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by ratsbane 18y ago
My first thought was absolutely yes but then I began to wonder whether that would do anything for the quality of submissions. $5 isn't very much; why would that discourage low-value comments any more than high-value ones? I assume you mea
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by ratsbane 18y ago
When you abstract away the web as .Net does you also miss out on the subtleties - e.g. "Postback" - the .Net function that stores server state in an encoded string which it embeds in a form on the web page and restores state. It makes the
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by ratsbane 18y ago
That is consistent with what I've been thinking, too. Also, I have the impression that TDD is more relevant to non-web development. Most of my work at the moment is in mod_perl and the i/o is all though web pages. How does TDD work with
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by ratsbane 18y ago
Hmmm. He recommended using canonical URLs without query strings, stemming your URLs to avoid subdomains, using all lower-case in URLs, all of which seems mildly reasonable and is consistent with our plans. One site I work with gets 67,000
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by ratsbane 18y ago
This ad is strangely compelling. anc2020 is right, they are a bit blunt and demanding, but there's an honesty and intelligence in their approach that's admirable. A lot of employers expect you to be their bitch but they'll cover it up wit
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by ratsbane 18y ago
Interesting - thanks. I have a friend who used to work at Coremetrics. I didn't realize it was so expensive. Maybe it wouldn't seem like so much if we weren't all seduced by the free Google stuff.
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by ratsbane 18y ago
I use Google Analytics on several sites. It's got the same view you're talking about. We like it a lot although there are other things I'd like to change about GA. Can anyone suggest alternative web/ecommerce analytics?
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by ratsbane 18y ago
That's the advantage of the sort of analysis in this article, though - testing ideas by looking at other web sites is almost like implementing them yourself and then evolving. This article and comments came at a good time for me just now -
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by ratsbane 18y ago
Now it's showing 50 points for the (parent) article and 50 comments posted... this is very strange.
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by ratsbane 18y ago
This postings is now showing 45 points and 45 comments. A few minutes ago it was 44/44. I wonder - what is the significance of the comment/point ratio?
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by ratsbane 18y ago
AT AN early morning hour On the last night of the year The Zune did sit and cower For it knew its end was near The Zune was cold and tired And although it was un-wired It had no friends to squirt No friends to be inspire
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by ratsbane 18y ago
A little googling turns up a lot of discussion about reusing water bottles. The fear of bacterial and fungal seems to come largely from a single study of Canadian elementary-school students and the contamination may have come from their ha
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by ratsbane 18y ago
I used to use a Nalgene bottle. I wonder why a Nalgene (or other) reusable bottle would be safe but a disposable bottle would not? Possibly: wider mouth facilitates washing? It's a good point but I'm a little skeptical - if the study was
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by ratsbane 18y ago
Sometimes I forget to drink anything but coffee and I end up dehydrated and with a headache. This impairs my productivity, to say nothing of quality of life. I try to avoid this by keeping one of those disposable water bottles (I like the
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by ratsbane 18y ago
You've already won more than half the battle. You seem to have made a very studied and pragmatic analysis of yourself and you've shared that with your peers. That is a lot more than most people will ever do and it's certainly a big part o
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by ratsbane 18y ago
Good question. That made me think a bit. Because I'm not unsatisfied with what I'm doing now and because I'm not confident that I would be effective in that field, at least not for a long time. I took the original question as more of if
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by ratsbane 18y ago
I'd go back to school and study bioinformatics. I've seen too many friends and family suffer slow deaths from cancer, Parkinson's, and soforth and I think the solutions to those problems are only a matter of time. To be even a small part
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by ratsbane 18y ago
That's leadership. I hope they are very successful, as I suspect they will be.
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by ratsbane 18y ago
bsaunder's comment makes sense to me. Programmers from the 90s who wrote largely Windows desktop stuff had to reinvent themselves to be effective with the web and we can expect to have to do the same every few years. It's really not about
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You only learn the first time(lethain.com)
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by ratsbane 18y ago
"bandwagon of that rising star..." Good grief.
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by ratsbane 18y ago
There's a lot more to it than just "Apple is just a gimmick..." OS X is unix and unix is the real rising star here. Apple just had the good sense to catch a ride on the bandwagon of that rising star and the competence to do a very good jo
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by ratsbane 18y ago
I liked it. It isn't mean at all. It's lighthearted and funny but it does address something I've thought about before. Perhaps Vista isn't as bad as most people think but it certainly does have problems. Instead earnestly promising to a
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by ratsbane 18y ago
We do - perl + mod_perl + apache + MySQL. I believe Amazon, Craigslist, and IMDB use a similar stack.
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by ratsbane 18y ago
Facebook is a short, pointless project? ;)
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by ratsbane 18y ago
Thanks - yes, that's just what I was thinking. I've never seen anyone do that and I wonder why. Any kind of input verification, regular expressions or whatever is only going to catch some of the error cases but the goal of the game is to
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by ratsbane 18y ago
Validating the account on the server is a problem but that doesn't affect the usefulness of validating the hostname itself as something which can accept mail. E.g.: I just queried a database of about 40k email addresses in a production sys
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by ratsbane 18y ago
But validating the semantics of an email address doesn't catch a lot of error cases, e.g. "someone@hotmal.com" instead of "someone@hotmail.com" Question: why don't email validation routines ever try to find out if the domain in question is
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by ratsbane 18y ago
Remarkable... I wish the US system were more like that but I can't see it happening. My high school was nothing like that. Montessori schools seem to lean in that direction though. Can anyone with first-hand Montessori experience commen
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by ratsbane 18y ago
This reminds me my 9th grade "Computer Science" class. Mr. Brown taught us some of the same principles with Applesoft Basic. I'm always surprised when I work with other programmers who don't think it's important to write spartan code. Wh

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