OmarIsmail

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by OmarIsmail 17y ago
In the docs there's a parameter for attribute. From the docs it seems like you can use this param to replace the data-id with an XHTML valid attribute.
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By the time we identified you as the problem the damage was already done. In fact, when combined with potential performance penalty that Google may apply (could be 5%, 10%, for one week, two weeks... who knows) the actual amount of damage i
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by OmarIsmail 17y ago
At the end of the day users of your service won't be accessing our data, which means they'll be missing out on some data, and we'll be missing out on being included in potentially some cool applications. This spat isn't going to have a real
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by OmarIsmail 17y ago
1. This requires prior knowledge of your existence, it wasn't until we did proper analysis that we were able to identify the culprit of the "attack". This did expose a weakness in our monitoring systems, so we've obviously learned from this
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by OmarIsmail 17y ago
Don't get me started on 80legs. They took down our servers earlier this week. We couldn't even identify them based on IP address because of their regular-computer-using distributed system. If anything, 80Legs is the ultimate DDoS machine. I
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by OmarIsmail 17y ago
This is the logical extension and evolution of "user" generated content. The great myth of 2006 Web2.0 was the whole "if you build it, they will come". Well, it depends on what you build, and what they'll do when they come. For aggregator s
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I think that might indicate a fundamental issue with what you're doing with your business. One of the biggest rules in business, and even more importantly startups, is FOCUS. While your technology/process may apply to many different areas a
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by OmarIsmail 17y ago
Nice headline, but not really an accurate portrayal of what really happened. Definitely a "marketing" story more that sounds a lot nicer to tell and hear than the nitty gritty that actually went on. If you look at the stats of the forum the
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by OmarIsmail 17y ago
We're a .NET shop. I'm actually a huge fan of the .NET stack, the IDE and everything.
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Hmm then I probably got it mixed up. 1 day for Amazon, and 7 days for eBay. This was a bit before my time, but apparently eBay used to have 30 day cookie tracking! Needless to say the temptation for planting cookies was pretty damn high and
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One of the ways that people are making money with Amazon is just by the cookies. I believe Amazon is a 7-day tracking cookie, so what this means is that if a user clicks on your affiliate link to Amazon if that user makes a purchase from Am
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The problem with steps 2 and 3 is that most of the time people aren't really sure they know what they want. They may have narrowed things down to a category, such as laptops as you mentioned, but even then you'd be hard pressed to find some
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I think there might be a play in the behavioral targeting market. This is similar to selling stats, but in a more commercial format, e.g. AlmondNet. When a person submits a URL to the shortener, they analyze the URL to figure out what the c
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by OmarIsmail 17y ago
I would imagine that one of the least expensive and most practical places to start a business is your parents' house. Some people may not have that luxury but for those that do it's a major cost and time savings.
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"your peers are talented twenty-something kids who cheerfully work 60-hour weeks" Personally I've found, and read research to the effect, that the difference between skilled/knowledgeable coders can be up to 10x in efficiency. If you're a t
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If you're willing to hack around in a phone, then a jailbroken iPhone offers very similar software functionality. At that point your tradeoff is polished user interface versus a better camera and FM radio.
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The whole "This is the best thing EVAR!" articles really need to die. In general the "best" tool is whatever one is best for the current job. Fortunately in the Webdev world our tools are free and easily accessible. I personally use Safari,
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by OmarIsmail 17y ago
Personally, I just find it to be a good way to find out about Canadian startups, especially since there are also regional lists. For comparative purposes the absolute positions are out of whack since each company can be so different, so you
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It'd have to be something like AdSense click-thru rates affecting search positions. If there was a causation, then if you want higher SERPs, you'd need to use AdSense over competing ad providers. Essentially, using their monopoly in Search
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You're so wrong. And even if you weren't wrong,writing off the huge B2B market is pretty silly. In any event, MySpace and PlentyOfFish both run off of .NET So the largest dating site in the world, and the second largest social network. I'd
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A Framework for Understanding Motivations(mysimplemindedworld.wordpress.com)
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by OmarIsmail 18y ago
Very cool. I've actually been playing with Farser Physics and XNA the past few weeks and you can get something up and running very quickly. The samples and code itself of Farseer is very well done, and pretty well documented.
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The broad answer I'd surmise is boredom. The solution: make it as fun as Call of Duty or Counter-Strike. Problem: How do you make a website as fun as killing virtual terrorists? ... outside of having a website that let's you kill virtual te
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Here's the rough outline: http://s5.tinypic.com/2db9vyw.jpg X-axis is number of contributions. Y-Axis is percentage of people that have contributed at least X+1 times for the given X. So we can segment that out with various tests to see h
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by OmarIsmail 18y ago
We've seen this with our site. The difference between getting a personalized feedback message and not is even more pronounced than the 62% cited in the article. And similar to the findings reported, the more a person has contributed the mor