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by arscan 14y ago
Yeah, the real value of this chart from my perspective is the transition from slides 3-4 (watching things go up the first day) and then slides 4-5 (watching some stuff bubble up, and others fall off a cliff). So I found myself just cycling
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by arscan 15y ago
Funny idea, though I wouldn't sign up before I saw what it actually looked like. Maybe put up the image in your deviantart gallery (if it looks like this): http://idered.deviantart.com/gallery/36159015#/d4t5dva BTW, what is the "Design I
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by arscan 15y ago
Thanks, I appreciate the examples. I think a lot of it comes down to organization -- with some planning I certainly could find smaller items that fit into 1 hour blocks (configuration, writing tests, documentation, etc). Depends on the natu
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by arscan 15y ago
Sounds good in practice, but I have a real hard time building anything in 1 hour increments. I need a good 3-4 hours scheduled to make solid progress on any of my side projects. I have a feeling others may have the same problem... and PG d
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by arscan 15y ago
This sounds suspiciously like the time machine that kip ordered off the internet in napoleon dynamite.
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by arscan 15y ago
I was with them until the P.S. -- that's just creepy.
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by arscan 15y ago
Very true! Thanks for gently pointing out that hole in my logic. The leap from correlation to causation is a very big one. Anyhow, like you, until I see something other than restaurateurs complaining, I'll give Yelp the benefit of the do
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by arscan 15y ago
The lack of transparency isn't surprising to me, as that's basically industry practice when it comes to the "special sauce" algorithms that power these recommendation engines (google, tripadvisor, whoever). But the extortion part does surpr
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by arscan 15y ago
Thanks, for both links
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by arscan 15y ago
So, off topic a little here, but does anybody else find the "title" attribute on the main content divs to be very irritating? Apparently I read with my mouse cursor sometimes (I didn't realize I did this), and that pesky "title" attribute c
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by arscan 15y ago
Sorry, still the same prob (cleared caches etc): http://i.imgur.com/eFayp.png
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by arscan 15y ago
Yeah, text that is white (like the big links on bottom of many of the slides), just don't show up unless I fiddle around with the css. Nevermind, I don't want to sidetrack the conversation here if its working fine for others.
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by arscan 15y ago
Content seemed extremely sparse but then realized it wasn't rendering in chrome correctly (17.0.963.56). Don't know if its just me... anyhow, jumped over to firefox and it worked fine.
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by arscan 15y ago
So there's the idea in business of creating vs. capturing value. You want your product to create value for the user, but you also want to be the one that captures that value (in the form of $$). IBM in the 80s/90s created a massive amount
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by arscan 15y ago
There's a video on the home page that gives a decent overview and speaks to that "special sauce" that makes it different than relational / nosql dbs. That's probably a good place to start if you aren't in the whitepaper reading mood.
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by arscan 15y ago
I love it when discussions turn meta. Bravo! ;-)
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by arscan 15y ago
For sure -- personally if I was a teacher I'd start any course I taught with that models quote :) And if the students find the holes in what I'm teaching them then we can go to the next level of complexity.
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by arscan 15y ago
"All models are wrong but some are useful" - generally credited to George Box. A model, by definition, is a simplification, otherwise it wouldn't be a model (it would be the actual "thing"). Therefore, you shouldn't get caught up on whethe
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by arscan 15y ago
Good question. But purely from a practical perspective, the risk this presents to an average web startup is completely negligible compared to other risks... like not finding a solid product-market fit. Personally, I'd go with C and spend
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by arscan 15y ago
...and by "more useful", I mean "more profitable"...
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by arscan 15y ago
Does anybody here know when Firefox (and other major browsers besides IE) dropped the P3P standard? I certainly recall having to deal with this on most (all?) popular browsers ~6 years ago. I'm curious if they silently dropped it (because
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by arscan 15y ago
These are nice, but occasionally i find that overzealous validation scripts on websites don't allow you to put these in. An alternative, if you use gmail, is to add in some periods to your email address, since they are ignored on gmails si
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by arscan 15y ago
Oh man, I definitely brute forced the crap out of those games. And then I called the help line :) Yeah, come to think of it, they were the original Zynga in that respect.
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by arscan 15y ago
Yeah, that was a common anti-piracy measure for Sierra games. The earlier games had a pretty boring "what is the xth word on page y" quiz, but by KQ3 they realized it was more fun to incorporate in-game puzzles with content in the manual.
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by arscan 15y ago
The fact that they built out thousands of little antennas (one per subscriber) to circumvent distribution laws is awesome.
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by arscan 15y ago
Apparently this has been around for awhile, but its the first I've seen it. A pretty darn impressive (mostly) automated port to javascript -- rendering done using DOM objects instead of inside a Canvas container. Support for multi-player
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Old school sierra adventure games ported to HTML + JS(sarien.net)
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by arscan 15y ago
Nice resource. Quick suggestion: took me a minute to figure out how to add something to my shelf -- you may want to make that pin icon a little more prominent.
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by arscan 15y ago
Nice! I happened across a site yesterday that really could have used this ( http://www.nofrks.com/ ). Parallax looks great for scrolling landscapes -- a demo of something like that would be pretty cool. Also, hooking into browser history