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by olefoo 15y ago
> How many users stop browsing after receiving a mixed content warning I wonder? That's a blog post (and supporting data drop) that I would be interested in reading. Based on my experiences at a former employer the rate of cart abandonm
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by olefoo 15y ago
But no published price list. So, no sale here.
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by olefoo 15y ago
Exactly. Given that Apple has performed well while Jobs was out on medical leave for significant parts of the last three years, it seems as though Apple can do well without him at the helm. And building an organization that can survive afte
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by olefoo 15y ago
The facile answer is that it's simple corruption. The slightly longer and more nuanced answer is that allowing such a failure to happen would cause more chaos and disruption than is politically acceptable to our elite decisionmakers.
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by olefoo 15y ago
The reference is to Alice Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carrol. It is a sad day when you can no longer expect an educated english speaker to have read the good Reverend's inspired nonsense.
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by olefoo 15y ago
Yes, and in this case the designer made a (hopefully conscious) decision that usability was more important to the user than the information that an attacker would gain. These sorts of decisions are the hard part of building web applications
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by olefoo 15y ago
This is what happens whenever a language is seen as a hot ticket to a good job. It happened with PHP back in the late '90s where thousands of people were learning to program on customer's web projects. The problem is in some cases worse wit
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by olefoo 15y ago
The whole point of a weapon system like this is to develop the capability to project sufficient force to anywhere it's needed. In geopolitical terms it's more of a scalpel than a hammer. This is for taking out an emerging threat at short no
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by olefoo 15y ago
It's _a_ factor. Not _the_ factor solely responsible for their success. It's like having well designed tables and chairs in a restaurant; it makes a difference, but if the food sucks or it's in a bad location the restaurant will still fail.
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by olefoo 15y ago
This shows the importance of good URL design upfront. Twitter did an amazing job of having well defined REST-ful URLs from the beginning and it was one of the factors responsible for their early success. The more rational, guessable and leg
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by olefoo 15y ago
So, why wasn't it as appealing to the broader base of consumers? I played with one for a bit at Best Buy, but it felt clunky and didn't look as good as the ipad. OTOH I didn't buy an iPad either, as tablets just don't work for me.
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by olefoo 15y ago
And one sign of a "mature market" is that barriers to entry rise. So for the big players the game of patent poker is the price they pay to keep the innovations down to a dull roar and to "manage the competitive environment", for actual inno
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by olefoo 15y ago
Didn't work for Google in China all that well, did it now?
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by olefoo 15y ago
The unfortunate thing is that it's all too easy to imagine a scenario where you do have to get approval from a .gov regulator to put a server on the internet. Or worse, several of them. Your copyright license, your permit for attaching to t
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by olefoo 15y ago
I wouldn't report it because I try not to be an utter prat, on the internet or IRL. But it is a telling instance of Google's hypocrisy on the issue of pseudonymity.
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by olefoo 15y ago
Thomas Hawk has a long history of enthusiasm and rage; if his normal pattern holds expect to see him lambasting Google for not adding his pet (absolutely essential) feature in six months or so. This latest enthusiasm has me puzzled though.
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by olefoo 15y ago
Given what they did to my browser (I followed the stupid link, in part b/c of who it came from) I'm guessing you hit a booby trapped page while you were logged into twitter. But that's a theory for which I don't have direct evidence, merely
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by olefoo 15y ago
It is a tough problem, I'm pretty aggressive about using the 'block and report as spam' option on TweetDeck, but every so often an account that I've thought was trustworthy will start spewing links that "Make Money Fast". Why just this afte
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by olefoo 15y ago
Perhaps even at the very top? I mean this could just be a viral marketing campaign __for__ Facebook. Something to help them regain the street cred they are losing, something to prevent the inevitable myspacing of their business. Or maybe ju
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by olefoo 15y ago
The deadliest anarchists wear silk suits and pocket squares and do more damage to more human lives with a fountain pen than a thousand men throwing molotov cocktails could even dream of.
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by olefoo 15y ago
Actually, in this case, it's not that I think they are stupid; merely that they have lost touch with reality. An economist who denies the role of government in macroeconomics for ideological reasons may be quite bright and may be able to co
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by olefoo 15y ago
That's pretty much what I've done when I needed to, don't get me wrong, I like Apple laptops and will be replacing my recently stolen Macbook Pro as soon as my budget allows; but being unable to launch an OS X vm is an inconvenience at time
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by olefoo 15y ago
Also remember that most economists are wrong. If you read any economist who cannot explain the works of John Maynard Keynes in lucid detail (regardless of whether they agree with him) you are dealing with someone who is an "authoritative fr
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by olefoo 15y ago
You cannot legally run OS X on anything other than Apple hardware. This gets really annoying when you want to set up a headless browser testing cluster because you can't virtualize any of the Mac OS's you might be targeting.
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by olefoo 15y ago
As a demonstration of the possible, using an image is in the category of Minimum Viable Product, the more sophisticated product would of necessity be an APP that hooked into the existing API and would only show a valid payment code if the
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by olefoo 15y ago
What about requiring interaction from purchaser. Require a photo of the purchase. It would add a level of social obligation. You could go further and require a tweet explaining the purchase. You could even add a little homily about good man
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by olefoo 15y ago
One possibility is that we have reached a point where the barriers to entry in what would be the job creating sectors are being held artificially high by a combination of regulatory capture and a global intellectual property regime that is
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by olefoo 15y ago
If someone is making an effort to avoid being tracked (as is their right) and you figure out a way to track them anyway, you are at the very least costing them the effort they put into avoiding being tracked. You are also costing them whate
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by olefoo 15y ago
This is small potatoes, a line item in a marketing budget that includes things like staging exercises to serve as backdrops in Hollywood movies (in exchange for tight control of the portrayal of US armed forces in said movies), and recruiti
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by olefoo 15y ago
Even ignoring the obvious problems with the study as described, it was likely to be a hoax just based on how pat the conclusion was and how it fed into the prejudices of those of us who must deal with IE6 on a daily basis. It does make for

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