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by snorkel 13y ago
Back in the days when SEO meant keyword spam the shit out of Altavista.
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by snorkel 13y ago
The crazy thing is these same patterns come back under new names and for different reasons. Nowadays you have mobile apps cross-promoting other apps, it's practically the webring all over again, except now it's suddenly a new and
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by snorkel 13y ago
Borders and white space. Funny how much of modern clean design aesthetic was already possible to do with basic HTML back in the day but we were too fascinated with blinky flashy colorful tags to ask ourselves "Doesn't this altoget
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by snorkel 13y ago
<hr> is the vestigial tailbone of HTML
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by snorkel 13y ago
And if you ever ran into an error message on the web you would just contact the webmaster. Problem solved.
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by snorkel 13y ago
There was also a plugin called Java so that you could animate bouncing heads in your web page. I wonder whatever happened to that Java stuff.
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by snorkel 13y ago
<HR> <CENTER>Don't forget page dividers!</CENTER> <HR>
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by snorkel 13y ago
There's no exceptions because Arnold does not try/fail at anything.
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by snorkel 13y ago
... so they're talking Turkey? Yeah, down vote me, you're just jealous that you didn't post it first!
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by snorkel 13y ago
This is not intended as a stand-alone language like Python but rather it's DSL dialect for integrating with Wolfram Alpha. You're basically using this dialect to get very specific results from the Wolfram Alpha service.
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by snorkel 13y ago
Turning into an epic fiasco, I'd say. This story is unfolding like the second half of every episode for American Greed that I've ever seen on CNBC. You'd swear it's the same story over and over just the character names h
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by snorkel 13y ago
Any time hordes of people are rushing into a new investment with an unstable price in hopes of getting rich quick and assuring themselves that the math will protect their investment then it is exactly like Tulip Mania.
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by snorkel 13y ago
All startups are: 1. going to give you the same super optimistic answers about funding and runway because they usually start posting jobs when either they just got more funding or they are about get more funding and everything is wonderful
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by snorkel 13y ago
They should fire their own media buyer rather than blame Facebook. When buying any type of advertising you first have to buy a small campaign and measure the ROI (ie. new customers gained, not likes and followers and other social metrics bu
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by snorkel 13y ago
Yup, all client side. You can view source on the page and read the javascript code doing the Fourier Transforms on the audio sample.
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by snorkel 13y ago
A whistle or clean guitar string pluck would have one strong tone, and a random banging noise would have many tones overlapping. Typically a digital guitar tuner is just doing a discrete Fourier transform of a sound sample and checking the
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by snorkel 13y ago
... and please tell me it's because they didn't like his answer to why manhole covers are round.
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by snorkel 13y ago
It's a question of granularity. Can your developers deal with high level requirements and fill in the details, do they require every detail to be spec'd out? It's also a question of does the management trust the developers to
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by snorkel 13y ago
I played with it too, and I still don't get it. I completely missed the Excel comparison.
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by snorkel 13y ago
Who controls the British crown? Who keeps the metric system down? We doooo! We doooo!
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by snorkel 13y ago
No invite needed. You can just walk right in! Although they'll probably be checking invites and ids next time.
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by snorkel 13y ago
No download. No trial. No install doc. No example doc. No tutorial. Just lots and lots of assertions of greatness. That's not so deep.
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by snorkel 13y ago
It was nearly 3 years ago when I sensed that Mt. Gox lack of maturity as an exchange would eventually spell trouble for Bitcoin: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2608055 ... and 78 days ago I recommended sell your Bitco
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by snorkel 13y ago
Very interesting reading. Are such procs already being sold or is this still on the workbench?
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by snorkel 13y ago
If you think of it, Bitcoins wild upswings attracts speculators, and some of those speculators happen to sell products themselves, hence they'll gladly trade products and services for Bitcoins. Volatility is driving adoption more than
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by snorkel 13y ago
A film director could still restrict the viewer's vantage point to just by having a few camera angles shooting the same scene from different angles. The camera technology should at least allow viewers to move their head to pan around.
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by snorkel 13y ago
... but nonetheless it's an important example of the erosion of data privacy. Just as users are getting accustomed to clicking past EULA's so to they click past these permission request screens, and if they don't then the app
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by snorkel 13y ago
The question was "how do I add to ..." rather than "how do I earn (in total) ..." ... so in that case, are you ready to work 80 hour weeks? If you're thinking of adding a side-business on top of your day job than
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by snorkel 13y ago
It's very basic, it doesn't even indicate which users are evil doers.
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by snorkel 13y ago
Google is smart to Name and Shame the bad ISPs. I just think they should build this into the Youtube player, whenever the buffering spinner lags for more than 5 seconds have a a little message fade in that explains what the hold up is.

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