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by jsdalton 16y ago
The usual money quote for the Peter Principle is, "in a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence" -- but I like your summation so much better.
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by jsdalton 16y ago
I'm inclined to disagree. The converse -- what skills does a programmer who has never left academia lack? -- strikes me as perfectly valid. And surely there must be some benefit to taking four (or more) years out of your productive life t
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by jsdalton 16y ago
> Unfortunately, only Facebook does URL normalization for you, so dumb things like trailing slashes have a big effect on the count. Is that true? http://urls.api.twitter.com/1/urls/count.json?url=http://new... http://urls.api.twitter
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by jsdalton 16y ago
Twitter: http://urls.api.twitter.com/1/urls/count.json?url=http://new... LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/cws/share-count?url=http://news.ycom... These APIs are marked private (as opposed to Facebook's) so use at your own risk.
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by jsdalton 16y ago
Actually, Cingular Wireless acquired AT&T in 2004, and then opted to convert the Cingular brand to AT&T in 2005. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cingular_Wireless
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by jsdalton 16y ago
Well, I think the executives who made the decision to pursue this strategy might very well disagree with me. I'm also not convinced that it's common sense to pursue quality over popularity. In general, following your metrics is the soun
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by jsdalton 16y ago
I was having a conversation with an editor I work with about CNN the other day, when the following occurred to me: I feel like the root of CNN's problem is that they have more or less abandoned the pursuit of "quality" reporting in favor of
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by jsdalton 16y ago
The article mentions Kiln ( http://www.fogcreek.com/kiln/ ) as a code review tool. What other code review/collaboration tools are people using with Git and/or Mercurial?
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by jsdalton 16y ago
I'm not sure you've really disproved anybody's point. Consider that a rich kid's parents will likely spend hundreds of thousands of dollars (if not more) on their child's education, on everything from the best preschools to a top prep schoo
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by jsdalton 16y ago
I think this is great, personally. The only things more I'd wish for from this site: * It'd be great if it was more clear that Microsoft itself was behind the site (there's just one little logo at the bottom left). * The home page seems tar
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by jsdalton 16y ago
Seems like this would be useful for development. It'd be great to be able to print to the console for debugging purposes etc. while working on something.
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by jsdalton 16y ago
It is one of the industry's leading tech publications: http://www.techmeme.com/lb ... though I do agree, this article is pretty crappy, as some others have pointed out. I mostly just disagree with the parent's assertion that a short sum
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by jsdalton 16y ago
A link to a PDF of a research document with an obtuse abstract, versus a quick, readable summary published on one of the industry's leading tech publications? I'll take the latter, thank you.
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by jsdalton 16y ago
I think he means "post a new question on StackOverflow" not "search for an existing answer on StackOverflow" -- since, agreed, that'd be pretty much the same thing as step 1. (I, too, do a lot of "site:stackoverflow.com" searches on Google
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by jsdalton 16y ago
I had some issues with a Textdrive server recently as well and migrated over to one of their smart machines (at a lower price than what I had been paying). I was a bit frustrated like you, but Joyent was extremely, extremely helpful in assi
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by jsdalton 16y ago
Sometimes the conclusion of an idea is interesting, but a lengthy exposition of how that conclusion was arrived at is less so.
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by jsdalton 16y ago
Gotcha. I likewise think I now better understand where you were coming from in your comment. "Creativity" was probably a poor word choice on my part -- perhaps "capabilities" would have been better, as in, "It's a shame because limitations
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by jsdalton 16y ago
That's a rather facile response. Is that what Google should say to the guy who is complaining in the article? "Oh, you need more than 10,000 contacts? Well, why don't you just find a creative solution to the problem instead. Creativity come
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by jsdalton 16y ago
FWIW, Highrise also sets seemingly "arbitrary" limits to the number of contacts you can have in an account: http://highrisehq.com/signup I guess both Google and 37signals do it because it's just a quick and dirty way to manage resources.
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by jsdalton 16y ago
Sure, I'll try to file one later so it can at least be considered. What I was trying to say in my earlier comment was that I would actually prefer the explicit @task decorator be part of the official Fabric API because it's more clear and,
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by jsdalton 16y ago
Good to hear, hopefully the task decorator will make it in soon because I think it's a much superior API. The little hack on Fabric I use currently takes the opposite approach -- I use an @internal decorator that hides certain functions fro
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by jsdalton 16y ago
Here's a little something similar I whipped up using Flask (Python): import time from flask import Flask, make_response, request app = Flask(__name__) @app.route('/<int:status_code>') def return_status(status_
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Ask HN: What service are you using for display ads?
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by jsdalton 16y ago
It's better than the last round, but still has a bit of a ways to go on the iphone. For example, the behavior of clicking one of the slide menus is: 1. The address bar pops down momentarily while the ajax call is made and then disappears af
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by jsdalton 16y ago
What is Lean UX? I think startups might care a lot more about it if you spent a bit more time describing what it actually is.
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by jsdalton 16y ago
Reminds me of the saying (apparently attributed to Claude Debussy), "Music is the space between the notes."
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by jsdalton 16y ago
Yeah, well keep in mind a few things: * Until today, MailChimp was by far the cheapest option, esp. if you compare them against similar services, e.g. Campaign Monitor. * Mailchimp is a lot more than a dumb email server...it's a list manage
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by jsdalton 16y ago
Check this out: http://docs.amazonwebservices.com/ses/latest/DeveloperGuide/... You can configure SES to work with Postfix or Sendmail. It's at least close to what you're asking about.
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by jsdalton 16y ago
These are not really comparable products. MailChimp is an email broadcast and subscription management service. It's for sending things like email newsletters and marketing campaigns. SES/Postmark/Sendgrid are more for one-to-one type commun
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by jsdalton 16y ago
There has been a significant amount of recent scholarship on this topic since this Straight Dope article was published (in 1986): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_relativity_and_the_c...

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