TravisLS

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by TravisLS 17y ago
No objection to the usability assertions, but there's a huge problem with this idea that Craigslist will now always control the classifieds market no matter what they charge. This meme has caught on recently and it's time for it to die. It
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by TravisLS 17y ago
This is really no surprise. I was just wondering the other day what pre-packaged, universally-accepted name would be given to the 9/11 attacks in history books.
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by TravisLS 17y ago
Congratulations to jgrahamc on making this happen. This apology was long overdue and would not have happened without your effort.
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by TravisLS 17y ago
What he says is very true, but let me take it one step further. Great marketers spend their time developing products/services/stories that don't drop off, but they also spend their time encouraging their first circle to talk to their secon
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by TravisLS 17y ago
Maybe I'm missing something, but let's summarize the changes: - De-emphasized search, which is probably the way that at least 50% of the users navigate the site. - Added a customer testimonials banner that should and would be immediately ov
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by TravisLS 17y ago
I'm going to go ahead and predict this same problem: http://paulgraham.com/segway.html
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by TravisLS 17y ago
There's another date formatting library if you're using Prototype, that I've used for a few things (although I have to say, I like the OP better). It was kind of hard to track down and doesn't seem to have any continuing support, but is us
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by TravisLS 17y ago
This article begins with a false analogy in its comparison of the plights of railroads and newspapers. Newspapers are not in the "newsprint" business, as suggested here, but rather in the journalism business. The mechanism for distributio
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by TravisLS 17y ago
I would love an app that could keep an inventory of the food i have on hand in my aparment (based on what I've ordered in the past and my own inventory revisions), allow me to order more when I run out (from freshdirect.com or whatever the
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by TravisLS 17y ago
This is a representation of classic game theory. If all participants cooperate to drive as described, the traffic clears. If nobody else helps to open up space, however, you will personally arrive at your destination slower by driving pas
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by TravisLS 17y ago
The fact that this is even a story is pretty distressing. As far as I can tell, the guy's gotten good results, which is much more than I can say for plenty of "qualified" people in Washington.
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by TravisLS 17y ago
There was a post on HN some time back from former house speaker Newt Gingrich, who is a fairly outspoken advocate on this issue: http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/08_45/b41070852...
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by TravisLS 17y ago
Glad you liked it. Thanks for the shout-out on your blog / twitter.
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by TravisLS 17y ago
I know, just what the world needs, another URL shortener. Still, I was tired of being confronted with links on twitter like: "Coolest thing ever - http://short.url/12345 . So in order to add a little context to my links, I created my own
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One-Day Project: ctxt.us - url shortener with context(ctxt.us)
20 points by TravisLS 17y ago|10 comments
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by TravisLS 17y ago
Exactly. I'd estimate approximately a 10-fold increase in productivity if I removed the HN RSS feed from the top of my iGoogle page. But...
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by TravisLS 17y ago
Everyone here is probably fairly well aware of how easy it is to compromise accounts on these online services. I hope most HN users recognize that the appropriate course of action after hacking a service like this is to notify the account
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by TravisLS 17y ago
I don't really agree with this assessment. With the release of IE8, we also saw the browser upgrade coming through automatic windows updates. IE will eventually probably accept this as much as safari and firefox, thereby keeping most user
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by TravisLS 17y ago
For anyone who enjoyed this article, here's the holy grail of company name etymologies: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_company_name_etymologie...
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by TravisLS 17y ago
I suspect (with no evidence whatsoever) that the increase from linking "here" was because people felt clicking the link would complete the action rather than just take them to twitter. I wonder what the effect would have been had you used:
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Global warming: Our best guess is likely wrong(physorg.com)
1 points by TravisLS 17y ago|0 comments
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by TravisLS 17y ago
the password is hashed with sha1 so that the database does not need to store the actual password This recommended approach is not good security practice for password storage. If the database is compromised, your passwords are vulnerable
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by TravisLS 17y ago
This is a cool idea, but actually using it is incredibly jarring. I think it works on the iphone because your typing speed is so much slower. I found myself confused and second-guessing my typing a lot more using this with a keyboard.
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by TravisLS 17y ago
Why I don't do Time Tracking: I find many creative tasks require a lot of distraction time in order for my brain to process what I'm doing. Many times, it helps to "be productive" for an hour, then go use twitter for 20 minutes. When you
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by TravisLS 17y ago
My main issue with this solution is that it takes the decision out of the user's hands. Granted, in some cases it is potentially beneficial to unmask the password, but I would not want a site to assume that I'm okay with this approach. Im
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Researchers Test New 'Space Internet' System on International Space Station(physorg.com)
2 points by TravisLS 17y ago|0 comments
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by TravisLS 17y ago
Thanks for the flashback. I wonder how many HN members got started on their TI-83. I remember even the most remedial users figuring out how to store enough data to cheat in pre-calc. IMO, the language is less relevant, it just takes a pr
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by TravisLS 17y ago
The conclusion of this article is the most illuminating part. In case you didn't get there... As a public service announcement, don't worry too much about grades. This is America, not Germany, where success is determined by the solidity
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by TravisLS 17y ago
This post does a very effective job of highlighting rule #1 of market segmentation: every customer should be almost immediately sure which segment they fit in. For example: is this computer for business or personal use? do you need the "su
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by TravisLS 17y ago
I wholeheartedly agree with this solution with the additional possibility that you cookie the user's choice. Solutions like firefox plugins are fine for you and me, but not for the remedial computer users who mistype their passwords in the

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