matthewsimon

Joined 18 years ago

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Web developer, New Yorker, parent.

See http://www.cavalletto.org for more information.

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Comment · 11 years ago
Comment · 11 years ago
... and how much does the price increase in month 25?
Comment · 11 years ago
Three hours seems extreme. I live in Manhattan and can get to LGA in under an hour on a public bus, or by taxi in 35-45 minutes, and a taxi to JFK might take an hour but certainly not three.
Comment · 12 years ago
Google says "You need permission / This form can only be viewed by users in the owner's organization."
Comment · 12 years ago
You could read this as a cautionary tale about the difficulty in launching a social networking service: Even with $1.6 million cash (earmarked for a development project in Pakistan) and 500,000 mobile phone subscriber records (stolen from the incumbent telecom), their free service couldn't reach 5% market penetration and was shut down when it ran out of money.
Comment · 12 years ago
Comment · 12 years ago
The Guardian's UK stylesheet calls for this treatment of acronyms that are pronounced as a word -- people say "Icann", not "Eye See Aye En En" -- which does seem odd but may be acceptable as a regionalism.
Comment · 12 years ago
Comment · 13 years ago
> ... did they point a gun at any of the suspects ...

This may seem a minor point, but the housekeeper and other staff were not "suspects", they're innocent members of the public.

Comment · 14 years ago
Intriguingly, 349 of the largest Bitcoin transactions ever are all part of an interconnected and obfuscated web of exchanges between November 2010 and August 2012, involving at least 430,000 BTC.

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