom filters and that is much faster than SHA-1 http://murmurhash.
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by kiwidrew 17y ago
That sounds quite intruiging -- did it include anything like FCC licenses, broadcasting equipment, studio space? (Link?)
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by kiwidrew 17y ago
Unfortunately, you're probably going to need to take elevation and topography into account to get anything useful. As far as I know, none of the web mapping APIs really expose that data right now. (Google Earth may, I don't have much expe
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by kiwidrew 17y ago
This is something that's interested me ever since I heard about the first Hacker Houses here on HN, and it's great to hear some details about how it worked out. I'd love to get a bunch of folks together in one place and let the ideas flow,
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by kiwidrew 17y ago
The article didn't actually say very much at all about how well (or not well) you could live in India on $2 per day. I somehow feel even less enlightened than before.
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by kiwidrew 17y ago
Drupal also has lots of tutorials and documentation, and a fantastic (and well-organized) user community. It's in PHP (which makes me recoil in horror every time I look under the hood) but the code is pretty solid and they have fairly high
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by kiwidrew 17y ago
For me, just about the only online social service which is useful enough to justify paying for it is e-mail. And that's definitely one area where the free services (yeah, GMail) are lightyears ahead of any paid service. So apart from 'inf
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by kiwidrew 17y ago
Shameless plug that you (being, presumably, a kiwi based on your grabaseat comment earlier) may find interesting: www.boozr.co.nz I've decided to start with alcohol and work my way backwards towards groceries, but the idea is roughly the s
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by kiwidrew 17y ago
I've been using Werkzeug (the anti-framework framework) for my most recent project, and so far it's been working out quite nicely. I fall into the "write my own framework" camp, and often find myself starting a project by first writing yet

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