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by troymc 14y ago
What's the cost of the hosted pro version?
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by troymc 14y ago
It seems the developer tools have changed for BlackBerry 10. https://developer.blackberry.com/devzone/develop/platform_ch...
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by troymc 14y ago
Note: The linked article was published in October 2011. It's not exactly news, but does make for stimulating reading!
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by troymc 14y ago
Yep, and before that there was JIMO, the Jupiter Icy Moons Orbiter, which was to be powered by a nuclear fission reactor (not an RTG). It lost funding in 2005. ESA continues work on JUICE, the Jupiter Icy Moon Explorer. No doubt there are m
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by troymc 14y ago
See http://www.thirty-seven.org/
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by troymc 14y ago
I would use the money to buy signals. Since they're a buck, I could buy 37 signals.
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by troymc 14y ago
When I first saw this, I thought, "Oh good, finally Automattic has something to compete with Page.ly, WP Engine, and Synthesis (i.e. managed WordPress hosting)." But then I read their prices. The other guys all have managed WP hosting plans
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by troymc 14y ago
I hadn't really thought about the overall types of photos on 500px before, but you're right, it is rather elitist and narrow. Anyone can post to Flickr, and things like the "interesting" link actually work (based on things like comments, I
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by troymc 14y ago
I often want a photo to illustrate a blog post, but I want one that I can use legally, e.g. public domain or under a Creative Commons Attribution-Only (CC-BY) license. Flickr provides an easy way to search for CC-BY photos in their collecti
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by troymc 14y ago
"Either way, there is currently a gaping void on the Web for people to share higher-resolution beautiful photos." 500px seems to do that quite well. http://500px.com/
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by troymc 14y ago
I was also curious, so I did some digging and found this article: http://www.sfgate.com/opinion/article/U-S-rare-earth-mine-re...
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by troymc 14y ago
Fun related trivia: I just read Robert A. Heinlein's first "Heinlein juvenile" (i.e. young adult) novel Rocket Ship Galileo . It was published in 1947. The rocket ship's power plant was a nuclear reactor using... thorium.
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by troymc 14y ago
There already are things that aim to be "the WordPress of Newsstand"; see: http://theperiodical.co/ http://www.mobilechameleon.com/toolkits-to-develop-magazine-...
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by troymc 14y ago
This reminds me of "Project Pigeon," B.F. Skinner's attempt to develop a pigeon-controlled missile during World War II: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Pigeon
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by troymc 14y ago
Why not use Optimizely? Just add one line of HTML your <head> and you're good to go. (It loads some JS.) https://www.optimizely.com/
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by troymc 14y ago
Pugpig seems similar to Baker: http://pugpig.com/
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by troymc 14y ago
Thanks! I also added Pugpig, which is similar but can also publish to Android. http://pugpig.com/
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by troymc 14y ago
Apparently this is the hot-button issue at 37signals today. (There's another blog post by Ryan on the same topic.) As commented on that other post: I recently researched tools that are designed to help people make book or magazine apps (mob
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by troymc 14y ago
It's interesting that people are still calling it "Metro", even after Microsoft was told to stop (because of a trademark issue). Microsoft stopped, but the rest of the world didn't, apparently. I know I didn't. It's a great name. Can the co
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by troymc 14y ago
I recently researched tools that are designed to help people make book or magazine apps (mobile apps). There are many options. I decided to share my findings here: http://www.mobilechameleon.com/toolkits-to-develop-magazine-...
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by troymc 14y ago
Corporate directories aren't something I'm familiar with, so forgive me if this question seems naive: Does Google Apps for Business (i.e. http://www.google.com/enterprise/apps/business/ ) have a viable solution for the corporate directory
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by troymc 14y ago
If an Augmented Reality Game is one which add no fictional elements, I'm not sure I agree. Can you elaborate?
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by troymc 14y ago
In March 2010, Wired magazine had an article about how the CEO (Howard Stringer at the time) was going to save Sony. The headline says it all: "Saving Sony: CEO Howard Stringer Plans to Focus on 3-D TV" It probably seemed like a good idea a
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by troymc 14y ago
I remember seeing an interview with the Unity CEO and he said that they had someone who was looking into (evaluating) HTML5 as a Unity target platform. I guess that would include WebGL, but also things like the Web Audio API and WebSockets.
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by troymc 14y ago
You're right that one of the founders of Flickr was behind Glitch, but there were two Flickr founders: Stewart Butterfield and Caterina Fake. Butterfield was the one behind Glitch. Fake went on to Hunch and then Pinwheel/Findery.
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by troymc 14y ago
Many free online courses have associated real-world study groups that form, especially in the larger cities. In fact, "meeting people / networking" is one of the reasons people take free online courses. Then there are ideas like The Miner
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by troymc 14y ago
"Dr. Hoenikker used to say that any scientist who couldn't explain to an eight-year-old what he was doing was a charlatan." - from Kurt Vonnegut's novel Cat's Cradle
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by troymc 14y ago
I'm reminded of the cover of that book, The Design of Everyday Things: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Design_of_Everyday_Things Looking at the photo of the store, the top halves of the two side walls seem to be flat and empty. Maybe th
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by troymc 14y ago
Initial thoughts: - "Dofsome... How am I supposed to pronounce that?" After a minute of hypotheses, I realized that it's a clever mashup of DOF (Depth of Field, i.e. photography jargon) and Awesome. I wonder how many people will figure that
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by troymc 14y ago
Theodore Geisel did start writing under his real name, for his college's humor magazine. But then he and his friends got caught drinking gin and the dean banned them from extracurricular activities, including writing for the magazine. Tha

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