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by zealog 18y ago
While it is interesting that there is "no overtaking" in the ant world, I don't think this really has any real bearing on humans and driving congestion (as suggested by the articles subheading). Having sat in long, single lane stop and go t
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by zealog 18y ago
Like if you're as rich as Bernie Madoff you must be legit? You do realize that the "con" in "con man" comes from the word confidence, right? The most important thing for any scam to work is building confidence. What better way than with ce
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by zealog 18y ago
I agree. I've been using NGinx/Mongrel for most of my large deployed apps, but am working to get things moved to Passenger (and Apache, natch), simply for the ability to do a graceful restart on most code changes. For large apps, the ever
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by zealog 18y ago
Though, for me, it results in fewer visits to the site. I would venture to guess that each of those clicks are less valuable than 25% of a single click, but many publishers are always looking to fleece their advertisers any way they can.
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by zealog 18y ago
I sincerely doubt that Google fears Twitter, but twitter search can and does provide something very powerful that, at this point, Google does not. That "something" is real time info. Some examples: 1. Some Saturday Night around midnight t
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by zealog 18y ago
For me, the money wouldn't do it. I need competition. It actually works and I was winning until yesterday. http://zealog.com/zealogs/the-smaller-losers
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by zealog 18y ago
They are animated gifs (like ajaxjoad.info), but there are some nice and original spinners there.
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by zealog 18y ago
The smartest thing about this post is the point he makes about developers re-evaluating their tool chain at the end of each project. Anyone who makes tools needs to keep that in mind. I completely do that - and it's how I ended up using (a
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by zealog 18y ago
Very nice. I will definitely be using it in the future. Very near future, I'm sure.
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by zealog 18y ago
I'm not sure they've failed, but their lack of traction has to do with 3 things, I think. 1. Trying to do too many things. Too many features meands market confusion and cluttered interfaces. There is power in simplicity and purpose. 2. Tw
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by zealog 18y ago
This looks great, but I'd be hard pressed to use it on anything other than occasional headers until someone figures out a hack for copy/paste support.
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by zealog 18y ago
A pretty good article, but I heartily disagree about not using a conditional style sheet for IE. I develop for FF and Safari on a Mac. When things are how they need to be I run through the various IE versions and make sure they work like a
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by zealog 18y ago
I tend to go either way when building a site, depending on the market and how people are going to interact with the site and with others. On sites with kids, using real names is a BIG turn off and if it isn't clear how the name will be use
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by zealog 18y ago
I think this is an excellent point and really gets into what David was talking about in his (absolutely inspiring) Startup School presentation and how it relates to this post. To many people, being in a startup is about selling the same thi
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by zealog 18y ago
From experience, a private beta signup page leads to a pretty decent bounce rate.
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by zealog 18y ago
The title is hyperbole, but the core idea - recommended search by contacts - is what EVERYONE is trying to do. Even Google has admitted to such. I don't know that Twitter will ever be able to make use of it, but there are some bones there
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by zealog 18y ago
That looks absolutely great. Going to have to download now.
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by zealog 18y ago
For developing apps that run on a Mac, XCode. For web apps being written on a Mac, TextMate.
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by zealog 18y ago
I knew that I could do something like [:admin, @record] and the path would know where to go, but I didn't know I could do something like an edit path with edit_polymorphic_path[:admin,@record]. Very handy indeed.
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by zealog 19y ago
I've read about this bit of the book in other articles. The cheating was not on the books/10 commandments, it was on a math quiz (that afforded cheating) which followed the listing. For those that listed books, some would cheat on the next
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by zealog 19y ago
The article is very interesting on the psychology of how it works and anecdotally I would completely agree with the findings. However, the title is putting the cart before the horse. Just because people respond to things this way, it is no
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by zealog 19y ago
Nice overview for a first timer, but please tell me the designer is sending PNGs and not JPGs of a mockup.
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by zealog 19y ago
http://twitter.com/zealog http://twitter.com/aaronh
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by zealog 19y ago
Cool. Simple. Clean. Thumbs up.
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by zealog 19y ago
Great article and lots of good advice. The one about cheerleaders is important. I'd hemmed and hawed around my idea for months, but once I started building it, using it myself, and had a few friends as alpha testers, it became much more ex
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by zealog 19y ago
"The thought of wasting 4-5 months of my life like that scares me." I get that. It is incredibly difficult when you look at it like that. I have personally felt that pain of, "So, who I do I take time from, my wife or my kids?" However, i
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by zealog 19y ago
I saw this the other day and thought it was pretty neat. I'm a little unclear how it works. Does it actually attempt to load a page from the requested site or does it simply log the number of people asking about it and assume that somethin
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by zealog 19y ago
For me, it's all about number 2 (and how it relates to #1) and my current contracts and obligations at my "day job." I build startups all day every day, so I'm comfortable with the field. I've got what I think is a good idea and a ton of e
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by zealog 19y ago
I really think this is the key point and problem. If the people doing the heavy lifting aren't either passionate about the product or actually using it on a daily basis, you will suffer. I don't think you're doomed, but as a programmer, I'v
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by zealog 19y ago
I can't directly answer your question I have only used shared hosting, dedicated servers, and EC2. However, I would say that EC2 is actually not that expensive compared to the others. I've been using it for my latest project and really lik

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