sanj

86 ms·

1. 871.▲
   by sanj 18y ago

   I'm getting a 400 error: <HTML> <HEAD> <TITLE>Bad Request</TITLE> </HEAD> <BODY BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#000000"> <H1>Bad Request</H1> <H2>Error 400</H2> </
2. 872.▲
   by sanj 18y ago

   I worked with a guy who turned this law around. He said: "Everywhere piece of the system that has a supported API should be a separate group."
3. 873.▲
   by sanj 18y ago

   Snowball: http://namm.harmony-central.com/WNAMM05/Content/Blue/PR/Snow... and Snowflake: http://www.bluemic.com/products/snowflake I own the former. Kinda wished I owned the latter.
4. 874.▲
   by sanj 18y ago

   It has the same value as anything else: Whatever you can get someone to pay you for it. I just sold a chunk of (common) stock in a privately held (VC-backed) firm. I found a buyer, made sure I followed all of the rules of the employee stoc
5. 875.▲
   by sanj 18y ago

   I'd love to save the feds money. I'd also love to get in a briefing book in front of the big O.
6. 876.▲
   Reducing Federal Travel Budget by about $1B using LuckyCal(citizensbriefingbook.change.gov)

   3 points by sanj 18y ago|1 comments
7. 877.▲
   by sanj 18y ago

   I've never quite understood the fascination with slavishly copying the limitations of the physical world. BumpTop has always struck me as being in this camp.
8. 878.▲
   Copilot OneClick for Macintosh(joelonsoftware.com)

   1 points by sanj 18y ago|0 comments
9. 879.▲
   Messaging is not just for investment banks (gojko.net)

   4 points by sanj 18y ago|1 comments
10. 880.▲
    by sanj 18y ago

    100 iterations instead of 10, removed puts: TinyURL: 0.43s/req bit.ly: 0.22s/req is.gd: 0.05s/req That's close enough to my original values to not matter. It appears that the time is all spent waiting for the site to return.
11. 881.▲
    by sanj 18y ago

    Are there others that should be tested?
12. 882.▲
    by sanj 18y ago

    It ain't pretty, but: require 'mechanize' class Tinyurl def self.make_tiny(big_url) url = "http://tinyurl.com/api-create.php?url=#{big_url}" agent = WWW::Mechanize.new agent.user_agent_alias = 'Mac Safari' results = a
13. 883.▲
    Performance of URL shorteners

    7 points by sanj 18y ago|7 comments
14. 884.▲
    by sanj 18y ago

    I appreciate all of the leads, but does anyone have performance numbers?
15. 885.▲
    Ask HN: Faster alternatives to Tinyurl?

    2 points by sanj 18y ago|6 comments
16. 886.▲
    by sanj 18y ago

    I talked to the dept head in aero at MIT during the 90s and he told me that the verbal section of the GRE was the only correlation he'd seen to success.
17. 887.▲
    by sanj 18y ago

    I disagree: to at least give people a small idea of what is going on with him, so they can gauge risk That's not in his best interest. It is in the stockholder's best interest, the company's best interest and (perhaps) that market's best
18. 888.▲
    by sanj 18y ago

    It is in Steve's best interest Really? Why?
19. 889.▲
    by sanj 18y ago

    Apple right now is the only viable, visible shot search has at innovating What?! That's a huge statement to make with no backup at all.
20. 890.▲
    by sanj 18y ago

    Here's a random idea: I wonder if the "one password" paradigm is the problem. What if Twitter (and any other web service) could have multiple passwords per user. Now you can give away a password at will to whatever Twitter service you w
21. 891.▲
    by sanj 18y ago

    http://talkinator.com/
22. 892.▲
    New York Times profiles on Twitter(prblogger.com)

    1 points by sanj 18y ago|0 comments
23. 893.▲
    by sanj 18y ago

    apropos: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=411985
24. 894.▲
    by sanj 18y ago

    I didn't write this -- Colin Messitt did -- but it seems apropos even now. As far as I know this is the only "controlled" experiment in piracy.
25. 895.▲
    Why do people register, does crippling work, does anybody really know?(web.archive.org)

    1 points by sanj 18y ago|1 comments
26. 896.▲
    by sanj 18y ago

    Frodo survived. It was Gollum that died. I'm not sure anyone considers him a "good guy".
27. 897.▲
    by sanj 18y ago

    Wow -- it figured out where I was much better than most systems. Are you doing geolocation with IP? Or something else?
28. 898.▲
    by sanj 18y ago

    "The answer, I believe, is that there’s an innate tendency on the part of even the elite to idolize men who are making a lot of money, and assume that they know what they’re doing." This strikes a chord with me. Stop chasing money. Chas
29. 899.▲
    by sanj 18y ago

    We hadn't seen the technology as a product that needed to be sold to masses of users, but rather as an idea whose obvious rightness would obviate any obstacles. In the face of their math, this view seemed hopelessly naive. That nails so t
30. 900.▲
    Road Test: 2009 Tesla Roadster(roadandtrack.com)

    6 points by sanj 18y ago|6 comments