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by ladon86 15y ago
You'd probably enjoy the forthcoming book which this article is promoting - it's pretty much an extract from it.
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Awesome job! Are you just using the RSS feed?
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I've managed to get an advance copy of the book - I was skeptical at first (the back cover blurb on the review copy was pretty bad), and I'm only about 80 pages in. So far though, it's pretty interesting. The biggest insight is exactly how
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by ladon86 15y ago
Your prices are too low.
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Use it on your mobile phone, offline sync so you can listen to any track at any time even if you're offline. Search for an album, offline sync, you've got the album. Also wirelessly syncs your existing library.
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by ladon86 15y ago
> "While geeks might take privacy risks, your mom doesn't and she gets pissed off with every privacy update". Is it me or is this exactly backwards? Geeks are the biggest privacy freaks around, but I don't think most moms on Facebook gi
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by ladon86 15y ago
Thank you Carson!
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by ladon86 15y ago
I'm pretty sure you can't create a working Facebook account using a quick bash script.
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I'd like to see them send Google one for every Chrome release.
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I've had this idea for a few months and really wanted to build it. Imagine being able to record every user interaction, seeing their mouse move and following them through pages. The difficulty lies in replaying activity for web apps with lo
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by ladon86 15y ago
I hate to be "that guy", but the language in this article is really poor in both grammar and style, and it could use some editing to help with that. Are thenextweb articles normally copy-edited?
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Yes, this is what's needed. I like the line about the banks. My biggest peeve with the UK scene is that we lose so much talent to banks and consultancies, especially among graduates; anything to turn that around is a step in the right direc
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by ladon86 15y ago
Thanks for posting this; Dr. Alvarado inspired me to go into UX research with her work on sketch recognition in the early 2000's.
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Tracing the origins of a symbol of the British class system(moreintelligentlife.com)
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A great idea. You get to see votes only after voting, which eliminates social proof inertia and gives an incentive to vote. As long as you can't revoke votes (a la reddit), this would work beautifully.
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by ladon86 16y ago
I care less about the backups because I have Backblaze covering my whole Dropbox folder anyway, but I can forget about that annoying thing called "USB sticks" - for me the real benefit is file transfer and access across devices, not backup.
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by ladon86 16y ago
I really don't understand how people can find such little value in music that they don't think it worth paying £10 or even £5 a month to listen to unlimited amounts of it on their computer and mobile. Spotify is easily the best thing I subs
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by ladon86 16y ago
Actually that isn't unique to the school you worked at, it's a philosophical feature of the education system. I wasn't allowed to use a computer until I was perhaps 11 years old, and then only sparingly. I don't think it affected my later a
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by ladon86 16y ago
I went to a Waldorf/Steiner school, which shares some of these traits such as the lack of a focus on assessment and grading and the emphasis on creativity. We weren't taught the alphabet until the age of about 6-7 and basic arithmetic at 7-
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by ladon86 16y ago
No, only that once you have your core features in place, building more won't improve your product and won't win or keep customers. Meanwhile, as a non-tech business, your competitors can easily copy the features you built, so how do you win
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by ladon86 16y ago
For most tech-enabled subscription businesses, the core business is support. Your technology is easily duplicable, so your key differentiator has to be how you deal with customers, and how quickly. Sales is core too, but sales is also a sup
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by ladon86 16y ago
Does this support HTTP 1.1 and WebSockets? Many proxies don't, just wanted to check.
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by ladon86 16y ago
Why don't you make your own little stable of design templates and sell them to these pain-in-the-ass clients on a non-exclusive basis? Later on you can charge more if they want it personalised.
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Absolutely, and the script almost has a sort of story arc as they await the arrival of Jane Fonda. It feels play-like.
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Is this real? Everyone sounds like an obvious caricature of themselves.
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Well it's definitely not cost of housing, which is very expensive here. For the most part you can expect to pay a lot more for a much smaller house in the UK compared to the US. I'm not sure where it is that we make up the difference in cos
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by ladon86 16y ago
I'm using Capistrano, which is pulling my code from Github, with a bunch of custom scripts to minify my static assets and send them off to a CDN. If you've got a fab file that works for you, there's no reason not to stick with it.
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by ladon86 16y ago
Hmm, a term was about 10 weeks so I guess this must have taken about 4 or 5 weeks. But I was working on it a ridiculous amount. My friends called it "Ray" and would leave funny drawings on my desk depicting them partying while I played with
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by ladon86 16y ago
That's almost the exact experience I had in my first term of university. Everyone was making connect 4 and sudoku and they told me I couldn't write a Doom-style raycasting engine. That was the reason I had to do it! It didn't even count tow
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by ladon86 16y ago
The point about Photoshop not supporting paletted transparent PNGs was new to me. I only use Photoshop, so I actually believed that alpha channels were only available for 24-bit PNGs. I wonder if Photoshop has planned future support for pa

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