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by Travis 16y ago
I'm about to build a feature for my startup that puts a widget on our customers' websites. The fields on their site need to be customizable by them. Sure, I could have a regular SQL table with `fieldname` and `value`, but that table will
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by Travis 16y ago
Like you, I have no ties with the UCE industry, but here are my guesses regarding this topic. I highly doubt they purge gmail addresses. I still get spam in there. And incremental costs are so minimal to spammers, that why would they both
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by Travis 16y ago
hey matt. I tried an earlier version and think you're on to something. Wanted to chime in and say that I doubt export to HTML will be a huge feature. Most of the people using a tool like this are going to want to write their own HTML (I
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by Travis 16y ago
Counterpoint: well into the 1950s, doctors would routinely endorse cigarettes with menthol because they "cleared up your lungs." Even R.A. Fischer, the man who started modern applied statistics, died in 1962 believing that the conclusions
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by Travis 16y ago
I understand your counterpoints. And I'd like to thank you for taking the time to research and cite all of this -- I truly had no idea of the private money behind some of this research. However, after further consideration I don't think th
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Would this really solve anything? It would reduce the rate of serious hits (and thus concussions). But by what amount? Any time you have men this size, who are this motivated, moving this quickly, you'll have serious injuries. Not to men
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I certainly believe that. However, I suspect the game would significantly change if helmets were removed (hypothetically). It would be interesting if I had a time machine, so I could go back and measure the impact of collision in the NFL g
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by Travis 16y ago
Gotcha, I wasn't aware the game was so significantly different. I think the WSJ article suggests that removing the helmets would force the game to change in this manner. Also very much agreed regarding the linemen situation. It does confli
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by Travis 16y ago
Just curious -- how do you explain away the many fewer head injuries in the australian football leagues?
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by Travis 16y ago
+1. This is similar to the major reason I despise the band U2 (besides their awful music): they bitch and moan about helping poor children in Africa. They even recently complained that the British gov't doesn't send enough money to impove
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by Travis 16y ago
Perhaps the infrastructure would have been built, but I think you'd be surprised at the amount of basic fundamental research the government does that enables the infrastructure. Most corporations don't do what the US Feds call "R06" resear
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by Travis 16y ago
"Schools are in business to make money, not to get people jobs." And the soonest everyone realizes this, the better off they will be. The problem, as I see it, is that they present themselves as this romantic ideal of higher purpose / educ
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by Travis 16y ago
I believe your analogy to web developers fails because the purpose of education, at least in how they describe themselves, is presented as something superior to commerce. And yet, all their actions and policies are (becoming more) commerci
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by Travis 16y ago
Transparency. The biggest complaint I hear about these places is that they aren't transparent in anything -- from reasoning behind their prices, to the resolution of conflicts.
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by Travis 16y ago
As in nearly all performance metrics, your mileage will vary (greatly). At some point I'm sure that the cost of loading external files will outstrip the benefit gained from not having it in memory. You need to test this in your application
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by Travis 16y ago
I use linode VPS. Similar to the rackspace suggestion. Although it's a VPS, it can resize in under a half hour. So if you have constant scalability requirements (don't need to spin up/down during the day), I love it. I run a friends' sit
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by Travis 16y ago
I think this is a great response. Especially because once you've figured out how to find your competitors, you've discovered the common channels that your customers will come through. This allows you to identify how you're going to get tr
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by Travis 16y ago
You have access to a number of different data points -- cookies, IPs, language accept sets, etc. The difficult part is deciding what you want to pivot on. Also helps to know the limitations of each of those methods (e.g. IP addr isn't alw
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by Travis 16y ago
Are you just storing it as a quick way to get the score with tallying votes? A) I can normalize something scaled on 1 to 5 just as easily as -1 to 1. Is it that much harder using 3 as your middle, as opposed to 0? As a bonus, you don't ha
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by Travis 16y ago
I have mixed feelings on them (although I will admit I haven't critically researched all of their actions). On one hand, they bring awareness to people of pretty good issues. On the other, they have been known to use unethical or dishonest
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by Travis 16y ago
My two cents: I don't think much of the modern pseudo-journalism (and journalists) are worth saving. Granted, I don't subscribe to my local paper (the San Diego union is a noted piece of junk), but I can only think of a couple of writers w
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by Travis 16y ago
Very nice article. I must say -- I think the "Describe the Problem, NOT the solution" and "document your existing workflows" are EXCELLENT tips.
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by Travis 16y ago
I wouldn't spend the money on them. Essentially, you're asking a third party that both of you trust to hold the money for a sizable fee. For previous clients, you've built a relationship with them. Build on that. Stay in good contact. T
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by Travis 16y ago
Interesting that the threads in here actually are more vocal than I expected behind the non-tech guys. Helps that jasonfried, a prime counter-example to this post, weighed in himself. My take on it is simple: I passed this article along to
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by Travis 16y ago
Well, item 1 is really a simple thing. I'd just start it as a bookmark, then I'm sure you can find a wrapper that will allow you to push a bookmark into the start menu. Really shouldn't be hard. For item 2, that depends on your product.
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by Travis 16y ago
Sorry, meant to add: if you're interested in discussing something like this, please contact me via the email in my profile. Thanks!
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by Travis 16y ago
This is very interesting. Are you considering doing it yelp/groupon style, with a representative in each city? I'd be willing to be my local (san diego) rep, as I'm looking into getting more involved in my local dev community (and this se
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by Travis 16y ago
That's very interesting -- I never actually thought about base64 encoding an image to send inline in a file, then reconverting it with javascript! Mostly I love how you had an idea, then tested it. Thank you for writing up the results and
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http://webmasters.stackexchange.com/ handles most of that stuff.
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by Travis 16y ago
You can do this with paypal, you just have to code the integration yourself. Can be as simple as having a form POST different values to the paypal API then redirecting to your site.

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