thorax

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   by thorax 18y ago

   Pretty much: * A remote site that monitors info and sends you SMS or email * You jailbreak your iphone and use Backgrounder
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   by thorax 18y ago

   Front page looks nice-- if I was looking for such a service, your front page would have pulled me in to find out more. Nice job on the first step.
3. 453.▲
   by thorax 18y ago

   I don't say it's a substitute, but wicked handy. I read a lot faster on the Kindle, but reading on the iPhone gets a lot of stars given I always have it on me no matter what.
4. 454.▲
   by thorax 18y ago

   They can make some money indirectly. As background, we made http://tinyarro.ws . For our service, we make money indirectly by mentioning our other services/sites as friendly as possible. We've seen stellar response from that. It helps that
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   by thorax 18y ago

   In addition to always previewing it unless you opt out? We could, but we were hoping to avoid extra steps to preview things.
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   by thorax 18y ago

   Hey guys-- thanks for all the feedback a couple of weeks ago. We just released 10 new unicode character domains to give people some URL shrinking variety. In addition, we thought it was a bit silly that all the URL shrinkers didn't default
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   TinyArro.ws: 10 new unicode domains. Defaulting previews to ON.(tinyarro.ws)

   4 points by thorax 18y ago|3 comments
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   by thorax 18y ago

   Services are already doing some of this. TipJoy can do their own URL shortner, FriendFeed has ff.im, Posterous has post.ly, etc. This is getting pretty common. If you're not going to make your own, and are obsessed with shortness, though, w
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   by thorax 18y ago

   (Putting my normal user hat on here. I'm purposely preventing myself from trying to think hard on the purpose of your site.) "I" don't follow what your site does, even after I see the example. Something to do with retweets, which I thought
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    by thorax 18y ago

    Yeah-- we do specific IP addresses and not ranges. We thought at first they were all different, but they weren't. There were hundreds of different, but lots with of multiple spam posts, some every day. Group them by IP address and you shoul
11. 461.▲
    by thorax 18y ago

    I'm a huge fan of the pure Python piece-- it allows us to integrate it much more easily with our cross-platform Python embeds.
12. 462.▲
    by thorax 18y ago

    Yeah, I'd like to see the title tweaked a bit to clarify that, too.
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    by thorax 18y ago

    For ri.ms and tinyarro.ws, we've actually seen significant reduction in spam just by banning abusive IP addresses. So far, that has had the biggest bang for the buck in terms of dropping spam considerably. In other words, we periodically do
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    by thorax 18y ago

    You guys look into someone like Viximo instead of inventing your own system from the ground up?
15. 465.▲
    by thorax 18y ago

    I think this is broken-- it's been a while since I saw clickable links in profiles.
16. 466.▲
    by thorax 18y ago

    Last year they asked people to tell them what search engines to include: http://blog.webmynd.com/2008/10/29/new-release-of-webmynd-pe... Why not just ask?
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    by thorax 18y ago

    I watch it daily on Mac (mini), never had any issue. Love it. I guess I should pour in my comments-- though they get them indirectly when I beam to people about how much I love Netflix streaming.
18. 468.▲
    by thorax 18y ago

    It's a really good talk, though. Worth the watch for me.
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    by thorax 18y ago

    Thanks a lot for the response. Is the problem like what this guy had? An addon that may have changed Firefox's default IDN resolution? http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=498378
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    by thorax 18y ago

    It's not hard at all to do this test yourself, and I've done it. Not sure what the argument is-- Twitter is fine with unicode characters. Are you seeing something different? Maybe some of the clients or the SMS stuff doesn't like it, but th
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    by thorax 18y ago

    Works fine for most people on Linux, too. It's probably one of your addons or settings tweaked from default, see this thread and let me know if that's not the case? http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=498363
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    by thorax 18y ago

    Added tip: You can also get to us via tinyarrows.com, too.
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    by thorax 18y ago

    Thanks for the feedback! Sorry for the accidental downvote-- I have a reflex of downvoting people who reply to the wrong comment and I forgot this was my own thread. Sorry. :( Twitter is doing a character count and doesn't care about bytes-
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    by thorax 18y ago

    Ah, may be a problem with Chrome 1.0 they're going to fix soon? It works fine in my Chrome: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US) AppleWebKit/530.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/2.0.166.1 Safari/530.1 I'll have to see if I can instal
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    by thorax 18y ago

    What version/build of Firefox do you have? Firefox/3.0.6? Also, check your about:config and filter by IDN, you should see a lot of settings there. Any of them not set to default? Especially check this one: network.enableIDN by default it is
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    by thorax 18y ago

    I added a basic one to the main page. Thanks for the feedback.
27. 477.▲
    by thorax 18y ago

    Should be working fine, and I added a basic bookmarklet to the main page. Thanks!
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    by thorax 18y ago

    It's more of an experiment than anything else. It helps get browsers and tools up to standards and gives us a little fun/toy while we're at it. And the URLs are dramatically shorter than a character or two-- for example: http://➡.ws/껻 (6
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    by thorax 18y ago

    I'm working on the API for a moment-- someone else reported a bug. I'll edit/respond when we get it sorted.
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    by thorax 18y ago

    Thanks a lot for the clarification. If it's not a hassle, can you ask them how they read Twitter? Did they visit the website or get through a different reader?