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by mattmillr 16y ago
We should get rid of at least pennies and nickels (both of which cost more to make than they are worth.) The last time the US phased out a denomination -- the half-cent piece in 1857 -- it had more purchasing power than a dime does today. B
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by mattmillr 16y ago
When I saw the new price point, I actually briefly considered buying a $139 model so I could loan the whole Kindle (and my whole electronic library) to a friend... Then again, I bought a paperback book yesterday specifically because I knew
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by mattmillr 16y ago
I completely agree with you. Unfortunately, sometimes when I'm checking in at US airline kiosks, a "helpful" attendant will come over and start operating the kiosk for me. I can't stand that -- it's the worst of both solutions. For example,
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by mattmillr 16y ago
"Yeah, I know we just made the thing you're doing illegal, but no worries, we're not going to enforce it." doesn't reassure me much. Read the economist article posted yesterday about all the people in prison for pretty similar stuff.
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by mattmillr 16y ago
> random renters through more wild party's [sic] Really? Can you back that up. Data please. It's an anecdote, not data (but still more than you've got): In my four months being a random renter I've thrown exactly one party. It was a b
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by mattmillr 16y ago
Another anecdote: I moved to the city in late March. Since then, I've been in five sublets while I looked for a suitable permanent place to live. (Moving in tomorrow!) One of those sublets would have been legal under this new law. The first
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by mattmillr 16y ago
I haven't downvoted you, but would like to point out that there is a very large middle ground for disagreement without taking the absurd position of "you wouldn't mind a constant rotation of complete strangers..." Your argument is just as l
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by mattmillr 16y ago
"The InNova patent was awarded to inventor and mathematician Robert Uomini nearly 15 years ago when Internet email was still in its formative stages." I understand the internet had a big bump in popularity in '95, but wasn't the "formative
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by mattmillr 16y ago
One day in the not-too-distant future, we'll see a headline here "Netflix stops mailing discs to US customers, goes streaming-only." It's (mostly? ideally?) all about the most efficient and user-accepted way to move the bits around.
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by mattmillr 16y ago
(a) Gold: shiny, heavy, and generally useless. Valuable only if someone else agrees it is valuable. (b) Guns, ammo, food, and fuel: Useful. Inherently valuable and good for barter.
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by mattmillr 16y ago
I'm glad Gdgt ran this full quote. Engadget unfortunately dropped the first part of it from their liveblog (not really a problem, they're typing and submitting pretty quickly) but then ran an article that started "Apple's not really ready t
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by mattmillr 16y ago
Don't you have to borrow stock to sell it short? Can you do that for 6 years?
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by mattmillr 16y ago
I don't think I ever had a me@domain.edu address in school. There was always an vestigial environment name in the middle (@eos.ncsu.edu and @titan.sfasu.edu)
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by mattmillr 16y ago
No, just markup. Much easier to parse...
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by mattmillr 16y ago
Having lived for a semester at Vista Way, I think Disney World's College Program is as close to a living in a company town as you can get nowadays in the US. They completely control two municipalities, and provide the jobs, the bank, the ho
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by mattmillr 16y ago
I'd say they need not be "morally net positive," but I'd prefer they didn't engage in practices that are morally detrimental. Or, you don't have to sponsor a tree-planting program, but please don't irresponsibly dispose of all that used mot
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by mattmillr 16y ago
This would be flagged off-topic on Stack Overflow and migrated to Server Fault ;)
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by mattmillr 16y ago
No, using Flash means the author might not know how to do rich interfaces with Javascript/CSS/HTML or that he prefers to do rich interfaces for the web in Flash. Or it could mean something else. Since the iPhone app is written in Objective
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by mattmillr 16y ago
It doesn't redirect on the search page, but the results pages are located at https://encrypted.google.com .
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by mattmillr 16y ago
He edited the article to add Rails, Merb, and Webby at the very bottom. Keep scrolling...
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by mattmillr 16y ago
I like the visual representation of what the service does, but the images are small. The result images are essentially your product, but they're cropped too much.
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by mattmillr 16y ago
I understand these use cases, but I'm not sure the attachments related to these things are already in my email frequently enough for this to be useful. My voicemail is on my cellphone or in Google voice (where it already has a humorous mach
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by mattmillr 16y ago
The "until we all have retina displays and 4 megapixel digital cameras." from sesqu's summary is what makes it still relevant. Or newly relevant?
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by mattmillr 16y ago
I'd put it at the top: Email an attachment to go@mail2brain.com and a human will turn it into something useful: Frame it as a feature :)
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by mattmillr 16y ago
I got some good responses when I asked a similar question on SO a long time ago: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6371/how-do-you-manage-da... Bottom line: script all your changes to the DB schema, and check the scripts into version con
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by mattmillr 16y ago
You're right that the point of the cloud computing conversation should be ownership of data. However, the point of this article is little more than "Use Tonido."
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by mattmillr 16y ago
Just tried it on an image where the whiteboard was poorly cropped -- lots of junk around the edges of the pic. The drawing itself was cleaned pretty well, but the extra stuff was distractingly multi-colored. It would be nice if it could det
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by mattmillr 16y ago
a) One app, basically a dedicated RSS reader for a client's blog. b) Free. c) My client has promoted it on a weekly radio show. d) I was paid by the client for developing the app. I think I made about $1500. I consider that pretty good for
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by mattmillr 16y ago
So they built a more-mind-bogglingly powerful computer to compute the question. You really should read the book(s) to find out what happens next...
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by mattmillr 16y ago
Considering a primary feature is uploading to 37signals' Campfire, not many?

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