jsm386

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by jsm386 17y ago
The company has to decide whether or not to turn revenue on. It sounds ridiculous, but it is a real decision. Once revenue is on, how the company is valued by the market can change dramatically. So when Twitter talks about turning on rev
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The argument is an interesting one--the more complex the metric, the harder it is to act on it--but the author provides no reason for this other than his graphs, which are representations of...nothing? Simply drawing a line to represent his
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by jsm386 17y ago
I can't provide specifics for the above claim, but SEOmoz's Search Engine Ranking Factor's survey found Recency (freshness) of Page Creation the 2nd most important factor outside of keywords. http://www.seomoz.org/article/search-ranking-
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Definitely another bubble, or signs of local froth in NYC, as Greenspan might say. Some insights from http://ny.eater.com/tags/froyo-wars The fine reporters over at Crain's notice there's something of a fro-yo trend in the city right now
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Respectfully disagree. See http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/25/dining/25brooklyn.html no one in that photo would qualify as an aging empty-nest yuppie To quote: These days, with a kitchen and a bit of ambition, you can start to make a name
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Coming soon to a precious storefront in a gentrifying neighborhood of Brooklyn: sustainable cupcakes made of flour ground from organic wheat raised in Prospect Park, served in wrappers recycled from old copies of the New York Review of Boo
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I agree that ebooks will eventually take over a large share of the book market. Wondering though, why do you think ebooks are particularly suited to subways?
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"The collateral damage isn’t so obvious but it’s undoubtedly there. Amidst my 400 unread Boing Boing links are probably ten or fifteen that are probably real gems. But I’ll never know and Boing Boing sure as hell isn’t going to help me out.
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As a journalist, with sources to protect, working for a publication whose very mission 'corruption fighting' is going to invite problems exactly like these, shouldn't you be using something other than Gmail? I've never needed something like
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Indeed, Gawker has been covering the Times' questionable trend pieces for over a year now: http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Agawker.com+new+york+ti...
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When you say 'I think it's because there don't seem to be a whole lot of new ideas for me to find in fiction anymore' you're on to something. From http://hnlk.wordpress.com/2007/09/24/you-mean-its-all-been-w... The last script writer/nove
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A few years ago Discovery Channel aired a fun disaster 'docudrama' ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supervolcano_%28docudrama%29 ) about the worst case scenario for a Yellowstone eruption. It was surprisingly well done...ie entertaining, more
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as someone who deals with the front end for a company whose business is a web app, no support for ie6 (with patch files, conditionals, whatever) really is a deal breaker. the sad fact is 15% of our customers still use ie6. draw your own con
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dead simple