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by jm4 17y ago
Dupe: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=994075
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by jm4 17y ago
TechCrunch?
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Debrief: A month into my novel’s lifecycle(writerunboxed.com)
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by jm4 17y ago
It's kind of 2000-ish, but it's not ugly. It's simple, clear, concise and would do exactly what's required if not for the call to an undefined function. What benefit would an MVC framework have here? A fancy powered hammer that can get into
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by jm4 17y ago
Most people are ignorant of how bad most of the HTML on the web is, it is simply unparseable. If that was the case the web would be unusable. Any decent web browser will parse almost any garbage you throw at it. It can get complicated bec
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by jm4 17y ago
There are just as many holes. How does a browser detect whether a human is using it? Even if it could how would the site be made aware of this? Does the browser send some special information with the request? If so, can't it be reproduced b
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by jm4 17y ago
This is hardly the place for this kind of discussion, but I suggest you just back out of the deal and avoid making waves. You could be the one who ends up in hot water depending on how you "mess" with this guy. Besides, do you really want t
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by jm4 17y ago
Umm... Cookies from different sites are already separate. A cookie is set for a particular domain and your browser only allows servers in that domain to read it. You don't have to worry about some random site reading a cookie set by your ba
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by jm4 17y ago
Verizon has the MiFi. I think it's exactly what you describe. The service probably costs a fortune, but it's a pretty neat device. http://www.verizonwireless.com/b2c/store/controller?item=pho... [edit] Looks like Sprint has one too: http
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by jm4 17y ago
There's no need to defend Apple. It's not necessarily a bad thing. It may annoy some people, but it's hard to argue its effectiveness. So-called leaks are another good method. You get to see which ideas resonate with consumers before invest
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by jm4 17y ago
It's a page straight out of Microsoft's playbook. Microsoft pulled the same shenanigans with Cairo and we're still hearing about how some of the features promised back then (WinFS) are right around the corner. It's really not a bad strategy
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by jm4 17y ago
50.1% of online shoppers who placed items in their shopping carts did not go on to place an order. Many sites do not show shipping charges until an item is in the cart. I would imagine many of the abandoned carts are from shoppers who jus
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by jm4 17y ago
Lose the flags. I'd venture to guess all of the languages you're supporting are used in multiple countries so it doesn't make much sense. Besides, it's confusing to users anyway. A Latin American user is going to be looking for Spanish- not
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by jm4 17y ago
If you want to talk to Arrington contact him directly or through TechCrunch. Posting this here will only lead to a bitchfest with little to no input from the person with the information you're asking for. This is basically an invitation to
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by jm4 17y ago
- search ? I don't know if they're planning for this to be a new core business. Up to this point they haven't been competing there like it is one. Bing is a fine entry, though. It's not going to knock off Google search, but they've done a
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by jm4 17y ago
Why wouldn't they? I don't think Microsoft could have ever hoped for a better long term outcome. Microsoft made about $60B in revenues last year. Apple made a little more than half that and, for the most part, is still hardly a threat to Mi
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by jm4 17y ago
Here is a seemingly relevant thread from the Clojure group: http://groups.google.com/group/clojure/browse_thread/thread/... It was pointed out on there that this is not only a language comparison but a data structure comparison as well. A
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by jm4 17y ago
I know from experience that there are a few issues with that too. First, how do you ask? One way is to prominently display links to the other languages. You could put them in the top right corner of every page. You'd be surprised at how man
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by jm4 17y ago
We've had two separate discussions about this- one of which was an earlier TechCrunch article- appear on the front page today. TechCrunch is going to milk this cow until it's dead, spreading their running commentary and analysis over as man
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by jm4 17y ago
Discussion here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=739070
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by jm4 17y ago
What's interesting is this is the same way Microsoft got into trouble. A developer says, "It would be really neat if..." and then the playing field isn't level anymore. Allowing a web app to take pictures with Safari would be sort of neat,
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by jm4 17y ago
The time constraints are doable. Like I said, the questions aren't terribly difficult. The most important thing is that you bring your A game. You could be more than qualified, but if you get up in the morning and don't feel 110% ready ther
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by jm4 17y ago
I would recommend getting in contact with your local group and trying to meet a few members. What you get out of it could depend largely on how active your local group is and whether or not it's one you fit into. My local group is made up p
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by jm4 17y ago
Umm... Like a travel agent? Anyone under 30 might not have ever had to use one. I don't even know how people made travel plans at all without an agent before all these travel sites existed. I think you had to show up at the ticket counter a
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by jm4 17y ago
Ok, I'll take a stab at this. I know basically nothing about Arrington. I don't know what he's invested in or who he's friends with, nor do I care. What I do know is that TechCrunch publishes utter trash. It's a tabloid that caters to the g
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by jm4 17y ago
Scraping itself is not theft. It could be used to commit theft, but there are far more legitimate uses.
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by jm4 17y ago
Huh? The guy wrote this article for the same magazine he scraped articles from back in 2005 so I'm assuming he has, at the very least, some sort of affiliation with them. It sounds like it was part of a data migration strategy rather than t
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by jm4 17y ago
Users have been conditioned to judge startup time by the number of times an icon bounces in the dock. Chrome is only perceived as fast because the feedback is different from the other applications. It's all relative. Once enough developers
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by jm4 17y ago
You should have started sending out your resume when they missed payroll back in May. Not only does this place have some serious financial problems, but management doesn't even have the decency to let people know ahead of time. That's prett
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by jm4 17y ago
When I first read your comment it did seem like you were blaming ATT. In retrospect that may be because I was thinking about it in the context of all this nerd rage over this thing. Maybe I jumped the gun a little bit.

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