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by thorax 16y ago
Yeah, what struck me was that if style was your differentiator for using Google versus Bing, you just lost your motivation to stick with Google. Some examples: Bing's style: http://www.bing.com/search?q=mortgage New Google style: http://
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by thorax 16y ago
I've just been spending a lot of time with graphviz lately so this is quite timely. Surely uses graphviz on the backend. Would be nice if it could also generate RDF for the graph as well.
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by thorax 16y ago
Looked stellar also on Chrome 4.1 on a Vista laptop.
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by thorax 16y ago
My wife MUST jailbreak to have it for themes/styles. In fact, I bought her a 3GS for Valentine's day that has been sitting around collecting dust because it couldn't jailbreak (she's still using her 3G). I also made her icons that do 1-clic
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by thorax 16y ago
Some random ideas to salvage your idea a tad (which seems to be very difficult to make work given it's difficulties): * Start with a niche like used books and perhaps partner with a book swapping site (e.g. bookmooch or bookcrossing or some
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by thorax 16y ago
Obviously it's better, but I'm not so sure it's common.
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by thorax 17y ago
The SEC proposal in question is talking about making these available (publicly if I read this correctly) when defining new securities: > We also are proposing to require that, with some exceptions, prospectuses for public offerings of
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by thorax 17y ago
The cynic in me thinks it will actually push the state of the art of obfuscating Python (which isn't widely experimented with as far as I know).
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by thorax 17y ago
Unit tests, though-- not super common to write those for demo code, right?
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by thorax 17y ago
What if they had a disclosure (maybe until things get "better") at the top in bright bold red that said: "Cpedia will quite often be wrong or odd. The web is quirky and we're trying to make sense of it. Don't take anything below seriously j
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by thorax 17y ago
Well, it does sound like the know it's more of a long-shot "weird" idea and they call it an "alpha". One quote from the blog: > At other times it is weird — it does reflect the web after all. I can see a lot of hackers wanting to try
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by thorax 17y ago
Are we sure this isn't just an experiment of theirs? Some 20% project from one of their engineers using info they already had at their disposal? For a side experiment, I'm not going to fault or bash any company-- we've got a few of our own
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by thorax 17y ago
Though the apps are at $9.99+ on iPad. With the "anchoring" of the iPhone apps at $0.99 and $2.99 (and free), Apple and other companies are having to fight a slightly different battle of re-anchoring everyone higher.
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by thorax 17y ago
My iPad comes today. I'm excited about it. Yet I'm pretty sure this isn't a quirk of their advertisement, though they do want to convey relaxation as much as possible. Apple is trying very far to avoid demonstrating/emphasizing the natural
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by thorax 17y ago
All presentation could be described as "useless fluff". If you wanted to change the font for a visited link aside from color, this will eat that. Note that I take the word "paranoia" from Mozilla's own blog discussing the topic. I do feel t
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by thorax 17y ago
Any presentation layer change is going to break the look of lots of sites, given the huge quantity of sites. If you changed the font at all for a visited link, it will display differently across Mozilla browsers versus Chrome ones. Having n
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by thorax 17y ago
Yeah, I know it's valuable to put out some solution to this, but I would have preferred more options discussed on how to prevent this rather than choosing an option that breaks presentation backwards compatibility. I know I have the minorit
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by thorax 17y ago
I'm sure they do feel they're working hard to compromise on this issue, but their decisions for this will break sites with very careful styling/designs (e.g. checkmarks, font styling, etc). It just doesn't sit well with me that Mozilla feel
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by thorax 17y ago
All of these techniques could be prevented if you knew about them. Yet I wouldn't be surprised if the specific IP address wasn't customizable eventually when you control both sides.
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by thorax 17y ago
Given the last word in your sentence, I assume you didn't know about this "surface" for D&D: http://blogs.msdn.com/surface/archive/2009/12/16/new-gamepla... Of course, $499 versus $15k is a big difference, but this shows some of the p
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by thorax 17y ago
I'm sure people will, indeed, run the concept ahead of him. I hope they do (or he hurries) because I can't wait to play it. Variations would also be awesome--- Spy versus Spy would also be a stellar spin and maybe even more fun. Imagine try
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by thorax 17y ago
These kind of problems for graphic designers are like software bugs to developers. Now they'll get to spend more of their time "coding features" instead of debugging.
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by thorax 17y ago
http://ftp.iza.org/dp4793.pdf Interesting similar findings that men take more risks when playing women in chess (when looking at ~1.4 million games): For male players the probability of choosing a solid strategy is about 1.3 percent lowe
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by thorax 17y ago
You mean like a CB? Why not make those standard?
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by thorax 17y ago
I'll counter with my own request: Please do write a motivational or demotivational post about how you didn't get into YC. I think every cycle it's useful to hear people's impressions, thoughts, and experiences and feel a sense that it's not
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by thorax 17y ago
To be clear, did you specifically need the code so you could self-host/tweak or did you need a free service variant? If you need services, one such free meeting service is dimdim.com. For open source stuff I had heard of the old JWebPresent
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by thorax 17y ago
Very cool video. How long have you been at this?
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by thorax 17y ago
I was surprised to see my above comment copied to the parent blog link as if it was a comment on the blog itself. What's the software driving that? Very disconcerting and pretty cool at the same time. Makes me hesitate to comment on YC, tho
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by thorax 17y ago
We got the family package and were pleased with the results. My wife was even offered a free package to give to relatives because her genome was so unique to them. Note that you can download the raw data from 23andMe and go to the public h
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by thorax 17y ago
I think you misunderstood the exploit for identifying the anonymous comments. It works with pretty much any survey where you can individualize communications: I create 20 accounts on your service. I put my picture on all of them. I send out

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