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by jgilliam 17y ago
"The single biggest difference I've seen between great programmers and everyone else is a pure love for what they do." This applies to everything, whether it's programming or gardening or sales. You can only be great at something if you lo
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by jgilliam 17y ago
There is also a rails plugin: http://github.com/dan/hivelogic-enkoder-rails/tree
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by jgilliam 17y ago
This will create a pretty mailto link encrypted with javascript that the bots can't pick up: http://hivelogic.com/enkoder/form I've used it for years with good results. People will even email me thinking that I've exposed my email addres
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by jgilliam 17y ago
When the product manager says he navigated to the museum and is standing in front of it, he's actually on a green screen. You can see the difference in the lighting on him vs. the background. Kinda amusing.
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by jgilliam 17y ago
It's great we don't have to use the templates anymore, but the frequency of the API changes to something as basic as posting to the stream is really getting annoying.
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by jgilliam 17y ago
I think they priced the iphone app high so people will think their free web version is a bargain and actually worth using. "Hey, I can get it for free on their website!" Even though they weren't using it at all before.
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by jgilliam 17y ago
p2p transactions in real life. split lunch, gas, kegs, house parties, street vendors, scalpers.
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by jgilliam 17y ago
I recently found http://sendgrid.com/ which is designed to solve the email sending problem from EC2, and includes a REST API.
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by jgilliam 17y ago
An application promoting single payer health care is not even remotely comparable to a flame comment.
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by jgilliam 17y ago
I'm not following you. What is wrong with the content of the article?
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by jgilliam 17y ago
They have to undercut all of them by doing it themselves. If big brands start publishing this stuff on their own sites, no one will bother with the other sites.
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How Twitter can fix both retweets AND replies(jimgilliam.com)
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by jgilliam 17y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamie_Zawinski
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by jgilliam 17y ago
The fact that this API is one-way really highlights the difference between Facebook and Twitter. It's one-way because Facebook has to be worried about spam since anyone can send a message to anyone else. Twitter doesn't have this issue bec
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by jgilliam 17y ago
No, it started as a hand-built directory of websites, and outsourced its search function, using several different providers over the years. It bought Inktomi at one point -- which at the time was one of the top search engines (it powered H
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by jgilliam 17y ago
Because you'll still filter out people who can read the listing, but either can't or don't want to write an italian sonnet.
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by jgilliam 17y ago
I've heard that IE6 is prevalent within the federal government.
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by jgilliam 17y ago
When people start doing something with a website of mine that I don't want them to, I just give them some other place to do it. So with a blog on a particular topic, if people get more social and off-topic, I'll create an "off-topic forum,
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by jgilliam 17y ago
I use SurePayroll and recommend it. It takes care of all the tax stuff, and you can include 1099 contractors as well as W2 employees.
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by jgilliam 17y ago
Popular opinion is accelerating in favor of legalization. See this chart from fivethirtyeight: http://is.gd/1TbjZ
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by jgilliam 17y ago
The ads are created by a company that imports the beer and markets it in the U.S. So they actually can't make the beer better.
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by jgilliam 17y ago
so who's updating this? http://twitter.com/whitehouse
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by jgilliam 17y ago
I'm not completely sure that Evan Williams is trying to exert control in the same way Microsoft has. Much of the great stuff that happens online is due to a "benevolent dictator" approach. Someone (or a team) needs to shepherd the "big ne
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by jgilliam 17y ago
They're pushing bit.ly pretty hard, it's the default.
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by jgilliam 17y ago
I just started an act.ly twitter petition to put some more pressure on them: http://act.ly/9u Tweet: petition @digg to stop hijacking twitter links. no bait and switch! http://act.ly/9u Retweet to sign #digg
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by jgilliam 17y ago
Google employees spying on Google Analytics accounts would definitely be considered "evil."
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by jgilliam 17y ago
Supposedly, ending the entire drug war would save the country $77 billion a year. http://www.cato-at-liberty.org/2009/03/12/end-drug-war-and-s...
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by jgilliam 17y ago
This seems like a move by Google to push faster adoption of HTML 5.
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by jgilliam 17y ago
MySpace started in Los Angeles, and its first users were mostly from the local club scene. Very big difference from the Ivy League.
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by jgilliam 17y ago
I don't see why whitehouse.gov shouldn't be allowed to delete comments within a specific defined set of published rules. If you're in a courthouse, and start hurling obscenities at the judge, or do anything "out of order", you can actually

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