JDigital

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"How can I hire freelancers without paying the money they ask?"(answers.onstartups.com)
2 points by JDigital 15y ago|4 comments
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by JDigital 17y ago
Jakob Nielsen helped to popularize the myth that web users don't scroll down. It led to an era of website design that crammed as much onto one page, leading to busy, crowded homepages. It wasn't until later that early adopters of CSS made w
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by JDigital 17y ago
This'll be a problem for the sort of games review site that mysteriously gave Master of Orion III a score of 97%.
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by JDigital 17y ago
Today I learned that Vim began on the Amiga. http://cd.textfiles.com/fredfish/v1.6/FF_Disks/571-600/FF_59...
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by JDigital 17y ago
The more motivated you are to vote, the more likely you are to vote it a five. A mediocre video is characterized by a lack of votes, not a preponderance of three-star votes. Back when Youtube rounded the average vote result down to the near
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by JDigital 17y ago
This happened before, when Google Adsense paid $1 for anyone who installed Firefox with Google Toolbar via an affiliate link. A clever chap ran ads linking to a download page with his affiliate link.
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by JDigital 17y ago
Opera gives a Fraud Warning on that URL.
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by JDigital 17y ago
Are hacked Wordpress installations usually running old versions, or is the latest Wordpress version usually equally vulnerable?
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by JDigital 17y ago
Use Python. If Python is too slow, use C. If you don't know C, use Java. If you don't know any of these, you ought to learn at least one. Use Python.
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by JDigital 17y ago
It's a serious usability fault, not a clever hack. This test paper fails to comply with the user's expectations, like a webpage that breaks the Back button.
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by JDigital 17y ago
Next up: Slashdot rebranded "the Dot".
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by JDigital 17y ago
"I hope I am not the first person to tell you this, but nobody reads design documents. In fact, when working at larger studios, I made a habit of inserting the line “I will pay $5 to anyone who reads this sentence” into the center of any do
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by JDigital 17y ago
I was about to post almost exactly this to the link's comments, but they wanted me to sign up first, perhaps to confirm my identity. Irony much?