andymism

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by andymism 15y ago
> It could also be that they just aren't being implemented in a very intelligent way that makes them easy for people (or that the nerds are wrong–gasp! :) I agree. They are not implemented in an intelligent way which makes them clumsy a
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by andymism 15y ago
This was a timely article as I recently had a fun time playing devil's advocate regarding QR codes in a friend's start up idea. She insists that they are a useful, convenient, and a big trend. I countered that they require too much effort a
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by andymism 16y ago
It's not about the PDF copy having zero marginal cost. Manning is a business that is trying to offer an incentive for customers to buy direct from them. Are you suggesting that they destroy their own value add? Also, I seriously doubt that
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by andymism 16y ago
IIRC, Posterous does this as part of their caching strategy. Static content is HTTP cached and dynamic content is pulled in via AJAX on page load. The result is that the primary content is available fast and dynamic secondary information (s
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by andymism 16y ago
The distinction between web sites and web applications is not granular enough to make this decision. What you should be considering as a developer/designer of a web site/app is not about what bucket Flickr or YouTube or Yelp falls into, but
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by andymism 16y ago
Agreed. On top of that, the discussion about time in app is an implicit straw man. It's no surprise that one set of metrics might be more important to LinkedIn versus for Facebook, but the relative importance of a set of metrics for two dif
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Why LinkedIn is More Valuable than Facebook(blogs.forbes.com)
6 points by andymism 16y ago|2 comments
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by andymism 16y ago
As an introvert myself, I follow a short list of rules/steps before big events/social gatherings that starts a few days before the event itself. Although I'm usually physically exhausted the day after the event, I'm often complimented and m
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by andymism 16y ago
I'm also tired of seeing HTML5 this and that (as it's mostly grossly misused to mean 'highly dynamic'), but this <!doctype html> is actually how you declare an HTML5 doctype. They're also using the semantic HTML5 elements hea
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TextMate Dojo code completions(blog.briancavalier.com)
1 points by andymism 16y ago|0 comments
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by andymism 16y ago
Karma's really a proxy for community participation, albeit kind of one-sided since you don't get increased karma for up-voting someone else (and rightfully so). I don't think it would be unreasonable to say that if you don't participate, th
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by andymism 16y ago
If you're doing the work for a flat project fee, ask for 20-50% of the fee up front before doing any work. If you're going to be paid hourly, you probably would have provided at least an estimate of hours that the project will take. Your re
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by andymism 16y ago
Most of the time, I'd argue that you can't really say 'No' at all. Not if you want a happy client. If you do say no, then you'll just end up delivering an end product that isn't exactly what the client wanted and didn't have that feature th
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by andymism 16y ago
You can actually do better by selling software and hardware infrastructure to other evil geniuses working to antagonized (er... disrupt) established companies.
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by andymism 16y ago
Assuming your cofounder is also involved in the design of the product, the easiest way to show him the rest of the iceberg is to sit down and write a functional spec of the feature together. As a non-technical founder, he's likely just thin
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by andymism 16y ago
One of the major advantages to actually making things is that the students will be making things with each other . As many have said before, figuring out who to build a product with is just as important (or more so, even) than figuring out
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by andymism 16y ago
I agree that, in general, you should educate yourself about what your doctor is telling you and push back a little bit. It's probably a good practice of any thinking person. Routine conditions are a case where self-diagnosing will yield ade
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by andymism 16y ago
> diabetes patients test their own blood. If they need more insulin, why does a doctor have to prescribe it In many states (California is one) you can by certain brands of insulin OTC. The limitation is more a decision of the manufactur
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by andymism 17y ago
> My biggest criticism of the barefoot running crowd is that they usually treat it as a way of life. This behavior is a common pattern with groups on the margins. Although it can be annoying, it doesn't have any bearing on the merits of
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by andymism 17y ago
Looks like this one is already on there: "Argument from fallacy: if an argument for some conclusion is fallacious, then the conclusion is fallacious." Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_from_fallacy
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by andymism 17y ago
I thought the username and password was a good choice for this test. There really wasn't that much of a difference in phrasing between Patrick's form and the Huffduffer form. The most likely explanation for the drop off is the difference in
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by andymism 17y ago
The real problem isn't that the line ignores cognitive research, it's that the rest of the essay is built around a statement that is on fundamentally shaky logical ground. See fallacy of equivocation. The OP intentionally misinterpreted 'ac
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by andymism 17y ago
For me, the pain of ochem really depended on the instructor. Where I went to college, it really felt like 90% of the ochem instructors were either bad teachers or liked to watch students struggle. It was otherwise pretty easy material--if y
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by andymism 17y ago
I love to cook. My kitchen cabinets are stuffed with all sorts of kitchen appliances, pots and pans, and utensils. But even when cooking the most elaborate meals for up to 16 guests, I've found that I only use 5 or 6 tools out of my large (
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by andymism 17y ago
One of the things I'll be excited to see (or develop, if I'm fast enough) would be a social note taking app integrated into the reader, shared among a book club for example. There are plenty of constraints (slow screen refresh, not ideal us
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by andymism 17y ago
I thought the 'browser not supported' message was odd too. I got that message while signing up using my iPhone, but it seemed to work just fine.
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Amazon Kindle SDK Beta Applications now open (kindlepublishing.amazon.com)
33 points by andymism 17y ago|18 comments
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by andymism 17y ago
Yes, this will work if you want to keep from sending the password in plain text. But you should make sure you send the request via POST rather than GET and know that you are still vulnerable to replay attacks--an attacker could just sniff o
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by andymism 17y ago
What you're asking about is a pop filter. They're used in music recording to reduce a singer's mouth sounds (or plosives). It's basically a nylon screen placed between the singer or speaker and the microphone. You've probably seen these mus
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by andymism 17y ago
Third paragraph from the bottom of the post says they'll be releasing the source in Github this evening (probably pacific time).

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