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by mrduncan 17y ago
I suspect that it's mostly an issue of money. Releasing a game, even for free download, costs money in the form of staff, servers, bandwidth, etc.
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by mrduncan 17y ago
On a related note, http://searchyc.com/ also has a lot of good info.
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by mrduncan 17y ago
Interesting idea. Since this is a bit less anonymous than Chatroulette, I'd imagine that there'll be less nudity and other shock imagery. Although, I'm sure there will definitely still be some. I'm curious if any dating sites have tried (or
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by mrduncan 17y ago
As the saying goes - When someone you know loses their job, it's a recession. When you lose your job, it's a depression.
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by mrduncan 17y ago
Any recommendations for open-source webmail?
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by mrduncan 17y ago
I agree that allowing users to post to the lists might be harmful in some cases, but I can't think of a good reason why these lists aren't readable by the public.
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by mrduncan 17y ago
According to a Reddit comment, the name in red is the person who occupied the office the longest. Here is a (incomplete) list of background info: Jon Bentley - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Bentley Brian Kernighan - http://en.wikipedi
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Thoughts on Buzz(avc.com)
15 points by mrduncan 17y ago|0 comments
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New Engine Yard Private Cloud Infrastructure(engineyard.com)
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by mrduncan 17y ago
Here is his TED talk from a few years ago: http://www.ted.com/talks/malcolm_gladwell_on_spaghetti_sauce...
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by mrduncan 17y ago
Apply to YC.
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by mrduncan 17y ago
An example from the API page for the curious: Sending an SMS from 415-555-1212 to 555-867-5309 asking Jenny if she wants to get dinner: POST /2008-08-01/Accounts/AC309475e5fede1b49e100272a8640f438/SMS/Messages HTTP/1.1 From=415-555-12
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Persistence.js: An Asynchronous Javascript ORM for HTML5/Gears(zef.me)
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For instance, SMS only really took off with the Obama campaign, while the rest of the world became addicted to it years ago. Anyone happen to have stats to support that, I find it very hard to believe based on (admittedly anecdotal) evide
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Stop Selling Scarcity(buzzmachine.com)
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The Time Value Of Money(avc.com)
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by mrduncan 17y ago
Maybe it's just me, but these "Who's hiring" threads seem to be getting a little out of hand. This is the 3rd internship thread in the past 5 days now. This one was posted 5 days ago and spent a good amount of time on the front page (take
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by mrduncan 17y ago
Jason, I know you don't post here all that often but please don't sign your comments. The guidelines ask users not to, and more importantly it takes emphasis away from your (very useful) comment and places it on your signature instead. Fro
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by mrduncan 17y ago
Probably my favorite paper of all time, such a small paper yet so mind-blowing when you first discover it. http://cm.bell-labs.com/who/ken/trust.html
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Fully Countering Trusting Trust through Diverse Double-Compiling(dwheeler.com)
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by mrduncan 17y ago
Account creation dates are just that, when the account was created. Personally, I was reading the site for a while before I ever created an account.
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by mrduncan 17y ago
Ryan Singer of 37signals gave a great talk at Windy City Rails last year about this very topic. http://windycityrails.org/videos#4
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Rails 3.0 Beta Release(weblog.rubyonrails.org)
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by mrduncan 17y ago
Yea, I'd say long polling is probably a better solution in this case than web hooks since clients (likely) could be behind firewalls, NAT, and be going on and off line relatively often. Sorry, the title and description on that one just thr
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by mrduncan 17y ago
The description for #8 sounds more like long polling to me. For push email, I'd envision something like registering a location to send notifications to (web hooks).
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by mrduncan 17y ago
Initial thoughts - It looks really nice, very clean and organized compared to most education related software. It seems like there are a lot of settings that can be updated, but what about just picking good defaults and cleaning up the unne
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by mrduncan 17y ago
I think you hit on their biggest problem now. They have (mostly) succeeded in their original goal to get a computer on every desk. What's next though? It seems to me that they need a new grand plan for the company as a whole.
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Rails 3.0.0.beta(github.com)
28 points by mrduncan 17y ago|12 comments
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DHH just make it 57% less enterprisey - http://github.com/lifo/docrails/commit/c833bd79ecb1d60a2618c...
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Indeed it is ( http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sec... ). I'm not aware of them ever attempting to enforce it though. There are plenty of examples of companies which hold patents that they've never enforced (IBM co

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