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Re:A Designer's War on Misleading Parking Signs on Wednesday January 21, 2015 @03:52PM (#8925682)
This is amazing! I have always been baffled by the ever more convoluted parking signs. This is especially useful since very often you have to figure out if you can park while driving by, so you don't have much time to analyse the signs.
I have been using WAMP for a while now. It is a fairly established standard for publish/subscribe/rpc with multiple implementations and examples.
Re:Google broke telephony for many Nexus users on Monday January 05, 2015 @09:56AM (#8839052)
Yep, I have the update sitting on my Moto X for a week or so. Was tempting,.. good thing I didn't go for it.
Re:Google broke telephony for many Nexus users on Monday January 05, 2015 @09:53AM (#8839036)
This is why I never upgrade my phone to the first couple updates pushed to the device.
Re:Darwin (1960s programming game) on Friday April 20, 2012 @10:54AM (#3868098)
Is there a more advanced (online) version? Something similar to RoboWar but w/o having to install Visual Basic?
Re:Http://(Type any keyword here).jpg.to/random on Tuesday February 21, 2012 @10:47AM (#3616840)
Click 'Go' w/o typing a keyword and you get an application error :(
Re:Instapaper Founder Marco Arment On The App Business on Wednesday February 01, 2012 @11:04AM (#3538480)
It is a great success story but it is also a story of someone being in the right place at the right time. Instapaper was in the app store the very next day after store went alive. Seems like a typical story described in Malcolm Gladwell's book Outliers:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outliers_%28book%29

My productivity for today went downhill! :)

Love the trick with how this can be done via differentiating the equation:

1 + r + r^2 + ... = 1/(1-r)

Re:Loopt Tries a Groupon in Reverse on Wednesday June 22, 2011 @12:25PM (#2683830)
I think Groupon is already doing something like this. Check out their "Now Deals"

http://www.groupon.com/now

Re:Poll: Are you a Steve or a Chris? on Wednesday March 09, 2011 @07:50PM (#2307424)
38, "Crhis", Vista and Linux