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> 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 imp…

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 …

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 the…

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 co…

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…

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,…

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 exh…

I'm also tired of seeing HTML5 this and that (as it's mostly grossly misused to mean 'highly dynamic'), but this is actually how you declare an HTML5 doctype. They're also using th…

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 wo…

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 le…

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 ex…

You can actually do better by selling software and hardware infrastructure to other evil geniuses working to antagonized (er... disrupt) established companies.

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…

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 wit…

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. Routin…

> 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 …

> 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 b…

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…

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 m…

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 fall…

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 st…

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 guest…

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 …