JustinSeriously

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by JustinSeriously 13y ago
Why Google made this change, from the article, "In this case, we are following the lead of the UN, Icann [the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers], ISO [International Organisation for Standardisation] and other international
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by JustinSeriously 14y ago
Another example: long form sales pages. They've been discussed here on Hacker News before, and many people here hate them, but they do (apparently) convert very well.
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by JustinSeriously 14y ago
For a bare-bones approach, this shell command would also do the trick. cut -d\ -f1 ~/.bash_history | sort | uniq -c | sort -rn | head (Note: There should be two spaces after the -d\ .)
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by JustinSeriously 15y ago
You're right, but money already is involved in these articles. Authors and actors (and agents, I've suspected in a few cases) are keeping a biased eye on their articles. I think it would be difficult for Wikipedia to be corrupted by money
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by JustinSeriously 15y ago
I've always wondered why Wikipedia doesn't include affiliate links to Amazon on all their book and movie articles. I think their current logic is that affiliate links force them to choose which online store they want to support, which is so
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Dear Congress: It's not OK not to know how America works either.(americancivicliteracy.org)
9 points by JustinSeriously 15y ago|2 comments
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by JustinSeriously 15y ago
(from Jakob Nielsen) "Web users spend 80% of their time looking at information above the page fold. Although users do scroll, they allocate only 20% of their attention below the fold." http://www.useit.com/alertbox/scrolling-attention.html
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by JustinSeriously 15y ago
As someone with technical knowledge and no purchasing power, I dislike talking to salespeople and technical people. I just want the name of a product that I can recommend to my boss. I want that datasheet. I recently tried to recommend a
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Words hardest to translate(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by JustinSeriously 15y ago|0 comments
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by JustinSeriously 15y ago
Some bots auto-revert changes that are likely to be vandalism or spam, like if an anonymous user adds a link to a blog on a free blog hosting site. (Specifically, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:XLinkBot .)
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How do the different DVD versions of Ben-Hur stack up?(widescreenmuseum.com)
2 points by JustinSeriously 15y ago|0 comments
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by JustinSeriously 16y ago
Sometimes you can work around this. Find the install.rdf file for the plugin, and change the maxVersion variable to "4.*". It doesn't always work, but I've had good luck with it.
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by JustinSeriously 16y ago
I ran it for Javascript, Ruby, and Perl, and I got this: {"JavaScript"=>48, "Ruby"=>46, "Perl"=>28}
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by JustinSeriously 16y ago
I was about the say the same thing, but about Infoseek.
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by JustinSeriously 16y ago
Politics and current affairs Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime. By John Heilemann and Mark Halperin The Bridge: The Life and Rise of Barack Obama. By David Remnick The Party: The Secret Worl
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by JustinSeriously 16y ago
I disgree. If someone replied to a post with, "You're wrong and an idiot," but the original poster replies with a reasoned defense, then I would certainly vote down the first reply and vote up the second. If someone is trolling with a dumb
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by JustinSeriously 16y ago
Which is often "just like game X, but more complicated." I think that's the route of most startup pipe-dreams: Take a successful site or product, and make it more complicated.
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by JustinSeriously 16y ago
Did they actually say "appreciate"?
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by JustinSeriously 16y ago
"some youths high on googlemania - a local thing" Is this really a thing in Germany? That's the weirdest part of this whole story, that kids would care that much about an international corporation like Google. It'd be like getting in a figh
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by JustinSeriously 16y ago
I've been trying to work this one through. One possible solution, (using a hefty dose of mathematical illiteracy, that looks like one of those word problems that occasionally appears in Marilyn vos Savant's column): base salary: $100
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by JustinSeriously 16y ago
Maintainability. Same reason that, when you code, you want to include comments, have good variable names, use reasonably-sized functions, etc. It makes maintainability and future extension much easier. Forget about semantic purity. CSS has
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by JustinSeriously 16y ago
It was a weird title. I did an an quick poll of two non-programmer, LOL-speak experts, and I got these answers: - If you can read this, you can get a job in financial program (if there were any) - If you can read this, you can get a job i
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by JustinSeriously 16y ago
Some people (myself included) like use Facebook as a mirror to their own social circles. Defriending someone from Facebook for an inappropriate post would be like defriending them in real life for an inappropriate joke. It's easier to just
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by JustinSeriously 16y ago
Even most of the original commentators, back in 02002, thought it was easily doable.
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Netflix wins a longbet from 8 years ago.(longbets.org)
214 points by JustinSeriously 16y ago|55 comments
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by JustinSeriously 16y ago
This issue has gone all the way to congress a couple times, but no real fix has ever come of it. Fortunately the market has already solved it for us. With Itunes and Hulu and DVD season box sets, we've gone all the past a la carte per chann
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by JustinSeriously 16y ago
A key word missing from the HN title is "most." Most door-close buttons don't work, most pedestrian walkways buttons don't work, but some do, and it's very easy to test which ones do. They aren't all placebos.
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by JustinSeriously 16y ago
I think this says more about your college/university than CS education in general. I have a BS in comp sci, and I had to write functioning code in almost every computer class I took. (The only exception being one A.I. course that was cross-
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by JustinSeriously 16y ago
Generalists should go for smaller companies, like small web development shops. Those jobs are always, "Programming, plus some simple web design, which means a grasp of SEO, probably Photoshop, occasionally sysadmin work, knowledge of Apach
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by JustinSeriously 16y ago
Proof that love makes you blind.

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