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by foulmouthboy 16y ago
And people wonder what happened to things like "responsibility". This is a professor teaching this? Whatever happened to the golden rule?
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by foulmouthboy 17y ago
The article mentions it, but the achievement aspect of Foursquare is a Very Significant Differentiator as opposed to a footnote. You have two competing services with similar functionality and one is fun to use. Investors are betting that th
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by foulmouthboy 17y ago
Do people just upvote on interesting titles because the Wikipedia article has no information on its own. Why not just link to this: http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-scientific-fundament...
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How to spot false gurus(digitaltonto.com)
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by foulmouthboy 17y ago
And if said potential employee doesn't happen to play sports, then, to quote the article, "That's BULLSHIT"?
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by foulmouthboy 17y ago
Just in case they haven't: https://www.google.com/analytics/siteopt/exptlist?account=50... Engineers should be data driven.
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by foulmouthboy 17y ago
Really? There are that many 54 year old overweight women who read HN? My apologies.
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by foulmouthboy 17y ago
I'm absolutely positive that this can not be generalized to the whole population. Furthermore, I am completely sure that this report has absolutely nothing to do with HN's primary, secondary nor tertiary audience. The submitter should be ab
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by foulmouthboy 17y ago
Talk on the Google Analytics Authorized Consultants board is that this solution produces unreliable numbers. Here's the analysis posted from Mike Plummer, another web analyst: Code does not read utmz cookie from firefox but does from other
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by foulmouthboy 17y ago
Obviously, if you're just going to copy Facebook's offerings, you might as well copy Facebook's launch plan and marketing. Their high level marketing strategy is very well documented and most of the tactics can be inferred. Secondary sugges
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by foulmouthboy 17y ago
It's useful to think about your use case. Why would anybody ever make a quiz? It's much more fun to take the quizzes. The payoff for somebody to take a quiz is to learn something about themselves even if it's meaningless. In comparison, it
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by foulmouthboy 17y ago
Too true, but... Rule #1 for wanting to profit off of something that's actually innocuous: Make a big deal about how the innocuous thing is actually dangerous to you and your family and then sue the richest person you can find.
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by foulmouthboy 17y ago
This is a list of people who "belong" on Twitter.
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by foulmouthboy 17y ago
I read this post and the post that it was critiquing and both came to the same conclusion: Knowing the who/what/when/where throughout history is only useful when understanding the Why as well.
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by foulmouthboy 17y ago
I'm so glad to see social media articles that include actual tactics. Everybody knows the "strategy" to social media is "engagement" and "conversation" and it's refreshing to actually be presented with a proposed tactical plan.
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by foulmouthboy 17y ago
These three things aren't really new in web analytics nor specific to social. And it's blatant misinformation to describe "traditional web analytics tools" as "useless" when it comes to tracking dynamic pages that don't render new pageviews
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by foulmouthboy 17y ago
The recurring theme here is that Amazon didn't properly communicate anything to most of the people who were affected. The publisher is behaving very strategically at this point in attempting to promote its newly formed partnership with Appl
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by foulmouthboy 17y ago
Three big things that I can see: 1. Lots of things in similar categories take pictures, so it just feels like an oversight. 2. Video chat is one of the applications that would seem right up the iPad's alley. 3. The number and types of augme
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by foulmouthboy 17y ago
Better yet, this explains why football games are so exciting. Constant anticipation for the next burst of action. Enough action within those brief bursts to review, replay and analyze, just in time for the next burst of action.
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by foulmouthboy 17y ago
Personally, I like more information better. If my app stops working and I get a relatively terse communication that explicitly tells me not to contact anybody about problems or error messages then I know for SURE I'm contacting someone. I d
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by foulmouthboy 17y ago
Do you realize what you're saying? Starting at birth, the entire learning process is trying to achieve things that one isn't currently capable of. Taking what you wrote at face value, children should never even go to school if they haven't
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by foulmouthboy 17y ago
You have to think of the goals of the desired user versus somebody trying to game the system. Twitter apparently wants users to not just think about building follower count. Why would a casual user ever want to unfollow somebody just becaus
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by foulmouthboy 17y ago
Even if it was intended, it doesn't change the fact that Episodes 1-3 were terrible films.
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by foulmouthboy 17y ago
To give the phone a little credit, it did take the reporter a few smacks before he got it right. Even though the phone obviously isn't "unbreakable", I doubt anyone could take their iPhone, dunk it in water and then smack it even once like
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by foulmouthboy 17y ago
I think my favorite explanation of wisdom versus intelligence came when reading about how D&D players should think of it: Intelligence tells you it's raining inside. Wisdom tells you to open the umbrella. When we get to the point that w
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by foulmouthboy 17y ago
Re: P7-P9. I don't think the author is confused at all. It seems to me that those in the market for a netbook would strongly consider a tablet as an alternative (if a tablet wasn't already in their consideration). In a year or two, I could
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by foulmouthboy 17y ago
I have to disagree. I would say that anything that helps get to a testable solution faster helps make one a better coder. This could be by saving time having to look up syntax, but it could also literally be just typing twice as fast as som
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by foulmouthboy 17y ago
In the South, using "sir" and "ma'am" is par for the course. When I lived there, it took some getting used to, particularly because I couldn't help thinking how false it would sound back in California.
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by foulmouthboy 17y ago
I think part of what would irritate me here is not just that they've taken away free soda, but they're now actively charging me for it. I wonder if it would've come across better if there just wasn't any soda offered in the office anymore.
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by foulmouthboy 17y ago
I suspect that we'll see a much bigger push towards biodiesel as high fructose corn syrup continues to get attacked. Also, anybody capable of growing corn should be capable of growing soybeans, which is something that's also added to every

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