jeff18

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Was dueling rational?(www3.amherst.edu)
5 points by jeff18 17y ago|0 comments
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by jeff18 17y ago
I noticed you support Google Checkout. Have you thought about adding Amazon FPS? From my experience, about 20% of people choose Amazon versus 10% for Google. It seems like a really small change to capture a few more percent on conversion
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by jeff18 17y ago
No, you really just want to use inline CSS. Is it really worth all of the trouble just to cache 3 kilobytes of data (probably 20 milliseconds of download time)?
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Big companies teach too(37signals.com)
2 points by jeff18 17y ago|0 comments
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by jeff18 17y ago
This is good advice, but not optimal. Using multiple domains in this case will actually slow down the site because of the additional DNS lookups -- only do that if you are serving up a ton of images. a) The CSS file should be inline. b) Th
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by jeff18 17y ago
The short answer is no. Even an extremely intense, CSS heavy page might have say 16 kilobytes of CSS. After gzipping, that should turn into about 3 kilobytes. 3 kilobytes, inline with the rest of your content, is utterly negligible and c
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Mixing Colors(hackerfactor.com)
3 points by jeff18 17y ago|0 comments
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Startup Mixer with Will Wright [April 6th in Berkeley](facebook.com)
2 points by jeff18 17y ago|0 comments
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TweetDeck and Google App Engine: A Match Made in the Cloud(googleappengine.blogspot.com)
1 points by jeff18 17y ago|0 comments
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Rebasing(bramcohen.livejournal.com)
1 points by jeff18 17y ago|0 comments
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by jeff18 17y ago
Nothing's worse than getting to an interview and finding out that you know COBOL from the hiring manager reading it off your resume. The rest of the tips seem to be really sleazy, but are pretty surreptitious. However, wouldn't this be e
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by jeff18 17y ago
Could you source that fact? That seems totally unbelievable to me. Maybe people are buying pre-jailbroken phones for carrier reasons?
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by jeff18 17y ago
If you are going to spend tens of millions of dollars on a referral bonus promotion, it better not be speculative!
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by jeff18 17y ago
Assuming you will get a measurable ROI for each referral, you probably could just go to the bank and negotiate a traditional loan to pay for it.
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by jeff18 17y ago
We rarely go over the free limit -- I think we've stayed under $10-20 for the entire year, while serving up several million pages. Most of this is due to bandwidth overages from our comic: http://www.wolfire.com/comic The times we are ch
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by jeff18 17y ago
That is no longer a limitation as of the 1.3.2 release. I quote: URLFetch API - We’ve expanded the number of ports you can access with the URLFetch API. You can now access ports 80-90, 440-450, and 1024-65535.
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by jeff18 17y ago
I've been using it for about a year for http://www.wolfire.com and several hobby projects and am a big fan. If you have any specific questions, I am familiar with most aspects of it. It certainly has a lot of limitations, but if your ap
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Preventing attacks on a user's history through CSS :visited selectors(dbaron.org)
1 points by jeff18 17y ago|0 comments
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by jeff18 17y ago
Everything shared on this service (by default, any screenshot a user takes) is mapped to a three character URL. In other words, it would be easy to download everything ever shared using this app. People will not realize this and soon ther
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by jeff18 17y ago
I will personally vouch that this is not a hoax. If this is an April Fool's joke, may pg erase all of my karma. I am playing it at 30 FPS on my MacBook Pro right now. ;)
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Quake 2 ported to HTML5(ajaxian.com)
143 points by jeff18 17y ago|23 comments
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by jeff18 17y ago
In reply to the "return of the thick client", I disagree with the notion that desktop apps are going to beat web apps. The reason why the original web API failed is because the hardware was too poor and WebKit was too immature. This is ra
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by jeff18 17y ago
Check out the AppScale project: http://code.google.com/p/appscale/ You can run your App Engine apps pretty much anywhere.
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by jeff18 17y ago
Couldn't you just set up a cron job to ping your app every 15 minutes until you start getting some real traffic?
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Why AdMob’s reported iPhone and Android market shares are inflated(quirksmode.org)
4 points by jeff18 17y ago|3 comments
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Patience Diff Advantages(bramcohen.livejournal.com)
9 points by jeff18 17y ago|0 comments
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by jeff18 17y ago
Hmm, with that logic, all private Facebook albums, EtherPad documents, MySpace images, and [insert obviously private thing here] are also public.
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by jeff18 17y ago
Not with the style -webkit-user-select:none; or equivalent.
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Read Consistency & Deadlines: More control of your Datastore(googleappengine.blogspot.com)
1 points by jeff18 17y ago|0 comments
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by jeff18 17y ago
Adding a single character to the length (from five to six) would probably have been enough to keep them off the radar by making it dramatically harder to bruteforce. I would not be surprised if this single extra character would have comp

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