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by nmcfarl 15y ago
Likewise my company is 100% PSGI for the last year+, we're a mix of a good number of Catalyst and Dancer apps. We've had absolutely 0 problems here. PSGI stable, sane and the way you want to be doing things.
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by nmcfarl 16y ago
Square would not be permitted to operate in the UK. However neither would would the other 99% of the credit card in the US. The US infrastructure is insecure, and Square is no worse than the rest of it.
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by nmcfarl 16y ago
This should be easy - but it is not. Many many Requesters submit tasks to Turk from the Amazon provided UI, or some other simplified UI with no concept of a workflow. Which makes this stupidly hard. So you'd think this tool would do this f
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by nmcfarl 16y ago
To me this list sounds like a lot of occasions that you'd need a computer - but in actuality, my mother who is an early adopter at nothing except iPads, has been running like this since day 1. And, as my life is itinerant, I've done multipl
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by nmcfarl 16y ago
I have to say that although it feels that way, lately they've been sort of active. They've been using twitter since October at: http://twitter.com/amazonmturk And they just launched launched a blog at: http://mechanicalturk.typepad.com
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by nmcfarl 16y ago
I'd say a lot, because to do the import you have to swamp your firefox bookmarks structure with your delicious one, and then import those using the toolbar. Of course this looses all of the tags, and comments, which are pretty much the who
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by nmcfarl 16y ago
Which if it's enough businesses loose money might be a lot of people. I'm completely opposed to these actions, but I've got to say that causing financial losses is a fairly effective protest.
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Drag & Drop to exchange data between sites (& between browsers)(draggables.com)
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by nmcfarl 16y ago
One of the most surprising things I've learned in the last few years is that american cultural norms of how one should live one's life really do have at least some upsides, and "growing up" can be a lot of fun. And these things are big - ch
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by nmcfarl 16y ago
Well that and unchecking "Show me in the 'Who's here' list in the mobile app" on the settings page.
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by nmcfarl 16y ago
Crowdflower's API is excellent in comparison. And the UI is much better to boot. We find it restricts the kinds of work we like to do too much - but it also restricts it to the kinds of work that Crowdflower can reasonably return good resu
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by nmcfarl 16y ago
Any details on this at all? A hint? I like Panos have been doing this for more than 4 years, and I've seen no silver bullets. I'd like to think we're (CastingWords) doing it better than anyone else, and I don't even know what a silver bul
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by nmcfarl 16y ago
We at http://CastingWords.com are an interesting hybrid. We sell human transcription - everything we do is done by hand, and our costs are per item sold, much like a physical product. Of course we also do it via CrowdSourcing so we're ni
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by nmcfarl 16y ago
Actually I think the first 2 sentences here nail this for me. If your aim is to own a category, and you have a chance at designing an awesome product. If your aim is to dethrone the current market leader in a category - well your odds are a
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by nmcfarl 16y ago
This is incredibly good advice. All MTurk tasks of a small size or that will be approved by a single person, should ask an open ended question, that requires a response. This greatly reduces fraud, and shoddy work. And it has a tendency to
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by nmcfarl 16y ago
I actually agree with both of you. MTurk is not solely about the money - but there is enough money in the system for it to be the main motivating force. Getting honest feedback probably depends very heavily on survey design, instruction se
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by nmcfarl 16y ago
http://www.clickworker.com is based in Europe, with European workers and has a good reputation. As others are suggesting, Crowdflower works, and works well, with an excellent API. Also they are just good people. (They use an assortment
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by nmcfarl 16y ago
Well I'm in the parent's shoes - and I usually call myself a "Founder" or something along those lines.
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by nmcfarl 16y ago
So I got my first phone call from the service - everything works very nicely indeed! That certainly lets you know that something is up!
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by nmcfarl 16y ago
So just getting started looking at it - but I did notice that the "Plan and Price" page doesn't have a call to action to sign up - or even a good link to the signup page. I'd fix that first.
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by nmcfarl 17y ago
Yep - same guy. I was wondering what he'd got himself up to.
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by nmcfarl 17y ago
It took reading these summaries to get me in the mood for a big spec in the morning :) ECMAScript 5 http://blogs.gnome.org/xan/2009/05/23/ecmascript-5/ ECMAScript 5 Objects and Properties http://ejohn.org/blog/ecmascript-5-objects-and-p
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by nmcfarl 17y ago
Looks to me like Javascript is going to take this as nearly everyone who codes it codes in something else as well. Just not the same something else...
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by nmcfarl 17y ago
So my first question was "Why?", Then after some digging "Why not just use R?". The best answer I found to that question was on stack overflow: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1427276/j-programming-lan... . Which for me said - "Just u
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by nmcfarl 17y ago
So CastingWords has obviously made MTurk work and work well, but finding ways to maintain quality levels and consistency has not been an easy process. We've had to give up completely on "quick and dirty" (IE super-cheap) transcription. In
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by nmcfarl 17y ago
So my company http://castingwords.com provides transcription services (based on Amazon's Mechanical Turk). We've been doing this for years and have gotten some excellent reviews for our transcription (not just our technology) including a
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by nmcfarl 20y ago
Perl - Catalyst and PostgreSQL