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by mcrider 14y ago
I thought DARE has been debunked my so many sources that it didn't even exist anymore?
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by mcrider 14y ago
I have a Phonegap App (Flapcast Mobile) that I think works quite well; The only thing that makes it feel like its not native is because I did the art and design myself and I'm not very good at that. There are plenty of (native) apps that d
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Mendeley’s Open API Approach Is On Course To Disrupt Academic Publishing(techcrunch.com)
1 points by mcrider 14y ago|0 comments
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by mcrider 14y ago
Cool; There might be some interesting ways to plug it into the journal publishing software I work on (pkp.sfu.ca/ojs/).
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by mcrider 14y ago
And is there tracking code or some API available if authors don't want to/can't upload their papers to Academia.edu? Edit: Rephrased as a general question.
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by mcrider 14y ago
I can see this working out better for remote workers (like so many of us are). I don't know about other people, but I can pretty easily bring myself down to part time and work on the road -- on planes, in coffee shops around the world, etc
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by mcrider 14y ago
The concept is great, especially seeing the specific contributions legislators make (of course in this example all commits are coming from one guy, so not so useful here). I'd love to see this advance, as well as seeing more developments i
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by mcrider 14y ago
Isn't US law not public-domain anyway? Or at least on a state by state basis? I remember a copyright issue concerning someone reprinting some of Oregon's laws.
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by mcrider 14y ago
I'm surprised there isn't one here for law. Enough people want to know specific legal areas (not enough to practice, just enough to understand the system), that I think this could be a very interesting area to make a codeacademy-like site
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by mcrider 14y ago
Also I love TotalTerminal and TotalFinder for a quick keyboard stroke away from tabbed terminal and finder visors.
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by mcrider 14y ago
Are you a web developer or otherwise? If you're a web developer, I recommend (in addition to Sublime Text 2 and other apps mentioned by other people here) Sequel Pro if you work with MySQL; TextWrangler/BBEdit for searching and editing tex
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by mcrider 14y ago
Check out the Dataverse project, they have similar goals.
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by mcrider 14y ago
Not to mention cheap, quality education drawing Americans and other foreigners into Canada (it did for me and I stayed after my degree was finished).
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by mcrider 14y ago
I think this could still succeed, and I would almost certainly subscribe if the magazine was well-designed and had interesting topics. I was just looking at my parent's collection of National Geographics and the shelf of yellow spines looks
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by mcrider 14y ago
Probably not a good idea for a beta release...
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by mcrider 14y ago
Its also surrounded by the two incredible cities of Vancouver and Portland (a few hours drive to either). Also, the region is home to some of the best beers in the world (if you're a fan of hoppy beer).
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by mcrider 14y ago
I'm still not clear on the value of finding the Higgs Boson or why its so exciting -- If I understand correctly, not finding it (or disproving it exists? Is that logically possible?) will force us to rewrite certain aspects of physics. Bu
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by mcrider 14y ago
I believe the only way to get two displays working though is to pass the second display through the first display (via thunderbolt). AFAIK, there is no adapter to split thunderbolt into two DVI/VGA/HDMI cables. Though I hope I'm wrong, I'
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by mcrider 14y ago
Getting new devices to work (though thats probably just in the olden days as well). Also; Cygwin.
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by mcrider 14y ago
Weird, I searched for the URL and also thought HN would automatically detect a dupe. Didn't mean to hijack a post!
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Barack Obama Directs All Federal Agencies to Have an API(blog.apievangelist.com)
298 points by mcrider 14y ago|77 comments
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by mcrider 14y ago
Looks great, but doesn't work in Canada (they have different movies). I'm not sure if APIs exist for different countries or if a flag needs to be set somewhere, but it would be great if you could detect the country and set it accordingly.
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by mcrider 14y ago
I'm building a mobile app for my podcast listening website, http://flapcast.com (which is getting some pretty decent traction but probably isn't taking off since I don't have a mobile app). I can't wait to be able to listen to podcasts o
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by mcrider 14y ago
My website http://flapcast.com has a social component that allows voting on podcasts and shows top podcasts among your friends and the world. The social part of the site hasn't really taken off yet but its still a great way to listen to
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by mcrider 14y ago
What roadmap? The FAQ says there isn't one. Edit: I figured that's what you meant, I was just curious if you had seen an official roadmap. I guess they are too fresh to have one and are waiting for more community input before formalizing
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by mcrider 14y ago
I've added it to Flapcast, in case anyone uses it: http://flapcast.com/index.php/podcasts/podcastInfo/4592
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by mcrider 15y ago
For 1) I discovered a hard limit on image sizes a while back when I was writing an (abandoned) Phonegap App: http://bit.ly/J4CT0I
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by mcrider 15y ago
Yes, if its a charity event for blind people and the most media attention this event gets is for a product that is possibly the coolest thing to ever happen to your eyeballs.
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by mcrider 15y ago
I'm in the opposite situation -- I work for an Open Source project and using anything but open source software is pretty much a last resort, even though there are some (cheap) paid solutions that are better. Even free SaaS products are see
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by mcrider 15y ago
This is pretty great. One suggestion I might make is to allow grunt to automatically create a Git repository and also automatically create a remote repository (Github or private server) to push to. Not that that is hard, its just another

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