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by thorax 17y ago
When I saw Scribblenauts on E3 coverage my thought was immediately: I want to stop everything I'm doing and make a game quite like this, but for the iPhone or Flash and allow anyone to make things for it (like a wiktionary of 2d "mobs" and
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by thorax 17y ago
This is exactly the sort of discussion I want to see in the middle of all the excitement. Let's air out the pieces of the system that are most troublesome, are glossed-over, etc., and ensure there's a solid foundation here to build upon. Ho
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by thorax 17y ago
This review very quickly worded things so it was clear what was going on: http://www.webchicklet.com/cool-web-sites/my-vote-for-best-a... Ideally they find a way to word the home page in terms like what is used there.
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by thorax 17y ago
Was I the only person who was a little surprised that they didn't mention YSlow by name? That strikes me as somewhat rude, though I know Yahoo and Google aren't exactly best buddies. Edit : Looks like some of the commenters there agree wit
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by thorax 17y ago
Well, it's not what I recommend for major sites or businesses at all, but I can only tell you that this has worked fabulously on forums that get 1 million+ views a month and has been working for more than two years. I didn't expect it to be
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by thorax 17y ago
Is the goal to encourage casual developers to try to hack/probe around your site? Or is the goal to fool/deter legitimate hackers? I think the former is more likely to happen with the tactics mentioned, and the people who want in are going
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by thorax 17y ago
Not really security-related, but one related "honeytoken" trick I have done in the past (for wikis, blogs, forum software, etc) is making account activation emails send a fake URL first in the body of the email that is clearly marked not to
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by thorax 17y ago
Assembla Google (if that counts) Featurelist.org (our own site) -- specifically the user feedback widgets that dump all the feedback from all of our different sites into a handy place (per-project) so I can respond/escalate/investigate/etc.
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by thorax 17y ago
> I'd be a little nervous trusting people working on commission for advice on whether a shirt looks good on me or not. I figure if they're misleading you, you won't be buying from them again later when people make fun of your outfit.
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by thorax 17y ago
I feel like I'm starting to spam this, but check this out if you don't like the results, it makes it look more Googly and does the trick for me: http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/50649
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by thorax 17y ago
Who says it didn't? Maybe Google's marketshare (near monopoly?) would be even more unassailable had it not been for Microsoft's (near) monopoly in the browser space.
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by thorax 17y ago
As I mentioned on an earlier thread, if you just want bing to look a little more like Google, I posted a Greasemonkey script here: http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/50649 Interestingly, I can really, really tell that Google has iterated
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by thorax 17y ago
Here's a quick GreaseMonkey script to "fix" the results page layout for chronic Google addicts: http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/50649 Basically moved the results more against the left side and the "aside" bar is moved to the right. La
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by thorax 17y ago
I mean the "Did you mean" top two results-- it gives me two results about "tos_msg" which are useless for the particular query and mess me up pretty much every day on other queries.
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by thorax 17y ago
If I type "es_msg" into Bing I get exactly what I'd expect, the documentation for a function. When I type it into Google I get "did you mean tos_msg" which drives me batty. And the top two results are useless. The third result is correct. B
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by thorax 17y ago
Maybe put up a video on the front page or screenshots to make it a little clearer what it does or how it works? In 45 seconds, I couldn't tell if it was a coding framework or a content management system, or what. It sounded interesting, and
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by thorax 17y ago
We've actually had a lot of luck, but it's still really hard. We've been working on a site to help small startups to track/manage their interactions/promotions with the media (or at least help us do it, but we like to externalize our own t
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by thorax 17y ago
You need to get out and start showing this to people. You may even want to start talking to some of the CDN companies to see if they want to license this. Some of them already have other approaches for P2P bandwidth sharing, but it would be
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by thorax 17y ago
Have you looked at also making the Java applet support bittorrent for just file downloads itself? If no one is doing that already, a really slick looking web interface for file downloads might get more corporations interested in using BitTo
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by thorax 17y ago
I think this is an interesting technology. There are some naysayers here, but I think there are some cases that users will accept signing statements and the like for this. A public site like youtube or even Hulu wouldn't be able to make it
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by thorax 17y ago
Did you watch the video? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_UyVmITiYQ I found it pretty exciting, at least.
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by thorax 17y ago
From what I understand, there are a number of hospitals that can do some measure of call-ahead scheduling for ERs. What would prevent you from asking about each hospital policy and at worst doing a Twilio automated call to the number if the
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by thorax 17y ago
Looks great-- as I mentioned in another comment, I'm definitely considering how we might use this. We have a number of sites with user-generated content and not enough hours in the day to review it all. Regarding your semi-automated plans:
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by thorax 17y ago
There is a market-- I'm not sure how large. But I immediately started crunching the numbers to see how much value this would offer our team. We're still considering it.
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by thorax 17y ago
Well, it did say this in the article: > But in this study, three of the four rooks spontaneously created the hook in their first trial. Boggles the mind a bit.
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by thorax 17y ago
I can only imagine this is taking advantage of the fact that Windows task scheduling gives higher priority to threads which are currently receiving user interaction. In certain cases, doing this would allow the process to handle returning d
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by thorax 17y ago
Well, someone tipped off the media and got fired. It is absolutely in TechCrunch's best interest to protect their sources or fewer of them will contact TechCrunch with tips because they're afraid of retribution. If TC offers to protect them
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by thorax 17y ago
I love your front page. One of the common criticisms on HN is that it's hard for us to tell what startups do. You make it quite clear (to me) from first glance what you offer. We use/pay Clicky for stats, and I have to say they do a good jo
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by thorax 17y ago
I like Evernote because it's free, and makes good use of tags and web publishing/sharing. Yet, it's got a long ways to go to catch up to OneNote in terms of the user interface behavior on Windows. The interface for the EN native app on Wind
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by thorax 17y ago
They originally said if you ran you got more wet: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MythBusters_%28season_1%29#Who_... But then they changed their mind after that show: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MythBusters_episodes:_Season_3#...

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