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by akronim 17y ago
Before you get too excited, experts exchange still had +55.27% growth, it's not like it's dying. There isn't much of a trend to the (absolute) gap between the two sites.
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by akronim 17y ago
Maybe it's just me, but "4 times faster" sounds better than "in 25% of the time".
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by akronim 17y ago
Ok, gave it a few tries, every conversation is terminated as soon as you reply "male" to the inevitable question! So option one is probably get 5000 girls on there!
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by akronim 17y ago
Presumably a lot of money is going to be spent on the transition - any startups working in this area?
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by akronim 18y ago
Cows keep producing milk, but that's not much good unless you live near the cows. Factories stop making iPods since people don't go to work if they know they won't get paid. Likewise, the truck drivers won't keep bringing food to the super
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by akronim 18y ago
There's a difference between automation and how often your customers see something going wrong. I'm all for the automation. But lets say the error rate is so low that just 0.1% of automated releases go wrong. Rolling out 50 times a day m
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by akronim 18y ago
deploy/rollback is probably ok for a consumer site. But not everything is a public website (no really...) - if you're deploying a service with an SLA with dollar penalties for downtime you might want to stick to a more traditional release
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by akronim 18y ago
> Continuously deploy. Every commit should be instantly deployed to production. ah... no. Maybe this is just viable for a single developer, as a substitution for continuous integration. But with multiple developers checking in, on a
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by akronim 18y ago
Be careful basing decisions off the keyword tool, it's far from accurate. Comparing sites at #1 on the search results for different phrases there's often little correlation between traffic from those keywords and what the keyword tool pred
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by akronim 18y ago
how much data are you moving?
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by akronim 18y ago
> So, Why would anyone go for asp.net? Because they have an existing investment in C# and/or the microsoft stack, and a team of developers who know C#/visual studio. In that situation it's pretty hard to sell PHP.
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by akronim 18y ago
If they took programmers from offices, and made them sit together in a room together all of a sudden, then you might just be measuring how upset programmers get when you make them move desks! You could probably get the same result in rever
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by akronim 18y ago
But if you're not in the US it's not straighforward to get a US card, which can be limiting, e.g. you can't use Mechanical Turk without a US card and address.
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by akronim 18y ago
most of the CCTV footage you see makes it hard for humans to recognize people. So it's going to take more than just hooking up a computer to the cameras.
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by akronim 18y ago
well this would have been somewhat more useful a few months back.
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by akronim 18y ago
Sample bias - you only hear about the ones making loads because they're the only ones with noteworthy income.
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by akronim 18y ago
If you have 6 one month projects, you could either deliver all at the end of six months, or concentrate on one at a time. The total work is the same, but the average delivery is earlier. And you alleviate the risk of never actually delive
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by akronim 18y ago
I think he's confusing obsolete with mature. Java is far from the hot new thing, but it you want to do large scale stuff then you know it can do the job. And there is plenty of innovation happening in frameworks like Spring rather than th
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by akronim 18y ago
if you want to target more than one set of keywords then you probably want more than one landing page, each targeting a specific user group or keywords. The home page is more general.
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by akronim 18y ago
I'll take a quick stab at it: 1) hopefully that's landing pages . You don't have to worry about SEO on the internal pages that google can't see. 2) no, since I assume they just all redirect to the login page, and you want people to be abl
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by akronim 18y ago
Delicious Library does it with the camera in the mac, you just hold up the book.
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by akronim 18y ago
You need the ISBN, but it's not as simple as scan it and you're done. Delicious Library might do what you want?
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by akronim 18y ago
Those photos on the home page map get all the attention, buy aren't clickable? (not that I didn't try...)
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by akronim 18y ago
Why is this a web app? For many companies even letting your service see the database metadata is not going to be viable. i.e. you're excluding the potential customers with the most money.
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by akronim 18y ago
Apple and Google are already very cosy. If Apple bought Yahoo that would probably raise a few antitrust issues for Google. Unless it's supposed to be a way to workaround that.
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by akronim 18y ago
I think this needs to be read under the same terms as his blog - "A posting every day; an interesting idea every three months…". Of course it's up to you to decide which this is...
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by akronim 18y ago
Plus everyone has a mailbox. Not everyone has the bandwidth to download HD on demand.
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by akronim 18y ago
Isn't that just something 37Signal's lawyer would have made them put in? It doesn't cost them anything to have those words there and might dissuade a few people from copying their design.
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by akronim 18y ago
It's not written in the 3rd person! That would be more like "Joel thinks that the savings blah blah".
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by akronim 18y ago
just buy a second hand cello. You'll be surprised how much you remember, and while you may have lost the rapid learning ability you have at 7, you might find you now associate practising more with fun than homework :)

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