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by alanstorm 16y ago
It's nice to see some governments recognizing that something which was once a luxury is now becoming a necessity as offline alternative for mandatory services (paying bills, job searching, etc) get stripped down or removed entirely.
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by alanstorm 16y ago
I know a lot of good copy editors who are out of work.
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by alanstorm 16y ago
I assume they'll just let it go viral. The communities that grow out of the existing user base will have some overlap with slightly less technical people. This, in turn leads to slightly less technical people being exposed to the platform
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by alanstorm 16y ago
Does anyone know what word we're supposed to use for "Web Development techniques that help ensure a consistency of experience across browsers for all users regardless of browser choice" now that "standards" means something else?
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by alanstorm 16y ago
One that was (unless I'm mistaken) never released.
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by alanstorm 16y ago
Oh, I acknowledge it's out there (ergo the tinfoil hat comment). However, to your specific examples: Pandora already agreed/decided to build an iPad/iPhone application, Zynga (creators of Farmville are in a financial position to turn down A
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by alanstorm 16y ago
When Apple bought Lala they did more than remove a future competitor. They removed a platform from the board that was making Flash (Lala used a flash interface) a relevant technology for some users. The also removed Google's best music sea
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by alanstorm 16y ago
It's always fascinating to hear Rasmus talk about PHP and hear how radically different his view of the platform is when compared to common usage patterns "on the ground".
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by alanstorm 16y ago
I found the setting you're talking about, and if doesn't fix this bug. The portals still render as big black holes no matter the setting (well, if you set it to 0, the portals are obscured by blue/orange flame energy)
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by alanstorm 16y ago
I'm seeing the same bug here on a pretty recent (November '09) Mac Pro.
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by alanstorm 16y ago
I believe you meant to say "These people must have had their privacy set to 'Everyone'.
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by alanstorm 16y ago
Infrastructure to support Digg's more aggressive media and business initiatives. Digg also has to run its own administration infrastructure while Reedit gets the benefit of being a subsidiary of Conde Nast. Plus, of course, Digg got more fu
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by alanstorm 16y ago
Training people to wait isn't that much of a negative. New people who don't know to wait always show up, and the people you train to wait ensure you have a heavy secondary market (see Trade Paperback books, second run movie theaters, etc.)
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by alanstorm 16y ago
LOAD "warning about how aranging to meet strangers for sex in a non-public place has been a bad idea since the invention of sex" RUN
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by alanstorm 16y ago
I just described the intersection of power, money, and business. (so yeah, government contracting fits in the bucket)
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by alanstorm 16y ago
When a big company throws $100,000,000.00 at something it tends to attract a lot of people (either internally or externally) who are more interested in figuring out how to acquire as much of the $100,000,000.00 as possible without worrying
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by alanstorm 17y ago
FWIW that Dark Horse job pops up on Craigslist about once a year.
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by alanstorm 17y ago
Less context switching when you're developing web applications that require a significant amount of Javascript code. Less context switching means you get to stay in flow and get more done.
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by alanstorm 17y ago
Oh not, I'll have to wait a few weeks for the next production run and suffer with owning a device that's had the inevitable Object 1.0 hardware fixes!
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by alanstorm 17y ago
Traffic reporting companies are, more or less, the credit ratings agencies of the web. Their numbers tell you something, but never what they claim to.
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by alanstorm 17y ago
My guess would be on their measurement methodology. The about page reads: "We have a diverse sample of 2,000,000+ U.S. Internet users that have given us permission to analyze the web pages they visit and ask them questions via surveys." Th
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by alanstorm 17y ago
I suppose you can achieve a certain kind of success when you turn every employee's action into an "ROIable" dollar value, but it sure makes for a miserable workplace.
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by alanstorm 17y ago
I can see your point of view here, but if you're trying to "achieve political aims or to force a government to do something" it's implicit that there's going to be people around after your death to push your agenda, (or that you're going to
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by alanstorm 17y ago
The militia movement in rural parts of the US, which the federal government more or less neutered after the bombing.
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by alanstorm 17y ago
The most common definition of is usually along the lines of the one I found on google [ http://www.google.com/dictionary?aq=f&langpair=en|en&#38... ]. > Terrorism is the use of violence, especially murder and bombing, in order to ac
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by alanstorm 17y ago
Tech journalism has always seemed more like sports journalism than hard news. The people doing the reporting tend to be enthusiasts for the companies (teams) they're reporting on, repeat press releases almost verbatim (play-by-play, injury
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by alanstorm 17y ago
I've assumed half the reason Google's been on a custom logo binge is to drive users towards specific search terms and boost AdWords revenue. Show an obscure geeky thing one week to keep the baying nerd masses happy, show Michael Jackson th
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Google's Three New Web Browsers(alanstorm.com)
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