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by showerst 17y ago
I found HN via a link on reddit, probably somewhere in the programming subreddit.
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by showerst 17y ago
I believe the holders of the .yu URLs had a right of first refusal for the new TLDs, so it wasn't possible for squatters to move in on existing names.
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by showerst 17y ago
I'd argue that it's quite a hack -- Trying to discern an algorithmic approach to attraction via a large data set, and create a recommendation engine to a very fuzzy problem. =)
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by showerst 17y ago
Why not just A/B test it? Many tools (like google optimizer) allow you to randomly try both, and then evaluate 1) Your conversion (sign-up) rate with each approach, and 2) How many non-valuable users each approach lets through. (This may ta
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by showerst 17y ago
If you're expecting heavy traffic, there are a number of cache plugins that allow you to serve static files. A properly set-up blog will hold up to a front page Digging/Reddit-ing even on a cheap host.
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by showerst 17y ago
Wordpress is dead simple, flexible, and offers an infinite array of plugins (Of particular value are Akismet for spam filtering and some of the Cache plugins that make your pages serve fast). On the down side, it requires constant security
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by showerst 17y ago
The link here http://www.mogs.com/eve-isk/Tranquility (just the first google result i found that would quote me a price) sells 40000 Million Isk for $2,098 USD, so that puts the bank in the hole something on the order of $62,500 in actual
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by showerst 17y ago
Strong upvote on that book list. If you want to learn from scratch, start with the "Programming Collective Intelligence" book, then move to "Collective intelligence in action", they're both quite good. If you've covered and understand the m
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by showerst 17y ago
Why not just segregate your coffee shop a little? Have a large number of small, work-centric tables, then a 'laptop-free' area with larger tables, and maybe some comfy chairs and couches. Have a big polite (or goofy) sign that suggests one
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by showerst 17y ago
Please post a [PDF] warning on pdf links.
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by showerst 17y ago
Everything above auto-accidents on your list is a disease, so technically he's right =P
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by showerst 17y ago
I'm not sure that it exactly qualifies as marketing, but Avinash Kaushik's "Web Analytics: An Hour A Day" is really great on how to design for and think about project metrics on the net, which in my experience is one of the biggest advantag
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The Official Raw Data from the Iranian Election
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by showerst 17y ago
Not too bad, you definitely make it easy, but not having the ability to float/justify anything other than left is a big problem, and the output just looks really plain. Some options to customize the colors of the page background and putting
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by showerst 17y ago
Like the article says, the point isn't that a locked door stops an intruder, it's that they're counted on to slow down an intruder for a minimum amount of time. If your security guard walks past a door once every 8 minutes (assuming it woul
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by showerst 17y ago
Yea, I definitely agree with you there. My inner nerd just begins to rage whenever I any absolute statements about econ, especially with respect to policy. Gotta love seeing how ideas go from (hopefully) well meaning in theory to the distor
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by showerst 17y ago
1) Not subsidizing anyone, ever. Actually not subsidizing can be non-optimal in a wide range of situations, although in general intervention is questionable. We'd have no tech industry at all in Asia if it weren't for HEAVY industry
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by showerst 17y ago
And yet, how much have any of those companies changed the car industry? (Although I'll grant that Tesla has a chance). My point is that the standards aren't set by the number of companies that support them, they're set by the market share.
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by showerst 17y ago
If Tesla, Lamborghini, and Ferrari start making all electric cars, but Ford doesn't, that's consensus right? Market share matters. Maybe for specialized hacker sites we can cater to only the good browsers, and graceful degradation is a must
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by showerst 17y ago
The US Government also has a standardized rubric for language proficiency, going so far as to break it down between reading/writing/hearing/speaking/translating http://www.govtilr.org/
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by showerst 17y ago
I've always liked the 'seinfeld' definition of fluency: If you can watch a local sitcom on TV and laugh at the jokes, then you're fluent. That may be a bit harder to test for, but it adds an element of cultural understanding that goes beyon
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by showerst 17y ago
I was thinking of doing one, but the few stock images of car cutaways I could find ( http://www.khulsey.com/stockimages.html ) are $1500 =(.
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by showerst 17y ago
I think it's pretty cool that he had a go at this, but how does he know that it's actually structurally sound? I'm not sure how things are in Wales, but here in Missouri, you have to be concerned about things like high winds, earthquakes, e
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by showerst 17y ago
edit Just read the original post, and the poster there makes much better points, basically noting that Aid can't be divorced from the overall security plan, or it will be wasted. Restating this as "Don't build schools in Iraq" is, IMHO mi
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by showerst 17y ago
A few standard 'toy' learning projects come to mind: Try building a client/server chat program, using TCP/IP, a mass-file Renamer, or mp3 tagger, including a GUI for your OS of choice. In python, try building something using either google
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by showerst 17y ago
In a similar vein, I'm noticing more and more social sites implement their own site-specific chat frameworks, as well as notifications (I'm looking at you facebook and gmail). We went through this once with icq/aim/msn, and it would be ni
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by showerst 17y ago
Neat idea, but how much did it cost him to drive across the country, especially assuming that he normally stayed in a hotel room? When I travel by driving and stay in hotels it usually costs > $200/day between gas, food, and lodging, so
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by showerst 18y ago
Peter Morville (Author of Oreilly's "Ambient Findability") has a great collection of search UI patterns here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/morville/collections/7215760378...
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by showerst 18y ago
I think that a portion of this is due to Google's unusual hierarchy model. Between the 20% time projects and the large number of small, loosely related teams, they're constantly trying new strategies (whether internally or in the market). W
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by showerst 18y ago
Shame you don't see more of this around, it's really one of the most elegant artistic expressions I've ever encountered. It's a fascinating example of working under constraints, as if the artists said 'No picturing living things? No problem

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