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by briggers 14y ago
The maximum life expectancy point is good, note that actually it's changed a bit. "The maximum (recorded) life span for humans has increased from 103 in 1798 to 110 years in 1898, 115 years in 1990, and 122.45 years since Calment's death in
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by briggers 14y ago
> Hierarchical Temporary Memory Temporal. It's such a jarring mistake that it looks more like misunderstanding than a typo. He dismisses the concept of immortality out of hand, which is frustrating. Where I live the life expectancy has
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by briggers 14y ago
Looks awesome. I found 'experiemnt'.
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by briggers 15y ago
Paul. From New Zealand originally, currently in Singapore but I'll move anywhere for an interesting opportunity. The languages I know rather well are Clojure, Scala, Python, Javascript/Coffeescript, C++, SQL though I've worked with many mor
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by briggers 15y ago
Whew. I could have optimized and coped with the initially announced rates, but this is a hugely welcome set of changes. For a solo technical founder running multiple businesses, AppEngine is an incredible product. Thank you Google, for doin
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by briggers 15y ago
Exactly. Very few of these people will actually listen to the first lecture, and very few of those people will put in the work to complete the course and master the material.
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by briggers 15y ago
I'm happy with their choices regarding the allocation of their time. I'd rather see more maturity and more core libs being made available to ClojureScript than eval/browser-repl being there immediately.
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by briggers 15y ago
Twitter. (Unless you want a revenue-generating MVP).
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by briggers 15y ago
Exciting. Let me unashamedly open the traditional Google+ invite begging thread. paul.bridger, gmail. Much obliged!
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by briggers 15y ago
I'd love an invite! Gmail address: paul.bridger Thanks!
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by briggers 15y ago
Right. Unless I've misunderstood you, this is the angle I am investigating with www.uithing.com Thanks for the tip re: Steve Krug's videos.
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by briggers 15y ago
In site usability, ecommerce, and conversion in general speed is well established as being very important. Google and others have made speed a core goal because their data shows that speed helps conversion. However, I would suggest that sit
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Ask HN: High traffic sites use A/B testing. What can low traffic sites use?
6 points by briggers 15y ago|7 comments
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by briggers 15y ago
I feel like many of these compilation articles are just designed to get on the front page of HN.
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by briggers 15y ago
We have a lot to thank the Chrome devs for. I'm keen to see how this new experiment fares. So long as I can still cmd-L and type with pattern matching, I'm good.
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by briggers 15y ago
A business idea is conjecture, execution is an experiment. The word 'invented' here is a vocabulary failure.
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by briggers 15y ago
coffee -w
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by briggers 15y ago
Many people seem to be complaining about the shift from CPU-hour to instance-hour pricing. They don't seem to get that it's more or less the same thing: dynamic instances can handle "a small number" of concurrent requests. So the GAE team h