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by nertzy 18y ago
I have a friend at UCI who got bitten by this. The problem is that the financial burden of identity theft too often seems to hit the affected rather than the companies responsible. If UnitedHealthcare had to pick up the full tab for resolvi
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by nertzy 18y ago
The problem is that attention is a zero-sum game. If a person doesn't have the time to tag or manipulate his or her photos while producing more and more, what's to say that other people won't all have the same problem? Are we to believe tha
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by nertzy 18y ago
The distinction is that anyone (and lots of people) have blogs. So having a blog is itself unremarkable. So regardless of how their accomplishment is being presented, they did actually do something of great merit. I guess the headline is un
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by nertzy 18y ago
The license of the tools you use does not affect the license of the products you produce, so this is irrelevant. I can use Photoshop to make a graphic, and then release that graphic as part of a BSD-licensed package without any trouble, sin
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by nertzy 18y ago
Well... point release might be the wrong term. I usually think of that being the third number. I guess I meant "minor version release". Hence, not a major overhaul. Perhaps a minor one. I usually take the first number to involve some large-
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by nertzy 18y ago
I think there are some lessons to be learned here for general users as well. Just because the majority of people aren't on the autism spectrum doesn't mean that they should have to be subjected to distractions and confusing interfaces. Sure
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by nertzy 18y ago
Wait a minute... if they hadn't deployed, it's not like they would have gotten those lost sales. The only actual damage done was that the few bids that failed left their customers with a bad taste in their mouths. If they hadn't deployed wh
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by nertzy 18y ago
I'd take that even further and say that instead of nothing, there's too much you can do with Photoshop that you can't with paper prototypes and HTML mockups. The ability to do drop shadows on text and use all sorts of fonts and apply a moti
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by nertzy 18y ago
“I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been.” --Wayne Gretzky
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by nertzy 18y ago
This seems like a pretty strong feature set for a point release. Especially considering that it doesn't seem to change the overall API too drastically.
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by nertzy 18y ago
Here's how to find out: Set up a page on a server you control that has a URL you know that Facebook has never seen. Start making a posted item on Facebook with that URL. Check your logs and see what User-Agent Facebook is using, and try to
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by nertzy 18y ago
Dictionaries have long done the same thing with regard to definitions. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_trap
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by nertzy 18y ago
I'd like to see the threshold for the front page raised just a bit. I think there are too many stories making it to the top, and personally I find it hard to assume a TC post is meaningful when it has a score of merely 4. This is true for n
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by nertzy 18y ago
I consider this TechCrunch once and for all jumping the shark. I have unsubscribed.
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by nertzy 18y ago
It seems to me that Lisp-generated websites tend not to have valid HTML. I've often wondered if there is something about Lisp that makes people averse to valid HTML. Are there easy ways in Lisp to make sure that you are outputting valid HTM
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by nertzy 18y ago
There's nothing stopping them from providing one incorrect response and everything else correct. Also, they get to know which domain names are requested and how often.
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by nertzy 18y ago
This was frequently useful when a friend and I made a VST instrument. It's now freely available at http://sohasound.com
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by nertzy 18y ago
This page is meant to be displayed on first load after the browser is installed, so that's probably why there isn't a link to download. This isn't a promotional page advertising the download itself.
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by nertzy 18y ago
Summize picks up more results than Tweetscan, at least in my experience. I'm not sure why.
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by nertzy 18y ago
The interface is cool but gets fairly obnoxious after a while. I know that it's pretty accurate as to how the original gear worked, but music UI has improved so much since the late 1970s!
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by nertzy 18y ago
This is what separates good webcomics from bad webcomics, I've noticed lately. Also, The Darjeeling Limited does a great job of showing instead of telling. And 2001: A Space Odyssey.
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by nertzy 18y ago
_why's Hackety Hack is a good introduction for kids that involves doing real things like pulling information off of web pages and making blogs. http://hacketyhack.net/
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by nertzy 18y ago
For what it's worth, Ruby methods can be named using Unicode characters: http://www.oreillynet.com/ruby/blog/2007/10/fun_with_unicode...
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by nertzy 18y ago
I doubt it. A document like this doesn't get written in just a couple days. I bet it has more to do with the flak around poor Linux/Unix support for Flash and the fact that in the face of more competition it makes more sense to open up and
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by nertzy 18y ago
I think this is another case of reducing the code surface area to allow more time to focus on meatier problems. Even though the Network Pages probably worked fine and were already up and running, it's just not worth it in the long run to ma
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by nertzy 18y ago
Well, delicious.com works these days...
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by nertzy 18y ago
Or, in Safari 3, just go to the Advanced tab in Preferences and activate the "Show Develop menu in menu bar" checkbox.
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by nertzy 18y ago
That's pretty much the reason I don't watch CNN or read the New York Times. Why do I need to read the same editorial that 100 of my friends just read?
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by nertzy 18y ago
One of my professors (Allen Downey at Olin College) loved to show his idea of system like this for postal addresses. The idea was that you would be issued a fake address that is a key within a database pointing to your current address as a
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by nertzy 18y ago
I tried to connect to Freenode but the client has been D-Lined!

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