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   by xhrpost 12y ago

   > machine printed is pretty solid You mean OCR in general or ocradJS? I tried cropping a picture down in the later and I can't get it to come even close: http://imgur.com/cesg0IE
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   by xhrpost 12y ago

   I was really hoping to see someone have a different experience than me, so thank you ;). Not sure why the difference though, perhaps we have the speed around here but just not a decent price. I've heard more non-tech people complain ab
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   by xhrpost 12y ago

   > "People love to complain about the speed of their Internet access and with good reason." I'm sorry, but no, in my experience, they don't. I can't think off hand of any non-tech person in my area complain about
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   by xhrpost 12y ago

   There are plenty of people already on the $15/mo plan with Audible. Myself included. I listen to audio books on my commute. The difference with my more expensive plan is that I get too keep the audio books. Though I have not re-listene
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   by xhrpost 12y ago

   I wonder if it would be practical to programmatically generate an audio file for the game so that it could be loaded straight from the web without using a disk. Similar to the Apple Game Server http://asciiexpress.net/gamese
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   I'm Sorry Amazon...I Want an Open Relationship(kevinmooreauthor.blogspot.com)

   5 points by xhrpost 12y ago|0 comments
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   by xhrpost 12y ago

   Looks like they're offering a full money back guarantee after a month. Though I suppose it's entirely possible that you haven't been paid by a client in that time frame.
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   by xhrpost 12y ago

   Just recently ran across Parkinson's Law when looking up Bikeshedding on Wikipedia (which redirects to "Parkinson's law of triviality"). Found some copies of his book on Amazon which I'd like to read through some ti
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   by xhrpost 12y ago

   Been waiting to see this happen, though it's not the first attempt at decentralized storage. Interested to see if someone can pull this off with WebRTC.
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    by xhrpost 12y ago

    Yea, that's a valid point. I'm pretty sure some could handle it, but many peers may not be able to. Using Usenet for mass archives would have to be done gradually. "more than 25 petabytes of Usenet messages on the Giganews se
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    by xhrpost 12y ago

    Most premium providers haven't deleted binaries in several years. At worst, it could at least be temporary archival until more permanent storage is acquired in the future. For example, place the 0 views Justin.TV vids there until Archi
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    by xhrpost 12y ago

    I wonder if Usenet is at all a consideration for excess archival. Any NSP I've heard of allows for unlimited uploads. Sounds like a good use for the archaic system.
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    by xhrpost 12y ago

    Sorry to hear about your wife, I hope that situation improves. Regarding community involvement, this is the hurdle that I can't figure out myself. I've done research in this area and talked to people about the prospect. I haven&#x
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    by xhrpost 12y ago

    How successful have you been in getting the average citizen on board for such an endeavor?
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    by xhrpost 12y ago

    Not sure I've ran across what you're describing. Are you talking about using streams as an option to get around callback hell? Have a link describing this?
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    by xhrpost 12y ago

    The picture of the one attached to a girl's bike appears to connect to a power source next to the front wheel which I assume to be some sort of generator from wheel motion.
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    by xhrpost 12y ago

    Didn't think about using an old phone. I think I found the Android App on the Play store [1] but it requires root which likely removes the 'REALLY simple installer' requirement. [1] https://play.google.com/stor
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    by xhrpost 12y ago

    I've used Socket.IO quite a bit, congrats on shipping! Did the issue/"lack of feature" get fixed where not all transport methods fire a disconnect event? That was especially a pain on a recent project, ended up forcing w
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    by xhrpost 12y ago

    Yup, IANA was allocating two /8's per month before they ran out. At best, you'd get a few months of extra time. http://www.iana.org/assignments/ipv4-address-space/ipv4-addr...
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    by xhrpost 12y ago

    Trying to think how you could build this. Unless there's some fancy new feature in the browsers, I think you'd have to do something complicated like run WebKit.JS and capture from the canvas output.
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    by xhrpost 12y ago

    I like the article overall but I don't understand the author's proposed solution. The issue as it stands is apparently a lack of peering, in that big ISPs are using transit to reach large content providers rather than directly pee
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    by xhrpost 12y ago

    I think you summarized the steps here pretty well. A note on your first paragraph after item 6: I think to get over/around the "scammy" potential of this tactic, a good route would be to make sure the courses/articles ar
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    by xhrpost 12y ago

    I think the key takeaways from this article are: 1.) Advertise knowledge but give away for free 2.) Use knowledge (e.g. 5 day course) absorbers (users) to create an e-mail list. 3.) Create and sell product that addresses a pain point releva
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    by xhrpost 12y ago

    Google cache: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache%3Ahttps... For me it sits there, hit Stop in the browser and it will load in though.
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    by xhrpost 12y ago

    So what happened? It seems like just yesterday that the FCC was the one creating the rules around net neutrality. A federal court over-turns this and all of a sudden the FCC decides to go the complete opposite direction?
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    by xhrpost 12y ago

    I've recently done the same. Still trying to get my work environment set up decently. We need some sort of user group for people doing 4k programming to exchange ideas, tools, methods, etc.
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    by xhrpost 12y ago

    I have my doubts on that figure as well, but if it's worth a lot less, why give the customer such a discount?
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    by xhrpost 12y ago

    Even if we had a more competitive market, what could really be done about this? It seems people tend to flock towards lower price, particularly when the difference is something that's not immediately tangible. I worked retail years ago
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    by xhrpost 12y ago

    Sounds similar to having to pay the phone company to NOT put your phone number in the phone book. I once heard it described as "Corporate Blackmail".
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    by xhrpost 12y ago

    No, they're much cheaper. I pay $50/mo for 18Mbps. The more rural you are, the worse it gets. I know people paying $35/mo for 2Mbps.