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by tofumatt 16y ago
Governments and other big organizations REFUSE to update their browsers because they need IE 6 to support legacy software (I used to work in provincial government in Canada: I know). Spouting off about "web standards" (whatever that means t
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by tofumatt 16y ago
The real issue with sites like 99designs isn't the quality (though it IS mostly terrible), it's the _consistency_. If you're getting a bunch of different designers to design you something over their lunch break with no interest in or knowle
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by tofumatt 16y ago
I'm not sure a company doing as well as 37s can be accused of having a "complete misunderstanding of all the basics of business".
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by tofumatt 16y ago
Twitter's lack of real permissions system is really crazy, especially with the carte-blanche access all apps get to things like your Direct Messages. I doubt people are storing credit cards in there, but the article's right: it's similar to
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by tofumatt 16y ago
This is really slick! Great job in terms of design, UI, responsiveness, etc. Dunno how it looks as a business, but it's a slick product for sure.
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by tofumatt 16y ago
I run an open-source Twitter service ( http://preyfetcher.com ) and that's exactly what I do. I don't store my consumer key/secret in the public source, same goes for my DB/Twitter Streaming API credentials. Again, for client apps it sucks
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by tofumatt 16y ago
I actually dropped out of university because of work. I started making $35k/year plus freelancing (usually another $10-20k) when I was 18, and while I tried to keep going to school for awhile during work, it was too hectic and I wasn't inte
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by tofumatt 16y ago
While the big text and focus on content is great, I really think the two-column layout is a disservice to usability on the web. I get to the bottom of the page and am forced to scroll back an arbitrary amount 'til I find the header of the a
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by tofumatt 16y ago
Open sourcing the client could mean I run it off my own server, sitting in my apartment, for free. Granted, mostly geeks would be doing that, but I get the impression that many of Dropbox's user base _are_ geeks. Like someone else said: it'
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by tofumatt 16y ago
Really? rvm ( http://rvm.beginrescueend.com/ ) has made setting up Ruby development environments on my Mac a breeze. I generally only run a few versions of Python (2.6 and 3) and do most work in 2.6 so I can't speak to that as much, but I h
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by tofumatt 16y ago
Check out Fusion Ads ( http://fusionads.net/ ) and The Deck ( http://decknetwork.net/ ) for vetted, pretty, and usually at least somewhat relevant ads that are online. Banner ads and cluttered pages usually suck, but I've probably clicked o
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by tofumatt 16y ago
There is a world of difference between liberty and license. I'm hardly the first guy in the room to be labelled politically correct but just because you can doesn't mean you should. And also, you can't mock (specific) people because of thin
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by tofumatt 16y ago
I think this is an incredibly frumpy and sad way of viewing childhood, and the mistakes we (are entitled) to make and learn during it. Everyone does stupid stuff when they're kids and lots of people (their friends/family) know about it, and
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by tofumatt 17y ago
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