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by zzzmarcus 14y ago
Merriam Webster and the Oxford English Dictionary already accept the use of "literally" to mean "virtually" in informal contexts. It's a losing battle. http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/literally http://oxforddictionaries.com/def
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by zzzmarcus 14y ago
With Flex and AirVideo transcoding is done in real time and works really well. Zero wait time for uploading and transcoding sure beats even a few minutes.
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by zzzmarcus 14y ago
For me it's the flexibility of window splits. In Vim I use both vertical and horizontal splits constantly, sometimes having 6 open at a time to deal with, for example, a Rails model, controller and view along with a CSS and JavaScript file
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by zzzmarcus 14y ago
The Hipmunk demo miscategorizes most of the "neutral" tweets: http://recon.io/demo/neutral About 50% of those are easily positive with quite a few more that could fall into the positive category without much debate.
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by zzzmarcus 14y ago
The book was not about blowing up a bridge.
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by zzzmarcus 14y ago
It still works. I can verify that from having seen it done first hand as recently as yesterday.
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by zzzmarcus 14y ago
If you slam on the brakes, yes, you'll fall. However in my experience in practice it is not hard to get used to braking on a longboard. I've done it and seen lots of other people do it without crashing. You probably don't stop as fast as yo
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by zzzmarcus 14y ago
Looks like it's evolved some since I used it, but this is the company: http://www.skatebrake.com/products.html
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by zzzmarcus 14y ago
Absolutely. The weight difference is definitely the biggest difference. I've ridden longboards with both foot and hand brakes. All the hand braking boards I've tried had a cable from the board to the controls and even with that hassle, I mu
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by zzzmarcus 14y ago
There have been plenty of electric longboards before, but none even close to this size. Someone else linked to this: http://www.zboardshop.com/ which is basically the same idea but the difference in implementation is night and day. This b
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by zzzmarcus 14y ago
I agree that yes, you should definitely be experienced if you're going to be going 20mph on a longboard. It's fast. But, if you've got brakes, and I've ridden both electric skateboards with brakes and non-electric skateboards with brakes be
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by zzzmarcus 14y ago
Pinterest seems like the best example. I don't have any numbers but explosive growth and fanatical users seem to be good circumstantial evidence for infinite scrolling. Prismatic also uses it and personally I love it on that site.
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by zzzmarcus 14y ago
If only it were that simple. The problem is that you don't know what the 'right way' is until you've done it once and discovered all of your the mistakes and pitfalls. The temptation then becomes to start over and do it right after having l
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by zzzmarcus 14y ago
There's an app that'll show you the temperature in realtime on the icon without the need to open the app. It's called eWeather HD and uses the notifications feature of iOS in a pretty clever way. The app itself is a little obtuse, but havin
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by zzzmarcus 14y ago
For what it's worth, if you jailbreak you can change the default browser. Though having done that and used Atomic Browser for awhile as the default, I can say that the performance hit isn't compensated for by the nicer tabs, user agent swit
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by zzzmarcus 14y ago
Another book that has several chapters related to GEB is David Deutsch's "The Beginning of Infinity." It's a very accessible read, and for me, eye-opening in more than one way.
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by zzzmarcus 14y ago
I'm on a mid 2010 Macbook Pro using Chrome 20 (dev) and it runs perfectly smooth with no lag and no noticeable spike in CPU usage.
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by zzzmarcus 14y ago
You can also cut and paste it into this site: http://js2coffee.org/ . It's not always perfect, but it will get you 95% of the way there.
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by zzzmarcus 15y ago
The problem with licensing Meteor as GPL is that it creates a high level of uncertainty. If I'm going to start a new hobby or side project, perhaps hoping that it'll get bigger someday, I still have no idea if, when or how it'll make money
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by zzzmarcus 15y ago
Wow. With Pair ze frank's vision from years ago (2007) of a social network for two has become reality. http://www.zefrank.com/social_network/ http://www.trypair.com/
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by zzzmarcus 15y ago
Looks like it may have been abandoned. Last commit was 5 months ago. https://github.com/anatoliychakkaev/railwayjs.com/commits/ma...
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by zzzmarcus 15y ago
It's hard to tell from the video, but he's showing both before and after the hack. Each time he switches to a new activity he shows the normal mode with full refreshes every time anything happens, then he taps the screen four times on the r
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by zzzmarcus 15y ago
If I'm reading the license, which the README says is MIT but actually is a modified version of the MIT license, correctly it means anything you publish that is created using the software has to be published under the MIT license. "You must
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by zzzmarcus 15y ago
This is also a great website for quickly viewing prettyified json: http://json.parser.online.fr/
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by zzzmarcus 15y ago
You can also use tabs in macvim and split windows, or any combination of buffers, tabs and splits. It's pretty flexible that way.
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by zzzmarcus 15y ago
Discussion on this from yesterday: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3498163
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by zzzmarcus 15y ago
They remapped backslash to esc. Kind of a pain since you have to go through 2 keyboards to get to it, but it works.
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by zzzmarcus 15y ago
Obviously a startup doesn't want to be copied this way, but if the company making the clones is actually good at getting users internationally, could this end up being a net win for the original company? The clone gets popular in other coun
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by zzzmarcus 15y ago
If you're in the US, that feature will cost you another $240/yr unless you're already on the 4gb data plan.
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by zzzmarcus 15y ago
What's frustrating is that Facebook, with what are almost unlimited resources available to them relative to Path and Instagram, hasn't come out with something better. Sure their problem is different and tougher, but with the latest version

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