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by snorkel 15y ago
Makes no mention of how the quality of Digg's content fell head-first down a staircase. All the rock star developers in the world can't fix bad editorial decisions.
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by snorkel 15y ago
So Confirmed, Plausible, or Busted?
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by snorkel 15y ago
I call it "biz dev jargon". The corporate hierarchy trains you to speak this way. The people at the top of the org chart have no clue what "we need a REST API for our Hadoop cluster " means or why they should even care, and if you do speak
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by snorkel 15y ago
"Astronaut Candidates will be required to pass a swimming test during the first month of training." Does the back float count?
515.
by snorkel 15y ago
This allows the client-server to communicate lower level interaction details in realtime. Seems quite be useful for realtime multiuser apps.
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by snorkel 15y ago
Nice, but a few UX nitpicks: * Default to sort by relevence: Put the more relevant matching properties at the top. For example, I type "backg" instead the highest result being the obscure "-webkit-background-composite" ... actually most rel
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by snorkel 15y ago
No joy on FF7 Mac.
518.
by snorkel 15y ago
Very cool. Would be useful to see a section of neighboring glyphs in the area of a selected glyph (I want to find the spade suit and see some other suit glyphs too)
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Ask HN: Outsourcing mobile app development, how and how much?
1 points by snorkel 15y ago|1 comments
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by snorkel 15y ago
I'm surprised the leading providers of mobile fart noise applications would be so immature.
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by snorkel 15y ago
It's got to be from a point-and-click Query-O-Matic tool.
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by snorkel 15y ago
The images printed on the top of the disk hint that the disc itself contains information and how to play it.
523.
by snorkel 15y ago
You need an app for this?
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by snorkel 15y ago
(5 years from today) Extend is too low level ... I think we need another meta language on top of it.
525.
by snorkel 15y ago
"Don't worship the code." Well put. I've personally witnessed a situation where a startup was paralyzed by code narcissism. The business was asking for features they couldn't get because implementing those features would mean violating the
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by snorkel 15y ago
IE6 support can be made reasonable for most apps as long the client understands that the IE6 support will be usable, decent looking, but not 100% the same look and experience as with more modern browsers. You just need to explain to the cli
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by snorkel 15y ago
Unfortunately rude and aggressive "social" apps build the largest audiences by those same tactics. Remember how MySpace took off: the sign up process included "Enter your Gmail/Yahoo/Hotmail/Outlook login info here" which it then used to sp
528.
by snorkel 15y ago
"All [EC2] nodes are internet addressable." Not true. You'd have to adjust your Security Group policies accordingly for that to be true. "All [EC2] nodes are on a shared network, and are addressable to each other." Misleading. You'd have to
529.
by snorkel 15y ago
If you're writing style happens to be very repetitive and templatized, then yes, you've automated your writing career. A more likely scenario for applying this tech to journalism would be for providing filler paragraphs around the more subs
530.
by snorkel 15y ago
From my experiences outsourcing saves money but costs velocity. There is much time spent creating detailed specs, clarifying the specs, reviewing delivered code then immediately demanding key improvements made to that code, replacing subpar
531.
by snorkel 15y ago
I like the notion of prompting the user to drop their files on something evocative (a castle) rather than a cold generic empty box. Good intro UX, clever take on zero-conf.
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by snorkel 15y ago
Implementing DNSSEC is an indication that some consideration was put toward security. I wouldn't discount this as being insecure just because it's not mentioned on the short list of goals.
533.
by snorkel 15y ago
Found the English page, now ... where's the download link?
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NPR sponsor statements: how to desribe your business in 15 words or less(marketingprofs.com)
1 points by snorkel 15y ago|0 comments
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by snorkel 15y ago
Login itself is the biggest obstacle. If your blog is not as popular as say HN, then don't bother with requiring logins to post a comment. Seriously no one wants to bother even creating a user login just for yoursillyblog.com. It's pointles
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by snorkel 15y ago
I also worked for a big corp recently where IT would not issue a Mac to anyone unless they worked in a "creative area". Some of the Intranet tools were strictly IE-only too, as in changing your user agent to IE didn't help you at all. The s
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by snorkel 15y ago
It goes back to the old 80/20 principle, and most content publishers are realizing what I learned: spending resources to keep a small minority of nerds happy doesn't put food on the table.
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by snorkel 15y ago
It's reassuring the Canonical is involved with the UEFI Forum and making sensible recommendations, it's doubtful that BIOS manufacturers would bother making a chip that won't support Linux. It's also amusing the Microsoft is so concerned wi
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by snorkel 15y ago
I happen to have worked on a SaaS offering entirely focused on aggregating and consolidating RSS feeds, and I can truly say that only a tiny minority of technically inclined people ever gave a shit about RSS feeds, or even understood what i
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by snorkel 15y ago
Since their app is highly optimized, profiled, and tweaked low level C then it's no wonder they could not tolerate the CPU variances of the cloud. Even so at least on EC2 there's much less noisy neighbor issues on the bigger CPU instances,

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