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by nkohari 17y ago
If someone misspelled something in an email reply, I would just assume they had a misspelling in their automated response form letter. That would make me think much less of the company. I'm glad it converted better for you, but I'm guessing
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by nkohari 17y ago
Great article. This is why symbolism is so important. You reduce the cognitive load to the absolute lowest level while still getting your point across, so it takes less time to interpret.
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by nkohari 17y ago
Conservatives don't value intellectualism. Edit: Okay, blanket statement. How about this: MOST conservatives don't value intellectualism.
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by nkohari 17y ago
Nitpick: it's "asymmetric". Good point though.
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by nkohari 17y ago
Anyone else find it a little ironic that the URL contains tracking information about both Feedburner (a Google property) and Google Reader?
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by nkohari 17y ago
I would never defend Internet Explorer, but I don't think this is really a big deal. If you have more than 30 style tags on any page, something is very wrong. IE has plenty of bugs and limitations that are much worse than this. :)
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by nkohari 17y ago
Everyone has the "luxury of choice," but it inevitably comes with cost. I speak from personal experience -- I know the .NET stack very well, and am very familiar with the LAMP stack from my days with PHP, but I've only dabbled in Ruby and P
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by nkohari 17y ago
You're conflating IT infrastructure and software product development, and the two are very different topics. There's literally nothing to stop me from writing .NET software using a Mac (via MonoDevelop or virtualization, like VMWare) and de
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by nkohari 17y ago
I was a .NET developer before launching our startup ( http://agilezen.com/ ), so it was natural for us to use .NET. It's actually a very good technology stack if you lean on the available open source options instead of just using everything
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by nkohari 17y ago
Other than keeping our customers happy, our goal for 2010 is growth. We just hit sustainability in early December.
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by nkohari 17y ago
ETFs would be much less of a problem if buying unlocked phones wasn't like hunting unicorns.
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by nkohari 17y ago
Same problem here. That's sort of discouraging. :)
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by nkohari 17y ago
Shouldn't 100% of your customers be disappointed if your product went away? Otherwise, why are they customers in the first place?
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by nkohari 17y ago
You're right, let's stop running apps on Linux, Apache, PHP, Ruby, Python, Rails...
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by nkohari 17y ago
We actually had our app hosted at CrystalTech until a couple months ago. Earlier this year, they had a critical power outage, which took our site offline. That's one of the reasons we're not there anymore.
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by nkohari 17y ago
Customers are funny, though. People come to us all the time and say, "We love the simplicity of your software! It's just so easy to use! By the way, can you add (feature X) and (feature Y) and (feature Z)?" As a user, it's hard to recognize
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by nkohari 17y ago
I'm not disagreeing, I'm just saying that before people get drunk on schadenfreude they should put themselves in Atwood's position. If you pay someone for a service you generally expect it to work when you need it.
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by nkohari 17y ago
To be fair, Atwood thought his hosting provider (CrystalTech) was backing up his system. As it turns out, their entire VM backup solution failed silently, so everyone thought the backups were being made. If anything, I'd say this is a sign
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by nkohari 17y ago
You're kidding, right? We used to laugh when people put BrainBench test results on their resumes.
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by nkohari 17y ago
Recruiters and agents are very much alike, except there's no exclusivity -- and since employees don't get contracts, their payment schedule is different. (Typically a percentage of the employee's annual salary for FTEs, or X dollars an hour
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by nkohari 17y ago
Great user experiences are meant to fade into the background. This is a great example of something that they clearly put a lot of thought into, specifically so you wouldn't notice it. Chrome has a masterful UX, and I'm curious to see if i
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by nkohari 17y ago
Sure would like to try this out, but I'm getting 503 Service Unavailable when I try to put in my CC info... (edit: seems to have been fixed now)
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by nkohari 17y ago
First, I own one of those new-fangled web apps ( http://agilezen.com/ ). It's built on jQuery, has a fairly complex Javascript-driven UI, and nowhere do I manipulate hundreds or thousands of DOM elements. Second, I wasn't arguing against li
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by nkohari 17y ago
Honestly, who cares? If your bottleneck is really your JS library, you need to re-evaluate what it is that you're doing. In a practical situation, you would never manipulate thousands of DOM elements at once. Benchmarks are fun, but largely
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by nkohari 17y ago
The fastest lib though is always going to be no lib. This is only true if you already know all of the performance hacks in each browser. By using a library, you can outsource the need to worry about that to a third party. Also, only about
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Eric Schmidt: "If you have something [to hide], maybe you shouldn't be doing it"(theregister.co.uk)
279 points by nkohari 17y ago|168 comments
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by nkohari 17y ago
I get that your blog/tumblr site design is a joke, but my eyes weren't laughing. It looks like Geocities and the 1980s had an illegitimate child.
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by nkohari 17y ago
I suppose you're right. We felt that it was more worthwhile to price our services lower and avoid going overboard with HA, because our application is arguably not "mission-critical". If it's down for awhile, it's bad, but no one dies and mo
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by nkohari 17y ago
Sort of... the point was more that the promises are pretty hollow in the first place. We don't need financial penalties being applied to motivate us to keep our service up, at least beyond the natural loss of customers if we were to be down
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Guarantees, SLAs, and Hollow Promises(kohari.org)
3 points by nkohari 17y ago|5 comments

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