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Google Plans to Upgrade Old Billboards in Street View(readwriteweb.com)
19 points by wgj 17y ago|10 comments
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by wgj 17y ago
Didn't mean to sound that heavy. The daily wtf is in my rss; I read them all. (That's why I know the formula so well.)
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by wgj 17y ago
> this story is just an anecdote All Daily WTFs are anecdotes, designed to appeal to IT engineers and programmers, and usually portraying business owners and managers (and the other programmer) in an unfavorable light. It's a formu
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by wgj 17y ago
This article seemed misinformative to me. The experiment involved a very specific kind of driving, which could perhaps tell us something new about BDNF. Instead, the writer made inappropriately generalized conclusions about driving without
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by wgj 17y ago
Anything "Crunch____" for a website might put you in a trademark dispute. Or it might not.
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by wgj 17y ago
The comments below the article made good points: pretty much everyone at Palm has actually used one, not to mention the fact that lots of Palm’s engineers were copped from Apple… they most certainly know what an iPhone is. and I think Ru
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by wgj 17y ago
I'm a native English speaker, and I still didn't think it communicated well.
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by wgj 17y ago
I had to look up yoink: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=yoink Shit, ass, bullshit, and anus, I've heard before.
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by wgj 17y ago
I read all three maxklein posts in question. To me the issue is not in testing, marketing or conversions. It is embedded in the subtext of comments like this: > ...unimportant people with low follower counts. This shows a fundamental
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by wgj 17y ago
The conversation in the comments about how to name libraries is amusing. Who knew that by reading a post about Domainatix, I'd also hear about something called HookR?
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by wgj 17y ago
Assuming your technical skill is related to software: More and more non profits, charities, and even for profit companies that are serving the greater good, are using a lot of open source. Contributing to, or improving, open source projects
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by wgj 17y ago
You nailed it.
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by wgj 17y ago
The author is definitely talking about tracking. Kerning has to be done within the font/typeface itself, and yes the standard web fonts in major browsers/OSs are kerned. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerning
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by wgj 17y ago
How do you know who's upvoting those submissions?
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by wgj 17y ago
Thanks. That's really what I was thinking but I don't have the background to know.
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by wgj 17y ago
Regardless of the completeness of the language, I was really stunned by the total lack - as characterized in the article - of natural human curiosity. Does anyone know whether this component of the story is accurate?
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by wgj 17y ago
Thanks for the link. He even references this Larry Wall article in the footnotes.
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by wgj 17y ago
I think that's the first time I've heard someone specifically use the concept of Huffman coding in evaluating language design. It makes a ton of sense, and maybe it's a more well known viewpoint than I realize.
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by wgj 17y ago
On my CV I list the actual titles for each job I've held. In my cover letters, I focus on the role that was advertised, in their language. I've held many titles, but if all else fails I always know I can land a decent job as a programmer (r
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by wgj 17y ago
My first web app (no longer active) allowed dynamic styles to be applied to different elements on a page. I used dynamically generated <style> tags to do this, and yes I did hit this limit on IE. These days, I might dynamically gene
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by wgj 17y ago
The black box test really drives home the point that this is a very discoverable and exploitable issue when not handled correctly.
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by wgj 17y ago
Meaning there is a digital domain and compression can be performed there. It is still ambiguous as to what kind of compression is being described. I agree this was intended to describe dynamic compression.
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by wgj 17y ago
They are still talking about dynamic compression there. The music went through a different mastering process for the CD than for the game, and the game version was left with more dynamic range. His use of the phrase "digital domain compres
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by wgj 17y ago
I understand the difference in web vs. desktop. In this case, the intent as it relates to MVP is the same. The example given measured market interest without a prototype, so there is no iterative deployment issue. I can understand the appre
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by wgj 17y ago
Actually, that's exactly what it is: The canonical MVP strategy for a web application is to create a mock website for the product and purchase online advertising to direct traffic to the site. The mock website may consist of a marketing la
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by wgj 17y ago
Whatever happens, I'd enjoy reading about it, especially lessons learned. Good luck to you.
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by wgj 17y ago
Helpful, but not nearly as helpful as if they endorsed it. There's not enough context here to know whether they are happy with git in practice.
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by wgj 17y ago
> 90 minute long low quality videos If that's what you are offering, then I don't think it will do very well. Isn't the premise that there is good content to be found? Otherwise, why would anyone pay to view it? I know you're charging
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by wgj 17y ago
Good advice. Minimum Viable Product: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimum_viable_product
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by wgj 17y ago
What stops Netflix from coming out with a long tail model for self-publishing indie film producers? Right now, most of their cost is in the DVDs, but already many movies are offered with a streaming option. The next step would be to offer a

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