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by jpadvo 14y ago
Here's one theory and analysis of what might have happened. Some people's emails got out into the public internet, and were indexed. Some of these emails were from Facebook, and included links to resources that require login. These links pr
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by jpadvo 14y ago
It seems the confusion comes from this part of the article: > "Google started providing real-time analytics to page managers last September." This makes it sound like Google has real-time facebook page analytics tools, but that isn't
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by jpadvo 14y ago
It's always important to remember the difference between a syncing service and a backup service. A syncing service sometimes feels like a backup, because you can use it to recover files if a local device is destroyed or lost. HOWEVER, a
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by jpadvo 14y ago
My company uses coffeescript, because it's a curated, highly documented set of improvements to javascript syntax. It's code I can trust, and code that was built by someone a lot better than I am at constructing languages -- so it's a pleasu
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by jpadvo 14y ago
This is hilarious, of course, but it also points to some really interesting languages. Turns out that fungeoid is an actual category of fascinating experimental / toy / joke languages. Obviously Piet is not particularly useful in the real w
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by jpadvo 14y ago
Thanks! No, I don't really have this visceral reaction (or at least not nearly as much) to baby companies, but that is probably because none of their stuff that I've seen feels as starkly personal as this video. Maybe their stuff is 50% to
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by jpadvo 14y ago
<passionate_rant> Since I learned I was going to be a dad (in 7 months!), I've found these kinds of advertisements increasingly unsettling, in an uncanny-valley kind of way. I love my tiny one. I've heard the quick little heartbeat.
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by jpadvo 14y ago
That's a really good question. I should have been much more clear about exactly what I was talking about. It wasn't about the knowledge gained, it was about everything surrounding that. What I wrote was in response to an article that carrie
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by jpadvo 14y ago
TLDR: Because you can't act on that data without acting in a racist way that makes the world a worse place. There is no way to use that data without really bad behavior. Let's break down why it is such an atrocious idea. Say you have a blac
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by jpadvo 14y ago
My company uses Spine for pretty much exactly that reason. http://spinejs.com/ It's written by Alex McCaw, it's fantastic, and it even has a set of (again, modular) pieces to help develop mobile compatible interfaces.
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by jpadvo 14y ago
Thanks! That makes a lot of sense, and react looks like a really interesting project. I'll have to go back and reread the article with an eye for applying its ideas in Javascript / Coffeescript.
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by jpadvo 14y ago
This sounds very useful. I'm having trouble understanding the nature of the system, though, because I don't really understand lisp / clojure. Is this a pattern that could be applied in any language with first class functions, or does it req
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Facebook’s plan to find its next billion users(qz.com)
2 points by jpadvo 14y ago|0 comments
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by jpadvo 14y ago
This is great -- an open source project started within a company, then spun off into its own independent entity. It's really great to see that. Major kudos to the team and to Twitter for having the generosity to acknowledge a responsibility
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by jpadvo 14y ago
I can attest to the brain-crackness. We're a bootstrapped startup that is starting to have a compelling product, and starting to think more about how to market it. We're definitely aware of the idea of lifecycle marketing and have been thin
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Microsoft offers plan to ease nation's skilled-worker deficit(seattletimes.com)
1 points by jpadvo 14y ago|0 comments
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by jpadvo 14y ago
The recipient is notified of the gift, then needs to input their own shipping address.
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by jpadvo 14y ago
This all sounds very exciting. I've tried out mind mapping software in the past for various things, and it has always seemed nifty, but I never really stuck with it. Maybe the qualitative difference in experience the author talks about will
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by jpadvo 14y ago
Thanks! I checked out your profile -- Nutrivise is doing great work. Hopefully I won't need a job anytime soon, but if I do I'll definitely talk to you guys. And I love the resume submittal via a post request. I may have to steal that idea
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by jpadvo 14y ago
Thanks smoyer, for the encouragement and also for the new acronym. I wasn't familiar with Not Invented Here syndrome, or at least the characterization of it.
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by jpadvo 14y ago
Thanks spitfire, kind and encouraging words. Most of my understanding of programming as a craft I've picked up here, probably from people who are like you (and maybe you yourself).
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by jpadvo 14y ago
Anything Stripe builds is going to be orders of magnitude more battle-tested and reliable than anything I could possibly build. This is such a mission critical piece of an application, _I don't want to avoid touching it as much as possible_
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by jpadvo 14y ago
Same circumstance in both cases, though: _developers_, not browser vendors, unnecessarily restricting functionality based on browser sniffing.
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by jpadvo 14y ago
Is there an open-source framework or tool for creating a styleguide like this from a project?
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by jpadvo 15y ago
I recently found a package of sunflower seeds in my cupboard that had MSG in it. MSG is absolutely delicious, a magical powder that can turn the blandest food into a flavorparty. But as a rule, I avoid it whenever I can because it is essent
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by jpadvo 15y ago
This looks super useful, but I would be afraid to rely on it in a production environment because it adds another external dependency. Not sure if you are thinking of open sourcing this, but if you did it would be great. I could see this pac
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by jpadvo 15y ago
> I guess the first step is to set up better monitoring services to prevent your system from being abused by even one bad apple. I'd love to, but when you have the volume we do there are going to be false negatives. Bad apples will slip
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by jpadvo 15y ago
I didn't realize that I could set up my own DNS on my own IP addresses. Thank you very much for the suggestion, I'll look into this. By the way, do you know off the top of your hand any such registrars with more complimentary policies?
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by jpadvo 15y ago
This exactly the point I was trying to make -- this was a nightmare, but at least I could do something about it. The same exact thing could happen with SOPA, but instead of jumping registrars and getting things fixed, the situation would
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Spamhaus Nightmare: Domain Shut Down, No Notice, Over A Million Pages Down
245 points by jpadvo 15y ago|95 comments

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