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by shib71 16y ago
I'm mostly here for the technology / programming stuff, but I do appreciate the entrepreneurial factor. It seems to bias the content towards ideas that are potentially disruptive, as opposed to press releases and unfocused technophilia.
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by shib71 16y ago
Unfortunately I have the same problem with sources as the original poster. Nutrition science has become so sensationalized that it's hard to take any of it seriously. I take my cue mostly from an instinct developed over years of paying atte
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by shib71 16y ago
My tendencies, which seem to work well: - Foods with less processing - more fresh stuff, less stuff that needs preservatives - High ratio of vegatables/fruit to meat - Less high-carb stuff, and always the low-gi versions (e.g. wholemeal/rye
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by shib71 16y ago
I took one look at that huge text and smiled. Readability without the extra click to run the bookmarklet. Thank you.
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by shib71 16y ago
Those job descriptions are a work of art.
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by shib71 16y ago
He created a phone book using the Facebook API. Oh the horror. There has been a whole industry around buying, compiling, and selling such information for many, many years.
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by shib71 16y ago
The original post: http://www.lunametrics.com/blog/2010/06/04/segment-goal-funn...
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by shib71 16y ago
The argument that I usually have, and constantly resist, is that a) generally women just aren't as interested in CS as men, and b) that's ok, so c) why give out scholarships to make CS artificially attractive, and d) if the industry isn't s
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by shib71 16y ago
I've seen examples of this problem when working on legacy code. There is a huge temptation to look at a mess of if-statements, inconsistent architecture, and seemingly redundant code - and decide to rewrite it from scratch. Only to find out
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by shib71 16y ago
It will help me. Truly good design requires focused, skilled attention. But things like "core styles", blueprint, and the YUI stylesheets move the standard of "good enough" a little bit closer to that ideal. It's awesome for a developer wor
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by shib71 16y ago
Or rather, the little pieces you need are usually libraries or frameworks or freely available software. The open source ecosystem and Google is a developer's Radio Shack.
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by shib71 16y ago
I can only offer my experiences: If you have a merchant account it is relatively easy to sign up with a processing gateway and process transactions. The ones I've worked with had clients we installed on our servers, but I believe they were
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by shib71 16y ago
True. My point was that serving static files is one of the easiest parts of a website to scale.
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You should incorporate the API version. - you're developing a service would typically be a core part of your client's businesses - the API will almost certainly need be revised after you release it - even if you choose not to suppor
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As far as my attempts are concerned their server was always overloaded. If they were serving the files from AWS (or similar) now perhaps they could have managed a page like this themselves.
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by shib71 16y ago
His attempts to get comments from Think Brilliant and Wilson seem extremely cursory. Calling a business after hours is bad enough, but expecting someone to comment on a tweet - seriously?
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by shib71 16y ago
Spaced repetition [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaced_repetition ] is a pretty well explored technique. Most flash card apps use it. One of the best is Anki.
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by shib71 16y ago
I originally thought this was about personal availability. It isn't, but it prompted some interesting ideas about being mindful about how open I am to interruption, and the value of my attention. Perhaps I need to think about what my prio
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by shib71 16y ago
FlightCaster ( http://flightcaster.com/ )
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by shib71 16y ago
Classic case of cognitive dissonance [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_dissonance ]. I assume the people in the study changed the belief that was less personal / emotional: that science was useful.
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by shib71 16y ago
This was a disconcerting read - as I read it I realised that I was used to skimming over paragraphs to get the important point of each. In this article every sentence, every clause, is important. I had to concentrate, and I enjoyed it.
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by shib71 16y ago
A good example of where a product's market is limited by it's branding. I can look his points and see that they're a CMS's features, but in my head I'm thinking "WYSIWYG blog entry, adding pages to a blog, blog, blog, blog".
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by shib71 16y ago
Preference for languages can take into account everything from the syntax to the libraries to the community. It's not surprising when someone has strong opinions about them. The problem is when people get precious, but you seem to be straig
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by shib71 16y ago
It also doesn't account for outlier systems. Linux alone has more variations than I can count, and that doesn't count the many other niche operating systems. Then there are game consoles and various other internet enabled widgets. Antivirus
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by shib71 16y ago
I like the idea of getting multiple teams to take on the first milestone, and not just because it a good long term strategy. As a contractor I frequently encounter clients who have unrealistic expectations. This process would give someone n
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by shib71 16y ago
Normally I just ignore the articles that don't interest me - I assume they're for someone else. But I'm beginning to find these blog-war posts tiresome. There is no new information, no novel insight. Just he said, she said. Is this really t
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by shib71 16y ago
Latin. It's satisfying mental exercise, and there's no pressure to learn quickly, because it has no practical applications (except for general brain sharpening). And the structure of the language is almost custom made for a hacker.
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by shib71 16y ago
For those of us who aren't in the US or don't want to sign up, can you add an example or a video of the other side of subscription jump?
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It's a javascript extension. i.e. you write javascript in a: <script type="text/sjs"> ... </script> block, which is parsed and compiled into native javascript. It allows you to write asynchronous javascript using st
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by shib71 16y ago
http://www.inc.com/magazine/20090101/and-the-money-comes-rol... On page 4 it discusses exactly that.

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