Encosia

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by Encosia 16y ago
Unless GMail has overtaken it very recently, Yahoo Mail is still second only to Hotmail in terms of user base. The last I saw, both were ahead of GMail by a fairly large margin.
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by Encosia 16y ago
All of the conferences I've been to have had adjustable lanyards that attach to two corners of the badge, like this one: http://encosia.com/attachment/1067/ . Solves both the belly-length and flipping problem. I doubt I would wear a two-pi
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by Encosia 16y ago
Sneaky of you to hide b and c there.
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by Encosia 16y ago
Trading a few dollars in affiliate revenue for credibility can be well worth it, depending on the post's goals. Just look at how people react to Atwood's referral-laden product posts on Coding Horror, for example.
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by Encosia 16y ago
> we can’t run a linear manufacturing process forever. If only we were running a linear manufacturing process. The market punishes companies that don't post exponential growth in the form of seemingly linear quarter-over-quarter gr
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by Encosia 16y ago
There's definitely a fine line to walk. However, it's not arrogant to keep whoever you report to apprised of what you're doing, why it matters to the business, and how you're accomplishing those things. Definitely no need to be a gloryhou
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by Encosia 16y ago
In my experience, people that feel chronically under-appreciated are also bad at self-promotion, and would be more appreciated if all of their contributions were actually known. Especially when you go above and beyond (the sort of thing yo
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by Encosia 16y ago
I'm not necessarily against fixed bid work; I do a bit of both depending on the situation. However, fear of being stuck at a particular rate isn't a good reason to avoid hourly billing. I've raised my rates at least a dozen times over the
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by Encosia 16y ago
> For Kinect to succeed in the market, Microsoft must introduce a variety of complementary (and compelling) games, it needs to develop a collection of characters and stories that resonate with target customers of the Kinect, and it need
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by Encosia 16y ago
Ctrl-Backspace isn't a good shortcut for deleting items. That's the shortcut to delete a word to the left in Windows.
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by Encosia 16y ago
Notice how he slid his hand around to hit the power/lock button as he was running the app, yet the table didn't reflect that (it wasn't locked). Seems suspicious.
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by Encosia 16y ago
Just to follow up on the noise, if anyone's interested (or happen to notice this followup comment at all), noise is not an issue. I received my 13" about 24 hours ago, and only heard the fan briefly while it was syncing my entire Dropbox.
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by Encosia 16y ago
> But at least with this route you're swimming with the current and not against it. There's a lot to be said for that. Exactly. It's disappointing how much time and effort has been squandered on various abstractions primarily populariz
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by Encosia 16y ago
I could be wrong, but I don't think translating between Silverlight and actual web development with an acceptable level of fidelity is realistic. If it were, ASP.NET WebForms 3.5 and 4.0 would have implemented something like that to begin w
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by Encosia 16y ago
I think he's implying that the bottleneck won't be an issue if (when?) we eventually have web-based software powerful enough to create those assets entirely within the same "cloud" that would eventually scale out to do the rendering.
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by Encosia 16y ago
The Xbox has been generating a yearly profit since about 2008. Still a net loss since inception, but it is turning a profit now.
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by Encosia 16y ago
If you're using Firefox, the CSS Reloader addon is nice because it gives you a hotkey. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/46211/
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by Encosia 16y ago
If I go to a coffee shop to do a bit of work on the WiFi, is it legit to buy the requisite coffee or two on my company card and treat it as a business expense?
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by Encosia 16y ago
I started working on markup for a new site this week and put HTML5 Boilerplate into real use for the first time. It has been a very helpful, time-saving starting point. I'll definitely be incorporating most of it into my "new site" templa
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by Encosia 16y ago
Of course, but circumstantial evidence like search history is often used to narrow a field of suspects down to a single candidate for thorough investigation. At that point, they're going to investigate you as exhaustively as it takes to ma
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by Encosia 16y ago
Make sure you avoid people like this for a while! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynn_Turner_(murderer)
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by Encosia 16y ago
It's common to see news stories about dumb criminals who were targeted for more thorough investigation, leading to their eventual conviction, due to their Internet search history (e.g. "How much antifreeze does it take to kill an adult" and
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by Encosia 16y ago
To DM them, you'd have to make them follow you first, which would still require using the hijacked session. Roaming around busy public WiFi doing that would be an easy way to get a bunch of Twitter followers though!
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by Encosia 16y ago
I went to the local Apple store to investigate that for myself. They had an older MBA sitting in a corner, which was hot enough on the bottom that I nearly dropped it. The newer ones, which people had been using all day, were no warmer than
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by Encosia 16y ago
Roswell.
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by Encosia 16y ago
Question is, would it have been that hard to defeat if you were someone who cared absolutely nothing for minimizing damage to the door and door frame? Usually, the answer is not at all.
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by Encosia 16y ago
I think that's one of the best things about the iPad that goes relatively unheralded. It's most of a computer, but nearly impossible for a user to accidentally get into an unusable state. I bought my Dad (74) one this year, as his first "c
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by Encosia 16y ago
For most of the time I've been here, I didn't lock them overnight either. My girlfriend takes comfort in that illusion of security though, so I play along.
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by Encosia 16y ago
I live in a suburb of Atlanta and haven't locked my front door during the day in about a decade (since moving from an apartment to a house). The world isn't really as scary as the news makes it seem.
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by Encosia 16y ago
I agree with you overall, but we've also got eFreedom.com beating StackOverflow with duplicate content in some cases, purely through SEO. In a perfect world, it would be impossible for someone to take StackOverflow's CC data dump and then

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