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22Aug
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22AugInterns rule. @felipc rocks the multitouch in Firefox http://felipe.wordpress.com/2009...
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22Aug
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22Aug
A simple quiz for smart marketers:
Let's say your goal is to reduce gasoline consumption.
And let's say there are only two kinds of cars in the world. Half of them are Suburbans that get 10 miles to the gallon and half are Priuses that get 50.
If we assume that all the cars drive the same number of miles, which would be a better investment:
- Get new tires for all the Suburbans and increase their mileage a bit to 13 miles per gallon.
- Replace all the Priuses and rewire them to get 100 miles per gallon (doubling their average!)
Trick question aside, the answer is the first one. (In fact, it's more than twice as good a move).
We're not wired for arithmetic. It confuses us, stresses us out and more often than not, is used to deceive. [PS here are some reader-contributed explanations for those still lost: Charlie, and Nariman.]
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22Aug
Many people, well, geeks, are participating in a Twitter meme where lyrics to well-known songs are rendered in computer code.
If you don’t get it: songsincode tries to display either a title of a song or part of its lyrics (as some songs are more known by the refrain than their title – for example there is no such thing as “all the lonely people” by The Beatles) in code. This could be PHP, JavaScript or any other language. For this, sad geeks clever people use code constructs like if statements and loops to describe conditions and repetition. If you don’t get it, don’t feel left behind, it is hard core geek.
Chris Heilmann has more examples.
[via b3ta]
Update: Check out the origins of the meme.
[Thanks, Andy!]
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22Augso, who's going to be first to say "I had to submit my iPhone App to Phil Schiller's death panel" ? (via @kevinmarks)
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22Aug"Apache will fail if it receives a cookie header that exceeds 8190 bytes" @souders http://www.stevesouders.com/blog...
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22Aug"I spend my days in C++ on 32-bit Windows XP in Visual Studio 2005" -- Alex Russell http://alex.dojotoolkit.org/2009... That still feels weird!
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22AugOne side of the community; Rails 3 looks interesting. Other? Rails has become J2EE & promotes convention over thinking http://blog.alieniloquent.com/2009...
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22AugRestMS is like squashing AMQP and AtomPub together http://www.restms.org/article...
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