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GUI Stencils, Wireframing Kits and Sketching Templates for iPad App Designers(speckyboy.com)
1 points by philfreo 15y ago|0 comments
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by philfreo 15y ago
Quizlet.com is good for this and will autosearch Flickr for a picture matching each word when you create flashcards.
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by philfreo 15y ago
Just a friendly reminder to donate to the EFF: https://supporters.eff.org/donate
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by philfreo 15y ago
San Francisco, CA (SOMA) - FULL-TIME + INTERNS Quizlet.com is redefining how students study from middle school social studies to university-level Arabic to GRE prep. We deploy new stuff daily to our user base of 6 million students and teach
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Introducing Asana: The Modern Way to Work Together(blog.asana.com)
118 points by philfreo 15y ago|60 comments
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by philfreo 15y ago
git submodules can handle the basics of this decently well. You can include any git-hosted project pretty easily with `git submodule add` You can easily switch which commit/branch/version of the project you want to have included. So if you
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by philfreo 15y ago
Too bad Google is also preventing the rest of the web from also being secure as any AdSense-supported website can't have ads and SSL at the same time. https://www.google.com/adsense/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&#...
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Mobile UI Patterns(mobile-patterns.com)
261 points by philfreo 15y ago|31 comments
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by philfreo 15y ago
the jab at PHP wasn't really necessary...
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by philfreo 15y ago
Can't have ads on HTTPS pages (without unacceptable warnings)... resulting in all AdSense-supported sites to not be able to offer SSL
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How Google is holding back security on the web(google.com)
2 points by philfreo 15y ago|1 comments
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by philfreo 15y ago
> When we drink too much fresh water , excessive water passes into our cells to try to regulate the concentration (which can become futile)... If they absorb too much water, the cells will swell and burst, which can lead to a quick dea
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by philfreo 15y ago
Looks like it's using jQuery and SproutCore
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by philfreo 15y ago
I'm able to login with my Apple ID but have no way of turning it on in OS X Lion yet as far as I can tell.
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by philfreo 15y ago
This graph is quite old now. Updated version?
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by philfreo 15y ago
YES!!! I was literally searching everywhere for this only 1 week ago and determined that there was nothing good out there. Relevant: http://youtu.be/zJOS0sV2a24?t=4m Now, if only there was a way to enter 2 addresses (for spouses/roommates
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by philfreo 15y ago
San Francisco, CA (SOMA) - FULL-TIME + INTERNS Quizlet.com is redefining how students study from middle school social studies to university-level Arabic to GRE prep. We deploy new stuff daily to our user base of 6 million students and teach
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by philfreo 15y ago
Would love to hear some details on how you built it / got your data
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by philfreo 15y ago
Many times I go shopping for something relatively expensive where I don't know exactly what I want. In almost every case I am disappointed with the typical online research/purchasing decision and wish there were way more intelligent vertica
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by philfreo 15y ago
Well the source for Chrome is not open (edit: correction acknowledged - I thought only Chromium was open), though if you are a Chrome developer confidently saying this is impossible then I would give merit to that. My experiences were non-s
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by philfreo 15y ago
nope... no outbound links
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by philfreo 15y ago
I'm hoping you're offering that as an FYI, rather than as a justification... because it's not a very good justification
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by philfreo 15y ago
I'm pretty sure Chrome send URLs to Google at least for indexing purposes. I've put up random pages on my websites, not linked to them anywhere at all but visited them in Chrome and then BAM - indexed soon after in search.
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by philfreo 15y ago
In addition, a petition must get 150 signatures in order to be publicly searchable on WhiteHouse.gov.
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by philfreo 15y ago
Most websites (including Quizlet) don't change what language they show based on your country, but rather based on what your browser settings are - so if you really prefer English usually, you can change that. (We also have a footer dropdown
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by philfreo 15y ago
Glad you like it! The images (and text) are user-generated - either uploaded or pulled in from Flickr. We've got 6 million sets and many have better images. Some interesting ones are here: http://quizlet.com/find-flashcards/ and you can d
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by philfreo 15y ago
Cool! The audio is text-to-speech, we licensed software from a couple different companies and combined/customized it. We tried to make it fast / preload a lot / are using a CDN (details about that in the post), hopefully the slowness isn't
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by philfreo 15y ago
@asuth and I built "Speller" -- would love to hear any feedback on it. You can try it out here: http://quizlet.com/2139265/speller/
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Show HN: How we built a TTS-powered tool for learning spelling/foreign languages(quizlet.com)
71 points by philfreo 15y ago|18 comments
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by philfreo 15y ago
Our strategy at Quizlet.com has been similar... make something that teachers and students both directly want to use, and they naturally spread it to each other.

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