nelsonweiss

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by nelsonweiss 13y ago
If "galactic tall tales" sounds like something you'd enjoy, Santiago would make the $3 minimum bid worthwhile. It's not what I'd call high literature, but I found it very entertaining and have both Santiago and the
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G+ Team Finds Link Tag Fetches CSS 4x Faster (Median) than XHR(plus.google.com)
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Google's "Newspaper Economics: Online and Offline" (2010)(assets.theatlantic.com)
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by nelsonweiss 14y ago
"I completely understand your position, but our rate even for original, reported stories is $100." (from original story) A confusing sentence if ever I've seen one, but are they saying they're offering $100 for reblog or for something else?
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by nelsonweiss 14y ago
The problem being alluded to is that adding an Oxford comma makes it appear as if "a policeman" is a parenthetical phrase describing George. "Through the window she saw George, a policeman, and several onlookers." Does she see two men, the
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by nelsonweiss 14y ago
An Oxford comma is used in a list. Two items wouldn't have a comma between them.
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by nelsonweiss 14y ago
Politely, I'd advise the opposite. Learn Leiningen- not only because it makes Clojure simple and pleasurable to use, but because it'd be a fantastic tool no matter what language it was part of. Project skeletons (new new), command line scri
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by nelsonweiss 14y ago
The Art of Learning is less about learning things than it is about becoming very, very good at the things you learn. While the book is highly autobiographical, the author does goes into a lot of detail about how he got really good at ches
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by nelsonweiss 14y ago
Sown, Normally I wouldn't go off topic like this but I didn't see any way to contact you and I just wanted to tell you that: a. Don't give up on finding friends. It may seem rough right now but these things have a way of changing over tim
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by nelsonweiss 14y ago
I could never get started with Noir. I know that a lot of people use it, but it was never a good fit for me and I ended up using Compojure + libraries. That said, I have been using bits and pieces of code from Noir - like the jcrypt bits -
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by nelsonweiss 14y ago
I don't think Mr. Atwood is suggesting that you bow to what the community wants, but rather that you implement systems to facilitate what they're already doing anyway. That aside, and regardless of if SO is going about topic policing in the
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by nelsonweiss 14y ago
Next question- what amount of money constitutes a digital aware subscription price? What range? And how are you determining this price? Second (though related), what is the place of advertising in this theoretical subcompact publication?
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by nelsonweiss 14y ago
Okay- Question for you Cmod: Why do you think that keeping issues at all is a good thing? Issues is one of those throwbacks to physical publishing. When you have to physically print and distribute, issues are a good thing... but online yo
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by nelsonweiss 14y ago
Short sweet tl;dr Online publishing nonsensically adopts many of the practices of offline publishing. It doesn't need to, and could benefit from adopting "Small issue sizes (3-7 articles / issue), Small file sizes, Digital-aware subscriptio
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by nelsonweiss 14y ago
Rewritten to be less complex and avoid unnecessary use of an acronym (not picking on you, just figured your good advice would be more easily read if it was written simpler): Keep it simple, stupid. Too much non-fiction writing is overly c