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Both the google and reader buttons on the left are not readable, so if
I scroll down the left div I'm not able to click "Home" to get back
home.

Don't get it.What is the rationale to remove the "you can always click
my logo" feature?

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Please stop showing results from .br TLD, I'm in Portugal and you know it.
Get them to the end of the list.

And apply reverse rule to people in Brazil?

Thanks.

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Why is it so hard to get to the alalrm function on any phone? all these ux shit and you cannot do a basic thing fast and sweet.

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Access to access

http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2012/01/access-to-access.html

A Pixel Identity Crisis

http://www.alistapart.com/articles/a-pixel-identity-crisis/

Schlep Blindness

http://www.paulgraham.com/schlep.html

Android Design

http://developer.android.com/design/index.html

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Software vendors should change from license managers to registered use.

Instead of stopping people from trying the tools, this would enable them to collect data to help future sells.

I use newrelic for free and they can use evryone's data to learn about apps in the real world.

Oracle database is expensive and has no license manager software to lock you up.

Is there an account made on lost business from licensing tirania?

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Reason 1: http://dontbubble.us/

Reason 2: http://donttrack.us/

Try it.

https://duckduckgo.com/

Very easy to add to Firefox.

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Get infinite storage for life 

https://www.bitcasa.com/beta-signup?share=2503963524

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The problem has always been not to find but to choose.

“Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway,” Andrew Tanenbaum wrote in 1996. 

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So you are a company that outsources business document templates design (invoices, whatever) and you are not able to make that PDF below 100KB as it should be.

#!/usr/bin/perl

use CGI;

my $query = new CGI;

my $upload = $query->upload("pdf");
if (defined $upload) {
   my $ingest = $upload->handle;
   open my $file, '>', "/ergo/scratch/$$.pdf" or die "file create";
   my $bytesread;
   my $buffer;
   while($bytesread = $ingest->read($buffer,1024)) {
      print $file $buffer or die "file write";
   }
   close $file;
} else {
   print $query->header();
   print $query->start_multipart_form();
   print $query->filefield(-name=>'pdf');
   print $query->submit(-name=>'doit', -value=>'doit');
   print $query->end_multipart_form;
   exit;
}

die "no pdf" if (-z "/ergo/scratch/$$.pdf");
system("/usr/bin/pdftops /ergo/scratch/$$.pdf /ergo/scratch/$$.ps");
die "no ps" if (-z "/ergo/scratch/$$.ps");
unlink("/ergo/scratch/$$.pdf");
system("/usr/bin/ps2pdf /ergo/scratch/$$.ps /ergo/scratch/$$.pdf");
unlink("/ergo/scratch/$$.ps");
die "no pdf" if (-z "/ergo/scratch/$$.pdf");

LABEL:

my $size = -s "/ergo/scratch/$$.pdf";
print $query->header( -type=>'application/pdf', -Content_length=>$size,);
open my $outf, '<', "/ergo/scratch/$$.pdf" or die "file send";
print while(<$outf>);
close $outf;
unlink("/ergo/scratch/$$.pdf");
exit;

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MongoDB in production
http://blog.boxedice.com/mongodb/

ASKKEN is visual data browsing powered by Freebase
http://askken.heroku.com/

Redmine plugin turns it into and Hoptoad server
https://github.com/yeah/redmine_hoptoad_server

initr
Redmine plugin that turns it into an Puppet provisioning facility
https://github.com/descala/initr

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It’s Java.

It’s made in Portugal.

Has no bugs ;) http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=515655&atid=2095776

http://www.xeoframework.org/

P.S. Braga, Braga, Braga

via @ivobrandao

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Framed with Copy+paste.

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/b552909c-6740-11e0-9bb8-00144feab49a.html#ixzz1La8D2nbk

I wonder if this hash links my link to my IP at the time of my copy+paste… hmm…

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Started this job by using the wonder wheel. From this I can pursuit popular sign up pages. Useful research tooling.

Twitter

Simple. Not as exciting as the fail whale page.

Vimeo

Beautiful.

Google

You need it or else you turn this down. I’m in. Also, you need some non-virtual confirmation like mobile phone verification.

MySpace

Since I can sign in with Facebook, it gets easier.

Facebook

This page is the reason I gave up on Facebook when I heard about it some years ago. But now I see it also as a simple way of communicating to the new user what Facebook is all about.

JP, next time, when you have time, post some sign up pages you hate or find irritating.

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The interesting part is that Google responds to huge amounts of facebook related searches and sends people to the place.

Don’t be evil and make a better world.

On the other hand, Alexa Search Analytics says that facebook searches drive traffic to google.

This is something that defies logic or intuition.

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Yesterday I spent some time looking at the remarkable project called EyeWriter. It’s an open source and open content research effort to give people suffering from ALS a simple way to communicate with their eyes.

The motivation came from an artist called TEMPT and therefore the project has this description “It is a low-cost eye-tracking apparatus & custom software that allows graffiti writers and artists with paralysis resulting from Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis to draw using only their eyes.”

Homepage: http://www.eyewriter.org/

Then I (re)came across a wonderful piece of software called openframeworks: “openFrameworks is an open source C++ toolkit

for creative coding.”

The galley provides awesome examples of the projects people are creating.

Watch what it can do on their website: http://www.openframeworks.cc/

I guess DISPLAX (by Edigma) uses this project, together with opencv.

There also some interesting work by Estúdio Ruim: http://ruim.pt/work/

JP, did you have a look at this subjects?

OpenFrameworks
Processing
Cinder
Computer Vision (OpenCV)
Generative animation
Computer graphics (OpenGL, shaders, etc..)

If not, do so.

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