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How Authy Built A Fault-Tolerant Two-Factor Authentication Service(blog.leanstack.io)
35 points by ngrandy 13y ago|9 comments
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by ngrandy 13y ago
This is an exciting concept that has been tackled by many teams, few of which have yet been able to reach significant scale. But I believe it will happen. Feastly ( http://eatfeastly.com/ ) is a similar approach that is active in the US. (
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by ngrandy 17y ago
carl sagan has a great section about this in 'the demon haunted world' - he describes / speculates how many modern stories of 'alien abduction' can be explained by sleep paralysis. it's usually caused by disrupted sleep patterns. i get it
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by ngrandy 17y ago
for people who want to try out or develop with less without installing the ruby gem, you can compile documents via http here: http://www.tripeedo.com/less
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by ngrandy 17y ago
this is very cool, and the beginning of a trend, it seems to me. the whole semantic web depends on structured information, but it's a pain to structure information. it makes a lot of sense that the services to structure plain text will be
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by ngrandy 17y ago
yes. a lot of airline and travel websites have awful, inexcusable user interfaces, and they could use a good kick in the pants. similar frustrations inspired us to build tripeedo.com, a better user experience for travel search.
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by ngrandy 17y ago
while remaining dead simple to use, heroku is also becoming an increasingly sophisticated platform, capable of handling a wide variety of app requirements. eg - background workers and memcached support are available in beta. since i start
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by ngrandy 18y ago
for those who missed it, this comment refers to the hacking of this story. hacker news was briefly hacked, and this story was altered to link to a website (hosted at appjet) that let users edit the text of pg's profile. it was fixed withi
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by ngrandy 18y ago
also, the interface is optimized for speed and convenience. you can type 'www.bestbuy.com' into your iphone, but given the choice, our feeling is that many people will prefer to use an app that minimizes typing and maximizes speed.
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by ngrandy 18y ago
frankfurt/main is now the top match for 'frankfurt'. :) the way to specify an airport if the top match is not right is just to keep typing. eg: london => london all airports (lon); london gatw => london, gatwick (lgw); lon hea =&#
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by ngrandy 18y ago
yeah, that's one option we're thinking about. we went with popups initially because 1) it's simpler and 2) it wasn't clear that loading up 10 windows in iframes would necessarily be a better user experience. it's something we're going to
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by ngrandy 18y ago
this sounds like a firefox issue. if you choose to enable popups for tripeedo.com, then firefox should remember that choice. let me know if you find otherwise...
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by ngrandy 18y ago
it's custom built. the site is rails hosted on heroku. ruby already had some decent time/date parsing, and there is a great natural language time/date library called chronic that helps out too. but otherwise it's custom-built.
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by ngrandy 18y ago
we try to warn (in 2 ways on the homepage) that popups will be opened. how could we make it more clear in a user-friendly way?
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by ngrandy 18y ago
sorry about that - we try to make it clear that new windows open, by saying so in the instructions on the left, and also displaying a message when more than 5 airfare providers are selected. how could we make it more clear in a user-friend
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by ngrandy 18y ago
increasingly, travel sites are letting people do those kind of flexible dates search, which is a promising trend. you're right, for the time being tripeedo is primarily a different UI (though one we feel is more user-friendly), along with
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by ngrandy 18y ago
yeah, we need to fix or warn about that better. the reason that the airline searches don't work reliably is that most airlines only serve a few airports, and if you search for airports they don't serve, the result is not always handled gra
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Referata - free hosting of semantic wikis (wiki databases)(referata.com)
1 points by ngrandy 18y ago|0 comments
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David Brooks: And the geek shall inherit the earth(nytimes.com)
22 points by ngrandy 18y ago|9 comments
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by ngrandy 18y ago
this is so ludicrous it's genius. i'd almost think it's a parody, except it's clearly a scam. can anyone wrap their head around 'upgrading the entire internet to web 2.0'?
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Company upgrades the entire internet to web 2.0 standards (really!)(mywebtoo.ws)
1 points by ngrandy 18y ago|2 comments
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640k is all a person needs, and other apocryphal computer quotes(bits.blogs.nytimes.com)
2 points by ngrandy 19y ago|0 comments
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by ngrandy 19y ago
hey bootload, thanks for your detailed response. you raise a lot of good points. we've definitely spent a lot of time thinking about these issues. first, you're right that just extracting info from twitter doesn't require username and pas
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by ngrandy 19y ago
thanks for the comments. we agree we need more and better ways to showcase the kinds of things that are possible, and we're working on those. also fixed bestbuy, will be deployed soon.
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by ngrandy 19y ago
what exactly do you mean - why does that lose you? because it's asking for personal information? for google calendar, wundrbar takes you to google for authentication, and then gets back a token from google and stores that. but not all se
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by ngrandy 19y ago
yes! we've built wundrbar to be intuitive, precisely because it's annoying to need a man page every time we use a new command. wundrbar aims to capture the power and simplicity of a traditional command line (including the ability script an
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by ngrandy 19y ago
There are a ton of different ways to approach the problem of interpreting a command. if you're interested in a solid reference for computational linguistics, then i recommend either 'speech and language processing' by jurafsky et al or the
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by ngrandy 19y ago
Aneesh, if you install the wundrbar toolbar for firefox you can actually replace the location bar with wundrbar! It's a big leap, but it's there as an option. Or you can just use the toolbar, which automatically positions itself below the
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Google: mobile searches will outnumber fixed searches within several years(ft.com)
5 points by ngrandy 19y ago|0 comments