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by pierrefar 16y ago
Are you sure it's not just the traffic tsunami that brought it down? The best counter is Occam's razor. Or Hanlon's razor: Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occam%27s_
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by pierrefar 16y ago
Not surprised that Techcrunch, RWW, and the NY Times are getting bad scores. They're the proximate reason I started using noscript. Sadly also php.net can improve. I checked a few function reference pages and they had >6000 elements eac
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by pierrefar 16y ago
Clickable: http://thingsand.me/ Looks very nice and I can see a few ideas to monetize this. Is the directory "empty" because it's a new service or is there a limit to the number you're displaying? What about image copyright? I can easily
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by pierrefar 16y ago
I can't agree more. One of the most annoying things I gripe about my quite-recent TV is that when I turn it on it says "please wait". No, it's a TV and it needs to be on virtually instantly. It's not like it has electronics that need to "wa
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by pierrefar 16y ago
Two checkpoints I've used in the past: 1. If an idea sounds promising, I try to forget about it for a while (say a month) and if it's still a good idea after the wait, then I go for it. Usually this means that I really have that problem and
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by pierrefar 16y ago
Sell it as "organic liquid fertiliser". Tesco actually sold a product last summer described with that exact phrase on its packaging.
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by pierrefar 16y ago
" Political correctness hits new high ". Surely you meant new low ?
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2010 one of warmest on record globally, UK's coldest December(bbc.co.uk)
1 points by pierrefar 16y ago|0 comments
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by pierrefar 16y ago
No doubt you are part of a consumer segment that do not like the Wiimote and Kinect. The question is how big is your segment and what percentage of gamers the segment is. These two numbers will tell us whether there is a market opportunity
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Twitter can predict earthquakes, typhoons and rainbows too..(trendsspotting.com)
1 points by pierrefar 16y ago|2 comments
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by pierrefar 16y ago
It's really easy: Sphinx has a data import interface called xmlpipe2 which takes an XML stream/file and feeds it to Sphinx for indexing. So I wrote a small PHP command line script that gets all the documents I want indexed from MongoDB and
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by pierrefar 16y ago
I'm using sphinx. Works a treat.
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by pierrefar 16y ago
I'm working on exactly that! Got a large part already working. Want to talk? My email is in my profile.
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by pierrefar 16y ago
I think there are two parts to what you're saying: "chemical" molecules are, as I said elsewhere in this thread, are better described as artificial or synthetic. We agree on that, but I disagree that it's reasonable to be wary of chemicals
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by pierrefar 16y ago
Interesting. I haven't heard about that. Wikipedia has a nice simple overview: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrageenan#Health_concerns
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by pierrefar 16y ago
Well we're talking about Intel and AMD and I thought we should also remember there are more chip makers out there that would have an interest in decoding encrypted content.
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by pierrefar 16y ago
I agree completely that we need to be aware of what we eat. My concern is that we're using really bad terminology to scare people. A much better word would be "artificial" or "synthetic" additive IMHO.
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by pierrefar 16y ago
And what about ARM and Apple chips (like the A4)?
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by pierrefar 16y ago
Carrageenan is on a lot of labels, and I'm often asked, 'What is that chemical?' It's not a chemical. It's seaweed! Actually, it is very much a chemical. All food is chemicals. It's just perverted advertising that convinced the masses t
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by pierrefar 16y ago
I always go back to some flavour of Windows on my home computer. At my day jobs I've used OSX extensively too. It works well but I don't like it as it does some things in a way I don't like - i.e. it's personal preference for Windows rather
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BT Content Connect service faces 'two-tier net' claims(bbc.co.uk)
5 points by pierrefar 16y ago|1 comments
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by pierrefar 16y ago
Every 6-9 months I do this same exact experiment: install the latest version of Ubuntu or the current super hyped distro and give it a go for a few days. The longest I've lasted is 10 days. Why? I feel the current distros are always in my w
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Police launch Facebook appeal to find killer (more effective than posters)(guardian.co.uk)
1 points by pierrefar 16y ago|0 comments
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by pierrefar 16y ago
Any clue whether they are checking the destination URLs for malware? Using perhaps Google's Safe Browsing API ( http://code.google.com/apis/safebrowsing/ )?
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by pierrefar 16y ago
A less hyperbole-filled write-up: http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/hoax/Hoaxipedia/Great_Rose_Bow... This website was mentioned in the LA Times OP without a link.
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Police admit keeping records on people who report crimes(guardian.co.uk)
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by pierrefar 16y ago
Two things for you to consider: 1. Turn this into an API that webmasters can send you their data which you crunch into useful reports. This just might be a decent money earner. 2. A sitemap importer to kick start the reporting. It should be
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by pierrefar 16y ago
As the contact page and the FAQ require signing in, I can't comment on the exact implementation. I suspect they monitor Google's cache as that's the only publicly available data that can power this service. This is the wrong way to do it fo
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by pierrefar 16y ago
From the horse's mouth: http://www.aa.com/i18n/urls/ota.jsp
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by pierrefar 16y ago
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