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by tcarnell 15y ago
yay! I'm based in Madrid! and am looking for new projects come the new year... feel free to get in touch (tomcarnell.com)
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by tcarnell 15y ago
Do people post this stuff just to earn karma points? What use would this half-thought through data set provide? and who would use it? Can we NOT repeat the same polls again? I suggest creating a Hacker News 'polls' section which lists a per
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by tcarnell 15y ago
Cant HackerNews just publish the Google analytics stats for this?
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by tcarnell 15y ago
Exactly. In addition, keeping passengers calm and relaxed is also a key point of security - roudy/drunk/agressive or even violent passengers can cause a lot of trouble on a flight when there are relatively few, fairly untrained flight atten
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by tcarnell 15y ago
Very impressive - I thing I like #10 the most! thanks
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by tcarnell 15y ago
Interesting - have you got any external links you can post about this 'F' behaviour? I'd be interesting in reading them!
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by tcarnell 15y ago
exactly, I find navigating a vertical list much less 'stressful' than trying to understand the ordering of a matrix while trying to digest the actual product info. Also the eye is attracted first to the product images then moves naturally t
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by tcarnell 15y ago
Fantastic article - thanks for writing this - it is exactly how I feel about UI and the dissapointment that generally follows anything these days that is claimed to be "innovative".
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by tcarnell 15y ago
they should have probably made this decision before starting the first release!
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by tcarnell 15y ago
Not really sure what problem this solves. I could imagine something like this from college students, but with the resources Yahoo has I expect bigger, game changing technologies. The only Yahoo technology I use for web development is the YS
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by tcarnell 15y ago
...and check out 5:35 into this song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dNP8tbDMZNE
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And breakbeat was born in 1969, 1:27 seconds into this song...(youtube.com)
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by tcarnell 15y ago
Regarding deleted data: there are clearly two concepts of 'deleted' a). deleted in terms of the application/user interface (ie, it is no longer visible) and b). deleted in terms of physical removal from all permenant storage. Clicking on a
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by tcarnell 15y ago
Yes, I pretty much agree with this. I am sure many IT companies could technically be in trouble with the Data Protection Act in the UK alone for very similar breaches as Facebook and I am sure many companies would not even be able to provid
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by tcarnell 15y ago
thanks!
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by tcarnell 15y ago
Absolutely. I am at a loss as to why people use Java for Internet facing sites and apps. Of all the things Java 'should' be used for (embedded apps and desktop applications) it gets most used for the one thing it wasn't designed for - the w
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by tcarnell 15y ago
Actually, I think your last sentance exactly highlights my point (I dont know how to do that italicy/quote thing). Whether you choose to write your code in Java or Javascript doesn't matter because it will HAVE to be run in a Javasript envi
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by tcarnell 15y ago
Javascript is interpreted. Which actually highlights my point that languages (of any level) have usually been designed to solve a particular set of problems or targetted for a particular type of runtime environment. Thus, the likelihood is
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by tcarnell 15y ago
EVERYTHING is wrong with GWT - just dont use it. Generally I believe the idea of writing code in one language to be converted into another is wrong. Languages are tools to do a job - pick the right one for the job or it will end in tears.
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by tcarnell 15y ago
...and why couldn't all of that have been prepared in advance? I find it somewhat disturbing to have already prepared an obituary, but how do we know that there isn't a pile of similarly, very well produced and finished magazines waiting to
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by tcarnell 15y ago
I think this is a very interesting idea and things like a 'group' or an 'event would simply have their own private/public key to allow subscribers etc. But two thoughts spring to mind: 1). Without the marketing/advertising opportunity, who
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How water bottles create cheap lighting in Philippines(bbc.co.uk)
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by tcarnell 15y ago
Well as nobody tought the founders to Google, Facebook or Microsoft to program a computer - especially at school, there is absolutely no logical reason to teach kids such a specific skill. The programmers I know, and notable the better ones
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by tcarnell 15y ago
If the code compiles and does what it is supposed to do, then the answer is that nothing is 'wrong' with it. Writing code that does what it is supposed to do is often not the challenge of software engineering - but writing code that can be
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by tcarnell 15y ago
I disagree! It does not make sense that submitting any text via a form input should in any way interfere with a templating engine, in the same way we dont expect to be able to affect a database by entering SQL into a form field. The fact th
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by tcarnell 15y ago
It wasn't necesarily a bad idea to compete with Flash, but SilverLight was about 10 years too late and offered no reason for the entire world to switch from Flash. Thus, the end of SilverLight was just a question of 'when', not 'if'.
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JQuery 1.6.4 released...
1 points by tcarnell 15y ago|0 comments
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by tcarnell 15y ago
I'm not sure, but this is exactly what http://femtoo.com does. Femtoo allows you to select the exact part (or parts) of the page you wish to track.
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by tcarnell 15y ago
Additionally, Femtoo stores every value of every change in content so you can see history data about flight prices with pretty graphs etc...oooohhh!
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by tcarnell 15y ago
...yes you could - you can actually perform exactly those tasks using http://femtoo.com . Although IFTTT is great, Femtoo has the advantage that you can track changes and be notified, or fire events when content of ANY web page, not just t

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