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by GavinB 17y ago
Web reach should be enough to trigger notability. Any website in the top 100,000 in terms of traffic for a year is important enough to merit Wikipedia attention. Notability should be determined by how useful the knowledge is, not whether o
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The problem is that you can't run IE6 and IE8 in parallel (though it sounds like adbachman may have a way around this). So you keep IE6 for applications in your intranet that require it and use Firefox for general web access.
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Or just install Firefox with IE tab. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1419 Or just keep IE 6 and run Firefox in parallel for everything else.
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I'm guessing that continuous hiring means getting the best when they're available, not getting whatever is available when you need it today.
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The third shelf up on the right looks like SF paperbacks. I'm pretty sure that's Ender's game third from the right.
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There are different types of efficiencies. A small group can accomplish more tasks per person than a large group, as there is less overhead. However, large groups can benefit from network effects. A larger group may be able to build a repu
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When it comes to sci-fi/fantasy writers, I feel their ability to envision speculative worlds heightens their ability to impartially observe their own reality. This is crucial. In order to get distance from the assumptions that govern our
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I think the real question is, where will you possibly get sufficient cleavage to advertise it? http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001286.html
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In the Air - Gladwell on ideas (2008)(gladwell.com)
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There's a huge difference between writing "when the mood is on" and not writing when you're exhausted. Zeldman seems to conflate the two in this piece. I find that inspiration comes from forcing my way through the first paragraph. Usually
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One additional thing is that the punishments have to be realistic. If your policy is to fire someone who is lax in security, your managers are likely to cover up infractions so that they don't have to fire their employees. You have to be wi
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Won't the cars traded in just get sold right back out at extremely low prices? Overall this program is likely increasing the number of vehicles on the road. The energy cost of producing the new more efficient cars may well be offsetting the
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In the long run, every industry is going to be "napstered." We’re going to have to rethink our economic structure to find incentives that work. If you think the RIAA an MPAA were a problem, wait until it’s Walmart and Costco. On the other h
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Don't forget to publicly demonstrate your willingness. The willingness just makes the demonstration more believable.
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I suspect that we just have different needs, and that's fine. I use google docs for quick access to simple documents, and it works very well for that. I'm just disturbed by the trend to less feature-rich word processors, when I would like
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Moving to Google Docs would be a big step backwards in functionality. Word + Dropbox is perfect because it combines cloud availability with native capability. If you want me to switch, you need to offer something better. The ability to han
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I think you mean, "You must have worked really hard on those 2 Rails projects to make them so good."
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As my cousin says, "unemployment payments mean that my startup is funded."
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It's hard to overstate the importance of a good outline. It serves not just to ensure proper organization and coherence, but to make it possible to complete the book. If you have a solid, detailed outline you always have that to tall back
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I think I'll make a board game version of twitter. You compete to get the most followers, to get replied to by major bloggers, to get retweeted, and mentioned in the news. The ultimate winner is the first to get a million followers. Who's
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The game pieces are fairly generic, so it looks like the best games for this would be heavily card or board based. You can control the art there, so it wouldn't look generic. The real key here is the ability to print custom card decks. Mos
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I'm on the "free six months of 50 GB" offer so I didn't see that. When the six months runs out I'll be paying them, and glad to do so.
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Dropbox ends unlimited undo--unless you ask them not to [screenshot](imgur.com)
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A lot of people cite MetaTalk as a reason that MetaFilter works. If you talk to a regular from the site they'll tell you MetaTalk is key to the success of the site because it's a sort of release valve. The solution to the "not hacker news
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I was actually thinking about this last night as a means of hiding text or pictures. I would just round each pixel's R, G, and B values off to either even or odd. Even stands for 0, odd for 1. That gives you three bits per pixel and hopeful
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Sorry, guys, this has major problems. From CNET: Don't let the attention-grabbing headlines elsewhere fool you. GirlsMakingBoySounds still has not announced a business model. There are no Pro GirlsMakingBoySounds accounts. There is no Gir
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"Most people use passwords. Some people use passphrases. Bruce Schneier uses an epic passpoem, detailing the life and works of seven mythical Norse heroes." Given this fact, it's not too hard to see why he would have come out against maskin
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That makes sense. It's probably a case of focusing on what you're best at, rather than trying to fit into someone else's mold.
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Good stuff. Loved the nonsense english song especially. Being able to understand the words sure helps, even if half of the lyrics are nonsense. One thing that strikes me is that your recording sound is very "live." You don't include any ins
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Not if you paint it on the floor!

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