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by nhebb 14y ago
Reminder: If you're like me and don't use FF anymore for anything but testing, this is a good time to open it up and apply the update. This will save you the frustration of having the update applied the next time you're in the middle of wor
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by nhebb 14y ago
And that, folks, is the value of a journalism degree: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine_Herridge > Herridge's salary of $900,000 per year Wait, never mind. :-/
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by nhebb 14y ago
It's not superficial, and TV is one of the other forms of media I was referring to. I am curious, though, how you purport to know the main benefit that I receive from reading is.
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by nhebb 14y ago
I think most logical people understand the benefits of reading, so I'm not going to rehash that. I went a number of years only reading technical books, but I've been reading a lot of Project Gutenberg ebooks lately - a mixture of autobiogra
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by nhebb 14y ago
You're assuming logical spending habits.
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by nhebb 14y ago
I don't know about other data providers, but with the ADO.NET adapter, there is a huge performance penalty for non-parameterized, non-transactional queries. So if you string together a query you get clued in pretty quick that there's a prob
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by nhebb 14y ago
> Quite a few of them are already at least casually interested in the iPad Keep in mind, though, that the median household income in the US is roughly $50k. Apple doesn't make blue collar products. iPads are on the spendy side for a typ
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by nhebb 14y ago
> Black Hawk Down Yeah, that was a good movie, but Ridley Scott is so much better than most Hollywood directors that it's not a fair comparison. (Never saw Jarhead)
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by nhebb 14y ago
Exactly. My pet peeve is military depictions in movies. I can't recall a movie that's gotten even the basics right. I may be nitpicking, but it does detract from the viewing experience.
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by nhebb 14y ago
+1 to CS: APP ( Computer Systems: A Programmer's Perspective , by Bryant and O'Hallaron). I thought Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach by Hennessey was dry and better suited to EE's. CS: APP, on the other hand, really sucked m
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by nhebb 14y ago
Have you viewed the HTML source of HN? There are lots of reasons to dislike nested tables, but they do have their uses.
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by nhebb 14y ago
> Sturgeon’s law applies here. 95% of all startups will fail. There’s no escaping it. I don't know about India or software startups in particular, but according to Dun and Bradstreet the 4-year survival rate of new businesses is 37%.
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by nhebb 14y ago
Maybe I'm missing something - I'm no Google Analytics expert. Here's my reasoning as to why I like Google Webmaster Tools better than Google Analytics ... For keywords, Google Analytics shows: - Visits - Pages/Visit - Avg. Visit Dur
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by nhebb 14y ago
For those who haven't used it, Google Webmaster Tools provides better keyword and search analysis than Google Analytics does. It's a great tool set.
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by nhebb 14y ago
Two observations: - X-FRAME-OPTIONS: IMO, more people should know about and use this. - Adroll: Would be much more effective if it didn't keep showing me ads for products that I already use. I wish it had an opt-out so I'd quit seeing the s
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by nhebb 14y ago
I searched the page for the words blog, opinion, and editorial => zero matches. It does look like an opinion piece, but they should at least label it as such.
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by nhebb 14y ago
You have to keep in mind that he wrote this after a few years in business. After creating the product, programming takes up less of your time in day to day operations. HelpSpot is business software, and Ian was running it as a one man shop
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by nhebb 14y ago
What he describes sounds like just plain management, not micromanagement. Micromanagement isn't productive involvement. It's over-bearing, time-consuming, counterproductive involvement.
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by nhebb 14y ago
Did Ballmer (or other Microsoft exec) address this? If so I'd be curious to read what they said.
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by nhebb 14y ago
The more I see of Windows 8, the less I'm convinced businesses will migrate to it. Maybe I'm being too cynical, but I wonder whether the direction taken by Microsoft will spur more businesses to finally migrate from XP to Windows 7 - before
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by nhebb 14y ago
> https://support.twitter.com/articles/14020# When I saw that I thought, "Wait, there's actually a manual for this thing?". Of course there is, but I wonder how many people have actually read it. <1%?
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by nhebb 14y ago
Direct marketing doesn't get discussed much on HN and realted posts don't seem to get much traction (c.f. http://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/all&q=direct+mark... ). I think it's a topic that could use a could hand-holding tutorial
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by nhebb 14y ago
> I do think in Aliens, that part of the mens' and the audience's enjoyment and celebration with Ripley that she ran that loader so well is because she is a woman, so in that respect, it is sexist Also known as "the soft bigotry of lo
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by nhebb 14y ago
Note that this is ranked by units produced, and the Lego tires are for their toy kits. It's kind of silly to compare their production against Michelin, Bridgestone, et al.
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by nhebb 14y ago
Harvard Business Review did a study back in the mid-90's comparing the cost to manufacture in a range of countries (outside the US). Mexico came in at the top ranking for lowest total cost of operations, much of it due to reduced shipping,
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by nhebb 14y ago
> "South Korea actually has a rather high income per capita — $24,000 — and the average monthly salary for a factory worker is $2000 per month." South Korea is an economic miracle. Back in 1985 I ran out of money half-way through coll
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by nhebb 14y ago
Advertising Secrets of the Written Word is a good read. I read a bunch of copywriting books a few years ago, and this is the one that sticks out in my memory, above the others.
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by nhebb 14y ago
There's a couple of problems with that argument. Apple is a great Silicon Valley success story, but they don't make products in Silicon Valley. They design them there, but they are manufactured elsewhere. In its heyday, Silicon Valley used
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by nhebb 14y ago
They made several other mistakes at roll out as well. I had an account with them when they launched, and I dropped them for a couple of reasons. The user interface for vendors had serious problems that were widely complained about in Google
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by nhebb 14y ago
> "PayPal handles 60% of web transactions" is not seen anywhere in the original source I agree this doesn't represent the web as a whole, but the top portion of the graphic does show that 60% of the "Total Calls by Gateway" were to PayP

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