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by utunga 15y ago
i guess his point was that the reason the web works at all, or tcp/ip, or email, or any of the really successful platforms - is because of certain contracts of openness and (essentially) fair play that are built into the very structure of h
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by utunga 15y ago
nicely demonstrates why some 'tech guys' are desperately in need of a good 'biz guy' (or gal!) if only to round out the edges of their horrendously overblown egos.
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by utunga 15y ago
Pretty excited to see. The research community needs a standardized corpus. However, not as exciting as I hoped it would be from the heading. What would be awesome - for us anyway - is if it was all/most tweets from a sampling of users (no
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by utunga 15y ago
A great idea - I have a real need for this and loathe absolutely loathe the experience on existing sites. No idea how you turn this into a business though. A bigger, happier font and bigger text search box would be easier and nice I tried
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by utunga 15y ago
As someone who runs both AWS and my own dedicated servers I'm starting to see a pattern.. MBA types talk about 'new trends', 'data centric startups' and new opportunities opened up by AWS and such. OTOH practical advice from real people wit
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by utunga 15y ago
and now we get to see how the people's liberation army responds to an 'internet scandal' in the west.. my guess? ignore it completely ';-)
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by utunga 15y ago
For an article about 'how to choose a web designer', I'd say that's a pretty important thing to get right. Business wise or otherwise. And you are right. It was a massive fail in that department.
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by utunga 15y ago
it's links like this that make me wish there was a down vote on hn
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by utunga 15y ago
> Any company can refuse service to an individual for any non discriminatory circumstance. Well, sure, ahead of time, but not after the contract has begun.
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by utunga 15y ago
I'm with you.. "The committees would then look at the submissions, starting with the ones that promised the most jobs at the least cost." Yoiks. Investment by government committee. Way to allocate all the wrong money in the wrong place
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by utunga 15y ago
@wordsontheweb: "Credit where credit's due, @twitter appears to have cleaned out the #eqnz spam" http://twitter.com/#!/Wordsontheweb/status/80183699127275521 I think she's right.
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by utunga 15y ago
It won't do a perfect job, and their will be false positives, but the point is, unlike with spam in email - because of their asymmetrical following model, false positives are not nearly as much of a problem. Twitter should absolutely do thi
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by utunga 15y ago
Just want to add its really such a goddamn shame that spammers are doing this - basically polluting the public resource of ad-hoc hash tags with their probably automated choosing of popular hash tags. I do hope twitter finds a way to deal
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by utunga 15y ago
Cross posting here in case it can help connect with someone that might be able to help: The problem with the geographical filtering is that very, very few tweets sent about the subject of the earthquake are geotagged.. as far as I can tell
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by utunga 15y ago
It's a really excellent piece. I was very much informed/inspired by this when I made my humble attempt at a 'understanding money from a game theory / social network perspective' video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQX3tNuC_TY
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by utunga 15y ago
myself also.. definitely would recommend for simplicity and cleanliness of interface. I've been steadily moving all my domains from gandi to iwantmyname for a while now... they also have all the tlds
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by utunga 15y ago
I think it comes down to a workflow thing - the reason the coder-come-lately comes in and messes with css in such an annoying way is because its just scary as heck to 'refactor' css in a way that you can be confident about (ie the exact op
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by utunga 15y ago
Probably this one: http://www.webstock.org.nz/talks/speakers/nicole-sullivan/cs... I attended the talk and the workshop. What is interesting is that it genuinely challenges. Some CSS designers who I really respect did not 'buy in' to her
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by utunga 16y ago
Suprised no-one has mentioned Nicole Sullivan's (amongst others) Object Oriented CSS (OOCSS) project: https://github.com/stubbornella/oocss/wiki She used this approach at Facebook (and Yahoo, I think?) to successfully tidy up a huge code
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by utunga 16y ago
I can pretty much confirm this is the case. I was told as much way back in 1996 at a job interview for the local part of (the what was then unnamed but now has probably changed its name again) Echelon network. (Run out of the GCSB in NZ). T
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by utunga 16y ago
sounds like perverse incentives - surely there is a lot more cost (human review, for one) to processing a check than an electronic transfer. here in NZ the bank fees for automatic payments or debit card like transfer is less than checks and
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by utunga 16y ago
.. if you want tutorials on how to create 'glitch art' for yourself, look here: http://danieltemkin.com/Tutorials/ .. including, for example, 'sonification' which is basically just opening a visual bitmap in audio editing software and se
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by utunga 16y ago
As a gag, years ago, I started a 'union' at a small software vendor/consultancy I worked at. Our first demand? Lower salaries.
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by utunga 16y ago
This counter-paper reads to me like spitefulness couched in scientific terms. Wagenmakers is, of course, on the very comfortable ground of defending the status quo from someone who is in all probability wrong. But to be fair, we should take
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by utunga 16y ago
Well, but it wasn't just Steve's presence on the call. The actual official guidance (for future revenue) was significantly less than investors were looking for. Expected December revenue was significantly less than you might hope for the se
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by utunga 16y ago
mmm NZ seems very high in the rankings but the vc/angel investment community very immature over here... possible opportunity for low hanging fruit just across the ditch for a few valley based investors perhaps ? ;-)
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by utunga 16y ago
An interesting recent example: http://flippa.com/auctions/84185/11000month-Revenue-No--1-In... A 'lifestyle business' - but fairly "web2 buzzword compatible". And yet, according to the fairly believable numbers they made than $100K in pr
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by utunga 16y ago
Wow - that's fascinating.. sounds like you are saying that 'sometimes even a perfectly tuned piano is not hitting the 'right' pitch for a song' is that right? From a music theory perspective I'd love to know more.. Can you provide any links
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by utunga 16y ago
just for the record there is this new high capacity link in the works.. http://www.pacificfibre.net/ it's looking for govt funding (and pretty well backed privately) but not a govt project as I understand
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by utunga 16y ago
yay .. except I have '40Mbps' now which works fine as long as I connect to a server here in NZ. Soon as its offshore (ie just about anything on the net) I'm back to nasty old half meg connections. I can barely stream the daily show. I far p

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