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by kpanghmc 15y ago
Right, but content providers at least have some control over their RSS feeds (e.g. adding advertising or truncating it to the first X characters of the article to force users to click to read more).
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by kpanghmc 15y ago
Interesting project. I agree with the others who say you definitely need some sort of demo to convince users to sign up. Question though: how did you guys get around the copyright issues? It sounds like you're grabbing the content from thes
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by kpanghmc 16y ago
Or DataMapper if you want to keep using a relational database as your persistence medium.
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by kpanghmc 16y ago
I've used NHibernate (which is the .NET port of Hibernate) and Rails ActiveRecord. The biggest difference to me is that Rails ActiveRecord encourages you to work from the database first. That is, you define your database tables and columns
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by kpanghmc 16y ago
While I understand Twitter's motivation for doing this -- and no, I don't believe it's about consistency -- I think they could have expressed at least some token of appreciation for the devs who helped get them to where they are now.
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by kpanghmc 16y ago
"I’ve long believed that Groupon was basically a Ponzi scheme, enriching itself while acting like a parasite on the businesses it used to deliver its daily deals." I'm not sure I understand this comparison. Am I missing something here or di
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by kpanghmc 16y ago
One of the big things that makes Experts Exchange unique is a patented system that requires askers to select their best answer. Most Q&A sites (StackExchange included) let the community vote for the best answer, when really the person
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by kpanghmc 16y ago
My assumption is that there was both a manual "detonate" button that the bomber could have activated once in position as well as this SMS trigger just in case the bomber couldn't muster up the nerve to blow herself up.
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by kpanghmc 16y ago
Anyone else having a hard time reading the font on that page? It's not so bad on the landing page since there's only a handful of words, but the FAQ ( http://howsecureismypassword.net/faq/ ) hurts my eyes.
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by kpanghmc 16y ago
I second this. I was recently burned when I realized my Google Apps email accounts weren't forwarding all emails to my primary email account. Apparently you can't disable the spam filter on your Google Apps email accounts, which means that
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by kpanghmc 16y ago
I'm confused. The first sentence says the list is comprised of "some of the world's bright ideas that just didn't work out", yet includes several extremely successful products/services (e.g. Farmville, Foursquare, Bumpits, Tamagotchis, Croc
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by kpanghmc 16y ago
One way around this is to not provide the location / time of your wedding on the invitation. Instead, include a line on your invitation to the effect of "location / time will be provided upon RSVP".
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by kpanghmc 16y ago
This one definitely took me awhile, but I figured it out. SPOILER BELOW (ruby - ru) + (foxpro - po - fox) + (python - p - t - (hay - a)) + s + (delphi - phi - el) + (java - va - j) + (ugg + h - g) + te + r + ? For those too lazy to pull t
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by kpanghmc 16y ago
#11. "Rockstar"
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by kpanghmc 16y ago
And yet, when Joel made the decision to shaft the Stack Exchange 1.0 testers, they didn't get anything close to an apology. What they got instead was a pitch about why they should be happy to give up their business model.
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by kpanghmc 16y ago
This is a good point. If you're a marketing exec or advertiser for instance, being on Facebook or shopping sites may indeed be part of your job.
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by kpanghmc 17y ago
"This is about whether Apple is insane or within their rights to do what they did."
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by kpanghmc 17y ago
You can be both insane AND within your rights. Nobody is disputing the legality of what Apple is doing. What they are disputing is how stupid/insane/ridiculous Apple is by doing it. Please feel free to cite some examples of people saying it
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by kpanghmc 17y ago
What if the page you're looking for just happens to contain a lot of content / images / etc? Adding speed to Google's ranking algorithms is only useful for searches where there are several equally good search results (in which case the fast
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by kpanghmc 17y ago
You're missing the point. Just because it's legally within Apple's rights to do this, doesn't mean that we have to be happy about it.
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by kpanghmc 17y ago
Parsing on the backend, even when only considering United States addresses is incredibly difficult and error prone. There are apartment numbers, rural routes, PO boxes, circles, streets named after compass directions (i.e. North, South, Eas
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by kpanghmc 17y ago
There are several legitimate reasons for requiring users to enter in their address in separate fields. The two main ones are: 1. If you need to integrate with third party systems who require you to break up the address. In case you've never
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by kpanghmc 17y ago
An enemy? Sure. The greatest enemy? I don't know about that. I'd say carpal tunnel and other hand/wrist related injuries would be the greatest enemy. After all, you can always program standing up or sitting on one of those donut devices if
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The 4 Types of Emails Programmers Receive(kevinwilliampang.com)
50 points by kpanghmc 17y ago|24 comments
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by kpanghmc 17y ago
I think the OP's main point was that when you date a woman in her 30s, there's a lot of pressure to get married and have babies ASAP. Because while it's certainly possible for a woman to become pregnant in their 30s, the chances pretty much
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by kpanghmc 17y ago
That wouldn't work so great for men / women who elect to become househusbands / housewives upon marriage. While the other partner spends those 10 years building their career, they toil away at home cleaning, preparing meals, and raising the
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by kpanghmc 17y ago
Look at it this way: the author asks his wife if they can get rid of the TV. She says no. He then unplugs it and refuses to plug it back in for her when she wants to use it. The author elaborates on how difficult it is to plug/unplug the TV
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by kpanghmc 17y ago
The only part that struck a nerve with me is when he refused to plug the TV back in. He had already made his point that they don't use the TV very often, but the fact that she wanted to use it at that moment definitely weakened his argument
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by kpanghmc 17y ago
Probably because shoes mean a lot to women and they've become a status symbol. As for why society has made women wear painfully uncomfortable shoes (i.e. high heels), that's easier to explain. It makes them taller while also giving the appe
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by kpanghmc 17y ago
It's certainly a good idea, but they're not the first to come up with it. Plasticjungle.com seems to have been around since 2006 and looks very similar. A quick Google search for "sell gift cards" reveals several other similar sites as we

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