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Vindexus

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About Vindexus

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    Comment #6115930

    Was this post not linked to Wired just a few minutes ago?

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    Comment #5398109

    The "What is Pantastic?" section doesn't really answer the question. Those three points could be applied to almost any decorative item sold online; they don't tell me that you prin…

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    Comment #4040362

    "But the only way this testing method is superior (at least as explained in the article) is that it automatically adjusts itself." That's actually very useful for me though. Especi…

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    Comment #3262446

    According to Guns, Germs and Steel, necessity is not the mother of invention. In fact the opposite is true: inventions appear when the needs of the inventors are already met. I rea…

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    Comment #3245786

    Maybe have it send them a daily email with links and thumbnails of the past 24 puppies.

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    Comment #3188200

    As a developer I often struggle with the following things: Picking a color scheme. What colors work well together? Why do they work well together? How do I find good color schemes?…

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    Comment #2796398

    Pretty cool. I didn't really get it at first and was about to leave before I saw the "Watch a Video" link at the bottom. I'd probably make that stand out a bit more.

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    Comment #2771328

    Probably this one, which I use for testing function becho($value, $key = NULL) { echo ' ' . (NULL != $key ? $key . ' = ' : '') . $value . ' '; } I also like this one function s($nu…

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    Comment #2557065

    No. The use of a colon instead of a comma probably added to the confusion.

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    Comment #1951032

    Consider putting a down arrow next to "last.fm" to show that it's a dropdown option. I had no idea until I read this comment.

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    Comment #1757273

    Cool stuff. How are you grabbing the words? Did you download a dictionary? When I submitted my URL I got "constituent", which seems unnecessarily long. You should consider having a…

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    Comment #1687619

    I built it myself using CodeIgniter.

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    Comment #1687215

    I use it to hear about when people mention the Vagina Game. This normally happens on blogs and message boards so it's easy for me to swoop in and comment with a "I made a website f…

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    Comment #1614664

    Cool stuff. How are you getting the data on new books? Do you have a cron job that uses Amazon's API to search for new books? I'm not really familiar with their API so I'm not sure…

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    Comment #1593606

    Request: include a title attribute on links that has the full article title. That way when something gets shortened and has the ellipsis at the end I can just hover over the link t…

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    Comment #1592373

    I'd like to have some context for what he's saying, what's wrong with that?

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    Comment #1592018

    Could someone explain what jacquesm means by this?

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    Comment #1589814

    Then what? Posted comments pointing to ThatHigh.com I'm guessing. Did you just put the link or did you say something like "Sounds like something from thathigh.com"? Did they eventu…

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    Comment #1588469

    Go ahead, link to your event. You've got me curious and you know you want to.

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    Comment #1571661

    http://vaginagame.com I know it's stupid but I can't stop working on it. Apparently my 7 year old mind finds it hilarious.

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    Comment #1535890

    I'd change this text: "Hackathonia is about bringing bright, motivated people together to build amazing apps in competitive yet collaborative, team-based competitions known as "Hac…

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    Comment #1530124

    There was a lot of grumbling about the $40 shipping charge to Canada too. I probably would've bought one if the shipping charge didn't more than double my total.