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by Travis 16y ago
I think this sounds like a really fun thing to do. I'm told that I write decently, and have been trying to get into the creative side of writing lately. Also, the PI-like aspect sounds fun! I'll hit you up on email.
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by Travis 16y ago
Paul -- I use CK to monitor my Linode apps. Should I expect to start seeing "switch to rackspace" pitches when I login? Are you going to do anything non-anonymously with my data?
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by Travis 16y ago
Reddit is over that way ---->.
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by Travis 16y ago
Not necessarily always the case. Anyway, the author isn't suggesting that we do this in all areas of society. Just the ones that fit the experimental structure pretty well. Using the articles examples of education and crime -- seems pret
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by Travis 16y ago
The article actually explicitly discusses your first point: that people can be affected by the experiment. It's called Hawthorne's Law, and the author discusses what types of laws might be good / bad to perform these tests on. Your second
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by Travis 16y ago
The only problem with this (note: I speak from no experience, just reading other comments) is that it's at the application level. For the serious DDoS stuff (Anon, extortion rings), you have to filter at the TCP level (from what I know).
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by Travis 16y ago
I'm sure you understand this, but it's worth explicitly pointing out that this blog post is a one time cost, whereas email overload is ongoing. Plus, email (for me, at least, and apparently the author) has a much higher psychological burde
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by Travis 16y ago
Regular login/pass will be your lowest common denominator. I think you have to build that first, and add in facebook/google/twitter afterwards. I'd sign up via either google or via login, but if you didn't offer those options I would not
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by Travis 16y ago
I speak from my startup's experience. We thought we were a lock for angel funding around 4 months ago. Finally, all the answers came back, "no". We believe it was because it's our first startup, and we did indeed look like the cardboard
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by Travis 16y ago
HN is not an appropriate forum for announcing new products for the company you work for. Flagged.
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by Travis 16y ago
Commercial posting -- flagged.
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by Travis 16y ago
I ran the site through an SEO analyzer, and found that you did pretty well on the basic stuff, like you mentioned above. See the full report at http://www.seoworkers.com/tools/report.html (enter your URL). The big areas to focus on are y
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by Travis 16y ago
Considering construction finished just 3 years before this exam was published, and the charter was formalized just 10 years before, I would say that MIT (known as Boston Tech from 1866-1916) was not among the foremost technical institutions
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by Travis 16y ago
I expect that programming for the desktop is more difficult than web stuff. I do web stuff only, but still have the perspective to kind of realize the spectrum of difficulty generally inherent to different types of programming. That said,
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by Travis 16y ago
Is it that coders confused the good business guys with the charlatans, or is it that it's difficult to tell them apart? Much like business guys can't tell good coders from bad without knowing about programming (100% agreement there), it's j
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by Travis 16y ago
I'm not sure how anonymous this is, but http://whenisgood.net/ works pretty well for this general type of task.
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by Travis 16y ago
About the same. Depends on how recently I looked at it. I usually stop when the articles are ones I've seen before. That's when I roll over to the new section. Don't usually get past 5 pages over there.
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by Travis 16y ago
Have you tried calling them on the phone? Google searches then phone calls can work wonders if you're in "enterprise" software. If your margins are too low to support that, you've found a flaw in your business model. You'll either need t
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by Travis 16y ago
Anyone else get weird back button behavior when visiting this site? I clicked "back" but nothing happened. When I looked at my recent history, there were 3-4 entries for the site. Anyone else get this issue?
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by Travis 16y ago
If this is something you really want to do, I'd recommend getting as niche as possible. Find a group of people with strongly held beliefs that exhibit a lot of cognitive dissonance, and exploit them. A great example is the atheist who offe
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by Travis 16y ago
It's not necessarily that the older technology is inherently more stable, but that there's a survivor effect. Old technology that wasn't stable fell to newer technology that wasn't stable. Stuff that "just worked" (like the radio mentione
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by Travis 16y ago
This is pretty cool. Very well laid out and aesthetically pleasing for a 1 day project. Congrats!
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by Travis 16y ago
Do you know much about Warren Buffett? He is one of the three richest men in the world. He has created an immense amount of value for himself, but also for other people, due to his value based investment strategies. He's not a Carl Icahn
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by Travis 16y ago
For me, it's the structure that allows me to get things done. I've only ever dabbled in GTD or Pomo, but the basic building block -- have a list of tasks grouped and broken-down by time -- is what lets me get things done. I'm sure the proce
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by Travis 16y ago
I notice it starts to come on from time to time. Starts with dull pain in the outside area of my wrists (wrist/arm juncture on the pinky side of the hand). Icing at night works wonders for me. RSI can be due to inflammation in the tendon
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by Travis 16y ago
Sounds like there's a chance you'll be hurt because you've used a template. How does that compare to the damage / delay suffered because you had to take the time to design the site? Generally, I'll start with a template to get things runni
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by Travis 16y ago
This is close to a common solution seen in authentication and access control components in web frameworks. I'm currently in CakePHP, so I'm looking at it's security component. It has a security level that you set in your app, to low, med,
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by Travis 16y ago
I evaluate sites on two levels -- as a designer/developer and as a customer. In the former mindset I will "look down" upon you if I notice it's a template. In the latter, not at all. In my "getting things done" mindset, I'll applaud you
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by Travis 16y ago
It is a fine line to tread. I think someone who has the ethical concerns to ask about it, probably will be fine. So don't stress too much about it -- don't let this decision hang you up. Just ask yourself this question: when the person cl
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by Travis 16y ago
I'm not so interested in getting to know them, or what their interests are (unless they're related; I'd be interested to know what a email API creator's database interests are). But not interested to find out that the guy behind XYZ's API

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