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by pwim 17y ago
Yes, all the URL shortener does is redirect to the chart api.
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by pwim 17y ago
The text breakdown doesn't show some of the numbers that are in the map. However, they are in the source. Here they are. United States 54.3% India 8.2% United Kingdom 4.5% Canada 3.6% Germany 3.2% China 2.4% Australia 2.3%
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by pwim 17y ago
Perhaps Amazon SNS isn't the best name.
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Drinking Your Way Up the Ladder(zevgroup.com)
57 points by pwim 17y ago|30 comments
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Investor see, founder do.(37signals.com)
1 points by pwim 17y ago|0 comments
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Using ActiveRecord with EventMachine(mikeperham.com)
3 points by pwim 17y ago|0 comments
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by pwim 17y ago
It isn't clear what this does beyond generating advertising revenue through the Google ads.
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by pwim 17y ago
I can't see anything without creating an account. Perhaps expose some data to logged out users so they can get a better idea what the service is about. Also, you don't have any traditional method to contact you (just facebook and twitter).
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Science Tattoo Emporium(blogs.discovermagazine.com)
1 points by pwim 17y ago|0 comments
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by pwim 17y ago
You should investigate some of the events that go on. Here are some more internationally minded ones: Tokyo2point0 - web related: http://www.tokyo2point0.net/ Business In Japan - general: http://businessinjapan.jp/ TLUG - Linux related:
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by pwim 17y ago
Japan is a very homogeneous society. Almost no one is religious here, so I think you'd still suffer if you don't drink because of religious reasons.
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by pwim 17y ago
I worked in a small-medium business in Tokyo for a couple of years. The developers were primarily other foreigners, but the rest of the company was Japanese. The company never really had any drinking parties, and from my perspective I wish
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by pwim 17y ago
The updates to Android are pushed by the carrier, not Google.
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by pwim 17y ago
Google created the android platform to drive forward technology and openness on the mobile. As long as people can use Google search, access GMail, and most importantly view Google ads, I doubt it's a big deal to Google.
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by pwim 17y ago
That you store passwords in the first place is the problem. As a developer, I consider it to be borderline unethical to build such a system in the first place, as it is inherently insecure. Furthermore, it helps to train users that it is o
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by pwim 17y ago
It doesn't look like the lego I grew up with.
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by pwim 17y ago
Japan is conspicuously absent where you can get 1 Gbps home connection for under $60/month.
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by pwim 17y ago
In Japan, 1Seg, a mobile broadcasting system that is built into most handsets released in the last couple of years, has seen tremendous adoption. As on 2009, 43% of mobile users reported that they had used the service.
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by pwim 17y ago
I'm reminded of http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqZcEwHBAk8
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by pwim 17y ago
Link is for https, which is down, along with everything else. There is just a static top page being served now, saying the site is down, so that service says the site is up, even though it effectively isn't.
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by pwim 17y ago
How well this would work for game playing bots? If this can abstract away the detection and clicking of regions, it would make building one much more approachable.
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Facebook in Japan: Will It Blend?(windmillnetworking.com)
9 points by pwim 17y ago|9 comments
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by pwim 17y ago
Google Docs allows users to compare revisions and link to other documents, despite the chart saying it doesn't.
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by pwim 17y ago
Github's strength is that it allows for incredibly easy collaboration. If you want to make a change to any open source project, you just need to fork it, make changes in your copy, and send a pull request to the original author. Neither G
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by pwim 17y ago
Heroku has a rest api. The ruby gem is just a wrapper for it.
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by pwim 17y ago
Hmm, OAuth and OpenID are two different beasts. OAuth is for giving your application the ability to access someone elses, without users of your application having to supply their credentials to you. OpenID allows for users of your applicati
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by pwim 17y ago
From my look at his article, he's doing everything clientside, which is causing him the extra headaches about restoring stuff.
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by pwim 17y ago
I don't know whether anything has changed or not, but given that it is an old article something may have. When I first read an article, I assume it is current. I only realized this article wasn't current because it mentioned that Japan ope
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by pwim 17y ago
Note that the article is from May 2006.
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by pwim 17y ago
Sounds fairly similar to SoundCloud ( http://soundcloud.com/ ) in that the purpose is to share music that one has created.

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