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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…