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by elbrodeur 15y ago
What always strikes me when reading articles/entries like this or the Paper Tigers article itself is how opaque the unique difficulties people in subcultures or minority cultures face. Not only that they exist, but why they exist: Usually,
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by elbrodeur 15y ago
You missed the central point of the statement: This is what he prefers, what he stands for, and what he is selling: the courage to pursue anyone you want, and the skills to make the person you desire desire you back. It's not wrong at all
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by elbrodeur 15y ago
It's really annoying whenever anyone declares a widely used platform as dead. PHP, like most things, has a lifecycle. If we know anything about scripting languages, they're incredibly resilient. PERL, for instance -- a language nearly 25 ye
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by elbrodeur 16y ago
Transparency would also level the playing field in terms of negotiations. Whether or not you are a good negotiator should not affect how much you get paid for most types of positions. As it stands, in most companies, negotiation is welcome
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by elbrodeur 16y ago
I think the moral of the story is that talking to your users is one of the most important things you can do during -- or even before -- development. User testing is cheap, easy and shouldn't cost you that much time -- 50 people is way more
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by elbrodeur 16y ago
Hey James, A few things: - Heavy use of text shadow and box shadow makes my browser chug to a halt. Latest Chrome build on a 2.53GHz Core 2 Duo with 8GB of RAM. - Get rid of "What is splinch?" The paragraph there is enough, and there's no n
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by elbrodeur 16y ago
Shoot me an email. I have at least 5 minutes to spare for pretty much anybody.
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by elbrodeur 16y ago
A/B testing is just one component of a good product development cycle. The easiest pitfall, though, is that the data only tells you what -- not why. This can lead you to make data-based design decisions blindly. I think the ideal design and
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12 year old devising new theory of relativity(dailymail.co.uk)
23 points by elbrodeur 16y ago|4 comments
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by elbrodeur 16y ago
Here are a few simple CSS tweaks that can improve readability. I only spent a couple of minutes, but I think it helps: http://pastebin.com/WEKswHND EDIT: Here's a screenshot preview: http://cl.ly/022H381a2N2p1N0h3q0k
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by elbrodeur 16y ago
We have a death clock on our company dashboard. Cash on hand/burn rate/revenue are updated a couple of times a month manually. We have yet to figure out a way to get the data programmatically.
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by elbrodeur 16y ago
redhat has been in business for almost 20 years. They're traded publicly. They have over 3,000 employees. I'm pretty sure they have a repeatable business model.
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by elbrodeur 16y ago
That's certainly a vulnerability, though a pretty small one. Most huge credential compromises that result in other accounts being hijacked are done programmatically: It's not like the script that's checking if your gawker password matches y
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by elbrodeur 16y ago
I haven't run into that problem yet. If I consistently had to deal with that, I think my approach would be two have two password keys. A strong and a weak one.
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by elbrodeur 16y ago
I have a pretty simple way to generate a unique password for each site I use. I start with a strong password: aw3#rTT That will not change from site to site. Then I insert site specific data into that password. You can also append, prepend
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by elbrodeur 16y ago
He's a professional who has forgotten -- or maybe never knew -- what it means to be an amateur. To do it for the love of the thing. He's exchanging units of time for units of currency; it's no wonder he doesn't understand why people get exc
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by elbrodeur 16y ago
He took an efficient, even if inelegant, system and replaced it with 5 different services all with their own storage system, credentials and purpose. That seems like a really terrible idea and a surefire way to increase time waste. Could yo
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Hacking Times Square Screens: iPhone + Transmitter + Repeater [video](youtube.com)
2 points by elbrodeur 16y ago|1 comments
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Qwiki crowdsourcing the direction of their pivot(qwiki.com)
2 points by elbrodeur 16y ago|0 comments
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by elbrodeur 16y ago
As I was reading this I, at first, didn't get it. I've never been a very active blogger or sharer. But then it hit me: I realized I've been participating in forums, emailing, chatting, posting status updates, uploading photos to a dozen dif
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by elbrodeur 16y ago
The reasons she listed for not attending point more to her not being a hacker than to her being a woman. > She doesn't code or build things for fun > She sees hackathons as a waste of time because she doesn't 'get anything' out of i
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by elbrodeur 16y ago
A share is a part of the company. You are, essentially, becoming an investor. This is why companies like Google are forced to go public: They have too many employees and investors who own parts of the company, and the SEC's threshold says:
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by elbrodeur 16y ago
Yeah, the type of shares generally given to employees are what's called common stock. Common stock can only be turned into money in a liquidity event, these days. Your common stock is not worthless, though, as each type of stock has a set o
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by elbrodeur 16y ago
It's just saying: If you end your relationship for any other reason than Just Cause, you have one month to exercise your options. This is pretty standard. Typically a grant like this (signed late into employment) will start vesting at the d
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by elbrodeur 16y ago
FTA: "Piracy has all but dismantled our recorded music industry. Any business plan in the music industry must now take into account that piracy is the rule, not the exception." I think that this doesn't seem to be quite true. There is ample
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by elbrodeur 16y ago
The headings in this article are incredible: "How The Singularity Gave Birth to Black Frankenswan" I especially like the idea that this new species of entrepreneurs is feeding a new species of investors. I tend to think, though, that instit
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by elbrodeur 16y ago
Here's an interesting article by Jessica Livingston (author of Founders at Work) http://www.foundersatwork.com/1/post/2011/01/what-stops-fema... This was featured here recently and there was a lot of great discussion, but I'm having troub
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by elbrodeur 16y ago
It's vertically integrated to be social. As such, the following are not considered important: > Original photo size (additionally, optional sizes) > EXIF data > Compression > Sharing as a link, embed, BBCode, etc. -- anythin
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by elbrodeur 16y ago
I would definitely pay for a service like this. It would be even more convenient if you handled billing for S3 for me while me still retaining ownership. I would pay a premium on top of S3's services. It would also be neat if you could fram
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by elbrodeur 16y ago
I absolutely agree. I was merely pointing out that Pasco tweeting a screenshot that was essentially a threat does nothing to support his side of the story. All it shows is that he knew it was coming: He had received a fair amount of warning

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