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seanodonnell

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    Comment #9229110

    I would have signed up via facebook, but then I noticed they wanted my friends list. Nope. Nope. Nope.

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    Comment #7381811

    Everyone sharing everything they have downloaded in a giant cache via mesh networking? Yip, its a great solution. One person endures a slow download, all those who follow have a gr…

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    Comment #4831661

    the actual wikipedia article pretty much says it cant.

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    Comment #4390951

    What charges? This is mere extradition for questioning is Sweden is to be believed.

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    Comment #4230610

    very nice, and very nice docs as a whole, is this built on top of an existing documentation framework, or is it a completely in house tool?

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    Comment #2633418

    At present wispy ignores all 3 letter words, apart from a small list considered "non boring", it also ignores plenty of longer words that are considered generally meaningless, The …

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    Comment #2632887

    It uses jsonp to talk to the twitter api, so if its a rate limit, its on your own ip, are you in a large company or uni by any chance? Otherwise it might just be a slow connection,…

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    Comment #2632656

    I'm planning on doing that, and open sourcing quite a bit of the tools/libraries I had to build myself. The contact page is a little fancy in that it sniffs your browsers feature s…

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    Comment #2632582

    Thanks, that's pretty much why I built it, its still not as nice as wordle though, but I had to make a lot of feature/performance trade-offs to get it running at a decent speed.

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    Comment #2632499

    HTML5 Canvas powered, with a flash fall-back so it even supports ie6 (very slow on it though). Supports Twitter, Facebook, and pasting in anything you like.

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    My Hobby Project: Wispy, a canvas powered word cloud generator

    HTML5 Canvas powered, with a flash fallback so it even supports ie6 (very slow on it though). Supports twitter, facebook, and pasting in anything you like.

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    Comment #2301222

    Microsoft has a ton of stuff here, originally it was mostly localization work, now they do a bit of everything and have a few big datacentres as well. They do enough that "Microsof…

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    Comment #947615

    I dont think so, or at least after a lot of searching, I've yet to see anything similar.

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    Comment #947278

    The video uploaded to the screens is Displayed on 3 large screens in Dublin City Centre (Ireland) all day, and allows people to request their video be played via sms. If anyone has…

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    Comment #946499

    This is what the screens look like http://www.flickr.com/photos/seanodonnell/4106843248/ What also might be of interest is they are actually displaying a webpage that uses html5 og…

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    ZozzyTV, my Startup Launches

    The idea is to allow people to upload their video, which is then displayed on 3 huge screens in Dublin city centre (Ireland, each one is the size of most shopfronts). Any feedback,…

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    Comment #683562

    len(list) is actually a shortcut for calling list.__len__() , any object that implements the __len__ method is therefore compatible with it. So in practice, len is in fact a method…