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Delighted Makes It Easy for Startups and Businesses to Collect Customer Feedback(techcrunch.com)
3 points by mdd 12y ago|0 comments
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Low-hanging fruit(delightedapp.com)
4 points by mdd 13y ago|0 comments
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by mdd 16y ago
These are a great read... The Usenet FAQ archive has all of them available: http://www.faqs.org/faqs/ai-faq/neural-nets/part1/ http://www.faqs.org/faqs/ai-faq/neural-nets/part2/ http://www.faqs.org/faqs/ai-faq/neural-nets/part3/ htt
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by mdd 16y ago
A Coder in Courierland: http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2005/3/19/133129/548
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by mdd 17y ago
(author here) danielh was pretty much spot-on... The lyrics are stored with a time offset and indentation level (sort of like a player-piano roll) and the list of tweets is updated periodically by the server. On the browser side, I'm using
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by mdd 17y ago
Ha! Me too... and I built the site :) I actually had to triple check with the various lyrics sites when I was coding it. I kept thinking there was no way these were the correct lyrics.
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by mdd 17y ago
Thanks for all the feedback, Dave. I just deployed a bunch of updates that address the bugs you found -- yeah... I'll confess... they were bugs :)
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by mdd 17y ago
Hi Dave, The bug you noticed is a little perplexing since I developed the site on a 13" MacBook. If you have a moment, I'd love to know more about the system where you saw this behavior: Browser, OS, Screen Res, Browser Window Size... (If
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by mdd 17y ago
That's a great idea. We're talking with some potential sponsors now so perhaps this could be an avenue for a matching-funds type of fundraiser... I'll follow up with email. Thanks!
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by mdd 17y ago
Thanks! It's for a good cause too. We were expecting a softer launch but once Lance Armstrong mentioned us, we were off to the races. Fortunately our little xen instance has held up and the exposure has sure made the search for sponsors a
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by mdd 17y ago
The source code is on github: http://github.com/igrigorik/rb-pagerank/tree/master
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by mdd 17y ago
This research seems to indicate that ADHD is actually a feature of childhood, rather than a bug to be fixed.
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by mdd 17y ago
No, You're spot on. The author states that this is "an unmodified picture, straight off the digicam". Unfortunately for his test, this means the light passed through a Bayer filter, which uses a pattern of "50% green, 25% red and 25% blue"
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by mdd 17y ago
Obviously, we'd have to consult an Unfrozen Caveman Constitutional Lawyer: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unfrozen_Caveman_Lawyer
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by mdd 17y ago
We've been hearing lately that "the kids" prefer the degraded sound quality of MP3 files: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=511615 Anyone want to bet that, a year or two from now, we'll be reading that "the kids" prefer listening to spe
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by mdd 18y ago
The article doesn't fully explain "front running", so here's Wikipedia's take: ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Front_running ) Front running is the illegal practice of a stock broker executing orders on a security for its own account while
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by mdd 18y ago
The problem, really, is that Apple no longer sells a professional laptop Unless your profession is laptop tinkering, this statement is absurd. Clearly Apple believes that more "pro" users would rather have more power in their lone battery
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by mdd 18y ago
There's a forked version available at: http://github.com/rentzsch/clicktoflash/tree/master
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by mdd 18y ago
The research calls into question decision-making bodies that operate by consensus, Berns said. For example, in the U.S. legal system, many cases are decided by the unanimous judgment of the members of a jury. "You can't separate those ju
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by mdd 18y ago
Their terms of service still seem to forbid any interesting uses of the search results: "You agree that you will not, and you will not permit your users or other third parties to: (a) modify or replace the text, images, or other content of