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by mildweed 15y ago
As a programmer, I hate DST. In fact, I also hate time zones, leap years and horseradish sauce. All are unnecessarily complicated. Now, I don't think the OP's proposal of having everyone go GMT/UTC would work, a simpler solution to measurin
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by mildweed 15y ago
Not only does v3 not require an API key, as of Sept 28 (a couple days before the rate limiting went into effect) sending a v2 API key to v3 will cause the request to fail: http://groups.google.com/group/google-maps-js-api-v3-notify/... So
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by mildweed 15y ago
As a coffee blogger in Kansas City (kcperky.com) I can attest to coffee shops being a hazardous business to be in. For every two shops that open, I expect one of them will close in 6-18 months.
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by mildweed 15y ago
Yes, but it seems Google doesn't let Firefox access MapsGL yet. Your guess as to why...
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by mildweed 15y ago
Pleased to see that it adjusts to browser window height, not just width.
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by mildweed 15y ago
Good comedians speak the truth that is apparent, but is possibly not being said. Breaking social morays and speaking freely is more of the comedians' strongest weapons.
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by mildweed 15y ago
the SSL would have to stop in the EC2 instance where the bulk of the 'browser' is. Its then up to the Silk infrastructure to ensure the transmissions from the Fire to EC2 would be secure as well.
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by mildweed 15y ago
So price support for certain browsers as features. IE7 +5%. IE6 +30%.
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by mildweed 15y ago
At some point, when all the means of production and deduction are automated, capitalism will likely collapse. My input to society as an individual will come from my human qualities, not from my labor or reasoning qualities. Star Trek TNG's
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by mildweed 15y ago
"A dead simple way"
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by mildweed 15y ago
The photos of that interviewer are ripe for a image macro. Based on the first photo: http://www.quickmeme.com/meme/353ysx/
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by mildweed 15y ago
Did somebody say Time Cube?
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by mildweed 15y ago
I'm working to rename my comedy troupe in a similar fashion. My spidergrams (what I call this type of brainstorming) are very similar.
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by mildweed 15y ago
In college I had a habit of making sure every app had either the word 'Extreme' or 'Ultimate' in the title. Thankfully I have outgrown this.
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Programming is Product Design(wademeredith.com)
7 points by mildweed 15y ago|5 comments
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by mildweed 15y ago
Yet another lovely cheatsheet to print off and hang on the wall by my desk. Thank you remi. Perhaps I should put up a blog post with all my cheat sheets some day.
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by mildweed 15y ago
Free entry-level phones, maybe. But as much of our computing is still moving from the desk/laptop to the phone, there will always be a demand for more advanced phones, thusly somebody will want to pay for them, thusly there will always be a
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by mildweed 15y ago
Another way to do this is to trigger the tracking with the window.onbeforeunload event paired with logic that makes sure the user has actually been on page for longer than X seconds/minutes.
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by mildweed 15y ago
Old ideas, new context! Its like BBS relay mail!
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by mildweed 15y ago
There was a separate article a couple weeks back that talked about how mobile apps shouldn't use TCP/IP since its linear and mobile has a tendency to do crazy things like switch towers. Sounds like SPDY would be much more useful as a defact
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by mildweed 15y ago
This affects not just themes, but plugins too. Its in the vslider plugin I've used in multiple installs.
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by mildweed 15y ago
So, is the .app project a non-profit corporation? Or how is it going to stay a "community project" and remain impartial when money is to be involved?
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by mildweed 15y ago
Regardless of who was hosting them before and how much their hosting costs were that were used to justify the paywall, Google Scholar should be brought in to host them all going forward. They're out in the open, might as well put them to go
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by mildweed 15y ago
And my favorite place, email addresses. Valid. Rare, but valid.
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by mildweed 15y ago
This seems like a relevant time to have a discussion on the merits of PDO vs mysqli. Help all those who need to get off of ext/mysql make an intelligent decision on where to go next. I'm less interested in features (data layer abstraction)
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PHP to deprecate MySQL extension(marc.info)
181 points by mildweed 15y ago|100 comments
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by mildweed 15y ago
Previous post: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1998819 Similar discussion: http://chargen.matasano.com/chargen/2007/9/7/enough-with-the...
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by mildweed 15y ago
The show must go on
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by mildweed 15y ago
I see no need to convert my js to coffee just so I can compile it back to js.
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by mildweed 15y ago
http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/htmlspeech/2010/10/google-a... I, for one, can't wait till Android and iOS implement this.

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