markbao

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   by markbao 15y ago

   I'll freaking hire you right now. Just kidding, but yeah, if you're good and you're in NYC, you'll be slurped up by the startups here. Everyone has problems hiring in NYC.
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   by markbao 15y ago

   I would agree, but I think we are all on the same page on this subject (with Dale, that is). At least, he touches on the fact that students on the med track shouldn't really take the UnCollege route since there is intrinsic knowledge you pr
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   by markbao 15y ago

   Yeah, but he is part of the Thiel Fellowship, which I tend to see as a pretty damn smart group of young people. And I know Dale and know that he talks to these "moving forward" type of teens. On the other hand, I'm yet another 19-year-old w
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   by markbao 15y ago

   > That's why I'm leading UnCollege: a social movement empowering individuals to take their education beyond the classroom. Imagine if millions of my peers copying their professors' words verbatim started problem-solving in the real wo
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   by markbao 15y ago

   Hi there. I wanted to let you know that we're sorry about the problems that the Onswipe WordPress plugin has. We're working on releasing an update that addresses these issues, especially the scrolling (it sucks, we know - non-native scrolli
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   by markbao 15y ago

   Invite codes? :P
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   by markbao 15y ago

   And here's the police report. Not a stunt. http://www.boston.com/business/technology/innoeco/bentley.pd...
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   by markbao 15y ago

   Huge congratulations to Airbnb. That's incredible.
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   by markbao 15y ago

   Errata: "Using the cache will automatically cache the index page by default" => "...cache the page that you put the cache manifest reference to " "This only works on iOS devices, though" => "This only works on Webkit devices, tho
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    by markbao 15y ago

    You would be able to fit a decent number of images in. The maximum database size on iOS for a Web SQL database is 50MB if I'm not mistaken.
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    by markbao 15y ago

    The Gmail web app uses regular cache manifest offline functionality to cache the assets, but then uses Web SQL (of which the W3C has dropped the development of the spec) to store and serve up the messages.
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    by markbao 15y ago

    I've worked rather extensively with the offline cache, and I can confidently report that the offline cache is buggy and annoying to use, especially with MobileSafari. It's not as simple as just simply downloading content and telling the bro
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    by markbao 15y ago

    Was anyone as annoyed with the inconsistent capitalization in the article as I was? I'm usually not one to criticize grammar, but it made the article incredibly annoying to read.
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    by markbao 15y ago

    The problem with this is the search terms are pretty difficult to get right and requires a lot of sifting. Some studies concern themselves with studying "sleep deprivation" as in total sleep deprivation (see the sibling comment in this thre
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    by markbao 15y ago

    This is running a startup.
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    by markbao 15y ago

    Absolutely beautiful.
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    by markbao 15y ago

    The scary part about this is that Facebook had to screw up this bad to get caught. If they didn't make this blunder, it probably would have worked and nobody would have knew a thing. Which is probably what happens 99% of the other times.
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    by markbao 15y ago

    Incredible rethinking, atypical of big governments. This, for the US, now. USA.gov works okay. It could really be better.
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    by markbao 15y ago

    I wish Amazon was as good at communication and accountability as Heroku is.
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    by markbao 16y ago

    What's more terrifying FTFY.
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    by markbao 16y ago

    Wonderfully nostalgic, kinda like old web pages from the mid-1990s.
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    by markbao 16y ago

    Another cool thing I like about Bing Maps: "Whole Foods on the corner" and "If you reach E 13th St, you've gone too far" when viewing directions. Such things would be cheered on as "look how awesome Google is!" if implemented in GMaps. htt
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    by markbao 16y ago

    This is what happens in a lot of third-world countries, India included. It would be impossible to get anything done business-wise in some countries that are heavy on bribes—without bribes, it would take forever to get licenses, building per
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    by markbao 16y ago

    Point.
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    by markbao 16y ago

    I'm surprised and relieved to see this coming from an Ivy. Huge kudos for moving science forward while leaving the money leeches behind.
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    Color to Get Major Update, Fix ‘Loneliness’ Problem(mashable.com)

    11 points by markbao 16y ago|8 comments
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    by markbao 16y ago

    They had no idea what to do to recover it. They literally said "thanks for the report, but there's not much we can do."
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    by markbao 16y ago

    I wouldn't want them to. Police have more important things to deal with than stolen laptops .
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    by markbao 16y ago

    The laptop was swiped when I was still logged in and the screen saver hadn't kicked in yet. They created a new account: http://i.imgur.com/o6TK8.png
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    by markbao 16y ago

    I'm embarrassed because this is the second time that I did something that, to me, was trivial, and it gets a bunch of press and hits Hacker News. I'm embarrassed because there is a disproportionality between {interesting things that I do} a