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by scooter53080 12y ago
Agree. This service sounds interesting, but as an infrequent consumer of health care, this subscription model doesn't make sense. I would be interested in paying a flat fee to get my records. Then pay again in a year or two to have
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by scooter53080 15y ago
I've often wished for a similar marketplace, but more for consulting, than actual programming. When starting out with a new language or new technology (particularly unpopular ones, that don't have good online resources) it would be worth p
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by scooter53080 15y ago
I've found it helps if you try and go places when they are least busy. Coffee shops seem to have different down times depending on location, customer base, etc. My favorite spot is always crowded from sunrise until about 3pm and then tota
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by scooter53080 15y ago
I like the buttons described there. They were also rolled into blueprint css as the 'buttons' plugin. https://github.com/joshuaclayton/blueprint-css/tree/master/b...
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by scooter53080 17y ago
Thanks for the reply...and giving me a reason to learn about rot algorithms.
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by scooter53080 17y ago
Would you mind running it again with just 2-7 to get the answer to next week's puzzle challenge? ;-) http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1221768... "Write down the digits from 2 to 7, in order. Add two mathematical symbol
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by scooter53080 17y ago
Something like this seems a little more flexible, assuming it works just as well: http://www.amazon.com/Belkin-BZ103050vTVL-Surge-Protector-Ch...
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by scooter53080 18y ago
No. Aside from the fact it's unprofessional, it makes you look amateurish if the code ever ends up public. This happened with some YouTube code last year, if I remember correctly, and that is exactly what it made me think.
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by scooter53080 18y ago
"Since Google acquired YouTube, the company has tried desperately to make something, anything, from its $1.65 billion investment, but so far, it has failed miserably." I haven't read about or seen the 'desperate' tries and the 'miserable' f
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by scooter53080 18y ago
I started my current project in ExtJS and a few weeks in, I switched to YUI. The ExtJS components look great, and are fairly easy to use if you use them in the standard way. However, I found that as soon as I wanted to do something custom
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by scooter53080 18y ago
To me the interesting part of this story is the advice to 'not cold contact the CEO'. If you have multiple email addresses coming into one box you'd better keep track which one a message is from and respond appropriately. There's nothing
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by scooter53080 18y ago
I guess I am talking about travel. But in the point about a house I'm also talking about relocation. A house and all the stuff you accumulate because of it seriously inhibits portability. I wish I had maintained a smaller footprint, so t
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by scooter53080 18y ago
I don't think eBay has continued to innovate in the auction space. For instance, I often want to bid across multiple auctions until I can get something for the price I want. eBay has something to do this (called Bidding Assistant I think)
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by scooter53080 18y ago
I would agree with most of these...or at least don't disagree enough to parse them out. I would add two more to the list that I wish I knew at 22... 1) Don't buy a house. Yes it may be a good investment. Yes owning/living in your own ho
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by scooter53080 18y ago
I would love to come to a place like this. In fact, I go code at a coffee shop near my house, and usually get a tea and a shortbread bar. As others have pointed out, with such a narrow product scope, I think you might have a problem selli
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by scooter53080 18y ago
wow...next thing you know there'll be an island full of dinosaurs
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by scooter53080 18y ago
don't know who came up with this first, but it looks strikingly similar to 'nifty corners': http://www.html.it/articoli/nifty/index.html Here is a technique I have used before to add a 'snazzy border': http://www.cssplay.co.uk/boxes/snaz
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by scooter53080 18y ago
I like the current logo. After reading this, it makes me wonder how much time was spent worrying whether the reflected 'b' should be forwards or backwards.
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by scooter53080 18y ago
I personally don't. I like to listen to the 'This Week in Tech' podcast, and those guys are obsessed with Twitter. I groan loudly every time the conversation comes back to Twitter which is like every ten minutes or so. It has almost beco
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by scooter53080 18y ago
That is an interesting idea. It sounds kind of like a user-driven pagerank concept. Since the mappings would be different for everyone (most of the population would not map 'news' to 'news.ycombinator.com') could even introduce a recommen
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by scooter53080 18y ago
I would like a way to blacklist domains that are being squatted. I’ve thought it might work to have a Firefox plugin to report and block these sites. If you could get a large enough community using it, the list would grow pretty quickly.
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by scooter53080 19y ago
It was interesting a few months ago when Yahoo maps moved from Flex to AJAX. I'm assuming the problem there was the mashup factor. I think using one of these RIA platforms creates (or at least give the impression of) a walled garden, whic
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by scooter53080 19y ago
I think there is a chance they will gain momentum. As long as there are multiple browser vendors with significant market share interpreting/implementing specifications, web development is going to continue to be painful. As evil as a sing
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by scooter53080 19y ago
I love Bohnanza. Anybody played that? I know the premise of the game seems silly, but I've taught it to many (adult) friends, and it is pretty universally liked. I'm going to check out Puerto Rico based on some recommendations here...it
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by scooter53080 19y ago
>A similar spec'ed Dell comes roughly at the same price. I believe that Macs are awesome. I want one! But the same price argument doesn't fly. When I bought a new laptop about a year ago, I ended up with a Dell 'cause the same spec'd
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by scooter53080 19y ago
maybe some kind of orbiting device that filters light...like shadow puppets on the moon. ;-)
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by scooter53080 19y ago
I agree. This happens outside of the hacker world too. In general I find people are very boastful about the fact they don't watch TV.
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by scooter53080 19y ago
I agree it is the term 'private' that is wrong here, not necessarily the behavior (though it obviously could be more secure.)
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by scooter53080 19y ago
It seems like this is working as designed. The problem is different definitions of "private," which I think SmugMug is wrong on. While the setting is functioning as they intended, I do not consider it to be private. If the label were "no
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by scooter53080 19y ago
I tried this library sometime around May of last year. I read through a wrox book called "CSS Instant Results" and many of the discussed CSS layouts required use of the IE7 script to work properly. I had some problems with the max/min wid

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