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reedcat | 11 years ago | on: A Designer's War on Misleading Parking Signs

This is amazing! I have always been baffled by the ever more convoluted parking signs. This is especially useful since very often you have to figure out if you can park while driving by, so you don't have much time to analyse the signs.

reedcat | 11 years ago | on: Introduction to WAMP, a Protocol Enabling PUB/SUB and RPC over Websocket

I have been using WAMP for a while now. It is a fairly established standard for publish/subscribe/rpc with multiple implementations and examples.

reedcat | 11 years ago | on: Google broke telephony for many Nexus users

Yep, I have the update sitting on my Moto X for a week or so. Was tempting,.. good thing I didn't go for it.

reedcat | 11 years ago | on: Google broke telephony for many Nexus users

This is why I never upgrade my phone to the first couple updates pushed to the device.

reedcat | 14 years ago | on: Darwin (1960s programming game)

Is there a more advanced (online) version? Something similar to RoboWar but w/o having to install Visual Basic?

reedcat | 14 years ago | on: Http://(Type any keyword here).jpg.to/random

Click 'Go' w/o typing a keyword and you get an application error :(

reedcat | 14 years ago | on: Instapaper Founder Marco Arment On The App Business

It is a great success story but it is also a story of someone being in the right place at the right time. Instapaper was in the app store the very next day after store went alive. Seems like a typical story described in Malcolm Gladwell's book Outliers:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outliers_%28book%29

reedcat | 14 years ago | on: Fun with math: Dividing one by 998001 yields a surprising result

My productivity for today went downhill! :)

Love the trick with how this can be done via differentiating the equation:

1 + r + r^2 + ... = 1/(1-r)

reedcat | 14 years ago | on: Loopt Tries a Groupon in Reverse

I think Groupon is already doing something like this. Check out their "Now Deals"

http://www.groupon.com/now

reedcat | 15 years ago | on: Poll: Are you a Steve or a Chris?

38, "Crhis", Vista and Linux