cowboyhero

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by cowboyhero 14y ago
Few crits & suggestions: - The layout does render correctly at 1024x768 (iPad). - Some of the drop downs do not work when tapped. - Make the movie detail page URL more SEO friendly (include the title instead of your internal ID). - Don'
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by cowboyhero 14y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Why%27s_(poignant)_Guide_to_Rub... Edit: Fixed URL
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by cowboyhero 14y ago
Nice! I posted a similar sentiment here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5108181 Perl or PHP, because why not?
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by cowboyhero 14y ago
She's also got a repo called "Kittydar" (Face detection for cats in JavaScript). This is someone who loves her language of choice and is just spinning out some fun projects with it. I think that's great. Rewriting sed in JavaScript is cool.
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by cowboyhero 14y ago
> PHP will slowly phase out over the next decade. Wordpress. It's become a full blown CMS and its own platform. Half the media sites out there are running it, or hosting with Wordpress Pro. Then there's a horde of casual bloggers managi
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by cowboyhero 14y ago
> We have server side JS (Node), Ruby, Python and Java -- Hey now. Let's not forget everyone's first love: Perl. :D It's still quietly running quite a few big sites out there, and is currently enjoying something of a renaissance with fr
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by cowboyhero 14y ago
The most striking thing is the across the board drop from one age group to the next. That to me is the more interesting story here. Curious about Survata' methodology. Neither the author nor their website go into a great deal of information
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by cowboyhero 14y ago
Figures in similar communities were older (Larry released Perl in his early thirties, Guido was pushing forty before Python gained traction). They also didn't come up in the era of YouTube, twitter, and archive.org. Thirty years ago Ruby-s
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by cowboyhero 14y ago
Very cool. Thanks for the clarification. Also: I'm not an expert, or a lawyer, but it's my understanding that you can't copyright titles, but you can trademark them, or portions of them. The guys (IDW?) that publish the "For Dummies" bo
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by cowboyhero 14y ago
Love the idea, the context, and the execution. It's a great project. Not a fan of the name. Zed Shaw has a well-established series of "Learn $topic the Hard Way" online books, with Addison Wesley publishing a 3rd edition of his "Learn Pytho
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by cowboyhero 14y ago
I downloaded a trial of PhpStorm last week, and loaded an old CodeIgniter project into it. The app flagged objects, methods, and variables that were created in other files as "undefined." I could see how that would be helpful under other ci
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by cowboyhero 14y ago
https://cooperpress.com/ It's not a blog, but a collection of weekly email newsletters. At the risk of sounding like a shill (because I'm pretty sure Mr Cooper posts to HN), I have to say these are each brilliantly done. There are separat
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by cowboyhero 14y ago
I think he buried the lede: Social login buttons can hurt brands. This'll date me, but I'm still amazed that so many companies eagerly slap other company's logos on everything they do. Even if it's just a blog post. This page is a case in p
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by cowboyhero 14y ago
This might be pedantic for this thread, I have to point out that Clerks wasn't really a "self financed" movie. At least in the sense that the final product you saw on theaters and on DVD was not paid for by Kevin Smith. Smith did spend arou
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by cowboyhero 14y ago
My favorite example of this is Penny Arcade. First year: http://penny-arcade.com/comic/1998/11/18 Five years later: http://penny-arcade.com/comic/2003/11/18
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by cowboyhero 14y ago
The problem is that this space gets oversaturated easily and the fallout is quick and brutal. Remember the Jaguar? 3DO? Dreamcast? The Phantom? All of them had fan support and all of them failed in the marketplace (and the "open source" Pha
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by cowboyhero 14y ago
It's more likely that some of these are defensive applications, to lock competitors from getting them (eg: blog, tunes). Winer is right, and I'm surprised nobody is writing about this or calling much attention to it. There's enormous potent
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by cowboyhero 15y ago
Congrats to Mr Veen et al, but ... Ugh. Typekit was a great service. I have little faith that Adobe won't completely screw it up.
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by cowboyhero 15y ago
twitter allows custom links/ buttons. These don't require on-loading JavaScript or any calls to their services.
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by cowboyhero 15y ago
Forget typewriters. I want a Bluetooth IBM model M keyboard for my iPad.
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by cowboyhero 15y ago
Clue me in about Facebook comments (I'm considering using them on a current project). Why do you consider them a failure? I thought Like + comments was pretty damned brilliant, because they make FB part of the infrastructure of so many site
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by cowboyhero 15y ago
People don't read. They scan. http://www.useit.com/alertbox/reading_pattern.html Your scrolling js metric is clever, but that doesn't mean they've read a thing. All it means is they've scrolled to the bottom of the page.
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by cowboyhero 15y ago
I generally like Siegler's stuff but he's so far down the rabbit hole now he can't see the reasoning behind concepts like 'bias' and 'disclosure.' Worse, he seems to be fully believe these things don't, or shouldn't, apply because he works
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by cowboyhero 15y ago
Because they're desperately trying to protect the sales of hardcover books, and, in part, trade paperbacks. They don't want to risk cannibalizing sales. Consumers look at ebooks like another variation of the same product. Publishers don't.
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by cowboyhero 15y ago
Correction: It's any computer, not just Windows PCs, and you can recycle old phones, iPods, and iPads too.
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by cowboyhero 15y ago
No, trademarks began and continue as a way to protect creators and commercial operators. It's a way to put your stamp on something and say "This is mine, I created it, I own it." It began, and remains, very closely tied to branding. It's no
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by cowboyhero 15y ago
Bethesda has multiple trademarks for the franchise. Each individual installment is trademarked, eg "The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim" and the entire franchise is trademarked, eg "The Elder Scrolls." If you (in the collective sense, not you perso
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by cowboyhero 15y ago
This story annoys me to no end, because it points once again to a seemingly pervasive online and generational sense of entitlement when it comes to things like trademarks and copyright. While C&D letters are never a nice surprise, Beth
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by cowboyhero 15y ago
Fair points, but: 1: This isn't exclusive to Groupon, and I'm not sure they're doing anything that CitySearch and AOL weren't doing in 1998. 2-3: Purely anecdotal but I've heard too many horror stories of small businesses being screwed by t
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by cowboyhero 15y ago
Also, Neil Postman's Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Showbusiness . Postman references Huxley/Orwell in the introduction. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amusing_Ourselves_to_Death

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