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by spokey 16y ago
I do this too, and despite what other replies here suggest, anecdotally it does seem to work. My approach is a little more convoluted than simply document.write or something like that, so maybe that matters. I get crawled by bad bots all t
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by spokey 16y ago
Allow me to save you the trouble of clicking through each of these 17 pages. 1) Twitter - http://twitter.com/positions.html Twitter is hiring in several areas, including engineering, marketing, and monetization 2) Gilt - http://careers-g
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by spokey 16y ago
I think for Chicago it is less about "developing recently enough that the effect would be negated" and more about Burnham's "forever free and clear" plan for the lakefront ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burnham_Plan ) which, unlike many cit
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by spokey 16y ago
While technically true (although Hyde Park/Kenwood, home of the US's current first family is part of that south side as well), I think that misses the point. If anything, the south side of Chicago is a more specific counter-point to the cl
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by spokey 16y ago
Curiously, the "east side" of Chicago is where the wealthy people live, largely because that's where the lakefront is. For Chicago, in very rough terms, poor people live in the south and west, rich people in the north and east. Missing fro
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by spokey 16y ago
Ironically, the homepage for TFG is broken on my 1024x600 netbook screen: It has both horizontal and vertical scrollbars, the headline text and controls are cut off, and the gray/silver background doesn't extend all the way across the contr
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by spokey 16y ago
That's a good point. While PHP is trending down, several PHP frameworks are trending up, notably Joomla: http://www.google.com/trends?q=joomla%2Cdrupal%2Cdjango%2Cdc...
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by spokey 16y ago
Maybe. I'm having trouble finding a programming language with a moderately long history (say, over 2 years) that isn't trending down on Google trends. Ruby comes close to holding steady: http://www.google.com/trends?q=ruby&ctab=0&
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by spokey 16y ago
I'm not sure that Google trends graph is telling us that PHP is losing ground. I mean, it's a measure of the number of times someone searches for "PHP" relative to all other search terms, right? You'd get the same shape if the raw number
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by spokey 16y ago
Also didn't work for me (Firefox on Linux. I am not using NoScript). Clever idea. Has the demo worked for anyone? (Edit: I see below that posters report that this worked for at least some versions of Chrome on Windows)
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by spokey 16y ago
Hi sendos. I stopped by soundkey.com just to see if you'd changed the tagline and I'm impressed how much better you've made it in just a few days. I really like the new messaging. Well done, I think you're off to a great start. I wouldn't
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by spokey 16y ago
If you'll indulge me in some nostalgia, quite some time ago I wrote a similar Apache Commons (it was Jakarta Commons at the time) library called "functor", essential trying to solve the problem of functions-as-first-class-objects-are-missin
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by spokey 16y ago
Thank you, but no need to apologize. I wasn't offended in the least.
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by spokey 16y ago
I'm doing (or at least trying to do) customer development on a B2C startup. Why? Because after a fair bit of product development experience (mostly agile, mostly outside of the startup world) many things about CD resonated strongly with me.
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by spokey 16y ago
May I suggest an admin change the title to "Management guru [Eric Ries] on the lean startup philosophy" or something like that? I clicked through expecting someone other than the usual suspects talking about "lean startups" as was disappoin
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by spokey 16y ago
"SoundKey lets you share sounds on Twitter"? I'd focus on the benefits of you service rather than the comparison. Most people probably won't know what TwitPic is anyway. For that matter, personally I'd stay away from aligning too my brandin
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by spokey 16y ago
"like TwitPic but for sounds" I wouldn't use that verbatim, but that sounds like the right angle to me.
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by spokey 16y ago
Also, I meant to add this: > Have any of you had experience with web apps that you > put up, and initially got negligible traction from > visitors, and then, after the right steps had that > increase significantly? Yes. Mor
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by spokey 16y ago
I'm not sure how you'll monetize it (ads, I guess), but I think this is actually a pretty interesting idea. You may need to pivot a bit to find a better market fit, but FWIW I think you're giving up too easily. (And actually, 2.3 pages per
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by spokey 16y ago
Patrick, Reading over your response again it seems like you're saying that you're not doing anything to ensure HIPAA compliance and possibly that the HIPAA compliant premium option is only there to contrast with the other account types. Is
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by spokey 16y ago
About half of the questions in this survey seem to rely on prior knowledge of PhoneHalo. Is that something most people are going to have?
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by spokey 16y ago
I think you misunderstood my question. I'm asking: what are you doing to guarantee HIPAA compliance? I.e., what's different about how you treat those accounts than the others and/or what steps are you taking to ensure compliance?
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by spokey 16y ago
"HIPAA Compliance Guaranteed" seems like a strong statement to make. Just out of curiosity, can you explain what you mean by that? I mean, if you're allowing "custom reminders" how do you know they aren't recording "Mr. Smith, we have the
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by spokey 16y ago
I assume you've noticed this already but just in case it is a quirk of my browser or something, the two panes of your main marquee are of different heights, leading to a little bit of a bounce when you scroll between them. Also, for what it
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by spokey 16y ago
Am I reading that correctly? Did this guy previously write and direct a Superbowl ad (the "Doritos" link on that page)? And he still had to resort to this kind of trick to get an interview? It's a clever trick, but how many people have som
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by spokey 16y ago
All in all a great article, but I'm confused about why the small and quirky argument ("marketplace enormity doesn't increase the pleasure of the buyer") applies to Etsy or Threadless but not to Craiglist or EBay. If I'm in the market for m
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by spokey 16y ago
Gabriel, thanks for writing this up. I've noticed similar results from Twitter. I've only got about 1/3rd as many followers as you on my primary account but follower count has been growing fairly steadily and organically (ie., I haven't be
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by spokey 16y ago
The sample provided is too short for me to figure out if this is any good or not, but I think "a cheat sheet for The Four Steps to the Epiphany" is a great idea. I'm a big fan of Customer Development and of Steve Blank, but I think the meth
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by spokey 16y ago
For what it is worth, while the design could use some sprucing up to make it more engaging, I don't find the current design troubling. It's simple and to the point. (But I didn't go beyond the first page yet, so maybe the spartan approach
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by spokey 16y ago
Bill Hicks. Not that it is appropriate here, but I assume it is an allusion to the Bill Hicks' bit about marketing. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDW_Hj2K0wo (strong language)

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