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by mattmillr 16y ago
He references, links and quotes that post: "Benchmark Capital VC Bill Gurley reminds us how good this trick is in an excellent post..." (The original article is definitely better than the TC summary.)
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by mattmillr 16y ago
Wait, so the feed got its data from the NYTimes' own API, but they had to ask Twitter to shut it down on their end?
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by mattmillr 16y ago
I completely agree. I wrote and deployed a project to Djangy on Saturday, in large part to try out my beta account. It was a simple app, but deploying to Djangy's cloud was trivial. (I think I spent more time figuring out GoDaddy's domain
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by mattmillr 16y ago
MySQL does this too. I once found a bunch of Facebook User IDs that were all 2147483647 after someone missed the memo that Facebook was transitioning to BigInts.
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by mattmillr 16y ago
Looks very promising, it'll be a good companion to the iPhone PlainText app. Two suggestions: (1) Word-wrap. (2) Let me pick a dark-on-light color scheme.
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by mattmillr 16y ago
It's also important to consider if TC readers are your target audience. I've seen big pageview spikes from TC and other widely- (or poorly-) targeted press coverage that didn't convert very well, whereas coverage in much smaller but better
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by mattmillr 16y ago
I think there's also a usability issue with this control. I would imagine a common use case is "Show me all the items at Store X, since that's convenient for me to drop by." Unfortunately, instead of selecting Store X, I have to deselect al
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by mattmillr 16y ago
It's interesting that Red/Green and Blue/Yellow colorblindness correlate to the opposite color pairs that Jason points out. Does anyone know why this is? Are these types of colorblindness related to a deficiency in the filters (#s 1 and 2)
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by mattmillr 16y ago
The purpose of captcha isn't to keep the bad guys out, it is to make sure that a person, rather than a program, is logging in. I'm not sure this new social captcha is better than traditional captcha at that, but if it is equal but easie
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by mattmillr 16y ago
My BofA PIN is 6 digits, so you'd need to hash a million values. Still a pretty small rainbow table, I guess.
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by mattmillr 16y ago
I got that as well. I'm certain my email isn't in the dump (downloaded the torrent to double- and triple-check). I thought is was strange they used a URL shortener with an uncommon TLD (.kr) to point to the FAQ lifehacker. Seems you'd want
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by mattmillr 16y ago
Regarding similar programs in the Bay Area: "none of the five agencies analyzed for this study measures the effectiveness of their campaigns. Whereas they all have a similar goal—to increase passenger awareness about security issues—little
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by mattmillr 16y ago
Instead of using Myers-Briggs as a tool for understanding, you've just it to pigeonhole someone based on one negative characteristic (which lets you disregard his opinions) and then blamed his personality type for "a lot of the world's prob
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by mattmillr 16y ago
For NYC: Rockwood Music Hall and Union Hall
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by mattmillr 16y ago
I lived in middle-of-nowhere Texas for several years, and I think the only time I ever locked the door to my home was when I left for two weeks at Christmas. If my car didn't automatically lock itself after you get out, I would have left it
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by mattmillr 16y ago
There are already Lego-compatible designs on Thingiverse ( http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:591 ), and the RepRap community is working on the recycling aspect ( http://www.3dreplicators.com/cgi-bin/cblog/index.php?/archiv... ) We'll be ther
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by mattmillr 16y ago
Yep. Consider January's Wired magazine feature titled In the Next Industrial Revolution, Atoms are the new Bits." http://www.wired.com/magazine/2010/01/ff_newrevolution
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by mattmillr 16y ago
Judging only from how obsessively I check the bit.ly click-through stats on things I tweet, I think we'd probably be better off without them.
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by mattmillr 16y ago
Also, anyone behind a firewall at work/school/etc. that blocks Facebook.
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by mattmillr 16y ago
I'm happy they haven't resubmitted it. I have the Easter Egg enabled and would rather keep the volume button shutter. Of course, it would be stupid for them to not ramp that revenue stream back up.
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by mattmillr 16y ago
"Many household security robots are designed for simple Internet operation, which makes them insecure. Will your humble Roomba vacuum cleaner be used to transmit naked videos of you?" Does Roomba make a 'bot with either wifi or a camera? I
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by mattmillr 16y ago
Wasn't there an article posted here last week about hackers using this same software stack to spoof towers and intercept calls with about $1500 in gear?
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by mattmillr 16y ago
(1) Dropbox has a web interface where you can upload and download files. It's pretty easy to use. (2) Their app adds a huge value, in that it automatically uploads any changes to files in your local Dropbox folder. It is convenience, and ha
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by mattmillr 16y ago
I'm not surprised -- I used to read all of Hannibal's reviews -- but it is innovation on the chip maker's part. Apple and HP are doing little more than plugging it into a socket.
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by mattmillr 16y ago
A Mac Pro with two ATI Radeon HD 5770's gives you 4 Mini Display Port and 2 Dual-Link DVI outputs.
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by mattmillr 16y ago
I appreciate the cross-referencing, as you provided four additional sources for more information. I'm guessing that in this case, however, your phrasing may have come across as dismissive. Its not hard to imagine an overly-critical reader (
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by mattmillr 16y ago
13 into 100% (even if a few get a little bit bigger cut) is a whole lot more equity than you'd get out of the typical post-VC employee equity pool.
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by mattmillr 16y ago
As a programmer who didn't take the compiler class in school, what's the best way to go about learning what it takes to write one? A book recommendation? Find a CS dept nearby and take the class?
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by mattmillr 16y ago
Which is a real pain when you're trying to develop a responsive Flex application. (Something I have to do at work, not because I want to.)
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by mattmillr 16y ago
Google's fiber carrying only Google packets isn't the Internet, it's a Google network. If your company puts in a dedicated line between two offices or data centers, should we declare it neutral too?

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