Encosia

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by Encosia 16y ago
The split is about 50/50 right now. I've run the crawler three times in the last ~5 months and observed the transition from 1.3.2 to 1.4.2 moving along quite nicely though. After my first run, 1.4 adoption was so anemic that I was worried
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by Encosia 16y ago
It's a C# console application that logs to a SQL Server Express database. It's fairly primitive and the source isn't anything I'd want to advertise. I'd be happy to share it with you if you don't mind C# and want to give it a whirl yoursel
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by Encosia 16y ago
My original post about using Google's CDN to host jQuery generated a lot of discussion here, so I thought you might be interested in this one too.
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6,953 reasons why I still let Google host jQuery for me(encosia.com)
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by Encosia 16y ago
This. My better half is director at a small non-profit here that is part of an ecosystem focusing on helping people get out of this cycle. Her non-profit is the last step in this local ecosystem, taking people who are at about 75% of the l
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by Encosia 16y ago
He couldn't be more dead wrong about the mom-usability factor of the iPhone. I know this because my mom bought one a couple years ago and was able to set up her email and start emailing me photos from the camera before I even knew she had
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by Encosia 16y ago
Ignoring the querystring would break for a lot of sites' URLs, like the default WordPress URLs (Hacker News' too, to be recursive).
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by Encosia 16y ago
For what it's worth, paid writing projects are a non-trivial portion of my income. I've found time management and hard negotiation to be even more important in that area than in software development.
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by Encosia 16y ago
I'm an independent consultant. I live within my means and never worry about money, much less have cash flow problems. Considering I get to do what I love in the process, every day is like Christmas when I put it in perspective. I have heal
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by Encosia 16y ago
I've been using an LLC for my ad-supported websites' income, paid writing, and side consulting work for a few years. I'm far from a financial expert, so I could be wrong, but my impression is that it's been very beneficial in the finance
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by Encosia 16y ago
Don't worry too much about Steve Jobs. Take a look at how much Disney stock he owns and the dividends that stock has been paying out. I'll take that actual wealth over valuation on paper any day.
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by Encosia 16y ago
I have a consumer-y, low-tech site - http://WinScrabble.com - where Google is only about 75%, Bing is ~10%, and Yahoo is ~9%. However, on http://Encosia.com , Google is 97% and Bing/Yahoo are less than 3% combined. It's all about the sit
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by Encosia 16y ago
The (evil) genius in the Blackwater rebranding is that they anti-SEO'd themselves by picking such an overused new name. Even if you followed the name change, searching for Xe didn't return any Blackwater-relevant results for quite awhile.
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by Encosia 16y ago
That's not always true. Templating is a perfect case for reusing code on both sides of the connection. In the optimal scenario, the browser can render a template based on requests for JSON data. However, if the client doesn't support Java
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by Encosia 16y ago
On the other side of the table, giving in to that kind of swagger is dangerous. Especially with something as subjective as design, that dynamic clouds your judgement. Once you've accepted that the designer knows all , your internal need
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by Encosia 16y ago
Well, that shouldn't be very hard to reproduce: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/360937/do-that-in-html5-fail.png
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by Encosia 16y ago
I've held and used a couple of the earlier WP7 models. The UI looks odd, but it worked really well for me and I stopped noticing that initial awkward look almost immediately. I had no trouble at all navigating around, even though I was u
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by Encosia 16y ago
There's been at least one attempt to reverse the 1099 reporting changes: http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=h111-5982 Each representative that voted no on this should get an earful. With no riders on the bill, a no-vote there
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by Encosia 16y ago
> I would love to read stories of interviewees who've decided to call it quits on the interviewers. In 2002, I was in a tough lurch between my first company's failure and a dire job market here in Atlanta. With -$210.00 in my checking
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by Encosia 16y ago
Look at a Twitter search for @LeoLaporte to see all the people responding to him and/or trying to engage with him, or look at his Twitter stream to see him interacting with people himself. For that matter, look at all of the people commenti
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by Encosia 16y ago
Leo's also interacting with people on Twitter daily. His engaging with people there on a one-to-one level seems to exactly disprove the idea that it's an echo chamber that no one's paying attention to. By the same token, it should come as
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by Encosia 16y ago
Whenever I hear someone label social as "echo chambers in which nobody is listening", all I can think is that they must be doing it wrong. Seems to be a "tell" for when someone's awkwardly using the medium as a write-only marketing chann
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by Encosia 16y ago
> Unfortunately, it's still hard to tell how much of that is substantial engagement. A pinging stats provider, like Clicky, gives you great insight into single-pageview engagement. It's true that there's room for inaccuracy in the pingi
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by Encosia 16y ago
In the context of Hacker News (i.e. smaller web startups), keep in mind that Title VII (and the ADA) only applies to companies with 15 or more employees. A tremendous amount of hiring flies under Title VII's radar.
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by Encosia 16y ago
Articles about this never talk about the impact of moving your common keyboard shortcuts. Being physically unable to use Ctrl-S,Z,C,V with my left hand while using the mouse with my right would be difficult to retrain around.
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by Encosia 16y ago
None of those conclusions are based on the two screenshots shown in the article. I just set those up and included them for illustrative purposes. The article's points themselves are based on my experience routinely using those optimizatio
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by Encosia 16y ago
The way browsers implement both JavaScript and document rendering via a single-threaded execution queue, that isn't an issue. Once the page begins rendering, callbacks won't have a chance to execute until after the document is rendered and
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by Encosia 16y ago
You can also use the module pattern[1] to isolate code from tampering or conflicts: (function($, window, undefined) { $(document).ready({ // etc. }); }(jQuery, window); [1] http://www.yuiblog.com/blog/2007/06/12/modu
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by Encosia 16y ago
I'm torn when it comes to that. The readability of $(document).ready() is better. Especially for later devs who may not be familiar with jQuery.
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by Encosia 16y ago
Right, that's the crux of my overall point about .live(). Since it's using event delegation, the DOM elements don't need to be present at the time you declare it. If you have the opportunity to set up your .live() handlers early, you shou

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