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by mmorris 11y ago
Since in NYC taxis are a substantial portion of road traffic, I once had the idea that NYC should have a special navigation platform (maybe based on Google Maps?) that the taxis are mandated (or, more likely, highly encouraged) to follow, w
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by mmorris 11y ago
I believe the big difference is that Apple sells mostly their top model, whereas a lot of Samsung's business is in the lower tier/cheaper phones. Of course, those lower end phones have much lower profit margins. Not the most objec
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by mmorris 11y ago
I don't have an opinion on the long-term viability of JS on the backend (though I enjoy Node.js for "realtime" web serving), but it wasn't clear from your post if you were aware that IO.js and Node.js are getting back to
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by mmorris 11y ago
Not an expert, but hopeful that WebRTC will be a success in the end. Maybe I'm just overly optimistic? > still not widely adopted Certainly everyone involved with WebRTC wishes that it had the support of IE and Safari, but Chrome +
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by mmorris 11y ago
This reminds me a lot of one of my favorite parts in any book: It was a movie about American bombers in the Second World War and the gallant men who flew them. Seen backwards by Billy, the story went like this: American planes, full of hol
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by mmorris 11y ago
Hey, my neighborhood was in the East River! Unfortunately, I think that has implications for how flood-prone the neighborhood is too.
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by mmorris 11y ago
It depends on how much uptake you get, doesn't it? For example, I spend less than $10/mo on apps (and for that matter, music too). If that's the case for enough users who get the new deal, this would be a net gain for develop
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by mmorris 11y ago
I've heard that, and now that I'm a parent I'm definitely jealous. Unfortunately (at least in this regard!), I'm in the US.
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by mmorris 11y ago
Is there a place to find a job with an employer who offers this kind of flexibility? I'm thinking particularly of software development jobs. Edit: I know many people working 4-day work weeks are self-employed, but I'm curious for
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by mmorris 11y ago
The "legal complications" that prevented the open-sourcing of FaceTime were apparently because they lost a lawsuit [0]. Then they had to switch FaceTime to use Apple's servers for signaling/connecting instead of peer-to-
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by mmorris 11y ago
Actually, the original version of this book is no longer for sale. The link for the updated free version is here: https://leanpub.com/javascriptallongesix/read Or, if you want to buy it in other formats, here: https:&
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by mmorris 11y ago
Another little hint from the previous blog post: > The weakness of the design of the Zen UI also contributed significantly to the failure of the product after we were acquired, but that's another story. [Edit: link to other blog pos
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by mmorris 11y ago
With LiveDive, you install a JS snippet on your website or web app and you can talk with your users/visitors via audio or video calls (using WebRTC) and watch them use your website live with no browser plug-ins or apps for your visitor
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Show HN: LiveDive – JS-Based Website UX Testing and User Interview Tool(livedive.co)
1 points by mmorris 11y ago|1 comments
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by mmorris 12y ago
First, this is a great problem to have! Enjoy it. More to the point, is there a business entity that owns the app? If so (or if you can create one), giving some equity to someone in exchange for helping you complete the app (either the curr
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by mmorris 12y ago
>> “IO.js, what’s that?” asked Joyent CEO Scott Hammond in response to my query about whether projects based on the fork would be able to enter. http://readwrite.com/2015/02/03/joyent-nodejs-incubator-io
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by mmorris 12y ago
It's already out, it's called Firefox Developer Edition: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Firefox/Developer_Editio...
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by mmorris 12y ago
For the membership program specifically: http://www.go.co/members/ Even though a lot of the offers are closed (would be nice if I could filter those out) there are still some handy deals in there. I actually use a .co
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Google posts Windows 8.1 vulnerability after 90 days(engadget.com)
40 points by mmorris 12y ago|31 comments
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by mmorris 12y ago
Sounds interesting! Unfortunately for me, apparently a lot of people are interested in this: The images aren't loading and I'm getting a firebase error in the console. FIREBASE WARNING: Specified Firebase has reached its Peak Con
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by mmorris 12y ago
I liked this quote from the article: ------ When Diamandis was telling me about all the large old companies and organizations that are doomed because of their leaders’ “human inability to understand exponentials,” I realized it was the firs
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Enthusiasts and Skeptics Debate Artificial Intelligence(vanityfair.com)
3 points by mmorris 12y ago|1 comments
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by mmorris 12y ago
Pricing is hard! I've found a lot of the content on the Price Intelligently blog to be helpful. http://www.priceintelligently.com/blog They are pricing consultants, but I haven't actually used them, just read thei
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by mmorris 12y ago
No prob. Thanks for the reply. I still haven't been able to reproduce the error, but I added CloudFlare so it should serve a cached version of the page if the server has any hiccups.
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by mmorris 12y ago
Hi, I didn't post this but I built LiveDive. It seems to be up for me from the various machines I'm testing it from, and we've been getting sign ups for the private beta list all day... did you get an nginx error message? Was
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Breakthrough in molecular electronics paves way for DNA-based computer circuits(phys.org)
2 points by mmorris 12y ago|0 comments
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It Was Just a Thing(alistapart.com)
2 points by mmorris 12y ago|0 comments
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by mmorris 12y ago
I agree with their use under very particular circumstances, like in your example or (at least in desktop Chrome) for bringing attention to a window that isn't visible. I was referring more to using alerts as they're being used in
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by mmorris 12y ago
Looks great, but it seems like positioning it as a beautiful flash message plugin rather than an alert replacement might be more apt. Hopefully very few JS developers are using alerts in their production code (or dev for that matter!), and
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by mmorris 12y ago
>> the CCP or Xijinping, how is that different to Congress/Obama? Not disagreeing with you that their is real innovation going on in China (I think there is), but I don't think this is a great example. The US Congress and Pr

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