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by Harkins 18y ago
The want to see if the page will attempt to customize a page full of spammy keywords and ads in response to the perceived interests of the visitor. It's a smart check to make, but Microsoft Live does it so heavily that it bugs the hell out
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by Harkins 18y ago
Ask your local library system about interlibrary loan. You may have trouble with books released in the last 6 months (it's peak borrowing time, libraries like to hold them for their local patrons), but otherwise you can get basically everyt
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by Harkins 18y ago
Some for renown, on scraps of learning dote, And think they grow immortal as they quote.
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by Harkins 18y ago
Check out James Howard Kunstler's book "The Long Emergency". He does a good job of pointing out the serious inadequacies of alternative tech, futility of efficiency (given where we are on the Hubbert curve), and points out that's it's going
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by Harkins 18y ago
There's http://www.competitious.com/
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by Harkins 18y ago
dupe http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=548802
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Second Life's Message Queue Evaluation Notes(wiki.secondlife.com)
11 points by Harkins 18y ago|0 comments
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by Harkins 18y ago
If you can build the site without a significant investment of money or time then it's OK that it'll take time or tinkering to earn back your money. If it's expensive to build and doesn't have a clear path to earning back that investment, it
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by Harkins 18y ago
Pinch Media, perhsps. http://www.slideshare.net/pinchmedia/iphone-appstore-secrets... Or, more likely, one of the ad networks.
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Why I'm Missing the iPhone gold rush(jeff-vogel.blogspot.com)
46 points by Harkins 18y ago|22 comments
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by Harkins 18y ago
This was the first Cambrian House business model. I saw two problems. First, you didn't know what to do with your metrics -- if changing a button from green to blue caused signups to go from 20/day to 25/day, which number indicates how much
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by Harkins 18y ago
I am working on this.
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by Harkins 18y ago
Yeesh. Jamis wrote great code and has been rightly praised by commenters for it. I'm not trying to negate that, just suggest he could've hung it up better. Not every discussion is sbout black and white, I'm not trying to tear down every goo
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by Harkins 18y ago
I'm not traumatized or especially disgusted. Disappointed, maybe. You've got a weird habit of reading things about motives and claims I haven't made.
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by Harkins 18y ago
And for what it's worth: I wasn't trying to yank your chain, or be one more bit of stress in your life. I didn't know you'd stay on the mailing list, that's good of you. Setting up the website, writing docs, writing the mailing list, taking
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by Harkins 18y ago
He does owe the community of users something. He didn't write docs, set up a website, set up a mailing list, etc. because he just thought it was a fun hack he was tossing out there, he was building a community of users. All he owed was a "H
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by Harkins 18y ago
Because a lot of people relied on you and you left them hanging. You can beat up on the straw man about killing people, but ditching the project isn't cool.
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by Harkins 18y ago
"Lets go" is not an accurate title, "abandons" would be a better word. He's written good code and it sucks that he's burning out, but it's not cool to ignore questions and not even try to find a maintainer. Capistrano is used by nearly ever
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by Harkins 18y ago
They're getting much better, check out http://www.ivona.com/online/editor.php?set_lang=en I can tell it's generated, but there are bits here and there that sound like a normal speaking voice. This is like CGI in the 90s, where everyone wa
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by Harkins 18y ago
That's just Google giving prominent placement to something they see as breaking news. It'll disappear in a week or so, then reappear somewhere much lower in a few more weeks as it's normally indexed by their crawler picking up links and reb
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by Harkins 18y ago
Flagged. A better headline would be "A Survey of jQuery UI Features - Part 1". Though this entire article should be replaced with a simple link to the jQuery UI demo page at http://jqueryui.com/demos/ - it's complete and the examples are
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by Harkins 18y ago
Both. (Your question is too broad.)
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by Harkins 18y ago
I think in this case the word "proper" means "the way that seems intuitive to me". This is not bad, but other people have made different technical decisions. Adding the word "proper" tries to make these into quality judgments into opinions,
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by Harkins 18y ago
For anyone not familiar with the term, "Conceptual Designs" ignore technological limitations and often the laws of physics. Imagine a unicorn. Now sheathe it in white plastic. Conceptual Design!
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by Harkins 18y ago
http://api.jquery.com is up-to-date, though not quite as whiz-bang
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by Harkins 18y ago
Go pound the pavement. My dad has a small web design and hosting business. Nearly all of his customers live within five miles of his home, he's succeeding because he knows his neighborhood, wants to see local business do well, and knows how
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by Harkins 18y ago
Because they are humans who need to form social connections. If they were programmers they would realize the information was logically equivalent whether it was gathered from CrunchBase, the company website, or a phone call with a smooth-vo
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by Harkins 18y ago
The business owner gets to put one (presumably excellent) review on top of all the others, and hide the display of competitors on some local search pages.
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by Harkins 18y ago
Quality control != censorship
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by Harkins 18y ago
Because you don't have to teach it, it just learns.

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