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by masnick 15y ago
Who are the writers? I read a few summaries and they seemed pretty good.
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by masnick 15y ago
Here's an idea: Facebook should require users filing a DMCA takedown request to have a Facebook account -- and send the requester's profile to the person/organization the claim is against.
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by masnick 15y ago
I would actually prefer not to have todos mixed in. IMHO, todos just clutter up a calendar (I've tried them in every single calendar app I've ever used that supports them, and stopped using them). The problem I think is that calendars never
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by masnick 15y ago
This is a really interesting idea. A few thoughts: I personally think the click+drag interface in Google Calendar or iCal is more efficient for setting the length of events. The select box with all the time intervals from 15 min to 24 hr in
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by masnick 15y ago
+1 for the backlit keyboard. I'm surprised how much I miss it -- I've had backlighting since my PowerBook G4 and always thought it was fluff.
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by masnick 16y ago
Lucas notes some of the security improvements they plan on: http://help.phpfog.com/discussions/questions/84-details-on-t... 1) Every environment is going to be chrooted and Apache will be running under per-user mpm 2) The dedicated ec2
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by masnick 16y ago
Do you know how http://www.snapengage.com/ takes screenshots? I'm not sure if it's HTML or an actual image, but it might be work looking into.
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by masnick 16y ago
What about .name ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.name )? Or .me if you want something shorter.
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Gene Mutation Key To Ecuador Group's Health(npr.org)
1 points by masnick 16y ago|0 comments
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by masnick 16y ago
I'm surprised that a computer science professor didn't have a better method for backups. It seems common sense to me that you should have at a very minimum: - Continuous onsite backup onto a different physical device (e.g. Time Machine on e
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by masnick 16y ago
Obligatory disclaimer: I am not a lawyer and this is not legal advice. All you need is one bad experience to start requiring a signed contract to start working. I would recommend that this should be the policy of all independent developers:
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by masnick 16y ago
I'd add one of the LaCie key-like USB flash drives to this list -- <$30 from Amazon: http://amzn.com/B004D2AZ0Q .
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by masnick 16y ago
What about http://rapportive.com ?
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by masnick 16y ago
What about http://gist.com/ ?
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by masnick 16y ago
I agree, but this may become more of a problem as time goes on: apparently paywalls are coming back into vogue. Example is the NYT apparently re-introducing paywalls in 2011, at least according to this NPR story: http://www.npr.org/templat
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by masnick 16y ago
The rule of thumb that my university's career center used is that after your junior year of college no one cares about what you did in high school anymore. And I second all the comments of the parent...resume definitely needs some work. If
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Duke undergrads create real-time campus bus tracking website(dutrack.com)
3 points by masnick 16y ago|0 comments
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by masnick 16y ago
Clickable link: https://voiceforms4000.appspot.com/
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by masnick 16y ago
Maybe it's the cafeteria food.
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by masnick 16y ago
Here's a great guide for getting started with Ruby on Rails. It takes you through all the stuff you need to learn to really understand how the whole RoR stack works, in addition to some front-end knowledge. Links to resources are included.
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Apple patent for "smart bike"/iPod integration(patentlyapple.com)
1 points by masnick 16y ago|0 comments
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by masnick 16y ago
Excellent roadmap for learning Rails: http://techiferous.com/2010/07/roadmap-for-learning-rails/
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by masnick 16y ago
From the perspective of someone who is looking for a first programming language or a language that is dead simple to use for basic tasks, I think Ruby is a great choice. I think this is primarily because the syntax can be very intuitive, es