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by phillco 14y ago
This has to be one of the most honest dismissal statements I've ever read. Major props to him.
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by phillco 14y ago
An interesting problem with making a MongoDB GUI is that a key feature of every SQL GUI -- a rich <table> of your data that you can use to see it and play with it -- won't work as well, because MongoDB doesn't have strict table defi
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by phillco 14y ago
Our company is called "DropTable".
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by phillco 14y ago
This was a really entertaining post. Well done! 👍
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by phillco 14y ago
I believe there is a global version you can install that goes to Program Files and not AppData. Should help with your problem. Last I heard, it was in Google Pack.
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by phillco 14y ago
The Twitter Bootstrap effect.
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by phillco 14y ago
I stayed at Chez JJ Menlo Park for a month (heck, I'm the one in the picture!) and while I agree with the other posters that $30/night for a shared room is not competitive, the reason I stayed so long was for the people. It was awesome to c
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by phillco 14y ago
This effect can be simulated by going to yahoo.com and clicking the period in the logo.
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by phillco 14y ago
Yes, but, competition is fiercer. The beginning of a business day in the US is also the time when a lot of strong, interesting articles (from newspapers, blogs, etc) are being read by awakening HN'ers and then submitted. They can crowd out
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Twitter is tracking you on the web(dcurt.is)
47 points by phillco 14y ago|27 comments
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by phillco 14y ago
When you link your bank account with Square, they have to send test deposits first to verify that it is indeed yours. These take up to 5 days, plus the time after that to actually transfer the overdrawn money. Asking Square to take the mone
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by phillco 14y ago
Verification of a new account would take up to 5 business days, so it would be no faster than sending an ACH for the money.
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Making App Store Updates More Apple-Like(phillipcohen.net)
1 points by phillco 14y ago|0 comments
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by phillco 15y ago
If I lose, my logic is: "oh, I can't be good at this? Fine, I'll be good at this! <goes back to work>"
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by phillco 15y ago
I've noticed something similar. Playing strategy games (like Age of Empires) works great for me during downtime. They require your 100% full attention if you want to win, so they're very effective at wiping away whatever you were working on
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by phillco 15y ago
Didn't Apple used to claim that Macs didn't get viruses? I can't remember. (This would be at least several years ago, when Mac malware was still fully theoretical.) It's possible they never stated it directly, and the phrase was spread by f
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by phillco 15y ago
Also, after you set the weather it doesn't actually edit the weather display, there's just a "Dismiss" button. It would have been so much cooler if it did that. Ooh! And then stored the result in a cookie so every time you go back it shows
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by phillco 15y ago
Even better: the US used to have a half-cent but they abolished it in 1857 due to its lack of value. With inflation, it's worth more than today's dime.
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by phillco 15y ago
I can think of two evil uses for this: #1: If you're an author who also runs a blog, you can make Amazon "recommend" your book to your visitors. #2: The Amazon referral tag is included in the iframe. If I recall right, once you visit an Am
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by phillco 15y ago
Right, it's like midway booths at the State Fair. You know the games are jaded and you only play for fun. But if you win and they don't give you the toy, then it's just not honest.
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by phillco 15y ago
I enjoyed that the prices refreshed (though they did not change) when I entered my first name. I could imagine: "Oh, your name's Phillip? +$30/year."
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by phillco 15y ago
Newswire: US Blows Up Another Torrent Site
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by phillco 15y ago
> For example, if the airline wanted to get approval for the iPad, it would have to test the first iPad, iPad 2 and the new iPad, each on a separate flight, with no passengers on the plane. I still think that could be a great differenti
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by phillco 15y ago
If that's the case, then Imgur/Reddit is like the new pirate bay. They've been rehosting images (often without attribution, although not maliciously -- someone usually provides it) for years.
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by phillco 15y ago
Although its veracity cannot be confirmed, I would highly recommend the "Goldman Sachs Elevator" twitter account for further reading... https://twitter.com/#!/GSElevator
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IOS 5.1's Camera Button(usersinhell.com)
3 points by phillco 15y ago|0 comments
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by phillco 15y ago
Very nice! I was a little concerned about the abundant whitespace, but after a bit of using it I can say it's quite an improvement. It feels much less like I'm using a webapp, and more like I'm simply browsing my files. Which is the way it
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by phillco 15y ago
I can barely fit all four fingers on my iPhone's screen.
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by phillco 15y ago
I wrote an article about Windows' take on this, some time back: http://usersinhell.com/unhappy-security-dialogs/ There, they have a different set of problems. In both cases (signed and unsigned), you can proceed...but Microsoft doesn't re
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by phillco 15y ago
Which, although I hate the TSA, sort of makes sense from their perspective. What's the point of creating a consistent screening process if an airport can just opt out? The terrorists will just board at the airport with the weakest security.

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