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by cbr 11y ago
Source maps aren't specific to SASS; you can use them with any tool.
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by cbr 11y ago
Pretty sure it's an AdSense ad: http://imgur.com/OBy1PFR The AdChoices icon is used by many ad networks, not just Google's, to indicate that there's per-user targeting happening. [1] But if you click on tha
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by cbr 11y ago
Aren't they failing because of low prices, not because of technical incompetence?
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by cbr 11y ago
> there's been very little, if any, of that Is there anything PageSpeed is doing that you see this way? Because that's really not what we want to happen!
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by cbr 11y ago
compiling your own nginx is not trivial and I would not recommend it for everyone Yes, this is frustrating as an nginx module developer as well. Apache has a loadable module system and we can ship binaries, but to add a module
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by cbr 11y ago
I'm sorry it didn't work out! Permanently breaking a website when removed is very surprising, since if you uninstall the module it's not there anymore to have an effect. Would you be up for explaining more? (I work on mod_p
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by cbr 11y ago
If you're visiting a website that runs PageSpeed and you want to see the original markup, add ?PageSpeed=off to the url. For example, compare http://www.jefftk.com/index to http://www.jefftk.com/index?P
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by cbr 11y ago
See https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=michaelochurch And specifically https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10019003
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by cbr 11y ago
Are you sure you would pull your money out if all the banks started charging -0.1% annual interest? If you have your money in your house there's a higher risk of theft, more than enough to counter the -0.1%. Add in the inconvenience
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by cbr 11y ago
I'd compare Google's ads to consumer electronics as a category as opposed to the iPhone: they're many eggs, not just one. Search ads, DoubleClick, and AdSense are like the iPhone, iPad, and MacBook. (Disclaimer: I work for G
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by cbr 11y ago
> a minimum hourly rate of about five dollars after tax US federal minimum wage is $7.25 (and higher in many states), with income tax being functionally negative at low incomes. You could adjust downward by 10% to account for the five we
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by cbr 11y ago
We’d like issues to gain a first-class voting system, and for content-less comments like “+1” or “:+1:” or “me too” to trigger a warning and instructions on how to use the voting mechanism. Why bother users with a warn
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by cbr 11y ago
You can automate this with the prioritize_critical_css filter in the PageSpeed module: https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/module/filter-... (Disclaimer: this is what I work on.)
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by cbr 11y ago
With a big enough N, the probability of reaching significance approaches 1. Well, not with an A vs A experiment. Then the probability of significance at the p < 0.05 level should stay 5%. On the other hand, in an A vs B ex
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by cbr 11y ago
statistical significance is meaningless when split testing websites (you are guaranteed to archive significance if you run the test long enough Wait, what? Not if you use the right test to evaluate your change. This arti
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by cbr 11y ago
> non-stone wall Drywall is made of stone.
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by cbr 11y ago
They can pick up a lot of signals, and they have claims data: it seems like they should be able to build a pretty good model. Even just "number of miles driven" is a strong signal.
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by cbr 11y ago
Are the "mini" versions of the flagships (64mm) too big? http://www.gsmarena.com/samsung_galaxy_s5_mini-6252.php http://www.gsmarena.com/htc_one_mini_2-6345.php
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by cbr 11y ago
It's as if we were successfully making cancer less deadly, but at the same time more people were living long enough to get cancer that there were more cancer deaths. We'd still be making the kind of progress we care about in work
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by cbr 11y ago
They're smaller, but not that much smaller. With a combined population of 56M to the USA's 319M, we could scale their shooting numbers by 5.7x to get something adjusted for population. So if they were as big as the USA they woul
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by cbr 11y ago
> "covering their own ass" I think you and jessaustin may be using different interpretations of that term, judging by their reference of the McDonald shooting. People are much more ok with police officers doing what they need
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by cbr 11y ago
The first graph shows that we have made driving far less dangerous over time. The second graph shows that driving has become far more popular over time, popular enough to outweigh this effect until the early 70s. The recent improvement in
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by cbr 11y ago
Often these aren't really background images, they're just using that to set image sources via CSS. These days you can do the same thing with srcset, which also allows someone to learn your screen resolution.
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by cbr 11y ago
Trying to match her linkedin profile [1] to the article, it sounds like she worked in reinsurance from 1980-2003 (age 23-46), took time off to care for kids, and started substitute teaching a few days a week in 2007 (age 50). Not working w
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by cbr 11y ago
Expanded this into a post: http://www.jefftk.com/p/detecting-tanks
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by cbr 11y ago
Actually, there's also the 1992 paper "What Artificial Experts Can and Cannot Do" [1] which gives this anecdote and calls it a "legend". [1] http://www.jefftk.com/dreyfus92.pdf
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by cbr 11y ago
> ended up learning which days were sunny and which were overcast. The earliest source I can find for this is https://neil.fraser.name/writing/tank/ but it says it "might be apocryphal".
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by cbr 11y ago
Most people I follow on RSS include the full content of posts in their RSS feeds. When someone doesn't, it's generally an oversight and they fix it when I bring it up.
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by cbr 11y ago
Anecdote: I've been at one of those companies for three years, and made about $250k this year.
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by cbr 11y ago
"the only product that has ever been advertised on Google’s front page" The Nexus One and 7 were too: * http://searchengineland.com/surprise-googles-home-page-promo... * http://www.cnet.com/news&#x

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