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by kalid 15y ago
Totally agree. When first learning git, I got comfortable with git stash: work work, bug comes along, git stash, apply bug to master, git stash apply to get back to my state, work work. Then I started getting comfortable with branches. Git
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by kalid 15y ago
In the basic use case (changes into a central repo), git and svn look similar. Git's power is revealed when you realize how it tracks changes individually -- it's super easy to branch and move changes around. The decentralization isn't just
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by kalid 15y ago
Some off the cuff feedback: I wouldn't spend time on features, spend it on cleaning up the design. * Use twitter bootstrap or some other framework to make the site look more professional. * Why are the prices in weird denominations? $1.60 p
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by kalid 15y ago
I agree. I'm blogging now (side project, about ~1k/month via an ebook) and Antonio's book would have saved me a lot of time. I'm planning on using it to boost up that number :).
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by kalid 15y ago
I'm so happy VWO came to be :).
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by kalid 15y ago
In programming terms:it's the difference between copy-pasting some code vs. extracting the core design pattern and using that. An important part of a design is the tradeoffs/decisions that went into it, and how it adapts in the face of new
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by kalid 15y ago
Awesome example about the derivative! I think the best part of geometric thinking is running ideas on your "native hardware". Our brains are massively parallel, visual-processing monsters... and we try to think about ideas linearly, like we
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by kalid 15y ago
Apple is known for making 10 prototypes of an idea then culling it to 3, then 1. Microsoft & others tend to start with one version and constantly evolve that. The difference is you can get stuck at local maxima / evolutionary dead ends.
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by kalid 15y ago
Interesting philosophical questions :). I think the goodness of the act is determined (partly? mostly?) by the intent at the time of its inception. In poker, you don't judge a decision as good or bad based on if you eventually win the hand.
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by kalid 15y ago
I should have clarified -- it's not that a loading message is unnecessary, it's how it was implemented. The fact that a giant overlay modal appears on every page in their public docs calls into question other UI decisions. This isn't the pa
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by kalid 15y ago
The loading modal was a huge turnoff. Why would you ever show that to a user? After clicking a link, when is your browser not loading the next page? I see that modal when browsing the docs ( http://jquerymobile.com/demos/1.0/ ) in Chrome
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by kalid 15y ago
Ah, thanks for the note -- I haven't checked it in opera in a while :)
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by kalid 15y ago
Shameless plug: you might like instacalc which can do these conversions too: http://new.instacalc.com/366 You can even use made-up units ("hits", "people", etc... has a pluralizer). I made it as a personal productivity tool and have a sle
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by kalid 15y ago
You know, I realize a lot of life falls into the "shopping cart" effect. If there's 5 lines at the grocery store, there's an 80% chance you'll see another line moving faster than yours (there's only a 20% chance you picked the fastest line)
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by kalid 15y ago
That book is a reminder of a time when Wrox & friends weren't trying to crank out 5 lb tomes on .NET SOAP Interoperability. So many modern books read like a student trying to pad out a page count for a professor.
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by kalid 15y ago
Link to their podcast -- more enjoyable than reading a transcript. http://itunes.apple.com/au/podcast/freakonomics-radio/id3546...
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by kalid 15y ago
Yep, it's definitely a steep jump from 20GB shared to dedicated. At that point it might be better to move onto your own hardware (if I fill up 20GB database then I'm doing something right).
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by kalid 15y ago
Yeah, I don't consider Heroku or the platform-as-a-service providers good for hobby projects, esp. something like a forum or blog where you can just get a cheap VPS somewhere. The sweet spot is having very reasonable billing like $15/month
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by kalid 15y ago
Think Google App Engine with more languages, with real database access (bring your own db if you want, or they can host it), dozens of add-ins, and a sane pricing model.
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by kalid 15y ago
Very well put. Jumping into a finance/consulting job for the money and living out your life is the career equivalent of cranking out jingos for commercials or kitsch art reproductions. We're human beings, we're meant to follow our passions.
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by kalid 15y ago
My feelings on this are hard to put into words -- Zynga is the equivalent of churning out crappy romance novels, soulless pop music, kitsch art, or even junk food (made to be addictive, incidentally "nutritious"). "Art" is undefinable, but
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by kalid 15y ago
I agree -- I hate these "negative" lists because there's an infinite number of ways to screw something up. Enumerating them isn't helpful.
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by kalid 15y ago
It's not apparent, but you can mouse over the progress bar for a real-time preview of any slide. You can then click to jump to that location.
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by kalid 15y ago
Google probably figures that the kind of people who run Opera are the type who know to use other browsers or switch their user-agent strings :).
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by kalid 15y ago
Yep, I meant 9.99, thanks.
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by kalid 15y ago
I cancelled my membership a while back also -- difficulty in finding content I actually wanted to watch was a huge factor. It's almost like an insurance company -- they want you to buy their plan, but not actually use it! (Why, then they'd
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by kalid 15y ago
In the USA, poverty leads to obesity. In India, poverty leads to starvation. There's a huge difference when a government's concern for the poor is getting them to eat "healthier". Have you ever seen a desperately thin homeless person in the
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by kalid 15y ago
I think that language would've had difficulty if it was called montypython :). Batman.js, unfortunately, only evokes one image.
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by kalid 15y ago
Great explanation. The pricing for an upcoming Kindle version of a PDF ebook is something I'm struggling with. My current thinking: Kindle version: ~$10 PDF ebook + Kindle version + supplements (sold from my site): ~$24 The Kindle version i
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by kalid 15y ago
I like that one too. Yudkowsky's article is way too long for the casual reader.

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