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by wgj 17y ago
I thought this would be some distributed way to reassemble texts, but actually it's just an awareness campaign?
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PayPal Introduces Open API to Put Payments Into Apps(pcworld.com)
1 points by wgj 17y ago|0 comments
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Photographers Denied Participation in Google Settlement(pdnonline.com)
1 points by wgj 17y ago|0 comments
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by wgj 17y ago
Funny, just seeing the link titles, I made the connection. :) Anyway, I thought the highlight was the coining of "1KTF". And, even though people will find exception with the details (and I do too), the article is useful food-for-thought fo
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by wgj 17y ago
AANAL, but I'm pretty sure he's covered by trademark law anyway, and could win in court. (In this case, I'd say _would_ win in court.) He would just not be a allowed to win damages unless registered. (He'd have to pay his own court costs.)
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Will Our Universe Collide With a Neighboring One?(discovermagazine.com)
13 points by wgj 17y ago|1 comments
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by wgj 17y ago
Highly recommended, and no one has mentioned yet: Getting To Yes http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Getting_to_YES And anything by Cialdini: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Cialdini
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Thinking Functionally In Ruby – A Great Presentation by Tom Stuart(rubyinside.com)
3 points by wgj 17y ago|1 comments
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by wgj 17y ago
"In most people's vocabularies, design means veneer." That on its own is a great one-liner.
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by wgj 17y ago
A couple observations from my experience: 1) It's hard to find truly insightful designers who also have an entrepreneurial instinct. The most famous examples who do are legendary. (The Real Steve Jobs) 2) Hiring out for design work usually
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by wgj 17y ago
> Why should developers waste their time No one should do anything they really don't want to do. That's not what I'm saying. (And more power to everyone developing for iPhone, whether successfully or not.) What I'm saying is that in the
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by wgj 17y ago
(+1) But the problem isn't the discussion of the risks, rewards, success stories, or how all of it was navigated. The problem is the sheer emphasis on iPhone apps over seemingly everything else. We all would be better off (developers and co
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by wgj 17y ago
It looks like the only difference allowing for more friends is that those people are specifically more likely to befriend people with fewer friends. (Sue and Alice, in the example.) One could take away from this that the secret to having ma
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by wgj 17y ago
The money was split with the developer, so they made $15K each. I'm assuming the 2-8 hours per week was 2-8 hours each. I didn't see where he said otherwise. To me this looks similar to what you might make from many kinds of small app proje
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by wgj 17y ago
He's not saying it's a Rails issue, he's saying he learned the technique via a Rails-specific talk.
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by wgj 17y ago
Agreed. Success is demonstrated in knowing exactly what you want to achieve with something and sticking to it.
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by wgj 17y ago
I answered myself on this other thread. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=913284 Every other part of the URL including the rest of the domain name can already be Unicode encoded. This is how spoofing attacks are formed by using non-Lati
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by wgj 17y ago
These PC World articles seem completely inaccurate to me. (The other one was posted here. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=913169 ) First, most of the domain name has already been open to Unicode encoding via an ASCII encoded transform
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by wgj 17y ago
I'd hate to be competing with Wikipedia. Also, is it really fitting the definition of hyperlocal if there's no dynamic content, real-time news, or social capability?
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by wgj 17y ago
I thought this ICANN decision just opened the way for internationalized TLDs, and that the rest of the domain name was already internationalized. Thanks to anyone who can help clarify this.
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by wgj 17y ago
Doesn't deserve a downvote. The video is a rickroll.
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by wgj 17y ago
He claims it's tested. Seems improbable though. It would be worth hearing the details.
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by wgj 17y ago
The article argues that all such apps are "swinging for the fences" and I don't completely agree with that. You can plateau a lot smaller than twitter and still benefit from delayed revenue, or alternative revenue models.
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by wgj 17y ago
Apps that rely on network effects to be successful need a free model, or an existing base with critical mass. The latter is nice if you have it. Freemium is a great way to get some users to pay for value created out of the total network eff
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by wgj 17y ago
Thanks
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by wgj 17y ago
> "we're all <35, no big corporate lifers here (you know what I'm talking about)" I don't know about Canada, but this age-related way of segmenting people can cause you some problems in the US.
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by wgj 17y ago
Does Wikipedia have RDF or other semantic format?
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by wgj 17y ago
I first saw this on slashdot: http://yro.slashdot.org/story/09/10/28/2236235/Amazon-Patent... To me it looks like there would be ways to circumvent it. It also looks more effective the larger the body of content, so aimed at large scrapin
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Textual watermarking from Amazon : United States Patent: 7610382(patft.uspto.gov)
18 points by wgj 17y ago|14 comments
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by wgj 17y ago
Yes, if you close the right instance, it stops. but there doesn't seem to be any correlation with whatever page was in that instance. I've also had issues with an instance suddenly using 20-50% of the CPU for no reason. Chrome is now my pri

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