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by pwim 16y ago
Given that it is Sweden, there won't be a "jury of 12 ordinary people": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judicial_system_of_Sweden
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by pwim 16y ago
Here's an example of a Japanese TV show that has a four year old take a trip "by himself": http://www.japanprobe.com/2010/07/29/japanese-kid-takes-solo...
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Dealing With Market Seasonality(kalzumeus.com)
28 points by pwim 16y ago|0 comments
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by pwim 16y ago
The article would be better title "the not black city", as it goes on to use the African American population as the demographic for the cities 'whiteness'. The article goes on to use Portland as "America's ultimate White City". However, lo
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by pwim 16y ago
Don't do it as a service. Instead have it as a onetime thing. If I get the same call everyday the effect will ware off.
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by pwim 16y ago
You will need to rewrite your forum for AppEngine (or find some forum software written specifically for AppEngine). AWS's main selling point is that you can programmaticly add and remove instances. If you are not using that, I'd consider m
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by pwim 16y ago
This has been brought up before: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=214398
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Delayed_job (and other daemons) in a production environment(mobalean.com)
3 points by pwim 16y ago|1 comments
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by pwim 16y ago
"Well, you're not going to rip me off are you, because you've got a lot more money than me." That's pretty faulty reasoning.
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by pwim 16y ago
In your example: * there are about 100 families within a mile or so of you * they need to spend an hour or so to drive into the city * they can already barely afford a car and "to keep the lights on" To me, this screams out for c
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by pwim 16y ago
In the example with monsters, perhaps the issue is that all the different monster types are classes instead of data. For instance, I would instead implement something like class Monster attr_reader :type def initialize(type, li
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by pwim 16y ago
http://lang-8.com/
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by pwim 16y ago
I think that was the point - to simulate donations to charity, where likewise you don't get anything for giving them away.
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by pwim 16y ago
Thanks for organizing this jason_tko. I'm looking forward to meeting up with everyone again.
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by pwim 16y ago
They need to update their dictionary. For password1 : It would take About 117 days for a desktop PC to crack your password
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The Big Lies People Tell In Online Dating(blog.okcupid.com)
3 points by pwim 16y ago|0 comments
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by pwim 16y ago
Embedly is an api that allows you to embed over 100 services in your site. Twitpic is just one such services, so it is probably not worth their while to make a workaround.
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China-made “Apple Peel” Turns Your iPod Touch To The iPhone(asiajin.com)
2 points by pwim 16y ago|0 comments
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by pwim 16y ago
He lives in Japan and recently left his cushy full-time job I don't think cushy is the word he'd use to describe it.
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by pwim 16y ago
I have to say I’m shocked by this news, especially considering that Bing will be behind Yahoo’s primary search engine here in the states and in Europe. Bing seems to lack mobile search. While there search page is optimized for mobile, th
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Cultural perception of choice(ted.com)
1 points by pwim 16y ago|0 comments
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by pwim 16y ago
It seems the site mentioned in the article, http://www.korekt.me/ , suffered from the same problem. It looks like they have given up. To build a successful service is a lot of work, and takes quite some time.
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by pwim 16y ago
They are vinyl stickers, so there are already many places that will make custom ones.
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by pwim 16y ago
I watched Tokyo! last night, which included a short movie about the hikikomori phenomenon.
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by pwim 16y ago
It sends Base64 encoded passwords. So if you use http it is basically cleartext. You still don't need to store the passwords in cleartext, as you can use the same hashing mechanisms you would with other login methods.
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by pwim 16y ago
In that case, it sounds like charging for commenting could be a better model.
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by pwim 16y ago
A user needing to actively check in is a good thing, as it means the user wants others to know he is checking in there. If a user was to check in to every grocery store, gas station, and so on, it would lose meaning. The point of check in
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by pwim 16y ago
We offer long working hours How is that a good thing?
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by pwim 16y ago
"if search engines were forced to disclose their algorithms and not just the signals they use, or, worse, if they had to use a standardized algorithm, spammers would certainly use that knowledge to game the system, making the results suspe
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by pwim 16y ago
I've seen many of these posts asking about "ideas that will generate x money" coming up lately. While it is certainly possible to make $1000 per month after a year of development, I'm not sure how likely it is. Product development is risky

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