Harkins

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by Harkins 18y ago
At the Washington Post we have a lot of visitors from corporate/government environments that have locked-down machines that still run IE6, so we see it more than the web average (sorry, can't be more specific). I love the graph of browsers
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by Harkins 18y ago
A two hundred-word blog post about a commercial version of libraries with an affiliate link is not a good post.
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by Harkins 18y ago
I think the problem is humor. It's fun, it gets you lots of upvotes because maybe it makes someone smile. But it's too damn easy. It short-circuits real discussion with pop culture references and snarkiness. Conversation is quickly suffocat
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by Harkins 18y ago
What's the shortest line between you and graduation?
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by Harkins 18y ago
Entering http doesn't make any sense to the average user.
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by Harkins 18y ago
Nice blog post. At a previous job, I saw all of these factors at work on the core product. I had a fight with the CEO where I told him, "You're screaming about cracks in the plaster, I'm telling you it's because the whole foundation's rotte
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by Harkins 18y ago
Bozo filter. When you ban someone for posting crap, don't delete their crap, just flag it and only display it to that user. By giving the crap posters less feedback you reduce their ability to evolve new crap-posting abilities. On the rever
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by Harkins 18y ago
What's with the payment being per-user per-month? Why not just straight per-work unit? Isn't a user who plays the game 20h/m (or at least leaves their browser window open that long) more valuable than the one who only plays for five minutes
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by Harkins 18y ago
"It was also made clear by Toni that Automattic would maintain Gravatar as a separate brand and continue its evolution (instead of just absorbing it into WordPress)." I just looked at getting a gravatar for my Github account. I didn't do it
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by Harkins 18y ago
Yeah, a few years ago. It's basically the Dummies Guide To Being an Abusive, Manipulative Bastard. At a bookstore this weekend I saw the author has another book out titled "33 Laws of War", it looked to be much of the same.
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by Harkins 18y ago
I've heard NearlyFreeSpeech.net is good. No colo or dedicated, tho.
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by Harkins 18y ago
A better headline would be "Linked in: the equity keeps trickling out".
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by Harkins 18y ago
'Om Malik’s “Why Google’s Partners Should Be Worried” ...' Given that this blog post is just a paste from the mentioned (and unlinked article), you should've posted the original instead.
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by Harkins 18y ago
I'm using the free Silk icons from http://famfamfam.com/ -- they're pretty popular, a lot of apps use them.
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Richard Dawkins's Guilty Pleasure (no anchor link, scroll down ~3 screens)(guardian.co.uk)
55 points by Harkins 18y ago|26 comments
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Don't Play Hurt(push.cx)
25 points by Harkins 18y ago|9 comments
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Yahoo Relases OpenID Usability Research(developer.yahoo.net)
5 points by Harkins 18y ago|0 comments
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by Harkins 18y ago
I'll be sure to get socially involved when I'm a wealthy middle-aged white guy looking back on my life and feeling hollow.
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by Harkins 18y ago
Migration will be very fast: Google Analytics does not allow you to export your traffic data.
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by Harkins 18y ago
I do sense a bit of fail reading some of these Twitter messages. Pull from your co-developers, or clone on a shared box somewhere and use it, or use the hypertrophic patch management. Some guy is editing code in prod? Why, you can't change
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You keep using that word “distributed”…(avdi.org)
34 points by Harkins 18y ago|12 comments
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by Harkins 18y ago
FWIW, multiple backups and hardlinks are the basic foundation of git. Running 'git commit -a' a few times a day to check in all the changes isn't a big timesink; commit messages can take time or not depending on how detailed you care to be.
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by Harkins 18y ago
When someone is screwing you, they never say "ha, ha" until the very end when they think they've gotten all they can. Before that, this is some temporary instability, this is an important time, don't you trust me, it's coming, we're waiting
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I don't want a real job [from Introversion Software](forums.introversion.co.uk)
13 points by Harkins 18y ago|10 comments
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by Harkins 18y ago
take it to politics.reddit.com
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by Harkins 18y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_pleading
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by Harkins 18y ago
This isn't Hacker News.
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Giles Bowkett: 36m inspiration on art, passion, markets, and shipping to avoid Fail 2.0(infoq.com)
2 points by Harkins 18y ago|0 comments
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by Harkins 18y ago
It's answered in the FAQ.
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by Harkins 18y ago
His first two points are wrong if there's inflation coming as the current crisis seems to precipitate, you should spend your money before it loses value..

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