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by russellbeattie 11y ago
Every YouTube creator has to do this now as well. They "apologize in advance" or qualify just about everything they say to make sure they don't get eviscerated in comments in case they make a mistake or were even just slightl
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by russellbeattie 11y ago
I really enjoyed this book - it wasn't on the level of "Soul of a New Machine" in terms of writing, but the subject matter was really interesting. As a software guy, it was a great way to understand what's going on at th
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by russellbeattie 11y ago
1. Nice implementation of a potentially useful micro service. 2. Nice domain name. 3. You should put more details in your FAQ like "no, this is not guaranteed to be a perfect technical solution" and "we'll happily work w
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by russellbeattie 12y ago
Following the submitter's comments on another thread, apparently they're going to offer a self-hosted option "soon". We'll see.
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by russellbeattie 12y ago
In case anyone else was slightly mixed up like I was: Joe Haldeman the author is not H.R. "Bob" Haldeman of the Nixon administration, who died in 1993. It was Howard Hunt who was the novelist (and Watergate burglar), not the White
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by russellbeattie 12y ago
Sooo... what? This is easily the third or fourth time this has been linked to in Hacker News. What relevance does it have to anything? Everyone who uses .io domains are horrible, insensitive people? Those who use .me domains should be forev
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by russellbeattie 12y ago
In my opinion, it's not that we need a new HyperCard, we need a HyperCard for handhelds, like tablets and smartphones. On-device programming, accessible by the layman. Microsoft Research's TouchDevelop is definitely doing some coo
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by russellbeattie 12y ago
Fire TV and Fire TV Stick both support DIAL already. If you're a developer, here's the technical details: https://developer.amazon.com/public/solutions/devices/fire-t...
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by russellbeattie 12y ago
The root problem here is that every HTML WYSIWIG editor (from MS Word to TinyMCE) uses their own special blend of tags when creating HTML. There's only a handful of tags that are generated by Markdown, the problem is that editors often
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by russellbeattie 12y ago
Ever notice how people from the UK tend to generalize in a condescending way that only really serves to highlight their backward, provincial attitudes? Sort of like this?
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by russellbeattie 12y ago
Drinking makes me suicidally depressed, so I stopped many years ago and have witnessed as a result this exact phenomenon. The new neighbor, coworker, potential partner or aquaintence are all super friendly and welcoming until the first time
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by russellbeattie 13y ago
Love the idea, but they're a tad expensive. I would think a fair price would be a strip of several images for 8€, not just one. Also, even if I accepted the single sticker price, do I only get exactly one sticker? If I mess up the appl
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by russellbeattie 13y ago
No, you cannot just add that to the top of a web page and have it magically transform into a mobile-friendly page. It may look fine on your particular device, but it will probably be completely hosed on everything else. The viewport meta ta
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by russellbeattie 13y ago
Heh, if only Yandex and Baidu respected robots.txt.
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by russellbeattie 13y ago
I've been keeping track of all the options (about 100 so far and counting) and updating my blog post about it here: http://bit.ly/RSSreaders
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by russellbeattie 13y ago
From December 2004. Is it that hard to put a date in the title? I was psyched to read about some sort of new development in the realm of computerized go, only to figure out half way through I was reading a nearly nine year old article for l
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by russellbeattie 13y ago
When you said Revel is "heavy" - did you mean slow, uses lots of memory/CPU/other or just has lots of custom bits to learn/use?
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by russellbeattie 14y ago
Here you go: https://gist.github.com/russellbeattie/5553420 It queues up the words and then has 10 processes check the domains. But it won't do much for you, as whois.nic.io barfs after a short while from too many connections.
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by russellbeattie 14y ago
You guys missed it! Back in January 2011, there were a bunch: http://rb.io/blog/two-letter-io-domains-available :-D
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by russellbeattie 14y ago
I wrote this simple python script w/ dictionary file to check free .io domains based on ~18,000 basic words: https://gist.github.com/russellbeattie/4982393 It uses the fact that nic.io's whois response is fast and simple.
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by russellbeattie 14y ago
You're not wrong.
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by russellbeattie 14y ago
Interesting! After reading this I just re-tried Dolphin on my new Nexus 10 and it's much better than when I tried it previously. I'm not sure when they changed the UI (it's a lot cleaner than I remember), but it looks like they launched J
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by russellbeattie 16y ago
I did - but the IdeaPad only has an Atom processor, so the apps ran really sluggishly - also, it doesn't add any multitouch additions to the main Windows UI that I noticed. That said, I didn't realize MS had released the Surface stuff, so
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by russellbeattie 16y ago
Fitt's law! I was going to write about that in my post, but I forgot! Because of the bezel on the IdeaPad I was using, Fitt's Law was turned on it's head: The closer a UI element was to the sides of the screen - scrollbars, close buttons, s
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by russellbeattie 17y ago
Can you please add an item's publish date (<pubDate>) to the RSS feed? It's seriously low-hanging fruit. Just whatever the date in the DB says is fine - there must be a 'created' timestamp in there somewhere. Format it as RFC822 tim