chriswarren

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by chriswarren 13y ago
Taxis in general don't fully turk the concept, at least not in areas without reliable taxi volume. It's reasonable as long as you can rely on the taxi to show up within a decent amount of time of requesting it or expect to see one
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by chriswarren 13y ago
Outselling doesn't mean the competition/alternative doesn't have any usage at all.
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An Interview with a Dead Man(newscientist.com)
6 points by chriswarren 13y ago|0 comments
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by chriswarren 13y ago
I've had mine for a couple of weeks, using it with an iPhone, and so far it's a neat toy that doesn't do very much. I can see text messages, and I can see the phone number of the person calling me (not their name yet, though). I can control
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by chriswarren 14y ago
It's not known if Maps was removed because of Apple or Google or both. So while there's no choice on having Google's Maps removed in iOS 6, the reason it happend isn't clear. When it came time to renew the contract one or both parties could
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Zencoder announces Live Transcoding and Instant Play(blog.zencoder.com)
2 points by chriswarren 14y ago|0 comments
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by chriswarren 15y ago
Looks like that's a bug that they're fixing in the next release. https://twitter.com/sparrow/status/180334664890855424
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by chriswarren 15y ago
I believe Exceptional was acquired by Jon Siegel, and then Exceptional, under its new ownership, acquired Airbrake. I haven't seen anything that indicates which brand will take precedence or if both will continue running.
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by chriswarren 15y ago
The beta currently contains about half of the chapters. More chapters will be added in the coming weeks as they work their through the review process, but they're not in the beta copy that you'll get today.
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by chriswarren 15y ago
In reply to your OT question - does your PHP app have an API at all? You could make a small standalone app that pulls from your existing API. Or go the other direction and create a Ruby app in Rails or Sinatra that aggregates some informati
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by chriswarren 15y ago
Nope, we don't only talk about Ruby. We have a few PHP examples as well, but there's a lot more on CSS, JS, Git, server administration, etc. There's not a lot of server-side code in the book, to be honest. Chapters like Creating a Widget fo
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by chriswarren 15y ago
I'm one of the authors of the book. You don't need to know any RoR. There are a couple chapters where we use some Ruby (Jekyll and Cucubmer-driven Selenium Testing), but we walk you through getting things set up properly if you want to use
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by chriswarren 15y ago
This is definitely one of my biggest complaints as well. I'd love to see them follow the lead of Amazon Prime and let me specify other accounts within my household that I want to be able to share books (and perhaps other media) with.
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by chriswarren 16y ago
What program language are you going to be using? I'd recommend checking out the available integration libraries ( http://zencoder.com/docs/integration-libraries/#libraries ) that we and our customers have created to simplify your integratio