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by noibl 16y ago
If you look at what they actually have in AdWords, it's not easy to see how it could be seriously disrupted. You're right that Google's real monopoly is not on search but on their immense network of advertisers and content sites, which has
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by noibl 16y ago
The idea about assertion of logical continuity is interesting. The rise of “so,” he said via e-mail, is “another symptom that our communication and conversational lives are chopped up and discontinuous in actual fact, but that we try in se
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by noibl 16y ago
Gmail's setup guide is pretty good too: http://goo.gl/IIMgg And yet yesterday I had someone call me up after I provisioned them with a Google Apps account and the link above (Google Apps's Settings screen links to the IMAP version of it).
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by noibl 16y ago
> The goal is solving a problem for that particular person, as fast as possible. It's rarely getting more people to use the product. I would say that the incredible versatility of the majority of stock UNIX tools and the philosophy that
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by noibl 16y ago
I suspect stigma may play a part.. [John Lilly] studied other large-brained mammals and in the late 1950s he established a centre devoted to fostering human-dolphin communication: the Communication Research Institute on St. Thomas in the Vi
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by noibl 16y ago
Distance travelled can be a measure of many things (technology, wealth, ambition) but not intelligence. We can't say that X achievement in distance shows intelligence higher than ours just because we haven't matched it yet.
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A big problem for people self-learning complex/powerful interfaces is that they often have no way to gauge how long it will take to reach a useful level of proficiency. For busy people or for urgent tasks that means allocating time to learn
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by noibl 16y ago
Even just in the context of visual design there is more to it than a continuum of aesthetic quality. A good designer needs to interpret culture and situate the product in relation to an environment in a meaningful way. Others will just foll
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by noibl 16y ago
I didn't say not to test. I said not to test only on a single browser version. > Says who? Do you really need a list? > when the tests themselves aren't pinned down Test for compliance with the standard, not compatibility with the e
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by noibl 16y ago
Source: http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/haskell-cafe/2010-August/08...
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by noibl 16y ago
Pseudonyms allow a person to own what they say* without opening themselves up to retribution from people who misunderstand either the content or the context of what is said, or who take advantage of power imbalances to advance an agenda. Pe
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by noibl 16y ago
> Am I talking to the official spokesperson for all non-enterprise web devs? No. Is there a reason why you would ask such a ridiculous question? > Last time I checked Facebook, Google, CNN, NYTimes, and Twitter all worked with IE. A
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> Then you won't be getting many contracts from large organisations I would appreciate it if you and the other guy would stop making this personal, but I'm not expecting much. Nowhere did I talk about development practices. What I talke
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> Now suppose that in about five weeks, Google push a breaking change in the new release of Chrome No, I refuse to swallow this particular strawman that you've been using throughout the thread. I'll elaborate. Web development projects s
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by noibl 16y ago
You're missing the point (I hate to break it to you). The F500 and Microsoft can do as they please, but stop expecting the web dev community to take seriously this claim that they need to standardise on version X of a browser. We don't ca
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by noibl 16y ago
Since this is almost a year old, some previous discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1277000 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1492984 (I still think the title should be tweaked -- 'gets'?)
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by noibl 16y ago
Not necessarily. What we need is a browser industry where negotiations over standards happen in good faith. Because that didn't happen, we got IE6 holding back the web for nearly a decade. Because that didn't happen, we got WHATWG. Opera, F
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by noibl 16y ago
> Enterprise users want to be able to say, "Use IE9 to access your expense reports, period". Every time people bring this up they make it sound like it's a legitimate requirement. It's not, and the cost of supporting a given browser's r
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by noibl 16y ago
The worst case is downvoting a new comment to zero in order to hide it because you disagree. This is a fragile medium for multi-faceted discourse and that kind of thing is just vandalism. What's so wrong with the idea of upvoting a post tha
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by noibl 16y ago
Wondering if adding a new feature to your product or service will really make a difference to sales? Try running Adwords traffic to a split test pitting your typical landing page against a variant that highlights the potential new feature.
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I found the discussion video on that page fascinating, in how Harry Shum's take on the other topics echoed his defence of Bing on this issue. On the copying: Bing has dramatically improved over recent history because we use lots of inputs a
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by noibl 16y ago
On reading more about this I was depressed to see very little in the way of proposals to avoid the phenomenon, except (surprise! it's Stigler) don't regulate. But I did find some interesting ideas at the end of this paper: http://www.icgg.
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by noibl 16y ago
CSS 2D Transforms - yes. 3D - nobody knows.
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Very succinct analysis, thank you. Living in Australia, which has an entrenched monopoly cable co. and a steadily consolidating comms market, I find this whole story very relevant. Let this be a warning to anyone who thinks integrated media
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I didn't assert that they don't. I asserted that they only had one data source in that case. Whether they throw up new SERPs in reaction to data from other single sources might be interesting. But if true, it's also not very complimentary.
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So you paraphrase 'hard' as 'impossible'. I actually think Silver makes a useful contribution, mainly because of his background and gift for illustrating data perception problems. If you're looking for hard facts and (more) smoking guns the
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Disclosure: you are also a restaurant guide.
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by noibl 16y ago
Fair enough. I agree that naive indexers will make lots of crude and meaningless associations. I don't think Bing falls into that category though.
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Rankings analysis always starts with keywords of interest, even though Google can be used to identify keywords by relation. Referrer logs seeding outside sources with gibberish keywords that literally nobody is interested in? That's a stret
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Feel like experimenting?

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