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by seldo 17y ago
This is why it makes more sense to run your own URL shortener, and make it discoverable using a pattern like rev:canonical: http://sites.google.com/a/snaplog.com/wiki/short_url
932.
by seldo 17y ago
I believe the justification was so they could use unified cookies across all their properties -- they set the cookie for "com.com", and then it was available to news.com.com, search.com.com, downloads.com.com, etc., in the same way that yah
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by seldo 17y ago
No need to build a new one every time; services like http://totally.awe.sm let you set up a URL shortener on any domain. (Disclaimer: the founder is a friend of mine) And before you say "it's trivial, I could build that in a weekend" I s
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by seldo 17y ago
I really don't think this says anything about branding. It says people don't want shitty coffee, and that they recognize shitty coffee whether or not it has a Starbucks logo on it.
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by seldo 17y ago
How to collaborate with a large team of others. We had group projects, sure, but they were small enough that usually one or sometimes two guys would do all the coding and everybody else would just fuck around. The stuff you have to learn to
936.
by seldo 17y ago
I hate it, and am happy to continue hating it. Cheers!
937.
by seldo 17y ago
I knew there must be a formula but I totally just broke out a spreadsheet and auto-generated the sequence and then auto-summed it. Math/brain fail.
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by seldo 17y ago
Yahoo is (always) hiring -- apologies for giganto-link: http://careers.yahoo.com/jsearchresults.php?pagenumber=2&#38...
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by seldo 17y ago
I think the author's conclusion was that while being a fast typist doesn't make you a better programmer, being a slow typist will make you a worse one, as it will take you longer to commit your initial mistakes and iterate, akin to playin
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by seldo 17y ago
There's really no smoking gun in the linked post. They highlight quotes that look damning out of context, but even just taking the surrounding sentence as context they seem a lot more innocent.
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Three easy ways to fix the App Store. And one really, really hard way.(seldo.com)
21 points by seldo 17y ago|22 comments
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by seldo 17y ago
Of course, this really only shows the personality types of people on HN who answer polls . Still, that INTJ/INTP domination is kind of amazing.
943.
by seldo 17y ago
I don't think any of his opinions expressed are actually a turnaround from his previous statements. He used to talk about the good things at Microsoft and not mention the bad things. Now he is talking about the good things at Google (with c
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by seldo 17y ago
I agree completely. I noticed a while back that the order bar was a fake -- I especially love that it slows down and jerks around a bit for authenticity -- but what a great way to stave off hundreds of customer calls saying "I didn't get th
945.
by seldo 17y ago
I use Eclipse for all my editing. My deployment method is to commit to svn, then svn update on the server (plus a script to move the current live site to a backup location in case I need to roll back). This is faster than FTP and means I've
946.
by seldo 17y ago
This article is so stupid it makes me angry. What's is Mr. Carr's point? That people who report the news are sometimes doing it for the sake of their own aggrandizement rather than pure altruism? Then why is there a byline link on your post
947.
by seldo 17y ago
Why is this more of a violation of property rights than any other form of taxation?
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by seldo 17y ago
A map with ratings and a phone number is exactly what I want; unfortunately I'm also getting two full-bar text ads and another 4 pay-for-placement local search ads before I get to that. Combined they take up nearly 800 pixels of vertical
949.
by seldo 17y ago
Yes, all the recent user research we've done (I work at Yahoo) says that users have got a lot more comfortable with scrolling since Nielsen's original research in the 90s. We officially Do Not Care About The Fold now. Anecdotally, for some
950.
by seldo 17y ago
My first result for the same search: http://www.google.com/search?q=django+video+tutorial was this page: http://showmedo.com/videotutorials/video?name=1100000&fr... Is it possible they fixed the results since you searched?
951.
by seldo 17y ago
The thing that struck me about his awestruck description of the awfulness of System Z and its editor was "hey, that sounds a lot like vi". I heart my graphical IDE.
952.
by seldo 17y ago
Dave Winer has now literally become the grumpy old guy who mumbles angrily about stuff nobody understands while everybody ignores him.
953.
by seldo 17y ago
"due to rainfall thousands of miles away, my unit test had moved Greenland into Argentina. Fail." Argentina's 11-day notice for changing their DST rules wreaked all sorts of unexpected havoc. It's sort of awesome (small worlds are more fun)
954.
by seldo 17y ago
Have you got any links to these surveys other than your friend? I would be really interested to know the incidence. The actual number is ludicrously hard to pin down: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_sexual_orientat... The big
955.
by seldo 17y ago
Can you think of a better mechanism for seeding a finite number of slots to social clusters than giving everybody X invites to share? From what I hear, the people at the start of the chain have nearly all of their friends on Wave, while the
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by seldo 17y ago
You make valid points. My problem is less the specifics of the individual teams' solutions -- I don't dispute they were very clever and creative solutions -- but rather the impression that the greatest reward went to those who went furthest
957.
by seldo 17y ago
Yes, because the lesson I really want people who are thinking of working on Wall Street to learn is that they should be trying to cheat the system.
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by seldo 17y ago
See, the problem here is that she hands out two artificial constraints, and then praises the teams who ignore the constraints. 1. Used a device to measure the tire pressure and materials to build the booth and signs. Did they cost less than
959.
by seldo 17y ago
I can see why they chose MySQL, but I would gladly pay for Oracle in the cloud as well. Plus, Oracle can scale up to a much bigger machine before you have to start scaling horizontally.
960.
by seldo 17y ago
Agreed. When I read the headline I nearly creamed my jeans: finally! A scalable database in the cloud! Bring it! But no, it's just MySQL in the cloud. That's great and all, but it's not going to solve the scalability problems of MySQL. Does

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