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"an idea: check out the datasheets for blinking leds. my guess would be that if they are off half the time, they would use less current. (of course, they may just waste the current as heat.)
also, this is a cool circuit for a throwie that only..." [
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4 weeks ago
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"For future ref, firebug (the absolutely amazing firefox plugin) has a tab called 'net' that shows you exactly how long each page element took to load. It's quite enlightening.
One benchmarking tip: With applications, if you want to try out an..." [
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"Classic problem. You've got a (no offense) boring product and you need to make it interesting. You could add sex (see godaddy's ads), gross (See "bird poops in mouth"), violent (cellphone in the blender dude) or elaborate/geeky (see mentos..." [
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3 months ago
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"null terminated had it: make each element a separate image, and absolutely position them.
you don't need to mess around with imagemaps.
Also, a tip to have more flexibility with absolutely positioned elements: Make a container div to hold all..." [
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4 months ago
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"A nice sentiment, but there are two big assumptions here:
1) People print emails
2) People print emails that they don't need to print
Assuming you have people who print emails that they could read on screen, you need to look into ways of..." [
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4 months ago
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"My concern with GMO crops is that we aren't talking about little experiments in test tubes (like the genetically modified bacteria that produces insulin) but releasing this self-replicating, mutating genetic code over the entire earth. One little..." [
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5 months ago
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"Seconding setting up a local dev server. You will be able to make 3 changes and refresh in the time it currently takes you to try out 1 idea and FTP the changes over.
A version control system is also one of those things that once you adopt into..." [
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5 months ago
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"Another option: I know an American who started a business in the Netherlands and he said there was a special work visa for this purpose. Can you take your jack-of-all-trades experiences and form that into a viable business?..." [
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9 months ago
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"I've found that during dreams things are often labeled as "amazing", "beautiful", "hilarious" or "brilliant" but lack any actual details. The dreaming mind says, "That thing over there, don't look too..." [
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9 months ago
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"you could also serve some cold vietnamese spring rolls at your mojito party. easy to make, and the mint is a key ingredient." [
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9 months ago
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"n-thing, "Get a hobby".
And turn off the tv. Cancel cable too." [
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11 months ago
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"There was an interesting thread a while back about how a student changed their computers clock a few days back and then emailed in their paper. The moral of the story: Email headers can be forged and cannot be trusted to timestamp. You need to use a..." [
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11 months ago
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"here's a DIY solution...
Save the file below as "grid.ps". You can open it with Preview on the mac, Illustrator or use ps2pdf on Linux. Then print as many pages as you want. (btw, looks great on a laser printer. probably not so great on..." [
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"another point you might want to consider in your presentation is that sometimes user-generated projects are designed to fail, thus proving that users should leave content creation to the professionals. This was my take away from the LA Times wiki..." [
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"I saw this hilarious segment about a marketer who was decoding consumers. He found that the French see the cheese as alive, and in the US it was dead. That's why it's kept in the fridge in the US, and allowed to sit out an breathe in France.
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"odd question: do you just want validation on your purchase?
coffee snobs will say that that any pod system is preground and defacto inferior as grinding the beans yourself.
environmentally minded folk will say that individually wrapped pods..." [
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