aleem

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by aleem 11y ago
Some good pointers and links here, surprisingly they miss both my favourite approaches. 1. If it's on Github, find an issue that seems up your alley and check the commits against it. Or the commit log in general for some interesting co
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by aleem 11y ago
(1) subscriber acquisition and (2) neutralising the competition. AOL for example printed and gave away for free, millions of CDs with free dialup access, spending as much as $35 on SAC (Subscriber Acquisition Cost) [1]: > How much
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by aleem 11y ago
I'll echo those sentiments, the UI for that time certainly had a wow factor. > With any kind of support, or even benign neglect, the product would have been successful. Look at IFTTT services now and it's easy to realize that p
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by aleem 11y ago
I make use of Lua and Redis for handling a few million redirects and have been happy with it so far. I never considered MySQL due to performance concerns. 3ms for connection setup + auth + query seems reasonable. Are you using persistent DB
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by aleem 11y ago
Consistency has nothing to do with it. In jQuery you could just as well do: $.find('.foo').find('.bar') It's just a different way of invoking it. The short-hand is more convenient since it accepts a selecto
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by aleem 11y ago
Beware, granting access to this app (or others like it) will mean it will have access to everything including your private repos' source code. This is pretty bad. If you are going to use this to access your company/startup repo, y
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by aleem 11y ago
I think this goes far and beyond Enterprise play or anything of that nature. There is a lot at stake here. This is a response to a bigger paradigm shift that is the web and software as a service and Mobiles. If you are on Windows XP and win
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Facebook CSS-Layout, Pure JavaScript, No DOM, Transpiles to C/Java(github.com)
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by aleem 11y ago
It's even more impressive when you consider his statement: > “Amazon Web Services is a $5 billion business and still growing fast -- in fact it’s accelerating,” I take that to mean that the business is growing but the rate of growth
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by aleem 11y ago
Not to mention the vast ecosystem of some really great nginx plugins. The one thing I have found desperately wanting in both nginx and haproxy is the support for real-time stats and filtering found in Varnish (supports HTTP only). I am abso
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by aleem 12y ago
Haha, yes you're right. A person from a decade or two ago might find a lot of things odd such as taking selfies, Facebook checkins, talking on a bluetooth headset, holding a 5.5" phone to your ear when the 90s was all about miniat
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by aleem 12y ago
I am quite excited about upgrading my watch experience and the next generation of connected devices, however, the biggest surprise for me is that Apple doesn't offer more gesture recognition. I always imagined the primary interface for
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by aleem 12y ago
Inuit https://github.com/csswizardry/inuit.css uses BEM and the most pedantically correct CSS framework out there. It is a bit more work to get into it as it doesn't provide design off the go--you'll have to
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by aleem 12y ago
Start with a project you use or depend on in your own projects. It's probably best to start by enhancing or adding a feature on that project. Other things to look for is a project that is managed by people who a receptive to pull reque
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by aleem 12y ago
The thing that annoys me most is that now GMail by default shows images which can allow spammers and marketers to detect open rates and validate active email addresses. This is made worse by the fact that marking messages as spam requires y
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by aleem 12y ago
Or put another way, people prefer to take the path of least resistance. Usabale design promotes the same idea (don't make users think). Subscriber acquisition strategies rely on a similar idea that after the first 2 months of free broa
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by aleem 12y ago
You are now faced with a number of decisions, namely: financial, emotional, moral and a business decision in general. On the financial front, the decision is easy to remedy, if the other founders are willing. Ideal scenario is (a) Your 3% e
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by aleem 12y ago
It's like the girl you don't want to date. You just tell her "it's me not you" rather than tell her what's wrong with her, which would be downright insulting. OTOH, the one you like you can end up courting her
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by aleem 12y ago
I checked in UK and was unable to find it. More recently came across this http://bricks.stackexchange.com/questions/939/which-sets-cur... Awesome to know I can still get it, ordering one for my son via UK if I can
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by aleem 12y ago
The bricks are available as lego buckets http://shop.lego.com/en-US/LEGO-Creative-Bucket-10662 Ages 4-99. They have discontinued the pneumatic line which is a shame because it required no batteries and I grokked pneuma
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Web Font Loading Optimisations(developers.google.com)
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by aleem 12y ago
I think I have an idea on how to support IE8 and do this without SVG. 1. Create a JPG of the can and trim the edges off completely 2. Create a PNG of the can and remove the insides completely, leaving only the edges 3. Overlay the JPG on to
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by aleem 12y ago
Similarly, it blocks all FB, Twitter buttons across all websites and there seems to be no way to white list those across all websites. Am I missing something?
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by aleem 12y ago
SpaceX is the commercialisation of space exploration and that's just how valuation works in commercial applications. It is, however, remiss to value to science and progress in dollar terms. TCP/IP is far more valuable than all of
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by aleem 12y ago
Whats wrong with just using a round mold http://www.amazon.com/Ice-Ball-Maker-Premium-Silicone/dp/B00... ?
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by aleem 12y ago
The worst thing about FileZilla is clear text password files. The developer refuses to fix it I am not sure why.
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by aleem 12y ago
I haven't used Parsedown but I am glad things are moving to CommonMark -- it will shift the focus to performance, structure and extensibility instead of struggling with edge cases and Markdown idiosyncrasies. PHP CommonMark's comp
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PHP CommonMark(github.com)
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Thank you for vaping [video](video.newyorker.com)
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by aleem 12y ago
Sales primarily. Moving merchandise globally, signing royalty deals and partnering with carries for app bundling deals is the crux of their business. Software (and other intellectual properties) don't quite have the same supply-side ec

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