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by sh1mmer 18y ago
I've been using Flot a while after getting the hump about JS charting SDKs last week. A clever person I work with has ported Flot to YUI ( http://github.com/bluesmoon/flot/tree/master ). I have to say I particularly like it, and I think we
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by sh1mmer 18y ago
The youtube video on Peteris' page doesn't seem to exist any more but the original is here: http://video.yahoo.com/video/play?vid=630959 There is also a ton more stuff like this at: http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/theater/ Disclaimer: I'
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Ask HN: What's the best way to graph stuff on web sites?
4 points by sh1mmer 18y ago|5 comments
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by sh1mmer 18y ago
The telegraph admits it was a false alarm: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/scienceandtechnology/technology/g...
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by sh1mmer 18y ago
You are testing from Europe somewhere by the look of it. Many people have scattered servers now. It would be good to be able to test from non-European locations.
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by sh1mmer 18y ago
That's not really good enough. It's unacceptable to let random members of the public use your services to "test" someone else's site. It's bad form let alone the breach of the ToS on 90% of sites.
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by sh1mmer 18y ago
Last.fm utterly refutes this story from Techcrunch. ( http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/02/20/did-lastfm-just-hand-ov... , http://www.last.fm/forum/21713/_/506518/1#f8660996 ) To quote: Hi from Last.fm, I’m one of the founders (and the origi
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by sh1mmer 18y ago
Nocturne uses a feature of Mac OSX to help with the screen inversion. It might be possible on windows but I've not seen it. You can actually screen invert on Macs without Nocturne using the universal access (accessibility ) preferences, but
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by sh1mmer 18y ago
I start by cleaning code a lot. I've found that often it's better to make the code more legible (indenting, IDE, etc) than just trying to parsing it without. I would say unless the code is already in great shape normally tidying it up a bit
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by sh1mmer 18y ago
Much of the incoming migrant workers are from places like Britain, or India. These people have excellent educations. It seems nuts that the U.S sets hard limits on such people entering the country. I struggle to see how a country who outsou
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by sh1mmer 18y ago
In the Yahoo office in London our resident build manager "Bob the builder" (real name Andy) had a Pilchard the cat ( http://www.nickjr.co.uk/shows/bob/pilchard.aspx ) which meowed whenever anyone on either side of the Atlantic broke the bui
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by sh1mmer 18y ago
I couldn't agree less with this. P&G market under lots of different consumer brands with the global P&G umbrella handling manufacturing and corporate affairs. Microsoft on the other hand is one of the biggest consumer brands in the
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by sh1mmer 18y ago
I didn't find I should've known much of this but there was the odd tidbit that was interesting; Such as the ~30% of servers in a study which were running at less than 3% load.
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by sh1mmer 18y ago
OpenID actually has support for extensions that can allow you to require additional requirements of the AP (authorizing party). This means a bank could, for example, ask for multi-factor authentication from the AP. I doubt banks will accept
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by sh1mmer 18y ago
Unless Twitter change their rate limiting model it makes sense to be be read-only still. This allows you to tap into the 100reqs/hr Twitter allocates to users rather than using up the IP rate limiting for generic requests.
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by sh1mmer 18y ago
Well Twitter only has 2 modes, public and protected. An app can access anything public through the existing API anyway without authentication. The only difference here is that you can allow apps your trust to access your private data (or fu
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by sh1mmer 18y ago
I should say it's 30 "units"/day not 10k requests. Depending on the number of results you get back. For all on-peak requests that would be a maximum of 10k search requests. Off-peak it would be 30k search requests. If you needed more result
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by sh1mmer 18y ago
The exact breakdown is here. http://developer.yahoo.com/search/boss/fees.html There are two examples: * Developer A submits 7000 API requests in a given day. Each API call requests search results 1-10. Since 1000 requests of this type cos
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Keep track of which open technologies are safe to use in real browsers(a.deveria.com)
6 points by sh1mmer 18y ago|0 comments
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by sh1mmer 18y ago
Yahoo! did say that there was a pricing model coming in the future for BOSS from the start. I'm sorry you feel frustrated. I'd be interested to hear if you have any ideas about how we could have communicated that better. It sucks that you w
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by sh1mmer 18y ago
My bad. :)
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by sh1mmer 18y ago
This headline is typically misleading. The first 10k requests a day are free. Previously it was 5k. Once you pass that threshold (it's not that low) it starts being charged according to your use. I'd love to hear feedback on what people t
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by sh1mmer 18y ago
This is a great article. In summary, as technology progresses to the point where most (if not all) common tasks can be automated the uniqueness of the UI will be what is left to the user to control.
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by sh1mmer 18y ago
Having been through the immigration process myself with a corporate immigration lawyer who used an online system for streamlining I can attest to this. Lawyers are there to do 2 things, spot anything which might become a problem before it d
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by sh1mmer 18y ago
I remember asking a friend who wrote software why it cost what it did. Their answer $20k is the amount an average middle manager can sign off without running it up the chain.
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by sh1mmer 18y ago
If you like Pipes you should play with YQL ( http://developer.yahoo.com/yql ) it's much more like an API than Pipes given it's SQL-likeness. While it's actually my job to promote stuff for Y! YQL is one of my all time favourite things we ha
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by sh1mmer 18y ago
I'm surprised nobody mentioned that services like Salesforce that charge per user SaaS could easily not bill "idle" users that don't login, or possibly operate below some threshold. I think swombat's point about balancing adoption and profi
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Ask HN: Any advice on legal agreements for user data hosted across the Atlantic?
2 points by sh1mmer 18y ago|0 comments
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by sh1mmer 18y ago
I found the search confusing. When I typed in my address it gave me a list of thing sort of close to where I live (in San Francisco). When I typed in Point Reyes (a lovely place to hike in Marin County) I got a bunch of trails that sounded
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by sh1mmer 18y ago
I definitely want to see a demo of the startup from his profile.

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