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Reminds me of when I used the Amazon.com AI Chatbot (was called Rufus and they renamed it to Alexa for shopping) to do things like write fizbuzz etc. Looks like they patched it to refuse though.

Super weird that they went to the trouble of finding all the samples and the output audio has noticeable lag in it. Compare to the original and you can hear it lagging in the 3rd measure. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLrsUOA4Vb4

lol are you me? There was also a loophole with the coupons where it only used the total before discounts to validate the limit was met, so you could buy something that was $10 or 2 for $15, but the 2 would count as $20 towards your $40 limit.

I moved away from Seattle a while back so I'm not sure if they ever closed that one. I really miss getting all those cheap groceries!

It really reads like a LinkedIn engagement post.

We offer features for you to ensure no one is recorded without their consent.

Source: trust me bro

I hadn't heard of Jot before. Looks really interesting and useful for a bunch of applications.

Maybe because when a product "seems" too light, people actually complain about it. Beats is all about perceived value vs actual quality anyway.

Remember when the iPhone 5 was deemed too light?

http://gizmodo.com/5945662/the-weirdest-thing-people-hate-ab...

I've been told by people that my sense of humor is actually pretty normal/average.

Thanks for the feedback!

I know, the spinner looks terrible! I just haven't gotten around to making it look better since most people will probably use the bookmarklet if they use it at all. Same with the I'm feeling lucky button, just wanted to make it easy for people to see the proof of concept without going to twitter, copying and pasting.

Very nice! I was working on a similar concept, though more for streaming location data rather than GeoJSON (drawing mobile device paths, visualizing accuracy, etc).

I haven't gotten around to making an official blog post announcement but it's here on github for anyone who is interested: https://github.com/hungtruong/pinbin

Heh, I was mainly out to beat my co-workers, though if one of my co-workers was a fellow programmer I'd probably have had to improve on my algorithm.

I just checked my old archive folders and it looks like the code was lost when Dreamhost borked up my home directory a few years back. I assure you it was pretty gross :)

Awesome! I once wrote a boggle solver to beat my friends at Bogglific on Facebook. It was loads of fun until I was banned from the game.

http://www.hung-truong.com/blog/2007/11/07/banished-from-bog...

I'm not seeing the keyword stats, either. Could be a premium feature?

+1 for Duo. I actually wrote a Chef recipe for enabling 2-factor auth on Linux.

https://github.com/hungtruong/chef-duo-unix

It's my first recipe so feedback would be appreciated if you actually use it!

Should've used 'ə'

This looks cool and reminds me of the Stamen maps project.

http://maps.stamen.com/#toner/12/37.7706/-122.3782

It might be partly due to their API keys and secrets being leaked a while back.

http://thenextweb.com/twitter/2013/03/07/twitters-api-keys-a...

Pretty simple to do using Chrome's network inspector as well. I found that Turntable had made it pretty easy to save songs as well, but changed their scheme a while back.

Also, kinda disappointed to realize that Rdio no longer does the auto-renewing free music thing :(

I quickly wrote a script to do this locally, not the most efficient, but I'm at work ;)

https://github.com/hungtruong/LinkedIn-Password-Checker

Sort of lost his credibility after he revealed that he was canned. If you're spinning your wheels at a company and hate the culture, why not do something about it? You're as bad as the useless meeting-goers if you can't actually do something and simply complain all the time.

For what it's worth, I was at MS for 7 months. Left on my own volition and now I'm heading up iOS development at a small startup. And it's a lot of fun.

I believe those denote locations of Google offices. There's also some in Mountain View.

I'd argue that 20 minutes isn't either, but fair enough :)

See also: https://developer.apple.com/videos/wwdc/2011/

This happened to me, too. Here's my experience with how unresponsive Google was (and is):

http://www.hung-truong.com/blog/2011/11/02/dropbox-referrals...

Happened to me, too. I did end up getting the full amount of referrals possible before it happened though :)

I believe frontend means requests handled through normal frontend hits from end users, while backend instances are for longer running background processes.

Unnecessary apostrophe is unnecessary.

I noticed that on Chrome in Snow Leopard, too. Guess it needs a little more tweaking!

I love that the image has a status message saying "I'm hosting game night tomorrow night" and that the message was posted "five days ago." How useful!