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by h34t 18y ago
I would guess they pay more attention to what works and what doesn't than to psychological theory or conjecture. It's easy for anyone to monitor what kind of ads perform better than others, and since ads are much of Yahoo's bread and butter
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by h34t 18y ago
When I lived in Beijing I actually contemplated blogging daily photos of the phlegm I coughed up every morning due to the smog, and try and correlate them with daily air quality index readings. No exaggeration, it was that bad. Coming from
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by h34t 18y ago
OK. I didn't see any mention of the API in the 'Code Manager' section and didn't think to search specifically for it. In any case, it looks like it's best if I stick with what I've got if I want to maintain error display... I have functiona
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by h34t 18y ago
That's true. It's easy to forget how difficult this would be without experience. Still, $120/year to enable a single web contact form seems excessive (his isn't free b/c it has more than 10 fields). You could embed a form from Google Docs f
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by h34t 18y ago
Only for less than 10 fields. In his case, it's $10/month because he has more than that. (Though, seeing his massive form makes me want to close my browser window, let alone fill it out. He might see another jump in requests if he cut the f
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by h34t 18y ago
If you can find it, do let me know. I was just working on this a couple days ago and looked into it extensively. The only option they offer which doesn't involve an iframe comes with a warning, "It will NOT submit to our servers. Because of
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by h34t 18y ago
All he needs is a single form that sends an email upon submission. It should cost him less than the equivalent of $10/month to learn how to do this himself.
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by h34t 18y ago
It's also illegal for a US, Canadian or European company to offer bribes to government officials abroad. A recent crackdown cost Siemens $1.6 billion, as bribes were apart of their standard system of doing business. http://www.nytimes.com/
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by h34t 18y ago
I saw a ~7x jump in online enquiries when I added a simple contact form to the bottom of every single page of the e-commerce store I've been building. We went from about 2-3 online enquiries per week to 2-3 per day. I actually tried to use
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by h34t 18y ago
Interesting article. About ten years ago I stumbled into some IRC channels where people were trading credit card numbers, sharing information about how they operate, etc. For curiosity's sake, I hung around and chatted there for a couple of
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by h34t 18y ago
I hadn't played a musical instrument in 10 years, but last month I picked up a keyboard and began teaching myself piano. I really enjoy it.
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by h34t 18y ago
Objective tests for math and science are a baseline requirement; I wasn't arguing otherwise. So we agree on the value of that. But I think we need to go further than only measuring people based on these academic standards. If you look at my
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by h34t 18y ago
Let's be cynical and assume it's impossible to avoid students 'gaming' the system. What's the better game, the one that keeps students shunted in book-studies for 10 years, or one that prods them to take an active role in the community, get
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by h34t 18y ago
I agree that comparing GPAs across different schools is weak. But I think standardized tests in general are only useful up to a point. Beyond measuring aptitude in subjects like math and science, schools should also take subjective criteria
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by h34t 18y ago
"Frind estimates, based on exit surveys, that the site creates 800,000 successful relationships a year." Personally, I find impact on human lives of that scale rather interesting.
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by h34t 18y ago
So far, 10 of the comments on this article are from accounts created two hours ago or less: randyengler, myxibrium, Mausen, nilio, Trish, BAdairme, Stephanie, yplymale, travis_jenkigs, rbraunfeld
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by h34t 18y ago
When buying material goods, I think it we may be mistaken and shortsighted to only consider the purchase price and the satisfaction it will add to our own lives. What about negative externalities, like the future cost of having fewer resour
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by h34t 18y ago
I think that depends on the range of contexts you imagine, which depends on your experience and perception of people/the world. If you only consider people calling you out legitimately, then accountable is a good word. But if you consider t
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by h34t 18y ago
Excellent point about Laos. That place is amazing. A subway-sized sandwich for $1 on the street. People who spontaneously smile at you on the street. Beautiful nature all around you. Not only good for the pocketbook, but the psyche as well.
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by h34t 18y ago
"In a study published last month, Berman outfitted undergraduates at the University of Michigan with GPS receivers. Some of the students took a stroll in an arboretum, while others walked around the busy streets of downtown Ann Arbor. The s
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Context Collapse(mediatedcultures.net)
2 points by h34t 18y ago|2 comments
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by h34t 18y ago
Social sites live and die on the activities/behaviour/culture of their members. While I agree that the article isn't groundbreaking, I found it interesting because it shows in a very pragmatic way the kind of maintenance required to keep a
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The Fraud Czar - My morning routine on Free-Singles.com(thefraudczar.com)
4 points by h34t 18y ago|3 comments
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by h34t 18y ago
I agree, and I'd say these differences between cities fall under the label of 'culture'. Population density and personal interaction are necessary but insufficient. I taught SAT prep in China for a couple of months. If population density an
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by h34t 18y ago
I agree, geography is becoming less important. I've done a lot of my best work from tiny outposts in rural Canada where the internet was my only lifeline to people who even knew what Javascript was. The internet has really transformed possi
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by h34t 18y ago
True enough. You could only really use something like this if you knew that a human being was going to see it.
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by h34t 18y ago
Looks interesting. Unfortunately, I can only view the thumbnail of the timeline (I get a server error when I click it). The example he gives is 3 pages long. Maybe that's ordinary for a technical resume? I really wanted to keep mine a one-p
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by h34t 18y ago
Thanks for your feedback. I should have used a direct link, but Scribd made it easy to see stats and allow comments, so I caved.. The letters next to activities on the timeline match up with the places on the map. To avoid clutter I made th
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by h34t 18y ago
I've thought about resume designs for a couple of years, and finally took a crack at it. Feedback is definitely welcome. My description as posted on scribd: How do we adapt the resume to the modern economy? I've made a "first attempt" to ge
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Resume with horizontal timeline and map(scribd.com)
7 points by h34t 18y ago|7 comments

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