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by cedsav 18y ago
yep, loading javascript libraries from CDN is more and more common. I'd suggest you add ajax.googleapis.com and yui.yahooapis.com (there's probably more) [Edit] you mentioned googleapis.com already.
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by cedsav 18y ago
That could make sense if cats weren't the type of pets who absolutely need to be on your lap when you're trying to use your laptop. Not a good location for a repeater.
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by cedsav 18y ago
Bank ('debit') cards in France kinda work like US credit cards. The bank will happily let your account balance go negative and then charge you fees+high interest rate. I've been in the US 7 years and I haven't quite yet understood why credi
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by cedsav 18y ago
we only have developers
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by cedsav 18y ago
It's nice to own 100% of your company and turn a profit, especially given the current economy, but you really need to have faith in the 'less is better' philosophy. The pace of development feels excruciatingly slow when you have to multitas
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by cedsav 18y ago
I think that's true for B2C, but if you sell to businesses, they probably don't have an Amazon account with their business CC on record. It also looks more "professional" to have the whole payment process contained in your site.
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by cedsav 18y ago
"After a bit of looking, Marissa explained that they found an uncontrolled variable." I guess that means they controlled for the other variables.
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by cedsav 18y ago
Sorry to bring back the table vs. css layout debate, but since Google use tables for some parts of their layout, can we assume that this is because it renders faster (and therefore makes more money for them)?
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by cedsav 18y ago
I'm actually refactoring our marketing site, and most of the the work is done in CSS stylesheets. I sometime edit the markup to change classes or add the occasional <div>. What I gain from CSS is that I can easily play with the layo
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by cedsav 18y ago
Front-end/Web design has evolved into a discipline of its own. If you come from a different field, say programming, I can see how CSS looks like a bad solution to an already solved problem. So you're incentive is to stick to what you know a
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by cedsav 18y ago
They are actually not that easier to use. More intuitive perhaps, but they have enough quirks on their own. I briefly taught a web design class and I remember students struggling with their table-based layouts. Layouts would be inconsistent
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by cedsav 18y ago
You could look at the html source of csszengarden. I'm guessing it uses a bit less markup and is a bit more readable than an equivalent table based layout. CssZenGarden also shows that refactoring a CSS-driven site is easier since you can d
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by cedsav 18y ago
There's also quite a few css frameworks out there that take the hard part out of laying out a page: Blueprint, YUI grid. See also: http://www.contentwithstyle.co.uk/content/a-css-framework
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by cedsav 18y ago
By all mean, do what you feel more comfortable with, but working with CSS is not necessarily slower than using table layouts. You just need to get over the learning curve. [edited]
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by cedsav 18y ago
true, but when doing SaaS it's less of a problem since you can just shut down or downgrade the account.
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by cedsav 18y ago
Amex is actually the only one who settled a dispute in our favor, but that probably doesn't mean much since I usually don't bother to contest chargebacks.
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by cedsav 18y ago
It's popular because it's a great platform, not because of its poor language design.
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by cedsav 18y ago
Exactly, my 4 year old isn't going to wait all by himself until it's his turn to get seated.
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by cedsav 18y ago
Manolis comments on Paul's post summed it up pretty well for me. What feels counter intuitive is that announcing the gender of one child seems to increase the chances of the other child being of a different gender, but it's actually the opp
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by cedsav 18y ago
If the problem were "Given an ordered number of events (birth) what is the probability distribution of the last event". Then yes, it would be 50/50. But you're looking for at least one boy. If you had 1000 children, intuitively, the proba
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by cedsav 18y ago
It's a great idea. I might just try it myself. My dad is turning 63 and I wish I still had with him the kind of bond I have now with my 4 year old son. I'd try anything to keep the relationship strong. The skeptic in me wonder though how su
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by cedsav 18y ago
I like the idea, although if he/she has several accounts, it won't be long before he/she notices the trick.
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by cedsav 18y ago
on "Global warming 'stopped in 1998'", from http://mediamatters.org/items/200703230007 Fox News host Brit Hume and a Washington Times editorial both cited a misleading statistic to suggest that global warming might have "stopped in 1998"
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by cedsav 18y ago
Didn't you just made up the line "BBC fired respected scientist..."? I don't see that in the interview, and it doesn't look like he was ever an employee of the BBC (according to his wikipedia page).
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by cedsav 18y ago
counterpoint: http://www.businessweek.com/investing/insights/blog/archives...
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by cedsav 18y ago
I read the flicker thread and don't remember any hurled insults... did I miss something?
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by cedsav 18y ago
What would really bother me with that business model is that you are highly dependent on your Google rank. You can lose all your revenues instantly if you are removed from the index or outranked by a competitor.
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Thoughts on startup school(veerwest.com)
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by cedsav 18y ago
Sure they can roll out new apps to a huge audience now, but they did not start with 80k readers. It took them years to transition from a consultancy to a SaaS model, and years to grow Basecamp and Rails. Getting distribution is not that har
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by cedsav 19y ago
Voted bottom 5% (must not be that smart since I don't understand the point of the poll)

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