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by seldo 15y ago
Wow. That's a little rude. I'm arguing that URL shorteners have had nothing to do with the popularity of Google Analytics, which is the source of urchin parameters. The dominance of Google and the massive profit incentive around accurately
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by seldo 15y ago
It doesn't sound reasonable to me, and for obvious reasons I spend quite a lot of time thinking about URLs and how people interact with them. The truth is that outside of nerd circles most people don't even understand URLs, far less care wh
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by seldo 15y ago
Claiming that the urchin URL parameters are "one of the malicious effects of URL shortening" is confusing cause and effect. Urchin's software dates from at least 2003, and was already massively distributed by Google in 2005, while URL short
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by seldo 15y ago
Does the calculation of efficiency take into account the efficiency of conversion? I know that the actual potential-to-kinetic energy conversion rate of gas-powered cars is about 20% ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engine_efficiency#Gasolin
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by seldo 15y ago
It's an apples to apples comparison of "what hosting software is used across all domains", not "what hosting software is used across all domains in the space Microsoft competes for". That may not be a particularly useful metric in business
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by seldo 15y ago
I answered your questions, but I think you should probably change your questions. You guys have very specific assumptions of what a "project" is (when does a project begin and end? What if I consider an API integration a project in itself?)
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by seldo 15y ago
On the contrary, it could be their easiest route to profitability. Create an API anyone can use, let anybody build products on it, and cherry-pick the most profitable verticals by acquisition. It's a win for twitter, and for the developers
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by seldo 15y ago
Tumblr has become a huge source of information for me -- I've never liked the RSS model, where the "unread" count nags at me. On tumblr I just read what's on top, and don't sweat if I miss things -- if it's big news, it'll get reblogged. On
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by seldo 15y ago
Chrome's bookmark sync is not foolproof yet -- I've never lost a bookmark, but I get dupes all the time (usually after renaming a bookmark: the old name comes back as a duplicate).
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by seldo 16y ago
The much-more-informative original blog post from MySQL's site, which RWW doesn't seem to link to for some reason: http://dev.mysql.com/tech-resources/articles/nosql-to-mysql-... What wasn't obvious to me from RWW's article is that this i
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by seldo 16y ago
If you live every day like it's your last then that precludes sensible things like retirement planning. On the other hand, if you know you're not going to be mentally capable of enjoying your retirement anyway, then now is the time to blow
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by seldo 16y ago
You've acknowledged it's irrational, so making rational points in rebuttal is clearly a pointless exercise. Nevertheless... If you are already worrying about "obvious" things, wouldn't it be better to know whether or not you have anything t
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by seldo 16y ago
23andMe make clear that they do not assume that the genetic material belongs to you just because you are the account holder -- you can submit several samples under different names for family members, for instance. It seems the simplest step
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by seldo 16y ago
I understand expanding into adjacencies as a sensible mode of growth for a company with mature products -- so Google obviously expands into different types of advertising, and AOL into different types of content, and Apple into new form fac
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by seldo 16y ago
I do not understand why successful technology companies, seeing another different but also successful technology, realize "we can do that too" and immediately assume "and therefore we should". Microsoft sees Google being a search engine and
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by seldo 16y ago
That said, the last two Decembers we have had trouble instantiating new instances (in US-east-1a, their default and hence most popular location) in December. We solved the problem just by switching to US-east-1b for some tasks.
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by seldo 16y ago
Other neat features: WS callbacks (aka webhooks) that notify you before a recurring payment happens, and after success/failure. Incremental billing support, so you can e.g. tack on overage charges or small micro-charges to the next upcoming
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by seldo 16y ago
There are also lots of hidden costs around maintaining a merchant account, which lots of other payment gateway systems require.
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by seldo 16y ago
We (awe.sm) have been using Stripe for our payments since last November. They are great: a simple, tiny API that abstracts away huge chunks of the complications around taking credit cards -- you don't need a merchant account, they handle 99
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by seldo 16y ago
If you're using a web framework which is constantly querying the database to determine table structure, then you have two problems.
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by seldo 16y ago
Donated. As a closeted gay teenager, Trumpet was the software that got me in touch with the people who literally saved my life. I could never thank this guy enough. (Edit: if you felt like making another worthy donation, the Youth Guard mai
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by seldo 16y ago
1. My dev system is a series of VMs that mirror that same box deployments we have in production, the only difference being that systems we duplicate for redundancy in production are singular in dev. I've found that this prevents accidental
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by seldo 16y ago
They are the same in that they are both based on PHP under Apache, and therefore system and global variables are available in the same pattern. Obviously a development environment is not going to be the same as production, just architectu
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by seldo 16y ago
I really hate this idea. Coupling the server to the language seems like a weakness in both django and rails to me, since it means deployment becomes more of a scary hurdle, with possible changes in environment between your dev server and pr
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by seldo 16y ago
Treating performance as a minimum bar that has to be met rather than a goal in and of itself sounds exactly like the kind of development process that would produce Windows -- which always feels sluggish if you're using anything other than t
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by seldo 16y ago
Specifically, it was Phoenix (aka Firebird, aka Firefox) that made that happen: a version of Mozilla that threw out everything but the browser, including the mail client that jwz considered essential. It made it smaller to download and fast
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by seldo 16y ago
I have been using it in Chrome and new Twitter has been unreasonably slow. A friend who works at Twitter has acknowledged that they know about the issue and are working on it.
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by seldo 16y ago
One day tourists are going to buy "holiday glasses". They'll walk around Paris, stop at a nice restaurant, put on their glasses, and read the whole menu in English. Then they'll order by pointing. Hell, they can do this with their phone rig
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by seldo 16y ago
Now that they're shutting it down, I would love to hear your thoughts as founder on why delicious didn't live up to its potential.
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by seldo 16y ago
Note: this exports as HTML. The XML export is arguably more useful.

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