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by seldo 14y ago
The point of the article is that as long as you control the domain, you have no excuse for your links breaking. Going out of business, and therefore being unable to pay for your domain, is specifically called out as a valid reason, but ther
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by seldo 14y ago
I was thinking more in terms of the average-joe consumer, but then I guess the average-joe consumer never knew what HTTP was anyway.
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by seldo 14y ago
This is a big deal, I think. Ten years from now we're going to look back and discover that Google quietly replaced HTTP without anybody complaining, or even noticing.
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by seldo 14y ago
I second this. While EC2 takes a bunch of really hard problems, allowing you to provision virtual servers at a moment's notice, the value proposition for RDS is much more marginal. It's simply not that hard to get MySQL up and running, even
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by seldo 14y ago
San Francisco, CA (Mission District) - awe.sm We're looking for front-end, back-end, and full-stack engineers. (H1B okay) We're building conversion tracking for social media -- "SendGrid for sharing", if you like. Most sites and apps are cu
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by seldo 14y ago
The thesis of this article seems to be that by sending C&Ds to companies that are scraping their website and using the data for profit, Craigslist is "squashing innovation". This seems crazy. Is the underlying idea that companies scrapi
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by seldo 14y ago
The reason corrections to sensational stories never make it as far as the original is because the people who propagated the first story have to admit they were fooled, or at least misinformed. I'm about to share this correction to my own li
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by seldo 14y ago
While definitely having an agenda, I still found it a useful high-level guide.
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by seldo 14y ago
So does anyone think that on Monday if Nasdaq stays more stable, Facebook's stock will do better?
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Why expensive (enterprise) software always sucks(devtools.org)
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by seldo 14y ago
I think getting a "DB Connection Refused" error when I clicked this link was wonderfully appropriate.
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by seldo 14y ago
I'm amazed that anybody gives a shit about this. It's a line on a résumé about a degree he earned 33 years ago. If he was 2 years out of college then lying about his degree would be material to his qualifications and compensation. After 30
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by seldo 14y ago
AFAIK the DMCA takedown applies to Github, who are in the US, regardless of where the author of the project lives.
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by seldo 14y ago
Well, boy do I feel dumb.
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by seldo 14y ago
Wow. A couple of side-by-side searches, and I've switched to Bing to try it out for the next few days. I've got really tired of Google's cruft, and tried DuckDuckGo several times, but the results were just never as good (and I missed integr
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by seldo 14y ago
San Francisco, CA (Mission District) - awe.sm - H1B okay We're building conversion tracking for social media: think "Sendgrid for social media". What's that mean? It means we're building a platform that lets other companies abstract away a
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by seldo 14y ago
I agree with the others: you'll be fine. And if not, feel free to apply to our company :-)
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by seldo 14y ago
> The fact that it was small to begin with was probably a combination of luck and intuition. Which was the point I was making.
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by seldo 14y ago
FYI, I found this article really helpful: http://jasoncrawford.org/2012/04/how-to-cope-with-the-gmail-... It shows how to: get rid of "importance" markers, add some contrast back to the colors, remove superfluous whitespace, and most impo
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by seldo 14y ago
When something is as viscerally, obviously bad to me as the new GMail UI, I go with my gut. Google has no track record of great UI that would make me question that feeling. They built the world's simplest home page not because of some profo
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by seldo 14y ago
I was unaware that the APIs were contributed by others. Do you have any idea who might be some of the (theoretical) copyright holders of the individual APIs?
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by seldo 14y ago
"Roving groups of attenuating meatbags" as a synonym for "people" is my new favourite phrase.
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by seldo 14y ago
How do I nominate a double-clawed hammer as the new logo of PHP?
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by seldo 15y ago
Out of genuine curiosity: did you miss the movie the first time, or did you think the 3D would add something more to it? Either way, did you enjoy it?
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by seldo 15y ago
"We should work toward a universal linked information system, in which generality and portability are more important than fancy graphics techniques and complex extra facilities." In other words: standards are more important than features. T
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by seldo 15y ago
You're right that the back-end often gets ported to some other language when a PHP app is scaled-up; this goes with my point that when you move away from spitting out web pages, another language is a better choice. I'm not sure your point a
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by seldo 15y ago
I loved the original post about PHP's fractal awfulness, but this sums up my feelings about it: I like it anyway. His point about PHP being shared-nothing by default is a good one: this is indeed a big part of the admirable scalability of w
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by seldo 15y ago
Yahoo's research divisions do great work that basically never makes it out into the wider company past the prototype stage. It is an awesome, wonderful waste of money.
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by seldo 15y ago
Seriously. It's honestly one of the primary reasons I can't stand reading his stuff; each little hashmark is a reminder that the writer thinks his thoughts are so important you will want to quote them by chapter and verse, like a holy text.
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by seldo 15y ago
I think another big factor is probably a white background vs. a black background. Bill Watterson said he avoided making strips with dark backgrounds too often because the human eye is drawn away from dark to light. I would like to see an A/

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