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by showerst 15y ago
Just to be clear, these are apparently unrelated to the Aaronsw case, right?
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by showerst 15y ago
I wonder if this will steer the mobile users into a more casual hookup niche, a la' Grindr (a gay hookup app), or if there's a market for normal dates that happen spontaneously based on location, without the stigma of implied sex.
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by showerst 15y ago
Isn't there still a strong SEO advantage to having a good domain? My understanding was that a big part of domain 'authority' comes from having a topic-relevant domain of a reasonable age, but my SEO knowledge is a few years out of date so t
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by showerst 15y ago
Just because it's driving an uptick in print doesn't mean that it's working. We'll have to see how the total impact is on the company's bottom line. If the uptick is 1% of print subscribers, and it costs them tons of unique web visitors an
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by showerst 15y ago
Doesn't google already have a huge office/datacenter in one of the biggest buildings in manhattan? http://mashable.com/2010/12/03/google-manhattan-1-9-billion/ Granted, it's not the headquarters, but still.
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by showerst 15y ago
This bugs me so I have to point it out: His income numbers use average instead of median. I can't find the exact numbers, but eyeballing it -- it looks as though he's quoting the household income numbers instead of the individual numbers. Y
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by showerst 15y ago
I'm not sure how this falls ethically, but since there's no working copy online (via author, nyud.net, or scribd) and the author does give it away for free, here's a working dropbox link courtesy of Neillithan on Reddit: http://dl.dropbox.
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by showerst 15y ago
Sounds like the perfect case for an A/B test.
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by showerst 15y ago
If you're interested in this, Tim Wu wrote a more general book about the history of information economies from the telegraph/phone through to the internet that's a pretty engaging read: http://www.amazon.com/Master-Switch-Information-Empir
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by showerst 15y ago
Then you need to see his ted talk: http://www.ted.com/talks/mike_rowe_celebrates_dirty_jobs.htm... Mike has some really deep insights into American culture and work, every time he's interviewed or speaks it's a treat.
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by showerst 15y ago
"In addition, its core discount-fashion business is coming under pressure from the recovery in the luxury business." Interesting, I hadn't thought of gilt as being counter-cyclical until now, but it definitely makes sense. I wonder how comp
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by showerst 15y ago
At the Vietnam war memorial on the national mall in DC, the names are listed by date of death, but there are phone-book style guides that list the names alphabetically with the wall location. Presumably this will offer something similar.
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by showerst 15y ago
I don't really get why people think that this is so improbable. If you were in a dark room and burst in on a trained soldier in a baggy robe, would you wait to see if he had a gun/knife/grenade within range? If he did anything other than la
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by showerst 15y ago
Presumably they had those too, we don't know. It does make quite a bit of sense to have a backup in case something goes wrong, even under the high-stealth circumstances. Remember that we have no idea what was in those helos, they could've h
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by showerst 15y ago
For reference I tried to put a range of $ into your form (30 - 50), and it gave me an unfriendly error and cleared all of the fields. You might throw some client-side validation on those fields to help rebels like me who can't follow simple
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by showerst 16y ago
I think boneheaded is a strong word. They're solving a problem that very few sites have to solve (huge traffic with low cache-ability) with vastly less resources than the others who do solve them have. (FB, Twitter, etc). AMZN in general is
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by showerst 16y ago
"A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury." - Someone, probably with a T in their name. [1] Having one or two lay
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by showerst 16y ago
"If you sincerely believe the fruits of my labors will only ever be worth reading for $0.99, then I question what our relationship is." Here's the thing, for this author or any: you don't get to choose the value of your product in the mar
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by showerst 16y ago
I'd also note that while I love the expansion of O'Reilly's line over the past few years to more nonstandard topics (books like programming collective intelligence, or mining the social web), I've noticed that the quality of the technical e
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by showerst 16y ago
I'm responsible for a relatively large site ( http://www.foreignpolicy.com ) that was down for 12+ hours over this failure today. One fallacy that I think that many people make in the whole cloud debate is the idea that a given cloud prov
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by showerst 16y ago
I can't wait to be hassled by the first homeless person who's sign advertises that they can securely process credit card transactions!
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by showerst 16y ago
It may be in the interest of FB to show no trace, but it would require a fair number of people breaking a bunch of laws. As the article pointed out, they've already done discovery/forensic analysis on these drives. Tampering with that would
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by showerst 16y ago
If anyone wants one, think geek sells them now for $20 US: http://www.thinkgeek.com/interests/gamer/be12/
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by showerst 16y ago
Related is probably marketing, business, or something CS-y.
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by showerst 16y ago
A big part of advertising is convincing thought-leaders (marketing speak for 'the cool kids' in a given social sphere) to use your product. If spending $60,000 on a series of events gets two or three 'cool' people to promote the product, wh
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by showerst 16y ago
Any time someone advocates barriers/moats/etc in a market, I immediate ask myself, does the redistribution of profits this causes outweigh the efficiencies gained? The small town vendor story is instructive: Walmart destroys downtowns, but
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by showerst 16y ago
What we do, as UI/UX people, will become a commodity. It's already happened with design and simple web programming, but the quality is very poor right now. Basic economics suggests that it will improve. You can sit and whine about it, o
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by showerst 16y ago
What a rough day for bancomicsans.com to get hacked! Amusingly, they also give you a comic sans themed page if you search for 'Helvetica'
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by showerst 16y ago
First of all I'd question that source, it lists some elementary and high school teachers making $300,000+/year. Secondly average salary is a lousy comparison point, because in many industries like accounting the starting is fairly low, but
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by showerst 16y ago
I'm guessing the timestamp, in its simplest form would just submit the time when the page was loaded as a hidden variable in the form, and compare it to the time the form was submitted. If it's less than something reasonable for a person (s

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