sam_in_nyc

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by sam_in_nyc 18y ago
One thing that's permanently changed the way I answer the question "what do people want" is this video, about how one man discovered that people are segmented, and they won't tell you what they want: http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/malc
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by sam_in_nyc 18y ago
I think omgpop.com is an awesome name, and I think that they're going to do very well. I don't think that "ombop.com," what I assumed this sub-conversation was about (by virtue of replying to the post about it), is a good name.
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by sam_in_nyc 18y ago
I thought it was pretty clear that I was talking about "ombop.com" and not "omgpop.com." If you read only the first four words of my post, before accosting junior high girls, this would have been obvious.
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by sam_in_nyc 18y ago
The timeliness of Twitter is definitely amazing. I think a lot of things will break via Twitter, and IIRC the emergency landing in the Hudson was one of these stories. It's the undisputed champ of quickly getting information "out there" .
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by sam_in_nyc 18y ago
Thanks for pointing out ohai.com. These types of start-ups are definitely worth tracking; I have a hunch they'll do very well. They provide a much more immersive and meaningful experience than MySpace, and also provide incentive (points)
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by sam_in_nyc 18y ago
Did you ask about ombop.com, the name that this thread about?
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by sam_in_nyc 18y ago
Agreed. It's really quite shameful... I can't even name any services that do it right.
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by sam_in_nyc 18y ago
Remind me how "ombop" appeals to teenyboppers... they don't meditate, and Hanson went out of style years ago.
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by sam_in_nyc 18y ago
AFAIK, Twitter doesn't offer a sensible API for twitter services to use, such as having the user create a unique key which gets sent to a service, which then uses this key as authentication. The user (and twitter) would then be able track
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by sam_in_nyc 18y ago
The other day it was released that scientists developed an HIV strain that can infect monkeys. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090302183124.ht...
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by sam_in_nyc 18y ago
This is a step in the right direction. Unfortunately, it seems the people behind it were more concerned with technically getting it to work, than making it work in a useful way. While I think it's a great technical achievement to aggreg
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by sam_in_nyc 18y ago
In my opinion, there's nothing wrong with being second place. Even if Facebook "conquers" MySpace... so what? What's wrong with being ranked, oh, about #8, of all websites?
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by sam_in_nyc 18y ago
Agreed. To each their own. I'd personally rather have more people be able to use it :)
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by sam_in_nyc 18y ago
Amazing.. I can do console.log(). And if there's an error (which the link provided conveniently has), I get to see the entire file which gave the error. So helpful... I now know which file to sprinkle console.log()s in. Furthermore, it
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by sam_in_nyc 18y ago
Have fun making sure clients don't send you invalid data. You'll have to have some sort of voting system where several clients compute the same piece, and make sure they all match up. Even then, you can't be 100% sure of the results.
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by sam_in_nyc 18y ago
Part of my project requires me to look at how different websites do search. Some websites (ridiculously) don't allow you to access their search without doing a POST (allmusic.com). Other sites do, but tag along 1,000 different GET paramet
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Bloomberg search clones Google c. 2005(search.bloomberg.com)
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by sam_in_nyc 18y ago
Voted up for developing Twiddla for IE. I share your sentiment.. I develop against IE first then test it against the "good" browsers... which rarely screw it up. IE sucks for script debugging.. I mean EPIC suck. You're not even told what
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by sam_in_nyc 18y ago
I read: author wanted to make his website pretty, but IE was making it hard, especially since he was developing on a Mac which made it harder to test, so author dropped support for IE. Author then explains less than 10% of his users use I
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by sam_in_nyc 18y ago
I've seen something like this before. http://whois.domaintools.com http://quarkbase.com http://urlmetrix.com http://cubestat.com ...
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by sam_in_nyc 18y ago
Unless your class is to "invent a company," I wouldn't sweat the fact that there are patents on the ideas you've come up with. At any rate, I've been told that it's not too hard to differentiate your idea enough to file a new patent yourse
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by sam_in_nyc 18y ago
Doesn't tracking millions of torrents require a massive amount of bandwidth? I'm no expert on bittorrent protocol, but I'm sure millions of clients pinging "I'm a seeder" or "I'm a leecher" adds up.
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by sam_in_nyc 18y ago
I'm under the impression that this site doesn't do all that much. Ok... you store URLs, then mark them as "read" and "unread." Not necessarily a good or bad thing.. I'm sure it's incredibly useful. That's not my point. My point is, how c
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by sam_in_nyc 18y ago
Although this article is pretty old, it's the fact that John pays attention to details like this that makes me completely confident in my choice to use jQuery.
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by sam_in_nyc 18y ago
Does anybody know what actual figures are for getting Dugg, Reddited, Slashdotted, NYTimed, etc? 500 requests/second seems pretty high to me. But I'm admittedly new to the big leagues.
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by sam_in_nyc 18y ago
There's one more thing I forgot to mention... The data I'm having the user order is not only order-specific, but is recursive. That is, one of the items on the list, rather than be a letter like "B" can be a list in and of itself. It's ba
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by sam_in_nyc 18y ago
Not allowing me to enter my location, and instead having me zoom/wait-to-load several times makes me wish that closing the tab somehow inflicted pain on the software.
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by sam_in_nyc 18y ago
Same here for my neighborhood. For me, this warrants not using the product at all... why use something that has an incomplete dataset? I could be missing out on that perfect listing! Another thing is that some postings don't contain suffi
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by sam_in_nyc 18y ago
Aha! I did forget the linked list approach. So essentially, each item on the list stores what is before (or) after it. I'm assuming it's an arbitrary choice that you're using "prev" instead of "next," correct? The use of deferred, I've ne
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by sam_in_nyc 18y ago
And what happens if he claims to have forgotten the password? What happens in legal cases, as they mentioned, where I have to hand over the key to a safe, and I've lost the key?

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