Encosia

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by Encosia 17y ago
I'm a sample size of one, but Hulu Desktop works great on my machine. Same quality video, with a better interface.
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by Encosia 17y ago
The Ballmer Peak is real.
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by Encosia 17y ago
By that logic, shouldn't sites like eBay and Craigslist have given way to the e-classified protocol? Does that mean Hacker News is doomed to be replaced by a generic news aggregation protocol? I don't think it makes sense to assume everythi
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by Encosia 18y ago
There's no reason you can't use a system like that within an RSS reader. I have a couple dozen priority buckets in Google Reader, used to similar effect. That way, I can easily declare RSS bankruptcy on spammy, low-value feeds such as Tech
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by Encosia 18y ago
It's frustrating when people put so much effort into trying to shove the dynamic block through the static hole. I develop mostly in C# and love it, but have absolutely no interest in a "compiled" or more-static JavaScript. JavaScript is a
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by Encosia 18y ago
48 Laws and 33 Strategies are excellent. Greene himself is in no way comparable to those he quotes in his books, but he synthesized an excellent compilation of knowledge nonetheless.
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by Encosia 18y ago
It seems like a mistake to directly equate persistence and quantity.
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by Encosia 18y ago
True, that's a very good point.
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by Encosia 18y ago
The problem with those ratings is that you're only exposed to one side of the potential deviation from the mean. A MTBF without standard deviation is meaningless. To put those ratings in context, consider that a Western Digital VelociRapto
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by Encosia 18y ago
The 128gb Samsung SSD in my Dell M1330 is amazing. I don't regret a penny of the upgrade cost. When I got it, I ran benchmarks against my desktop's 10k RPM HDD: HDD: http://encosia.com/photos/things/drive-benchmark-10k.png SSD: http://
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by Encosia 18y ago
Currently, SSDs' limited number of rewrite cycles make them unsuitable for that type of server application.
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by Encosia 18y ago
That's the way to do it today too. In my machines, I use a smaller 10K RPM drive for OS/programs and a large drive or two for data. It does make a significant difference in performance.
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by Encosia 18y ago
Sure, I saw it coming too. Saved several of my friends/family from buying in 2007 by convincing them that the converting subprimes were going to kill housing values. What I'm saying is that the doom 'n gloom echo chamber is not useful at t
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by Encosia 18y ago
I wish I could upvote you a dozen times. Where were these people several years ago, when raising awareness might have actually been helpful? Now, all they're doing is exacerbating this paralyzing crisis of confidence. It's a self fulfilli
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by Encosia 18y ago
I thought that was off-putting at first too. Then, I tried it on my own blog, and I see why he does it. The difference in engagement was clear. More on-topic comments, lack of questions already addressed in the post, lower bounce rate, lo
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by Encosia 18y ago
There's some potent irony in the fact that the no-spec site looks as horrendous as it does.
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by Encosia 18y ago
http://encosia.com
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by Encosia 18y ago
What about sites like WhiteHouse.gov, which dispel all of those generalizations?
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by Encosia 18y ago
Take a look at the posts on my blog. Most of them revolve around doing just that. I grant that there are plenty ASP.NET developers using drag and drop "design", SqlDataSources in the presentation layer, bloated UpdatePanels for AJAX, and w
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by Encosia 18y ago
Blaming a framework for your own poor use of it is like blaming McDonald's for your poor diet. ASP.NET is a great platform. WebForms could be better, but is perfectly capable of lending itself to good design, clean/semantic markup, and lig
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by Encosia 18y ago
Bob's discussion of the SOLID principles on Hanselminutes (which is what Jeff and Joel are referencing) was pretty good. Jeff and Joel started by talking about the Bob interview, but then went on to criticize the dogmatic types more in the
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by Encosia 18y ago
In the ASP.NET community, we catch a lot of flak for the terrible sites that some developers have created with ASP.NET WebForms. That embarrassment is due exactly to developers choosing to hide behind the (leaky) WebForms abstraction and r
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by Encosia 18y ago
Dealing with small companies, I usually start by suggesting a simple NDA to protect them and make them feel safe. If they don't want more, I skip the administrivia and we move on to solving their problems. It's been my experience that you'
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by Encosia 18y ago
'94-'98. What's the good word?
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by Encosia 18y ago
It's crashing both IE8 and FF3 when I attempt to type the first character in the email address field on the login page. Silverlight version 2.0.31005.0.
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by Encosia 18y ago
Seems more like a Google press release than anything sincere. Maybe trying to regain their preferred status among the top talent looking for work during these tumultuous times?
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by Encosia 18y ago
It's a shame that FeedBurner stagnated after Google acquired them, but there's still not anything out there even remotely close to a viable alternative. It doesn't seem fair to beat them up just because they haven't given us even more fr
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by Encosia 18y ago
I have to agree with monk.e.boy's assessment that they're probably just checking for cloaking. That's not exactly an exotic technique.
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by Encosia 18y ago
Second iteration of a Web 0.1 site? http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/Web_0_0x2e_1.aspx
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by Encosia 18y ago
PageRank is simply a measure of how many pages link to your pages, weighted by their own PageRank. Traffic has nothing (directly) to do with it.

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