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by sh1mmer 16y ago
I think it's great you have an open API. That's awesome. But I think it's also not about what users theoretically could do (if they were able), it's about making it as easy to get data out as you are making it to get data in. If you did tha
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by sh1mmer 16y ago
Posterous should spend a day creating an easy export from their own service to prove they aren't afraid of competition. Then they would come out of these 2 weeks not looking like jerks. The blog post to Tumblr users still rankles me.
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by sh1mmer 16y ago
PageSpeed isn't ours but YSlow is ;)
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by sh1mmer 16y ago
"Self-employment" doesn't mean what we think of entrepreneurship. PG has the great metaphor two saplings, one of them is a redwood sapling, it's expecting to grow. On that measure we don't create self-employment with entrepreneurship we cre
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by sh1mmer 16y ago
There have been a few JavaScript accessibility arguments over the years. The main thrust goes like this: 1a) Screen readers (e.g. JAWS) don't support JavaScript properly 1b) Only very modern screen readers support JavaScript properly (JAWS
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by sh1mmer 16y ago
One of the best current reasons to have a fall back is performance. It turns out that 100% JavaScript web sites have a horrible performance profile. Having just got back from Velocity conference I can say half the performance talks were abo
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by sh1mmer 16y ago
The IE9 preview-release they talked about at Velocity does and it sounds like other browser manufacturers are in given the discussion on the browser panel, but as usual that means it's 2 years before it's useful.
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by sh1mmer 16y ago
Steve definitely kicked "high performance" into overdrive at Y!, but he's one of many people who have contributed from Yahoo: Stoyan Stefanov write weekly about performance on his blog http://www.phpied.com/ and actually just released "We
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by sh1mmer 16y ago
That's a really good point, it's actually a constraint of the architecture of the web. This framework is based on our own research of the best way to reliably measure page performance is across page loads. Boomerang itself is actually a gen
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by sh1mmer 16y ago
By http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=aristus
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GrahamBot - With Real Startup Action(carlos.bueno.org)
3 points by sh1mmer 16y ago|1 comments
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Yahoo Lets Loose With a Boomerang - Automatic Website Testing(readwriteweb.com)
155 points by sh1mmer 16y ago|13 comments
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by sh1mmer 16y ago
One of the other reasons they'll win is they respect their customers. I installed the B&N app on my iPad. First it came with a lot of samples I didn't want (Sarah Palin, really) and the only way I found to delete them from the device wa
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by sh1mmer 16y ago
I just don't buy the premise. Kids get interested in programming by being able to create things. Back in the day creating things meant getting any kind of text/ascii on the screen was an achievement. Now, kids want to learn how to do things
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by sh1mmer 16y ago
Also a regular in the Node irc room (JimBastard). I just connected the dots. He won a ticket to JSConf by winning the pre-conference talk in a bar about JavaScript competition. He seemed ok in person, and I know he hacks a lot of his own co
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by sh1mmer 16y ago
I love how up front those guys are.
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by sh1mmer 16y ago
Do it for a year. Make $200k and then get out to do something for you. Unless you like the job. Personally it's one of those of those industries, like defense, I don't think I'd want to work for long term interesting problems or not.
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by sh1mmer 16y ago
Do you share your anti forgery strategy? That sounds like it would make a very useful open source library. That would probably improve your security too.
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by sh1mmer 16y ago
I regularly have the same problem. When my American wife and I got married (in the UK) we joined names, which is a perfectly legal name change. My UK passport now reads Thomas Henry Hughes-Croucher. However her US password reads Rosemarie H
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by sh1mmer 16y ago
Regarding Jóhanna, it's sad that the first openly gay head of state is also so openly incompetent :) Care to elaborate?
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by sh1mmer 16y ago
I think it's interesting that Zed considers Github/Bitbucket weaknesses. What most open-source projects need more than self-hosting is contributors. Portability is great but I'd rather have a project that I'm working with other people.
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by sh1mmer 16y ago
He was sonewhat notorious on the London geek social scene for being an arogant jerk. I met him a few times. It seemed like he "suceeded" too early with no real idea of how to do business. He seemed like an ok kid that found himself with a l
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by sh1mmer 16y ago
Anyone care to suggest some ideas on a few things: a) who would likely buy these (corporates, SMEs, startups)? b) it seems that they have increased the risk of single point of failure (e.g. 1 PSU taking down 128 nodes) what's the mitigation
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by sh1mmer 16y ago
I think the argument here is that a) basic Git isn't that complex b) Learning a dumbed down subset of Git won't help you long term I would say that giving people a gentle introduction to stuff is great, but it's important to make sure that
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by sh1mmer 16y ago
The conclusions in particular are fairly bogus. In reality is not going outside per se that helps, but rather increasing external conditions like natural light and air ventilation I would argue that allowing your mind to relax and work on
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by sh1mmer 16y ago
Sometimes I wonder if the lawyers supposedly "protecting" brands release the harm they can do. I wonder if the Times' legal department actually contacted anyone in product before doing this.
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by sh1mmer 16y ago
I wonder if there is a blue zone there.
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Using an auction maybe you could make the game shorter by getting player 2 to buy properties, thus loosing money, so when he lands on something player 1 buys she has none left.
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by sh1mmer 16y ago
Sorry, didn't mean to be a jerk. It is cool that there are more than just those four projects.
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by sh1mmer 16y ago
"Copyleft hardware is not nearly as widespread as copyleft software" The core premiss is still true. And it's a huge factor difference. Even if you can cite counter examples, or things they missed the amount of software development happenin

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