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by scottw 15y ago
:D A few other commenters below had it right; this was mainly a toy app, but it did scratch the itch of more than one person I told about it, so why not code it up?
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by scottw 15y ago
(I'm the author). The number is put through a regex first and only digits are allowed.
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by scottw 15y ago
This probably isn't the right crowd to test this out for you :) I'd wager a non-trival percentage of us use text-only email settings or clients (long live mutt).
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by scottw 15y ago
I don't think that's what it means... I've read many T&C (IANAL either) and some of them state, to the effect of, "your stuff stays yours, even if you put it on our site". That, to me, would be closer to "we're not responsible for your
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by scottw 15y ago
Anyone else have a problem with their T&C? Essentially, "you post it here, we get to do whatever we want with it": > "By placing any information or other material on such publicly accessible locations on the Website (including but n
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IPhone alarm clock donates your snooze to charity(mashable.com)
1 points by scottw 15y ago|0 comments
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by scottw 15y ago
I'd love any service that can easily make my backend mobile.
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by scottw 15y ago
Cheap (as in free) cloudy things can be found at http://www.dotcloud.com/ I used it for my last Mojolicious API ( http://www.fakecall.net ) and it's a pleasure to work with.
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by scottw 15y ago
Probably, but the Twilio call is only two lines of code :) I may look into other backends, but Twilio was by far the easiest to get going. Currently checking out Tropo and Teleku.
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by scottw 15y ago
I launched a fake call API ( http://www.fakecall.net/ ) to help polite introverts exit unwanted conversations or meetings. I need someone to make a nice app for it ;-)
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by scottw 15y ago
I wrote an article on `find` performance a few years ago, may be useful to someone: http://scott.wiersdorf.org/blarney/071024a.html tl;dr version: find examines each entry in a directory hierarchy; if the entry (be it a regular file, syml
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Show HN: fakecall.net - helping polite introverts stay productive(fakecall.net)
1 points by scottw 15y ago|0 comments
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by scottw 15y ago
Safari on OS X. (Apparently I have no use for features and am content to just see headlines and click the interesting ones). Mainly I want to run as few apps as possible, and this fits the paradigm best for me.
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by scottw 15y ago
Good memories of my buddy David, who, at some young age, inserted a dry pinto bean into one of his nostrils and left it dangling there. All of us began to laugh, of course, along with David. But after all good, long, strong laughs, you have
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by scottw 15y ago
Agreed; follow the link the author offers near the top of the article to Secunia. Of a few common OSes I looked at (Red Hat Enterprise 5, Windows XP Pro, Windows 7, OS X), OS X had the fewest advisories for 2009, 2010, and 2011; most vulner
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by scottw 15y ago
Discovery (DISCA) faced this issue in 2008 and decided to lay off all employees who lived in a state with this tax nexus law (I was one of them). There were a total of three employees in my state, but there were probably scores of employees
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The Hit List 1.0 released w/ syncing(potionfactory.com)
2 points by scottw 15y ago|0 comments
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by scottw 15y ago
That may be, but it's been a blissful 10+ years. :) Ribbing aside, the OS X security model is, generally speaking, the Unix security model, which has been around a lot longer than Windows. Henry Spencer is attributed with saying "Those who
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by scottw 15y ago
Reminds me of some similar predictions: "This is almost certainly the year of the OS X exploit" (Feb 2006) http://www.securityfocus.com/news/113758 iPhone to be target of hackers (December 2007) http://www.networkworld.com/news/2007/1211
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by scottw 16y ago
Hi HN, this was my blog post. I fully expect the Wattvision to pay for itself in about a year based on what I've seen in the 3ish weeks I've had it (our latest power bill was almost $20 off from last year for about the same average temperat
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by scottw 16y ago
Someone have a tl;dw version? 45 minutes is too expensive for me right now.
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by scottw 16y ago
You should also understand that big companies buy small companies for many different reasons. Sometimes they want a new revenue stream and sometimes they just want the brain power and have no interest in the small company succeeding. A foun
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by scottw 16y ago
A web analytics company in my neck of the woods (Omniture) was acquired by Adobe a couple of years ago. I've talked with a dozen employees there and I've heard nothing but good about it from both the business and technical sides of the hous
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by scottw 16y ago
Your first submission has garnered nearly as many karma points than I've accumulated since I joined HN 3 years (and 1 day) ago.
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by scottw 16y ago
Maybe "rockstar" is the new codeword for "confident junior".
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by scottw 16y ago
love my elliptical
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by scottw 16y ago
You mean former economist. He's now a columnist and since seems to have abandoned most of his critical thinking skills.
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by scottw 16y ago
Most of us aren't interested: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=943722
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by scottw 16y ago
I marked 'no' but that's not a completely true answer.
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by scottw 16y ago
Happiness is overrated. I'm just fine with a life of mild melancholy peppered with occasional fits of ecstacy.

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