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by sstrudeau 14y ago
This reminds me of one of my favorite Tom Waits' quotes: "Everything is explained now. We live in an age when you say casually to somebody 'What's the story on that?' and they can run to the computer and tell you within five seconds. That'
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by sstrudeau 14y ago
Homicide and other violent crime rates tracked pretty tightly to the creation (and eventual repeal) of alcohol prohibition laws in the US. Homicide rates dropped dramatically immediately after prohibitions repeal. We likely wouldn't need to
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by sstrudeau 15y ago
I'm also guessing that someone offended by the profanity would likely not be a happy customer. Which highlights an interesting potential limit of A/B testing for conversions. It may take some time after the point of sale to determine whethe
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by sstrudeau 15y ago
Yeah. I have a lightly used production stack that is the very beginnings of a service like this. I think there is a lot of potential value here, if you can strike the right pricing/feature balance. Also a ton of opportunity to add value (lo
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by sstrudeau 15y ago
Americans use shared cars all the time. They're called taxis. Also, ZipCars, rental cars, shuttle busses...
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by sstrudeau 15y ago
I don't believe most retailers will redeem cards for cash (if they can avoid it) but gift cards are use widely as a money laundering and value-exchange system amongst criminals: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stored-value_card#Money_launder.
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by sstrudeau 15y ago
Perhaps there is room for a CSSLint fork that would more easily allow one to pick & choose the opinions they actually care to consider, a la http://jshint.com/ (a jslint fork).
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Google+ early reviews: the new software smell(vielmetti.typepad.com)
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by sstrudeau 15y ago
New York / Telecommute Apartment Therapy ( http://www.apartmenttherapy.com ) is hiring a web engineer. Our ideal candidate has strong ruby chops and/or experience with building customized search (e.g., with sphinx or solr). Our audience
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by sstrudeau 15y ago
I had an interesting debate with some friends after sharing this Tom Waits quote: "This is what's wrong with the world. Everything is explained now. We live in an age when you say casually to somebody 'What's the story on that?' and they ca
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by sstrudeau 16y ago
I spent a lot of time searching for a service exactly like this and considered building one myself. Does it still exist?
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by sstrudeau 16y ago
Amazon S3 transfer costs are (worst case) $0.14/GB, or < $0.60 for 4.2GB. Apple certainly pays a lot less than that per bit.
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Meetup feels the wrath of the crowd after radical changes(eu.techcrunch.com)
3 points by sstrudeau 16y ago|0 comments
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People Problems Masquerading as Business Problems(blogs.hbr.org)
4 points by sstrudeau 16y ago|0 comments
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Keep it Simple...(musematic.net)
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by sstrudeau 16y ago
OpenTable isn't great if your goal is to go to a specific restaurant. It is very convenient if you're looking for a time slot in a particular area (e.g., before/after theater, an event, etc.) or on a particular date.
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by sstrudeau 16y ago
Serial, Michigan-based entrepeneur Dug Song has some insightful comments.
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Why aren't there more startups in Michigan?(quora.com)
2 points by sstrudeau 16y ago|2 comments
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EBay Pulls The Plug On Retro Thing(retrothing.com)
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by sstrudeau 16y ago
This is why I wish FreshDirect had an API.
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Banned terms for information architects(louisrosenfeld.com)
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by sstrudeau 16y ago
"A9 had the brilliant idea of daring oorza to write a high performance tracker in java..." This can, in fact, be done. Pando's [X] managed, torrent-like p2p platform has a solid, fast, Java-based tracker component. X http://www.pandonetwor
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by sstrudeau 16y ago
This is pretty trivial but sure, something like: function calculate_score($votes, $item_hour_age, $gravity=1.8) { return ($votes - 1) / pow(($item_hour_age+2), $gravity); }
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by sstrudeau 16y ago
There's a python implementation in the original article: def calculate_score(votes, item_hour_age, gravity=1.8): return (votes - 1) / pow((item_hour_age+2), gravity)
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by sstrudeau 16y ago
Or continue to use the last available version for Mac until a viable replacement is available for their preferred platform.
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by sstrudeau 16y ago
If one of the tests was inaccurate, couldn't it also be true that both tests were inaccurate? And is it also possible that the test/concept itself is flawed given such variance in test results of the same people over time?
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by sstrudeau 16y ago
If you have Facebook Mobile (iPhone or Android) check there -- I'm not seeing it on the web but it took over my mobile news feed.
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by sstrudeau 16y ago
I clicked the "Like" button and did not see anything on my news feed. And then I opened up Facebook on my mobile device and it was plastered with notes from patio11's site...
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by sstrudeau 16y ago
Do separate iframes have the same characteristics as separate windows?
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by sstrudeau 16y ago
Nice implementation. I spent a lot of time looking at these when I was putting together a UI that needed some color picking. When I read the headline, I thought you may have made something like my "dropper"-style color picker using canvas:

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