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by apike 16y ago
Indeed. The first sentence it generated for me was not a Markovian nonsense phrase, but rather a phrase that appears on a very large number of web pages: "The following content has been identified by the YouTube community as being potential
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As a developer with design sense who is now both designing and writing iPhone apps, I'm having a hard time finding what to read beyond these kinds of articles. There are lots of Photoshop tutorials out there, but I need some why with my
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I got my job at Apple from the 37signals job board. Today is my last day, but it was a great experience. (Wish me luck with my new startup!) The employment inquiries and offers I've received from startups in the past have mostly come throug
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Apple releases iTunes Connect Mobile (iTunes link)(itunes.apple.com)
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I added myself to http://hnhackers.com yesterday and I got a contact from a potential client today. Even if that's the only client I get from it, it was worth it. You should charge twice the hourly wage you'd make working for someone else
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Another cool success story out of Vancouver. Scaling up a business here would have been even cooler, but if you're going to be acquired, Twitter is a heck of a place to go. Congratulations guys!
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Sounds interesting. What does tptacek say?
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I've updated my post to be clear that I meant more efficient for Twitter, not the end user in that case. Also, my assumption is that people use this instead of normal URL shorteners in most cases.
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Querying each URL would be impractical to do on the Twitter client side, especially on a mobile device, even simply from the latency before you can render perspective. You could render the tweets with the shortened links and then reflow the
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From users' perspective, the big thing here is that clients can now show where links in tweets actually lead. For brevity, the link text should probably just be the domain it leads to, but it should make things a whole lot more readable. Be
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Although it's unlikely any end users will install Chrome Frame that are unable to just install Chrome, I think intranet developers could drive its adoption. Here's the pitch: "We could build this new intranet app for $100,000 if we roll out
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Google Chrome Frame is now in Beta(blog.chromium.org)
8 points by apike 16y ago|1 comments
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I often hear about adults buying games but not really playing them. As long as this is happening, there isn't any economic incentive to aim for quality over quantity in gameplay. Game reviewers play a big part in this since adults tend to b
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Although the tests only cover a tiny subset of HTML5 cases that IE9 supports, I like the approach. If each browser had a test suite that they passed 100% and could run against the other browsers, it would be an interesting way to move towar
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It doesn't have to be a fault in the JavaScript language for it to be disconcerting or fascinating. That NAT pinning attack is also disconcerting and fascinating. An XSS to your router attack is more elementary and so it's easier to grok fo
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The most disconcerting part for me was about attacking services inside a firewall using JS, starting around 45:00. He explains how somebody once wrote a page that, if you load it, would log in to your wireless router (if it had the default
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I met a lot of my geek friends from going to various programming and tech meetups. I'm in Vancouver but most substantial cities have them. The best ones for meeting people have both a technical component (weeding out the non-geeks) and an a
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Charge double the hourly wage you would work for as a full-time employee. If you're worth $25/hr as an employee, then $50/hr would be about right for freelancing. A more in depth look: http://www.antipode.ca/2009/what-your-time-is-worth/
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For a lot of employees, the project they'll be working on and what their manager is like are major factors in whether they want a job. Wouldn't a "no hiring manager" strategy cause problems because of this?
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Bonus for users without Flash installed: the ad doesn't work.
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Ah, that makes much more sense. Thanks a lot Igor.
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Don't miss the article's infographic, "A Bewildering Tangle of Options" on the complexity of the privacy options panels. http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2010/05/12/business/faceb...
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I'd never heard of Plug and Play, even though they seem fairly large. It's clear from their website that they're not quite a seed program like Bootup Labs or Y Combinator, but it's not exactly clear what they are. The feel of their site is
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Startup accelerator Plug and Play Tech Center to open in Vancouver(techvibes.com)
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I'm not surprised that Cassandra doesn't perform ideally with only three nodes, considering the scales it's intended for. Does anybody know how many nodes are required for its resiliency safeguards to work properly?
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Adam Lisagor is indeed a wonderful character. If you like him, you should check out the podcast he does with Merlin Mann and Scott Simpson, You Look Nice Today: http://youlooknicetoday.com/
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Exactly. The sort of writers who are excited by thirty clicks are probably interested in influence. For them, measuring RSS subscriptions, comments, or inbound links is better.
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There is a big difference between users clicking and users reading. Not everything that causes clickthroughs is a net win.
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Here is the press release: http://www.nasdaqtrader.com/TraderNews.aspx?id=ETA2010-30
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If you look at the YouTube player UI in the demo, it appears to be YouTube's HTML5 player, not their Flash player. Edit: I've been corrected here - for some Flash videos, they use the HTML5 style UI, and for some Flash videos they use the o

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