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Re: Study: San Francisco Has The Most Dangerous Drivers In California

cybertaur1 — Tue, 24 Jan 2017 17:51:45 -0000

Where's the back-handed compliment? Sounds like just straight up ignominy.

Re: Weekend Quiz 49: Where in the Lower Haight? | Haighteration - The Lower Haight Blog

cybertaur1 — Sat, 07 May 2011 12:44:08 -0000

looks a lot like nopa

Re: Go-nowhere idea: driving speed graphs

cybertaur1 — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 20:11:25 -0000

I can't believe you read all of that. And no, I wasn't specifically referring to you.

Re: Caller ID

cybertaur1 — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 01:59:19 -0000

Names are usually part of caller ID anyways I believe (the landline at my house gets names and there's no contact book or anything), but you'd have to register a photo with your phone provider yourself.

Re: Caller ID

cybertaur1 — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 01:52:16 -0000

Caller ID can be snuck in through a plain old telephone line... name and photo have to be on a per-phone basis, I think. My phone shows name and photo if it already knows them.

Re: Android: Dialog box tutorial

cybertaur1 — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 01:49:45 -0000

They do interrupt the user's attention, but I think that the two main problems with dialog boxes is that they're frequently misused ("Press 'Yes' to cancel, or 'No' to continue project deletion") and that if the user sees more than one of them, they'll blindly click the default or hit Enter to get rid of them without reading what "Yes" happens to do this time.

Re: Google Calculator + Free text entry

cybertaur1 — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 14:58:53 -0000

Check out http://code.google.com/p/uj...

Re: Automated phone trees: two potential solutions

cybertaur1 — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 14:41:31 -0000

I've used voice recognition services that work very well. Like you said, they don't have to duplicate the existing phone tree, and if done right you can just say what you're trying to do and it'll recognize it.

It's also probably easier to recognize what you're trying to say if the possible choices are numbered in the tens (or even hundreds with variations and whatnot), rather than in the entire English language (like Dragon has to deal with).

Also, some of the free 411 systems are able to parse what you're trying to do pretty accurately for the most part.

Re: Facebook + Location

cybertaur1 — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 21:35:35 -0000

http://www.google.com/latit...

Re: T-Shirt Idea

cybertaur1 — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 03:50:51 -0000

The XKCD comic is "sudo make me a sandwich". I'm assuming that most people who read this are familiar with it.

It's a parody of sorts. Delivered via awful pun.

Re: User Interface Design: Incremental Search

cybertaur1 — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 23:23:29 -0000

COMMENTS ARE GO

Re: Greg - Seattle - Chris forgot some crucial Seattle metrics when...

cybertaur1 — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 21:31:01 -0000

I was born in Seattle, so that's probably a good 6 or 7 points in its favor. Plus there's great coffee.

Re: A Fun Game To Play With Google Images

cybertaur1 — Thu, 28 May 2009 23:54:04 -0000

Yup! See the Gamma function.

Re: Camel Knights - Google Calculator Command-line utility

cybertaur1 — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 11:10:59 -0000

Quicksilver does them too with the calculator plugin, and there's probably a conversion plugin too, but it just seems easier to let Google do the work. Although maybe the * would create problems on the command-line.

Re: Idea: Ad-block blocker

cybertaur1 — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 11:32:39 -0000

If you can't modify their code, then maybe Google could release the simple PHP wrapper that essentially contacts their server, and spits out the HTML that displays the ads wherever you want on the page? PHP embedding Javascript (that then displays the ad) still shows that code to the user, where it can be blocked / not loaded / ignored in some way.

Re: Explanation of previous post

cybertaur1 — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 11:02:40 -0000

How did you find out about it?

Re: Explanation of previous post

cybertaur1 — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 11:02:25 -0000

I wasn't logged into wikipedia, and I didn't make any edits. My AIM name is the same as wikipedia, though.

Re: Royale Tumblr Theme

cybertaur1 — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 02:02:05 -0000

Yeah, thanks a ton for this, I really like it. In case you were wondering, I'm planning on using it at http://cybertaur1.tumblr.com
Thanks again!

Edit: I tried pasting it in, and it looked as though there was no style at all. Could it have something to do with the new Tumblr? Also, a few of the images appear to be missing, such as a sample bg.png.

Further edit: There was an extraneous { after the style tag causing problems.

Re: Camel Knights

cybertaur1 — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 11:02:06 -0000

No, but Tom (a friend) did, and offered to put my face on it, next to a larger picture of his face. Win-win.

Re: Drought

cybertaur1 — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 13:44:31 -0000

It's definitely the drain's fault. Happened at the last place I stayed at too.

Re: twoplustwoequalstumblr

cybertaur1 — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 20:03:40 -0000

That is fantastic.

Re: Camel Knights - How to Bork Ubuntu

cybertaur1 — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 10:47:59 -0000

I don't know, I installed DrScheme yesterday and ran that (admittedly stupid) line of code, and it really did a number on my system.

Re: twoplustwoequalstumblr

cybertaur1 — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 16:06:31 -0000

That's kinda what I figured

Re: twoplustwoequalstumblr

cybertaur1 — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 13:11:16 -0000

Good pizza?

Re: Camel Knights

cybertaur1 — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 23:50:31 -0000

Yeah, I like it.