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by willwagner 17y ago
I don't think it's strictly a homophone because they are pronounced differently. As far as typo/grammar mistakes though, it's one of the most common.
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IoSafe: A cheap waterproof, fireproof external hard drive(iosafe.com)
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by willwagner 17y ago
I imagine that some prescriptions for antibiotics by doctors are more or less because the doctor doubts it calls for antibiotics but rationalizes that the placebo effect will help, coupled with patient's angst that they may leave the doctor
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by willwagner 17y ago
On the harshness scale, I'm surprised with the number of downvotes some recent comments get not on the quality of a comment, but that the voter disagrees with its stance. I like well-crafted comments that I completely disagree with; it chal
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by willwagner 17y ago
Yeah, an experienced startup developer can acknowledge and articulate the tradeoffs between time to market and the perfect design, sometimes delaying some of the design (e.g. perhaps deferring scaling tasks until it's needed) to get things
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by willwagner 17y ago
Wow, this does look life changing. I've been experimenting a lot with ctrl-x in insert mode but it's a bit clunky in comparison. The link to supertab is: http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=182
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by willwagner 17y ago
To me, unless the phone number is clearly marked that it's from HelpHive as opposed to the business, it's similar to a phishing site; it could really get delisted by google which would be the kiss of death for this company's business. I use
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by willwagner 17y ago
It allows you to put javascript in a click handler: http://www.apple.com/itunes/affiliates/download/?artistName=...
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by willwagner 17y ago
And don't forget the Zune time bug which caused a bit of embarrassment for Microsoft last year/beginning of this year. It's hard to test every boundary and edge condition, especially if you are relying on black box testing to catch bugs.
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by willwagner 17y ago
It may already be a feature in the product, but I'd want the ability to export the story either to youtube and/or be able to download it to my disk. I can see myself using it having my kids read a story as a saved memory. I also can imagin
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by willwagner 17y ago
If I'm really excited about a position, I'll write my own code sample before I go to an interview. I'll typically write either a simple igoogle module or possibly a simple feature on my own website, proxying some of their calls through my
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by willwagner 17y ago
I ended up getting married and starting a family. Financially, it didn't make much sense to keep the boat if I wasn't going to use it often, and I was ready try some new things, so I ended up selling it.
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by willwagner 17y ago
In the SF Bay Area, I lived on a sailboat for about 5 years. Living in a constricted space like that definitely takes some time to get used to, but I enjoyed the experience quite a bit. Sailboats are great if you want to break the habit o
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by willwagner 17y ago
Does this line of argument really make any sense? Isn't "prior art" just as easy to defend against in a lawsuit? I'm not sure I really feel good about a big brother corporation creating bogus patents with the promise of doing it for the go
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by willwagner 17y ago
It takes a while for office prices to go down (at least it did in 2000-2001 after the first web crash). It's a great time to renegotiate an existing lease (lower price for a longer contract so you won't bolt after your initial lease expir
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by willwagner 17y ago
The article mentions Harold McGee's "On Food and Cooking: The Science and Lore of the Kitchen" which is an awesome book for learning the science behind cooking. I'd totally recommend that book in the tradition of food/cooking hacking.
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by willwagner 17y ago
I think his point is the same thing I'm having a problem understanding. I went to the demo site and saw 17 scripts loaded on the page using firebug; I assumed from the description there would be only one. Microformats aside, I'm trying to
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by willwagner 17y ago
FWIW, I was trying to find out what the site looked like before this kerfuffle. I only found this: http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://dropbox.com which doesn't show too much except for some godaddy.com domain parking. If it was just a do
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by willwagner 17y ago
Unfortunately, if you are adding a lot of elements, your performance can really suffer by creating DOM elements. It helps if you "createDocumentFragment" but as far as I know, shoving a big string into the non-standard innerHTML member is
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by willwagner 17y ago
I use a similar technique when the number of optional arguments get out of control (i.e. if there is more than one optional argument). If you want to tight control, you can take advantage of the fact that a variable that is a function, the
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by willwagner 17y ago
Why do you suppose they used cartoonish icons for the browsers like firefox and opera? Is it just to make it look more friendly to a naive user? I assume it has nothing to do with any sort of trademark issues but I've wondered what the li
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by willwagner 17y ago
Windows flash seems to have better performance than linux or mac. I have dual boot older Dell and the difference between Windows and Linux is significant. Same holds for my triple boot netbook: linux and mac are much slower than windows.
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by willwagner 17y ago
I put it on our todo list. should be pretty easy to implement at this point. Thanks!
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by willwagner 17y ago
I think this is bad PR for Google but the fact that Microsoft makes MVPs sign non-disclosure agreements might be a contributing factor. IANAL, but if it were me and I had been working on technologies for which there may be information that
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by willwagner 17y ago
I agree with you. I think up until now an OEM just had to weigh the costs of paying the microsoft tax or using linux. Now with Google entering the market, I think linux will quickly get squeezed out. It is a real possibility that Google, i
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by willwagner 17y ago
For the vast majority, consumers don't change OSs and will just live with what comes with their netbook when they buy it. The real battle is with the manufacturer and I don't see how Moblin can compete with those two giants trying to get b
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by willwagner 17y ago
Not only is a new OS scary, a Linux OS is even scarier. While I don't believe it's so true these days, Linux as a brand still has has this negative connotation with average consumers and is associated with engineers, tinkerers, and geeks.
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by willwagner 17y ago
Thank. We'll add that to FAQ.
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by willwagner 17y ago
Thanks for the feedback. We definitely need some work on the visual design; also, I love the idea about an inferred structure.
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by willwagner 17y ago
Thanks, we'll do that.

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