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by tjpick 18y ago
but a simpler way to add this information is to title the list. "Tags by popularity". You don't have to go to the trouble of inventing a whole other representation. I'd contend that adding a little bit of information to the title is much be
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by tjpick 18y ago
> I can't think of a smaller/simpler/quicker way. ordered list.
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by tjpick 18y ago
isn't this user centred design?
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by tjpick 18y ago
Than. ;)
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by tjpick 18y ago
It's win-win. If a webmaster knows that traffic is coming in for a specific term and how long that traffic sticks around, they can decide whether they have sufficient content there to keep those users happy. If not, they can add content or
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by tjpick 18y ago
making it about privacy is playing an emotional card when it should really be a technical discussion. Hiding a query string isn't "privacy" in any meaningful sense. It's beneficial for you to tell a webmaster what it is that you have come l
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Removing New Zealander's right to due process and court trial before being found guilty(creativefreedom.org.nz)
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by tjpick 18y ago
Similar issues but probably worse in NZ. http://creativefreedom.org.nz/ "news that National say they plan to go ahead with the Guilt Upon Accusation law Section 92A that results in punishment before a trial and before any evidence has be
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by tjpick 18y ago
da-da-chhhhh. you're quick ;)
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by tjpick 18y ago
null pointer on your drink-bottle instance results in fatal runtime exception.
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by tjpick 18y ago
Trying to remove duplication in everything. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=353501
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by tjpick 18y ago
> The reasons most commonly given for not publishing were that investigators thought their findings were not interesting enough or did not have time. not publishing to a blog is the same as not publishing elsewhere. It's not the medium
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by tjpick 18y ago
why the UML hate? Sequence and class diagrams and such can come in pretty handy as a design or reverse engineering aid.
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by tjpick 18y ago
good to see some other people in the same space. I'm at an established small/medium sized company in the health industry. The health stuff is fulfilling and concrete (ie you're really solving someone's problem). There's plenty of scope for
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by tjpick 18y ago
I just don't get this stuff. The browser just isn't a great place to be running applications like that. It's a good place for consuming document based data. At the point where you have delivered an application that doesn't need to transfer
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by tjpick 18y ago
4 weeks holiday / year + stats. Generally normal office hours (ie 40 hour week) are encouraged though depends on company and role, making friends with coworkers is normal, Friday drinks is standard possibly couple of beers provided at the o
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by tjpick 18y ago
Honourable. Honorific doesn't mean what you think it does.
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by tjpick 18y ago
Boo. Don't center everything.
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by tjpick 18y ago
Is it just me, or this "REST is not always the right choice" a pretty random conclusion to draw from that? The article appears to be mentioning the advantages of REST and how to implement them, and then completely out of the blue he pulls o
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by tjpick 18y ago
you're absolutely right but it'd be straightforward to implement the technique server side to fix those problems.
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by tjpick 18y ago
There was a Mark Pilgrim post from a couple of years ago- can't find it at the moment - where he said that getting your data out of an application is not a feature. I agree. Always maintain your personal data on your own computer and only p
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by tjpick 18y ago
sms messages have a built in monitization scheme: per txt and people are well conditioned to this IMHO. I'd be surprised if you tick anyone off by using it, and I'd heavily question any deviation from this. I'd probably go for something lik
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by tjpick 18y ago
needn't be AI. What about biotech etc?
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by tjpick 18y ago
good that it's finally gone mainstream
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by tjpick 18y ago
striking resemblance to some stuff we were doing at eurekster with a product called "swicki" a couple years ago.
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by tjpick 18y ago
may I suggest you use an alternative product - a packet of potato chips. They are tasty, salty, delicious, cooked in oil and bad for your heart - all the properties of fries but without the objectionable burning sensation that is an intrins
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by tjpick 18y ago
I've seen that site before but forgotten about it - thanks for posting
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by tjpick 18y ago
food staying hot is a feature not a bug
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by tjpick 18y ago
Programmer writes own website platform. Standard. I've often thought that history etc for cms/blog systems should be pushed off to a proper version control system etc. I even drafted out a project spec to implement basically the same thing
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by tjpick 18y ago
"open source" as a synonym for "shared" when not referring to source code is getting old fast. Especially in the context of recipes, which have been shared forever.

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