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   by rfugger 16y ago

   I like the concept. The site itself was unusable for me in FF3.6/Linux. The site displayed after a bit of a wait loading, and then stalled my browser for 15 seconds or so before disappearing and leaving only a facebook like button at the
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   by rfugger 16y ago

   Luckily I'm always asleep between the time I woke up and 11:30 am.
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   by rfugger 16y ago

   http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~perspectives/firefox.html We have developed an extension to the popular Firefox browser that contacts network notaries whenever your browser connects an HTTPS website. The extension provides two primary benefits: 1.
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   by rfugger 16y ago

   http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-3333/
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   by rfugger 16y ago

   Microsoft's solution was also cloud-hosted: Microsoft, in an e-mailed statement, said Interior “determined that the dedicated, U.S.-based cloud solution offered by Microsoft met its minimum security and other requirements after a careful a
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   by rfugger 16y ago

   Try http://99designs.com/ ?
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   by rfugger 16y ago

   http://nameboy.com
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   by rfugger 16y ago

   There's no interesting content. If I were you, I would do a closed beta for a while, with some incentives for the chosen users to populate the site with interesting content, as well as getting lots of feedback and adjusting your site's des
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   by rfugger 16y ago

   Linode.
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    by rfugger 16y ago

    Cached copy: http://www.garytaubes.com.nyud.net/2010/12/calories-fat-or-c...
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    by rfugger 16y ago

    Adding batteries? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diesel_locomotive#Diesel-electr... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hybrid_locomotive The article does a poor job of pointing out that diesel-electrics are very common already.
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    by rfugger 16y ago

    Um, Lisp was invented in 1958. What exactly was it supposed to be backwards-compatible with?
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    by rfugger 16y ago

    Django won't work with Python 3 for a few years yet, so if you want to use Django, stick with 2.
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    by rfugger 16y ago

    > Drupal's internals are a steaming pile compared to what, exactly? Ever taken a look at Wordpress's core code? All code sucks. Yes, and I'm sure Joomla's code is terrible as well. On the other hand, I can most often peer into Django's
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    by rfugger 16y ago

    254 characters. From http://www.dominicsayers.com/isemail/ : "Myth: The maximum length of an email address is 320 characters This arises from the simple arithmetic of maximum length of a domain (255 characters) + maximum length of a mailbo
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    by rfugger 16y ago

    One issue is that you can't, as far as I can tell, link directly to a Quora answer, only to the entire question, containing all the answers, and the answer in question may not remain at the top.
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    by rfugger 16y ago

    With PyPy moving ahead so well, I wonder if there's much point to Unladen Swallow anymore. Weren't they always expecting to be a stopgap until PyPy was ready?
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    by rfugger 16y ago

    I can only conclude that this is an ironic statement implying that we need database joins to keep a web server responsive...
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    by rfugger 16y ago

    I'd be interested in seeing the results for a control group that wasn't given any writing exercise at all.
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    by rfugger 16y ago

    All I needed to make wave useful was an email notification whenever a wave I was following was updated.
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    by rfugger 16y ago

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning-Kruger_effect
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    28 years of research into how human intention affects physical reality(princeton.edu)

    2 points by rfugger 16y ago|0 comments
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    by rfugger 16y ago

    My project for a new form of money: http://ripple-project.org/ Everyone issues their own personal currency, but you only accept the currency of people you trust to make good on their obligations to you personally. For those you don't tru
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    Prop. 19 Polls Biased: Respondents Unwilling to Admit Support(fivethirtyeight.com)

    2 points by rfugger 16y ago|0 comments
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    by rfugger 16y ago

    I had tomato installed, and like to keep my wifi open for neighbours to use casually (bandwidth limited for non-trusted connections). I hadn't thought of doing this. Thanks for the article.
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    by rfugger 16y ago

    http://ripplepay.com/ - It's a monetary system that works in a peer-to-peer credit network rather than the hierarchical banking network. See http://ripple-project.org/ . It's been a project of mine for five years now, and I'm working on
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    by rfugger 16y ago

    Are you saying it's impossible for a happy society to exist?
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    by rfugger 16y ago

    It would help a bit if there was a way to automatically encrypt sessions on an open wifi access point without requiring a password to connect.
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    by rfugger 16y ago

    I had a YC interview in 2008, and the experience was the same. We kept trying to give a demo, and they kept sidetracking us. I think they do it on purpose to see how you handle the situation. I didn't handle it well. I basically turned
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    by rfugger 16y ago

    http://ripplepay.com/ - mutual credit payments through a social network. First site I ever made 5 years ago, proud of it, but never really made it very usable or useful. Just started working on a rewrite so I can start adding new featur