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by rjd 15y ago
Also a recent update was lampooned pretty hard by my friend. They where advertising better ads as a new amazing feature... Really? Im pretty no one uses gmail to view ads on purpose... How about some rules and filtering options insteads...
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One friend? The majority of my friends don't use gmail. Its just not that good of a service, exchange, and big services like that make it laughable. Plus I've found it unreliable with certain ISPs, mail just doesn't arrive. Black holed, nev
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Yeah I find getting work hard now, not because I can't get the jobs, but because I don't want to work in a lot of places. Getting old I suppose, lost the drive. You have to take those jobs to find your niche sometimes. Thats why I put the d
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by rjd 15y ago
Thanks for taking a stand. Trying to write a nice reply without going into a recruiter rant.. I've deleted my response 3 times now :) One thing you left out was laziness and stupidity. Recruiters that can't understand requirements and blag
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Nope I live in the real world where software patents don't exist ;) I won't vote however as it will skew your results. I deal with web, mostly glorified CRUD, on an MS stack. I seriously doubt Im infringing on anything from my own work, I m
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by rjd 15y ago
Theres a definite difference between a framework description and a buzzword over loaded blurb, placement in the ad for example can change the tone of the whole message. So starting with "we are an HTML 5 AJAX shop..." I would roll my eyes,
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Ha, my friend showed me roughly the exact same thing a week or so ago. He got started after talk about regex speed in browsers and went crazy building a sweet proof of concept.
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Because they can't even agree on a database schema. HTML 5 is a total disaster zone. Unless things have changed recently Mozilla and Microsoft are refusing to support the SQL lite definition. MS avoiding the open source in favor of there ow
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I know where you're coming from, and you are right. Its context. I find buzz words tend to upcoming marketing terms, perhaps we are discussing slightly different things.. not sure. Older buzz terms aren't a problem as they have either been
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Indeed, I never after for a job which is worded competitively. I done a lot of contracting over the years. Usually 3-6 month placements and I've learnt to spot a company culture from the ad. Sort of like after you've been looking at house a
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I've found ghostery and ad block plus do the trick for me :)
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And thank you for your response, and great work. I can say your teams work has been in many more arguments and importance decision than you realize. If I go back to work for my ex employer I may just reach out to you. Still 50/50 on it but
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Editorials and blogs are the same thing. They are opinion pieces, they are not news, they are bias, and often have an agenda. Sometimes they are satire. That isn't news its entertainment. From a purist point of view the news should be factu
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Yep, I'm working on a political community lobby site ATM. Essentially I am planning on creating a build your laws site. More or less a wiki with better forum support and auditing control. A major talk back radio station in my country is pre
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Video content brings in 20x the ad rate of display ads. The news agency I worked for had a "push video for all content" stance because of this, I assume all other news sites have the same stance. You bring up the biggest argument of them al
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Also probably worth mentioning while on the subject all my research and experience added up to designs that are very close to Al Jeezera. Perhaps I just favor it because it resembles my own thinking but I believe they have one of the best d
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No worries, I like to help when I can, part of the reason I took the news position in the first place :)
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Well having been in the person in charge of a major news website myself I can say we all have lovely designs like this pinned to the walls next our desks. And while I really like his designs and have turned to Andy many times for inspiratio
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This employer behavior is nothing new, its usually eventually solved with unions. Organised strikes tend to be the next step in most other industries. Also its terrible blame shifting. It sounds like they are trying to create games with ins
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"clarifying that ads aren't allowed to be targeted using real identity." Sooo... when I see ads using my name on Facebook its illegal? I think if your statement is true there will in an opt-out clause when joining and they are just by-passi
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I think it has more to do with Facebook and Microsoft taking away quite significant parts of the online ad revenue. Facebook is economically destroying Google in terms of display ads. Companies don't have loyalties to either company, they j
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You are missing the option "Yes, but via a third party client" As I normally use net newswire and reeder, both tying into google reader, but I hate the web site interface.
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They actually sell and dump pop music like that, create fake demand and sales. I can remember a great rant by Andrew Lloyd Webber having a rant over this. It was with Westlife singles, they where mass shipping to stores to rig sales, and du
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by rjd 15y ago
But if I'm not mistaken they can get indefinite patents as well which seems more like abuse than privilege. 17 years as well...seems like to long a time frame to me., but again I'm not expert. I'd have gone 10 years max.
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by rjd 15y ago
I'm really surprised why this approach isn't used more often. I've built several PHP and .net things like this over the years for clients, so they can author on there PC (or my console) and push static files to my hosting as static files, a
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I'm no expert in American patents so forgive me if I don't fully understand things, my country doesn't even have software patents :O But it seems from my readings that applying a reasonable expiry date to them would solve so many issues. So
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You are totally wrong about that, most of my musicians friends use there stage names, and recently I've been working in big media and all the journalists and writers use fake names as well. Quite common for high visibility people to do this
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Well judging by governments getting involved around the world I would say there has been sufficient questioning of the handling of privacy. I think a lot of people where really hoping (myself included) that Google+ was going to give us the
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Fair enough, I've seen some really good service from the ad sense guys, maybe its jsut the team I dealt with I don't know. I've never payed for Google Apps so didn't comment on it, and also didn't want to muddy my point as there is a defini
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Google has great customer service. Your misunderstanding lays with the fact you are assuming you are the customer, when in fact you (as the user) are the product (your data) being sold (via ad sense automation). So put simply "if they are n

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