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by thorax 18y ago
While I don't think Google should follow Yahoo, I wouldn't say Yahoo has been unsuccessful.
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by thorax 18y ago
I have so many tags. Can you not just take all the tags, see which ones I link/use the most, and then prioritize my news on that basis? Clicking tags seems like it's waste of time and is too much tunnel-vision. Neat concept, definitely.
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by thorax 18y ago
Well, I wanted that, too ("Python Pirates, Arr!") But it has a little bit of a bad connotation. Sounds like people who steal code all the time. "Pirates ship it."
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by thorax 18y ago
Using apps or normal function? If I don't (ever) use any 3rd party apps, the phone seems about the same as before. After I play some games, I tend to power off and power back on to get it back into good shape. Hopefully they'll get this sor
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by thorax 18y ago
And, if you're an average developer, it could eat literally days and days of time with frustrating and odd failures in corner cases with your web applications. If you build an application, I suppose doing it on systems with mod_security alr
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by thorax 18y ago
Man, I tried this a bunch of times and it never sent any email and just stared at me pretty blankly. Until I realized the problem is that your site doesn't except "+" characters in emails and then fails silently entirely, leaving me the exp
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by thorax 18y ago
I like it-- just a few more bugs to work out. I did a search (for my wife) of "Tori Amos honey" and it took a solid minute to return anything. Created an account and the playlist I saved there. Cool stuff. Heh, nice touch with it saying "We
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Parasitic computing -- what can you get other machines to compute for you unknowingly?(ddj.com)
7 points by thorax 18y ago|1 comments
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by thorax 18y ago
Yeah, clearly they can record it-- it just wouldn't be nearly as convenient to capture it.
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by thorax 18y ago
I was discussing this with a friend. I think I'd like it better if it only allowed you to record an audio note that is erased as it is played. The current message is a little too easy to capture with copy/paste and thus makes it easier for
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by thorax 18y ago
I do all of these (even in interactive shell) except I have a weak spot for this sort of notation: i+=2
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by thorax 18y ago
It's interesting to see how much a primary color (cyan in this case) affects people's initial reaction to things. I think if the UI looked more like this when they first saw it, no one would have really given it much thought: http://screen
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by thorax 18y ago
Better than that in a sense. Seems to use a mixture of modern texture design, simulated bump-mapping, etc. So it's closer to modern games in terms of tricks, so the overall quality is hard to compare with older games. I think I'd have to sa
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by thorax 18y ago
I can't say I'm omfortable with the conflict of interest gray area for the two organizations. That being said, this article: * Was written in November of last year, before FF3 release and some of Mozilla's latest initiatives. * Is really st
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by thorax 18y ago
5 digit figures? How are you getting that? How many full-time engineer "months" do you think Twitter would need to pay to get something as scalable as Summize? Who will test that it's ready to go live before the patience-thin Twitter user b
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by thorax 18y ago
I'm always a little surprised at comments like this regarding a software/technology acquisition. This sort of thing is rarely about whether or not they "can" reproduce the technology, but how much value it would be for them to have versus t
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by thorax 18y ago
You should give it a shot. It does give you more power than a traditional IDE. The as-you-type search thing is genius usability for a tool like this and I'd expect to see it in Visio and the like as soon as they see how well it works. Innov
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by thorax 18y ago
A couple years ago my wife thought she'd do an April Fool's joke for her wedding wiki. I convinced her to work in the word "Mesothelioma" just to see what Google Adsense did (please don't click on the ads! seriously.): http://www.applebrid
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by thorax 18y ago
But you learned how to make some cool fireworks in the process.
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by thorax 18y ago
Pretty much just relying on the PHP/GD image manipulation functions and some TrueType fonts.
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by thorax 18y ago
Heh, I remember using this back when Slashdot was in its heyday. The voice generation was actually really good back then. I used it to make this techno song about Slashdot: http://why.gd/Kluge-Naming_Convention-01-Dotted.mp3
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by thorax 18y ago
This is a cool idea. We had our fun with image hackery with featurelist. A lot of users discuss things on forums, etc, where they can't post javascript/flash, so we created little banners like this so users can get other people to vote for
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by thorax 18y ago
I'm personally more concerned with keeping CS as a study of the science of computing rather than adapting it to improve the job prospects of students. My feeling is that really so many people going into CS aren't looking to study the scienc
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by thorax 18y ago
I love programming software and have been doing it for half of my life. Whether I am or not by other people's standards, I always assume I'm a crappy programmer and never trust my own code until it stands the test of time. For his list of i
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by thorax 18y ago
Just remember, you're the expert. They're calling you there for your experience, so you don't have to be anything than yourself and share what you know and your thoughts. It probably depends on content for a way to wedge in the pitch-- but
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by thorax 18y ago
You can use MediaWiki and add Semantic MediaWiki extension to get something closer to what you want. We use this a lot and get all sorts of structured data (with RDFs, etc) when we need it, but freeform data around it.
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by thorax 18y ago
I'm confused (maybe)-- why would the "locked" phone suddenly become unlocked when you cancel your contract? Not sure I follow how this trick would work.
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by thorax 18y ago
Second Life recently substantially cut prices for their "new" island sales. I think it's likely the decreased land sales figures could be caused by that big price drop-- and not necessarily showing less demand for virtual land. More people
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by thorax 18y ago
I have to say I've become a huge Code Igniter fan over the past year. I didn't use to think much of PHP (I prefer Python), but CI really makes it feel a bit like a real language and they have the best user guide documentation that I've seen
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by thorax 18y ago
Not sure if the page is a joke, but randomly I thought I'd mention you might not want to publicly "sell" equity for a venture. I don't think that goes over well with US regulators if you're in the US (I'm no lawyer, but that's what I've hea

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