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Thanks! I won't be using http://www.fakenamegenerator.com/ as much now.
Re:Impress.js demo - presentation program on Saturday December 29, 2012 @04:43AM (#4981627)
I love the concept of impress.js and started making a presentation for the agency I work for: http://kitchdigital.com/about/

Warning, there is a lot of zooming around and you might feel sick.

Re:Papa John's faces $250 million spam lawsuit on Wednesday November 14, 2012 @01:07AM (#4782235)
I wonder if some of those 500,000 messages were relationship or transactional in nature since the FCC does not ban those [1]

1. http://www.fcc.gov/guides/spam-unwanted-text-messages-and-em...

Re:The iPad Mini and the cost of Retina on Tuesday November 13, 2012 @02:41AM (#4776923)
OT: Just so you are aware, "gypped" is a racial slur against gypsies.
Re:One of Apple’s Best Ideas Ever — Made Worse on Saturday August 04, 2012 @12:10AM (#4337509)
> David Pogue can speak for himself

Translation: "I do not agree with David Pogue"

The phrase "speak for" is an idiom and is not meant to be taken literally.

Re:Responsive Text on Thursday February 16, 2012 @07:28AM (#3598323)
I like how you also did that with the dates (e.g. "Friday" goes to "Fri")

Unsolicited feedback: At the narrower widths, the sidebar (.secondary) would be better off falling after the main content (.primary) It might also work having "Filter by topic" turned into a drop down.

I just did the speed test on linode (Atlanta) and got 52.1 MBps. I can't say enough good things about their service.

http://imgur.com/BLmCH

Re:Poll: Do you use app hosting or run your own server? on Saturday January 14, 2012 @11:53PM (#3466386)
I like how there is no option for shared hosting.

I did a php app for a client on Media Temple's (gs) and it was unbearably slow. The php execution time would vary drastically (.1 seconds to over a minute) even on a simple debugging page. After a lot of back and forth with customer service and never being able to pinpoint the issue, I switch to Linode.

Screenshot of a page taking 1.4 minutes to render: http://i.imgur.com/e310W.png

Same page on Linode: http://i.imgur.com/OTN9l.png

Re:The New Web Typography on Monday January 09, 2012 @09:24PM (#3445349)
Maybe things will change with how the browser implements fractions but 112/3 = 11(2/3) and 3431/5147 = 3431/5147 (there is no 1/5) http://imgur.com/a/4FFNy

Edit: Spelling.

Re:An email I received from Jimmy Wales regarding SOPA on Saturday December 31, 2011 @05:35AM (#3410642)
I think you'll enjoy Lawrence Lessig's talk about the exact issue you brought up. It's call Republic, Lost: How Money Corrupts Congress—and a Plan to Stop It [Link] http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=I...
I wish they had an opt-in ad program so people who don't want to donate can still help.
Re:Microsoft, Apple and Others Withdrawal Support for SOPA on Tuesday November 22, 2011 @07:27PM (#3268127)
According to this page (http://www.bsa.org/country/BSA%20and%20Members/Our%20Members...) Apple is a member.
Re:Instagram Engineering Challenge: The Unshredder on Saturday November 12, 2011 @02:42PM (#3228683)
No problem! Yes, I have this working:

http://webfuel.org/instaunshredderv2.php

It also works on the test images I created:

http://webfuel.org/a.png http://webfuel.org/b.png http://webfuel.org/c.png

Re:Instagram Engineering Challenge: The Unshredder on Saturday November 12, 2011 @12:21PM (#3228250)
Minor spoiler/hint:

My algorithm, given a strip, would tell you which strip was on the right and also gave a certainty. The last strip would have a "next strip" value shared with an earlier strip (thus wrongly attached) but with less certainty.

Edit: Or (worst case) the last strip would have a high degree of uncertainty.

Re:Instagram Engineering Challenge: The Unshredder on Saturday November 12, 2011 @11:43AM (#3228137)
Can you post some of your test pictures?

Re: your attempt: I think you just need to find the starting strip, looks like your algorithm is working.

Re:How the HuffPost gets us to click on Wednesday October 26, 2011 @12:01AM (#3157094)
The title of the post is ironic.
Re:16 pixels For Body Copy. Anything Less Is A Costly Mistake on Friday October 07, 2011 @09:08AM (#3083762)
The rest of the site is 12px — only this article had a body copy size of 16px.
Re:Startups should not use GoDaddy. Ever on Wednesday September 07, 2011 @04:46PM (#2971361)
Regardless of where your domain is registered, you can indeed get an SSL cert from Namecheap. I bought a Comodo PositiveSSL for $9/y and couldn't be happier. When I ran into some issues installing it on a Mac mini server, their CS was responsive and friendly.
Re:A Simple Explanation for Why HP Abandoned Palm on Sunday August 21, 2011 @03:09PM (#2909937)
On the wikipedia page for Autonomy Corporation, under competitors, you'll find SAP NetWeaver Enterprise Search plus SAP Business Objects Text Analysis

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_enterprise_search_vendo...

Re:Text Mate Fullscreen on Lion on Monday August 15, 2011 @11:19PM (#2889693)
It's not completely useless, you can "click and drag windows and toolbars from the primary display to the secondary display"

http://osxdaily.com/2011/08/11/multiple-displays-full-screen...

Re:A graphic illustration of 0.999…=1 on Tuesday August 02, 2011 @09:19AM (#2836982)
Wikipedia has a great article on this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.999
Re:Mac OS X Lion: Coming In July For $29 on Monday June 06, 2011 @03:58PM (#2626289)
Unless I missed something in the presentation, Lion Server isn't free. It's a separate app that costs $50

https://www.apple.com/macosx/server/

Re:Hacker News /best RSS on Wednesday June 01, 2011 @01:41PM (#2608370)
You might consider tweaking the RSS feed a little.

For permalinks: <guid isPermaLink="true"></guid>

Add dc:creator for the submitter of the article: <rss version='2.0' xmlns:atom='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom xmlns:dc='http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/>;

And: <dc:creator></dc:creator>

Also, make sure you site sends the headers Content-Type: text/xml;charset=UTF-8 with this feed because it is currently sent as text/plain.