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Barnabas

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About Barnabas

Web/UX developer in Seattle, WA

Recent public activity

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    Comment #8817832

    If you have a nice bike, take a moment to register it: https://bikeindex.org/

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    Comment #8293341

    Gattaca was very prescient and thought-provoking movie, one of my favorites. The story described a future where individuals are allowed or denied opportunity based on a genetic tes…

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    Comment #6619003

    Agreed. The third party to defend against is not only an intruder to LinkedIn, but LinkedIn itself. If there are "misperceptions" about Intro, let us include LinkedIn's own misperc…

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    Comment #6618972

    My favorite part: > Bounce Imaging is planning to sell an emergency responder version for about $1000, a military version for something under $3000. Because, you know, military .

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    Comment #3668260

    You know that product {X} has arrived when it's assumed to be so mainstream that is's being used to describe functionality {Y} in sentences like "it's like {X} for {Y}".

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    Comment #3522774

    For Chrome users on the dev channel, try http://silentorbit.com/kiss/

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    Comment #3516976

    Went to check it out. Pretty. I didn't see anything but yet another "create a login" screen, no sample of what the email looks like. Closed tab.

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    Comment #3453331

    Matthew 6:1-4

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    Comment #3402816

    I was looking at kinvey.com mentioned in the comment of the article while researching an alternative for Adobe Publish at work. Their 1-2-3 explanation on the home page is compelli…

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    Comment #3384733

    I transferred to namecheap.com over Bob's Elephant hunting controversy some time back. Now that doesn't seem like as big a deal in retrospect.

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    Comment #3062029

    Cached by ViewText: http://viewtext.org/article?url=http://www.chrisnorstrom.com...

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    Comment #2921855

    This domain is blocked by my work firewall as "pornography". Too bad.

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    Comment #2819943

    Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think the redesign he refers to but does not link to is this: http://andyrutledge.com/news-redux.php

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    Comment #2667091

    I wonder if this is jedburg of reddit. I only say because he said "reigned" in his goodbye post today, and this pastebin said "reigned" too, when they both meant "reined". Also the…

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    Comment #1453560

    Of course it's interesting. There's no such thing as an uninteresting number. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interesting_number_paradox

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    Comment #1433259

    I transfered my Vonage number to Twilio, it is awesome. http://barnabas.tumblr.com/post/652187572/vonage-twilio

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    Comment #1393390

    Hi, I don't speak for Twilio but as a developer I've used their system quite a bit in the past and enjoyed it lots. Haven't yet used Tropo, but I think it's really interesting. Sor…

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    Comment #1365084

    I was curious about the Recurly blog post you mentioned, so I looked it up. Here's the URL for anyone else: http://blog.recurly.com/2010/03/new-pricing/

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    Comment #1361895

    Interesting, it appears to be serving @font-face fonts with browser-specific stylesheets. Firefox gets a tag with src: local('name'), while IE doesn't. More details here: http://co…

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    Comment #1282761

    I think there's some irony in only allowing comments with FB connect.

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    Comment #1247962

    Or do it right now with Twilio: http://www.twilio.com/sms/

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    Comment #1238312

    Truly ironic. http://calacanis.com/2004/12/28/rss-abuse-whats-fair-use-and... Disclosure: I used to work for Skweezer. What a difference six years makes. TLDR: Jason didn't like ou…

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    Comment #1232292

    Have you considered using the PostRank Topic API? http://www.postrank.com/developers/api#topic

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    Comment #1104852

    I really really hope that toppcloud takes off. I strongly empathize the itch that provoked its creation: deployment sucks, and a generalized Google App Engine would rock. Using Dja…