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by codebaobab 16y ago
Stratfor is also calling this a coup: http://www.stratfor.com/analysis/20110211-red-alert-mubarak-...
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by codebaobab 16y ago
Interesting. I thought Airplane Mode only turned off the cellphone radio. But, nope, I just tried it and it does turn off the WiFi as well. You can, however, manually turn WiFi back on, leaving the cell radio off.
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by codebaobab 16y ago
Too late. :) He already had Smalltalk-72 under his belt by then.
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by codebaobab 16y ago
From the point of view of the Postal Service, there is nothing to take into consideration. A zip code uniquely identifies a geographical area (for the purposes of mail delivery) and it does not matter if that area crosses municipal, city o
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by codebaobab 16y ago
A subscription service for men's clothing is an excellent idea! There is so much not to like about the current experience of shopping for clothes now.
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Social Media as a Tool for Protest(stratfor.com)
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by codebaobab 16y ago
I proactively bought gift copies... Seriously, it is amazing how way ahead of the curve he was. ISMM was originally published when Tim Ferriss was only 1 year old, but the only real difference between it and 4 Hour Work Week is the scale
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by codebaobab 16y ago
Actually, that seems like a low estimate. I think I remember him already having coined that term when I was buying his books 20 years ago... ...And Don was already Old School then...
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by codebaobab 16y ago
And the first thing that popped into my head was: I wonder if AskPatio11.com is available? Throw up these instructions and a webform and voilá. And then, if we hook it into Pat's email, we can get real time stats on his response and accept
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by codebaobab 16y ago
OK, you got me on that one. I've been a professional Smalltalk programmer for almost 20 years and I've never heard of the Resilient Smalltalk Embedded Platform.
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by codebaobab 16y ago
This may not be 100% literally true, but it is definitely true in spirit. (The previous poster is referring to Lars Bak, but both Hotspot and V8 are/were team efforts.) The family tree here is: self->hotspot->V8 But, yes, L
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by codebaobab 16y ago
My impression is that the iPhone App Store does a much better job of letting small developers make money than the iTunes music store does of letting small bands make money. I wonder what the core difference is?
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by codebaobab 16y ago
You don't need a database, just a mapping function and a seed. I haven't seen anyone else do this, but I worked out a solution a while back.
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by codebaobab 16y ago
I'm not not thinking about repeat customers. I am thinking about competitors and people looking to gather industry information. The point, as stated by tptacek, is that sites quite often leak information.
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by codebaobab 16y ago
The first thing that crossed my mind was: "Apple wants to force Adobe Flash into the Mac App Store". Now, the current App Store terms of service seem to preclude the distribution of plugins like Flash. But let's pretend, just for a minute,
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by codebaobab 16y ago
Perhaps your comment was meant to be light-hearted and I am just being pedantic, but all an interested party has to do is come back a few more times over the course of a few days and note the values of new IDs. At that point they know the
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by codebaobab 16y ago
I had an idea for an online business a few years back that I never really pursued, but I did work out a scheme to assign key objects random ids so that when those ids appeared in a URL, you couldn't tell how many of those had been created.
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by codebaobab 16y ago
Have you thought about music? I consume a lot more author-specific music than I do author-specific books. (In other words, while I consume both books and music pretty voraciously, I don't buy books from the same author nearly as often as
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by codebaobab 16y ago
Re #4: For me, music discovery is still a painful and unsolved problem. Its hard to put my finger on precisely what the problem is, but I suspect that part of the problem is that there is so much music out there that new releases drown e
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by codebaobab 16y ago
http://dynadot.com/
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by codebaobab 16y ago
" In normal privacy settings you can specific that either everyone can add you as a friend or only friends of friends. " There was a big privacy setting change last October that you could opt out of. So it is theoretically possible that he
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by codebaobab 16y ago
The Mac OS X support is cool and I would love to be able to run older OS X versions in a VM, but it looks like they've still got quite a bit of work before it is really usable. Issues include: "Even when idle, OS X guests currently burn 10
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by codebaobab 16y ago
Anyone hiring in Denver? Or willing to hire a remote hacker?
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by codebaobab 16y ago
Dan Ingalls (the original implementor of Smalltalk) built a weather station that showed the weather on a logarithmic graph. Very cool idea. http://weather-dimensions.com/index.html
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by codebaobab 17y ago
Stanza on the iPhone turns to the next page with a single touch on the right side of the screen (and turns back a page with a touch on the left.) When I first started using Stanza, I was annoyed that it didn't scroll. But now I definitely
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by codebaobab 17y ago
I agree. I even have a bookmark: http://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=patio11
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by codebaobab 17y ago
I must confess that I was very surprised to hear that Apple initiated a lawsuit against HTC and I am wondering if there is some backstory that we don't know. I am not going to try and argue that Apple is some kind of altruistic, saintly com
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by codebaobab 17y ago
The oldest use of the quote that I can find is from a 1998 WHO document: http://www.searo.who.int/en/Section1257/Section2181/Section2... “Suzanne’s Diary for Nicholas" is a 2001 novel by James Patterson, so I don't think that can be the
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by codebaobab 17y ago
Before&After Magazine is my design How-To favorite. http://www.bamagazine.com/ I am not a design professional, so not all of their stuff is useful to me. But their typography and layout advice is excellent. Some of the content of the