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How to post a PhantomJS screenshot of your site to a user's Facebook account(petewarden.typepad.com)
2 points by petewarden 15y ago|0 comments
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US Internet providers hijacking users' search queries(newscientist.com)
10 points by petewarden 15y ago|0 comments
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by petewarden 15y ago
The intention was to indicate that it's not just a temporary log file that's not being deleted properly. Poorly expressed though, I agree.
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by petewarden 15y ago
I'll be checking in here for technical questions. The github direct link is http://petewarden.github.com/iPhoneTracker/
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IPhones and 3G iPads log your location in an unencrypted file on the device(radar.oreilly.com)
415 points by petewarden 15y ago|190 comments
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by petewarden 16y ago
I've added a post-script to this story, updating with developments over the last year: http://petewarden.typepad.com/searchbrowser/2011/03/facebook... In particular, I know from my friends in the academic community that they're quietly pu
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by petewarden 16y ago
I'm actually overjoyed to be living in a world where companies like Rackspace and Amazon are possible, it still blows my mind that I can rent a hundred machine cluster for $10 an hour. I wrote up the article at the end of a long and frustra
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by petewarden 16y ago
I'm happy to refund the purchase price out of my own pocket to anyone who's not happy with what they're getting. So far, plenty of sales and no takers, but I'm pete@petewarden.com if anyone does want to get in touch.
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Using Public Data to Fight a War(readwriteweb.com)
24 points by petewarden 16y ago|3 comments
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The Secret Life of Robots(readwriteweb.com)
16 points by petewarden 16y ago|1 comments
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by petewarden 16y ago
I've just confirmed the nofollow behavior with Rich at Blekko. Sorry, it does make the results a lot less useful as a guide to what Google's taking into account (along with all the other disclaimers!). I'll be updating the blog post to refl
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by petewarden 16y ago
Flagging is a pretty drastic response to a post you disagree with. Andrew's article was certainly pretty blistering, but he had an argument backed up with evidence. Saying a post is misleading but offering nothing to back that up is unhelpf
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by petewarden 16y ago
I'm still frustrated that WikiLeaks sent out a call for programming help months ago, lots of HN folks emailed offering to volunteer, and nobody even received an email reply: http://news.ycombinator.com/x?fnid=xEWMLiUYxu
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by petewarden 16y ago
I'm mostly on-board with this. I hate "7 Ways to X", and titles like "Is styrofoam going to kill us all?" that have the obvious answer of "No". I actually enjoy titles that are clever and provocative though, ones that provoke a smile or mak
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by petewarden 16y ago
> I found that spending a lot of time reading other people's code dramatically improved the readability of my own code. This I wholeheartedly agree with. I spent the first five years of my career porting large hairy codebases from PCs t
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The Jargon File(catb.org)
6 points by petewarden 16y ago|4 comments
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by petewarden 16y ago
In tests I was able to get new users for around $2 each using Facebook ads. I went into the details here: http://petewarden.typepad.com/searchbrowser/2009/11/get-new-... In my limited experience it's all about testing and iteration, lots
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Mysterious 'hole-punch' clouds produced by aircraft(nsf.gov)
3 points by petewarden 16y ago|0 comments
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Credit card company rejects customers with too-good credit scores(startribune.com)
37 points by petewarden 16y ago|29 comments
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by petewarden 16y ago
Here's a link discussing the May 1962 equivalent to the flash crash: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405274870395760457527...
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by petewarden 16y ago
That's fantastic news, Occipital are fantastic guys who struggled to raise investment after TechStars but went on to kick ass with their product. That gives me a high bar to live up to!
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by petewarden 16y ago
The credit-card company's agreements bar merchants from offering those sort of discounts: http://www.datawedge.com/news/newsletters/june07.htm This is why government action seems reasonable in this case. You can make the argument that w
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by petewarden 16y ago
A slight tangent, but I recently ran across a fascinating theory on the origin of base-12 systems. If you use your thumb as a marker, you can touch four finger joints on each hand for a total of 12 positions. I tried it and it's a surprisin
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by petewarden 16y ago
Having worked in both games and the desktop world, implementing replays is a lot like implementing undo/redo, and they're both an immense time-suck. It's easy for developers on the different sub-systems to create something that on the surfa
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by petewarden 16y ago
Wouldn't even just one be insanely useful for decryption ? I've been lost by pretty much every description of what they actually did at Bletchley Park (anyone have recommended links?) but it seems like they could do a lot with some decent
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by petewarden 16y ago
Thanks Bret, I appreciate you taking the time to dig into this. You're right, my complaint is the disconnect between the terms-of-service and robots.txt, so I'm very happy you're addressing this. I just wish we could have had this conversat
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Facebook employee responds on robots.txt controversy(petewarden.typepad.com)
54 points by petewarden 16y ago|39 comments
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by petewarden 16y ago
Or provided that your application can cope with minor inconsistencies. When I'm writing Twitter mining tools, I don't want to pay for financial-transaction-level reliability, either in terms of performance, cost or complexity.
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Facebook changes the rules for the public web(petewarden.typepad.com)
9 points by petewarden 16y ago|2 comments
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by petewarden 16y ago
You're completely missing the point. Terrorism is about spreading terror, killing people is just a technique. Finding reasons to laugh at these jackasses makes them a lot less terrifying. The best way to fight their ideas is to avoid buying

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