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by dmethvin 15y ago
Very few micros (such as the original Mac or IBM PC) would have been used to store and forward significant Usenet traffic. Most of it would have been on DEC VAX disk packs.
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by dmethvin 15y ago
People at several online retail sites that I've spoken with say that IE6/7 clicks and conversions are proportionally better than other browsers. Nobody seems to know the reason. Maybe people are buying stuff from crappy corporate XP systems
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by dmethvin 15y ago
If you have a little project and it's getting one or two bug reports a week, it's fine to say that you'll create your own test cases. It's completely different for a large open-source project, where many of the reports are from users/develo
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by dmethvin 15y ago
Does someone have a really good example of where this would be useful? The description is basically, "When this element exists, do something" but what is the something you'd do? If it's styling, that should be done in CSS. If it's event han
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by dmethvin 15y ago
One good reason that it tickled Gates' bullshit detector is that up until Outlook 2002, the Outlook .PST file format was limited to 2GB; Microsoft had a recovery tool ( http://support.microsoft.com/kb/296088 ) to fix the problem. I knew som
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by dmethvin 15y ago
When my wife and I are looking for homes, we definitely take the needs of our two home offices into consideration. We don't care about formal living and dining room spaces. A company like Dell has very tight supply lines made possible by on
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by dmethvin 15y ago
I actually think the Chrome guys are doing the right thing here. We got everyone to agree that Ctrl-T should create a new tab, consistently, in all browsers, and users should be able to depend on that behavior. If you need a full app-like H
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by dmethvin 15y ago
I don't think their cutoff date is as important as the browsers they cut off. IE6/7 are a pain to support and test. Maybe Google figures that people that far behind are going to stay with what they have/know (e.g, Microsoft Office), and th
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by dmethvin 15y ago
I am not sure what a "real" economy is either. It seems that government entities (lookin at you, Greece) can make up whatever rules they want and the German bankers will grudgingly support it in order to perpetuate and maintain their contro
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by dmethvin 15y ago
> The real economy must not become a monopoly game. So says the banker with the monacle.
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by dmethvin 15y ago
One advantage of a really long trial (say, six months) is that if your product/service has become useful to them at that point, it's unlikely they'll bail out. As the deadline approaches you can send them an email or on-site alert reminding
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by dmethvin 15y ago
The blog entry mentions this, but perhaps without enough detail. Your `.setAttr()` exactly matches the same as the `.attr()` method's new behavior when it's passed a Boolean argument to set. The other two would be great suggestions for 1.7!
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by dmethvin 15y ago
Any mass market product will have to compromise in some way in order to be affordable for the masses. Good engineers and designers find ways to compromise that don't make the products suck. I have to admit, though, "faithful reproduction" s
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by dmethvin 16y ago
AT&T has nearly 100 million wireless subscribers now. If they can gin up a reason to add a $5 annual charge to every subscriber's bill, that's an extra $500 million to the bottom line. Many customers won't notice a bogus charge like tha
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by dmethvin 16y ago
You don't always need a jQuery object in the loop, and providing one encourages people to do slow things. For example, if you want to see if a check box is checked, `this.checked` is 100 times faster [ http://jsperf.com/bens-test ] than `$(
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by dmethvin 16y ago
What is the advantage of dropping the smaller integer types? Does it reduce the per-record overhead for example? I have worked with a table that had about 200 million rows and 4 1-byte tinyint values. If those had to be full 4-byte ints it
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by dmethvin 16y ago
It is so refreshing for any person or company to come out and explain, in detail , how they screwed up and what they are doing to ensure it doesn't happen again. The tone of your post encourages people to cover up their mistakes for fear o
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by dmethvin 16y ago
It includes the predecessor Windows Mobile 6.5, which is probably most of that bar at the moment.
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by dmethvin 16y ago
Today I learned there is a whole universe of bizarre ads on web pages that I have never seen, thanks to AdBlock. Seriously, I had no knowledge of the ads described in this article.
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by dmethvin 16y ago
javascript: void $('img').each(function(i,img) { var $i = $(img), w = $i.width(), h = $i.height(); if ( w && h ) img.src = ' http://placekitten.com/+w+/+h;} ); Paste that in foxnews.com!
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by dmethvin 16y ago
Seems like the complexity of the client-side code comes from rendering the DOM tree based on the CSS and constraints of the drawing area, hardware, etc. So yeah, just manipulating the tree would seem to be pretty fast. Of course, it's being
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by dmethvin 16y ago
It's all about where the customer enters the process. If they are using the software and say, "Hey I think this sucks" then they will likely go to your site and request a refund. If, however, they look at their credit card statement and thi
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by dmethvin 16y ago
A related BJ Fogg post from 2004 that would be useful for startups, "Ten Ways Computers Manipulate People." The only place I could find it was at archive.org: http://web.archive.org/web/20041204095306/http://captology.s...
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by dmethvin 16y ago
I wonder if this is just defensive. Given Nigeria's reputation for Internet scams and bit.ly's problems with Libya, would Microsoft really want to build a URL shortener around this TLD?
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by dmethvin 16y ago
I'm on the jQuery team and a pull request should definitely not be the first step for us, especially for a first-time contributor. An over-the-transom solution could use an inappropriate approach, may be too much code to justify adding the
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by dmethvin 16y ago
Also, if the ISP is answering every DNS query with "yes this is a valid domain" it breaks Chrome's domain discovery feature, described a bit further down the SANS article.
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by dmethvin 16y ago
I'm on the jQuery core team. As you might guess, when a high-profile site seems to be having troubles with jQuery, we want to fix it whether it involves a bug fix or tutorial help. It would really help us out if people could slip our pre-re
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by dmethvin 16y ago
Whether it's fair or not, I got the impression that Top10Reviews and their ilk were pay-to-play affairs. Their "site search" is really a Google web search so it's hard to find reviews. The product links all seem to be affiliate links, so th
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by dmethvin 16y ago
Exactly. Click fraud is just part of the cost of doing business, like shoplifting for a retail store. The problem is that the individual stores don't have a lot of control over the level of fraud that Google will tolerate. There's a big dif
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by dmethvin 16y ago
> Facebook, which can rank content based on the number of Likes from actual people rather than the number of inbound links from various websites, can now provide more relevant hits, and in realtime since it does not have to crawl the we

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