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by storborg 16y ago
I've been steeped in Pylons for several years now. I agree that Pylons has nothing to get excited about. However, (and this is the important part) it provided really straightforward glue to integrate a few other things that are definitely w
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by storborg 16y ago
That ad doesn't look like it actually has a car for sale. Doesn't craigslist consider that spam?
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by storborg 16y ago
Why would they lose credibility? It seems like an ad could be much more profitable than the donation banner, because ads can be targeted, even with zero behavioral history. For example, if I'm visiting a page on the new Tron movie, show m
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by storborg 16y ago
"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."
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by storborg 16y ago
There may not be experienced developers who aren't using version control, but there are new developers all the time, especially on sexy platforms like Cocoa.
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by storborg 16y ago
I bet they could ebay that cheese for hundreds of dollars per ounce.
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by storborg 16y ago
It's not a zero-sum game.
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by storborg 16y ago
Why hate on the $15 dude? He's into doing quick designs and he'll probably have a steady stream of work. Do people feel threatened by that?
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by storborg 16y ago
Can you substantiate that rumor? Taking down Visa.com isn't really a huge deal, but taking down Authorize.net would actually affect a lot of merchants.
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by storborg 16y ago
Sorry, I'm not saying it's not misguided--just that they're trying to create the impression in Visa's mind that a lot of people are upset.
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by storborg 16y ago
Has anyone A/B tested the presence of the Olark widget on their site? We're getting ready to roll out Olark on our site, but I'm kind of wondering if it will just increase the support workload without actually improving conversion rate much
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by storborg 16y ago
Is that a serious question? They're trying to show Visa that there are quite a lot of people who are very upset with them for booting Wikileaks. It may be asinine, but many political demonstrations are.
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by storborg 16y ago
This is purely intellectual curiosity, but does anyone have those tarballs?
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by storborg 16y ago
At a point in time when it was unclear to Paypal whether or not all of the money was fraudulently obtained and was going to be charged back, that action seems perfectly reasonable.
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by storborg 16y ago
Google invents the Facebook/Twitter/etc share button, and somehow this is the #1 story?
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by storborg 16y ago
Right, so do you know of any that are in violation? I know of a bunch of startups that use a hosted page (e.g. Paypal, Google Checkout, authorize.net SIM, whatever), and a bunch of startups that host their main site in the cloud but have a
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by storborg 16y ago
That's under "Ideally", not "Requirements". But yeah, I think that's a great idea.
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by storborg 16y ago
I totally agree that it's like a drug... eventually you'll start getting excited about an request time improvement from 15ms to 10ms by tuning your memcache client library... Realistically, though, basic client-side optimization (e.g. expir
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by storborg 16y ago
It was a tongue-in-cheek way of pointing out that an entrepreneur needs to be able to wear all hats. Business students like to think that it's 95% business and 5% development. Developers like to think that it's 95% developers and 5% busin
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by storborg 16y ago
You seem to assert that almost every startup that accepts credit cards is not PCI compliant, and further, operates on an environment which at times in the past has been known to be moderately insecure (e.g. hypervisor attacks). That's a pre
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by storborg 16y ago
Yes, I've used the feature--I spend a lot of time every day using Github. At my office, where I have a fast connection, it works very well and I like it. At home, where I have a shitty connection, it's hardly faster than the old method. I'm
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by storborg 16y ago
The individual load still takes a full HTTP round trip, which is going to be slow no matter how you slice it. Comparatively, storing several layers of a directory structure (all you need is file/directory names in a JSON tree) is pretty tin
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by storborg 16y ago
Yes, it's definitely true that knowing someone there helps, but more specifically, having a dialogue about intriguing ideas with someone there helps. I don't think knowing how to show off is necessarily more important than being a good arti
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by storborg 16y ago
I would love it if this widget eager-loaded the directory structure for a couple levels (doesn't even need to load the commit data) so that it made the navigation to a specific file/folder even faster.
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Consumers go online... Web merchants have their own tricks(slate.com)
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by storborg 16y ago
A fundamental misconception about the Media Lab is that it is an engineering lab. Yes, the technologies that are developed are forward-thinking enough that most students and professors there must be at least moderately skilled engineers. Ho
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by storborg 16y ago
Indeed, disaster is coming. The problem is, the champions of this law don't understand technically intertwined user tracking is with providing basic functionality on websites. Users will be forced to encounter cases where a website says, "w
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by storborg 16y ago
This is the single best reason to have a toaster oven.
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by storborg 16y ago
He didn't say no, because the question backs him into a corner where answering either yes or no implies things he doesn't want to imply.
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by storborg 16y ago
A problem here is that the 'download my data' feature doesn't let you download any sort of primary key for your friends. A name is not a primary key--I have many friends with the exact same name.

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