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by msy 16y ago
Is the primary audience of your product scientists? From what I can see the uses you promote seem to be primarily journalists. Are you working on a similar basis for them? ie a tool that lets them get on with writing and finding stories rat
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by msy 16y ago
You know the only other place I've seen where someone uses 14 different type styles for emphasis is the Time Cube guy and other similar nutjobs.
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by msy 16y ago
I spent a minute trying but no, I cannot think of anything that would make me go 'well fuck you' and go elsewhere faster then being expected to type out ad copy like a school child.
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by msy 16y ago
Oohf, I've bought quite a lot of stuff from them, thankfully I have everything mirrored locally. Really nice site, really well packaged games, excellent support, I really liked them. I was wondering however whether they were going to be sus
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by msy 16y ago
Not really, in fact that article was exactly what I was thinking of, reading it it'd be easy to get the impression they were talking about production software after the first sentence. Bugs are fixable and I haven't found any serious design
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by msy 16y ago
They could've really saved themselves some grief is they'd been far more explicit about saying that it's Alpha and months from being production ready. All this 'there's bugs! omfg!' hoo-ha could've been headed off at the pass
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by msy 16y ago
OT but the phrase you're looking for is the latin de facto .
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by msy 16y ago
But if you're measuring via proxies you lose causation. Have those gradual changes that immediately increased conversion or upsell by 2% over the last 3 months cheapened the brand and site, causing long-term damage to its perception in the
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by msy 16y ago
You cannot measure everything. You cannot A/B test frustration, or confusion, or discomfort. You cannot measure slight changes in the way your brand or site is perceived. You can vaguely measure of proxies but they're just that, proxies. Th
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by msy 16y ago
I didn't think you were abtuse enough not to read what I linked to. But then it is hard to get someone to understand something when it's not in their interest to do so. http://www.nanex.net/20100506/FlashCrashAnalysis_Part4-1.htm... Detai
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by msy 16y ago
Are you kidding me? Are you honestly denying there's no connection between the stuffing of the order book with hundreds of thousands of orders and the crash? Please. As for whether it's deliberate - I think you're right in the sense that so
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by msy 16y ago
and in case that source isn't reliable enough for you, try the FT http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/b2373a36-b6c2-11df-b3dd-00144feabd... HFT has chilling associations with the “flash crash” of May 6, when rapid, computer-driven orders were seen
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by msy 16y ago
Ask and ye shall receive. http://www.zerohedge.com/article/its-not-market-its-hft-crop... If detailed, fully sourced graphs, demonstrating deliberate use of quote stuffing to essentially jam markets isn't good enough for you I suggest you
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by msy 16y ago
At least in the abstract this study doesn't seem to differentiate between market making and more agressive HTF strategies, furthermore the firms involved and strategies they are running aren't listed. The potential bias in both these factor
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by msy 16y ago
I'm sorry but this feels like a me-too amalgamation of a grab-bag of other services, a little bit of Tumblr, a sprinkling of Posterous, a dash of Flavors.me but without the secret sauce of any of them - the social elements of Tumblr, the be
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by msy 16y ago
I genuinely could not disagree more.
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by msy 16y ago
Speaking as a designer I don't mind, but it's a terrible way to actually get an identity of any quality or cohesiveness for anything.
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by msy 16y ago
I can't be the only one that finds this makes YC less attractive. I looked at YC as mentoring and a leg up for interesting ideas, not a sausage factory for Facebook Apps.
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by msy 16y ago
It depends on what your view of a social network is. My personal opinion is that people do not have a social network, they have a series of occasionally overlapping social networks. That all current systems are incapable of reflecting this
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by msy 16y ago
I honestly believe Facebook is on the way out. Facebook was an elite product, it required an Ivy League address just to get through the door and established a set of middle-upper class brand credentials. Facebook is now the default, it's fu
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by msy 16y ago
I think the wording is poor here but this basically appears to boil down to 'you cannot ask for a bunch of personal information from users for no valid reason'. Which seems entirely reasonable and a good use of Apple's power to stop the har
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by msy 16y ago
raphael.js can take svg-style input (it's trivial to write a svg-raphael converter) and display it in all browsers incuding IE using IE's VML support. It's a hack but it's a damn nice piece of tech and allows us to move forward with SVG use
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by msy 16y ago
It's a pity because I usually find a needle or two of interesting ideas in Wired but having to sift through a haystack of hyperbole and poor logic is deeply unenjoyable.
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by msy 16y ago
That's a hilariously small sample size for a 'model'.
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by msy 16y ago
I've heard 5%, 10%, occasionally 15% many, many times, I've never heard a verifiable source. The most recent number I can find is 2008 and that's at 5% with a downward trend: http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stats.asp Or ~2% in
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by msy 16y ago
I wonder if they're going to be doing the same sneaky tracking via cookies and iframe that the Like Button does irrespective of whether you actually interact with it or not.
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by msy 16y ago
It doesn't matter if it's something you enable explicitly, you're thinking about this the wrong way. Even if you enable it explicitly you have now compromised the uniformity of the utility of those buttons. There is now a cognitive cost of
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by msy 16y ago
They do, it's called vitsoe.com. The thing is, the feature isn't dead simple. Implementing it would completely break a solid rule of the HIG of the iPhone. The quality of the UX on the iPhone exists because of those rules, just because so
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by msy 16y ago
$500k Selling Camera+ politely pulled from AppStore with explanation, over deliberate attempt to circumvent ban on functionality that had been explicitly denied. An easter egg is putting a flight simulator in a spreadsheet program, this was
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by msy 16y ago
Finding the best way of solving problem X isn't what you learn by being under/around good senior developers, what you learn is a set of mental tools and approaches for solving problems & your ethos as a developer. You can't learn that s

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