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zachc

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About zachc

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    Comment #5766377

    A few years ago I leveraged some reverse engineering to stream individual windows as GIF images. More info if you're interested: http://zachcimafonte.com/GIF-Window-Server

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    Comment #3610943

    Why did you choose to copy http://simple.com/ ? I don't think the design really fits your service.

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    Comment #3120946

    This was made by Abe Stanway at the most recent Penn Apps hackathon. You can see a video of his presentation here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLIf9dyxMxY Checkout the other pro…

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    Comment #2514703

    Also see Path [1], a social network which takes an opposite approach and limits contacts to 50 people. [1] http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2010-11/15/path-social-n...

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    Comment #2490607

    This is neat. Definitely checkout [1] if you're confused as to how it might be used. There are some good examples there. These guys seem to have a unique perspective on human-data …

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    Comment #2433270

    +1 for the melamine boards, commonly sold as "shower board" or "tile board". I bought $30s worth and covered 3 of my walls with it -works great as a cheap white board.

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    Comment #2390555

    Maybe Red-Cross should have their donation page start from the bottom of the page and scroll upward? That would be a cool A/B test.

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    Comment #2204420

    The script makes 175760 permutations. For me the script takes around around 1.5 seconds to query the page each time. 175760 * 1.5 / 60 = 4394 minutes / 60 = 73.23 hours of constant…

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    Comment #2204363

    Yeah, it looks like it goes through each possible permutation of coupon codes for the BinaryAge Total Finder online store [1]. These codes seem to be in the format THANKSXXXX, wher…