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by timdorr 14y ago
GMail does make some direct revenue for Google (ads and paid storage), but it was (and probably still is) their #1 method for onboarding users to the Google Accounts system. And that gets them access to pay for all sorts of Google products.
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by timdorr 14y ago
I doubt their Hadoop clusters have password data stored in them.
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by timdorr 14y ago
They're likely skipping over a ton of libraries for brevity's sake. It captures data from audio, video, bluetooth, and other sources. A full BT stack is going to be pretty sizable. If there's any compression being done on that audio or vide
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by timdorr 14y ago
VOIP for games is the most obvious. I imagine someone can build out a "Say Something" competitor to Draw Something pretty easily using this API.
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by timdorr 14y ago
Android runs on Linux.
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by timdorr 14y ago
Amazon is doing this too with Amazon Lockers: http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html/ref=hp_l... They're still on a trial run, but they have been rolling out in a couple more cities recently.
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by timdorr 15y ago
HSS could be compiled into CSS. LESS stays LESS until it's compiled by a javascript shiv into CSS. If you're going to build out a browser plugin, you're going to have to plug into the built-in styling system to translate your HSS into CSS o
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by timdorr 15y ago
Even better: Why not build on and extend the work that SASS/LESS have already started?
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by timdorr 15y ago
How else would they know what credit report to look up and what questions to ask?
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by timdorr 15y ago
It's likely something new. This is very much integrated into Google Docs (Docs actually gets replaced with Drive when you opt-in), so it's different than just a storage system. Like a commenter mentioned above, this is all about replacing
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by timdorr 15y ago
So, the solution is replacing the CAPTCHA with my SSN? All to post a review? Yeah, that doesn't seem reasonable to me...
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by timdorr 15y ago
All these multi-billion valuations are making me nervous...
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by timdorr 15y ago
That's certainly true, but the two aren't mutually exclusive. Kickstarter will get you the funds to go out and build a cool product, but it won't tell you how to generate a model that's sustainable, teach you how to go to market, or even te
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by timdorr 15y ago
I would change the tagline at the top. "Welcome to the future." is way too generic. Maybe try "Wave hi to the future." or something like that. It makes the graphic to the left look like a giant hand wanting to give an iMac a high-five. So
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by timdorr 15y ago
Kickstarter is for products, YC is for businesses. (More or less, I'm not saying it's black and white)
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by timdorr 15y ago
Thad's been walking about Georgia Tech and other places with a wearable computer since 1993. I remember how big his previous version was, but the current version isn't too bad: http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_sqPHIOY4PBQ/TTtAjzFy6TI/AAAAAAAAAv..
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by timdorr 15y ago
Tech Tower at Georgia Tech: http://g.co/maps/ncaqd
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by timdorr 15y ago
It's funny you keep referring to Java as the example for over-engineered code. That's true if you look at the built-in stuff, but if you look at frameworks like Play, it's not so bad. That said, I completely agree with you on ZF2 being a co
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by timdorr 15y ago
Considering he sold 200,000 copies of his video in 12 days, I would say he's pretty popular.
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by timdorr 15y ago
When I got my first merchant account, I declare those numbers based on the current state of the business: About $1000/mo. I never revised those numbers in the 6 years I had the account. When I sold the company, we were doing +$1MM/yr. I've
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by timdorr 15y ago
To be fair, Flickr has implemented the ability to opt out of "pinning" via a setting: http://www.flickr.com/account/prefs/sharing?from=privacy This adds the "nopin" meta tag to your pages automatically. However, to be even more fair, the
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by timdorr 15y ago
> Not like one would continually check out the latest version. Why not? It's being updated regularly: https://github.com/necolas/normalize.css/commits/master
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by timdorr 15y ago
MIT has a wireless tech that appeared to work with that range: http://blog.ted.com/2009/08/25/wireless_electr/
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by timdorr 15y ago
One of the people behind it, Philip Ryu, is also one of the creators of MacHeist. That was basically a giant sceme to gather a large mailing list of folks. He also works with tap tap tap, who makes use of that mailing list for marketing pur
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by timdorr 15y ago
When you're banned from a subreddit, that's the decision of the moderators of that subreddit, not the administration of the site. You're blaming the wrong people.
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by timdorr 15y ago
The preteen girls subreddit didn't have anything explicitly illegal in it. Just really creepy stuff.
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by timdorr 15y ago
It actually started a few days ago. The account creating the preteen girls subreddit and posting most of its content was 3 days old. It is very suspect and a plausible explanation is that someone from SA was running a smear campaign from th
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by timdorr 15y ago
"hieght" is also a good one: https://github.com/search?type=Code&language=JavaScript&...
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by timdorr 15y ago
HipChat supports XMPP/Jabber: https://www.hipchat.com/help/category/xmpp
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by timdorr 15y ago
This is fake: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/jamesbond/8589096/Fa...

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