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tarmac··on How I manage my todos, priorities and calendar
You should give Intervals a try if you haven't already:

http://www.myintervals.com/

tarmac··on Stephen Fry on the Blackberry
From the cancer stick to the cancer bar? Only time will tell.
tarmac··on Pricing Tables: Examples And Best Practices
Our app is featured there, cool stuff.
tarmac··on Ask HN: What's your favorite site for hacking on things other than computers?
Nice try, CIA.
tarmac··on Freshjerky.com
It's like real estate. It's all in the domain name and freshjerky.com is very attractive and sought after.
tarmac··on Ask HN: Collect payment info before 30 day trial?
I disagree with dropping the free trial just because you have a free version.

It's always a nice gesture to let users see paid plans before any money is exchanged.

There are many reasons for this, but the most important one is letting the user test drive your software with no limitations so they can evaluate if their needs will be fulfilled.

tarmac··on Ask HN: what unwanted domain names are you sitting on?
rylor(dot)com

tobeg(dot)com

dyles(dot)com

5 letter domain names are hard to come by nowadays...

tarmac··on Can you trust 37signals with your password?
You're assuming the keys are the only way to get into the safe. There you go again with flawed reasoning.

What if I drill into the safe and open it in a different manner?

ANY type of security has it's weaknesses. The only way is to add layers of security to make it harder to crack.

tarmac··on Can you trust 37signals with your password?
"If the server can decode it so can anyone who has access to the server."

Semantics.

Any type of security made by humans is breakable by humans.

Your reasoning is flawed.

tarmac··on Can you trust 37signals with your password?
Correct, the blog post is assuming the password is stored in plain text, when he doesn't even have hard evidence about it.

Two way encryption would be an explanation to this, so I am waiting on what 37s' answer to this blog post.

It's sad people quickly come to conclusions when only hearing one side of the story.

tarmac··on Poll: How many hours per day can you work with clarity of thought and high energy level?
It depends on the day. I use multiple timers to track my time, and the correlation goes like this >

The more timers I have correlates to more multi-tasking, and when I multi-task, I usually deflate quicker, so I end up losing steam at around the 6th hour. It takes some coffee to finish up the last two.

On the flip side if I'm working on one or two projects I can go 8hrs with no problems.

tarmac··on Where did all the wealth go? To our kids.
It's hard to believe this article when some UN groups are pitching out the Dollar is the world's prime currency.

If future generations are indeed richer, the value of what they hold isn't going to be the same.

tarmac··on [dead]
reddited: http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/81fjd/renaissan...
tarmac··on Netflix customers up in arms over the new Netflix Silverlight player
1. time based animation (vs frame based)

2. content delivery network

3. scalable video formats from HD to mobile

4. media server licensing is cheap

tarmac··on How to scrape data from sites you can't log into
You're still technically logging in by providing the copied cookie. I don't see any difference here.

Or say the title should be changed to "How to scrape your data from your sites that require login"

tarmac··on Last.fm: "Techcrunch are full of shit"
This makes me think about that TechCrunchee getting spit on the face...

I'd now like to get the spitter's side of the story.

tarmac··on Ask HN: Need help finding a post
Exactly thanks a lot sir.
tarmac··on Ask HN: Need help finding a post
It wasn't a TED presentation -- thanks though.
tarmac··on Ask HN: Need help finding a post
no I was not and thanks
tarmac··on Ask HN: Do you program in black or white?
what editor is this?
tarmac··on What is the best project management application for start-ups?
Intervals. Nuff said.

http://myintervals.com