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luckylemon, it's true that there's a guideline regarding blog posts that link to other material. You can see of the guidelines by following the link at the bottom of the page [1]. Thanks for contributing something you feel is interesting.
I personally don't like it when someone I don't know uses my name unnecessarily. It strikes me as odd and makes me think they're trying some psych 101 tactic on me. It's completely counterproductive because it makes meh mind jump off topic.
It's fine to show that you know someone's name (like at the end of a call), but if you wouldn't throw a friend's name into a sentence, don't inject a stranger's.
Still a stretch in my opinion.
I followed the link to Mercedes' site, and I didn't find "siri" or "apple" anywhere on the page. I can't watch the video right now, though.
Many companies, especially large ones with lots of lawyers, have developed policies and procedures relating to what's acceptable and what's not. But most smaller companies and startups don't seem to have time to formulate these policies.
A professional code of ethics, specially with regard to privacy and user data, would be very useful.
Right now, most developers operate on a "do unto others" philosophy. While this may be good intentioned and work well a lot of the time, it's highly subjective -- as evidenced by the comments on this thread.
Reader parsed it fine and displayed it beautifully.
Does anyone know how Facebook is doing their live-updating? Are they using polling a la Ember.js, or are they doing something along the lines of Web Sockets/long polling?
The feeling when a new customer from across the country signs up is a pretty good one!
In fact, this request has already been submitted, so you should just vote it up.
He'd have to have a sterile browsing environment to ensure his ads weren't related to something else on Google's ad network.
page_name is indexed with the term "pagename."
I did find a couple that were part of larger, more complex systems.
To answer your question, my service is dead simple to use, offers built-in niceties like SMS alerts and comes at a reasonable price.
1) I see what you mean. I need to make more use out of that area.
2) I agree. Twilio is pretty inexpensive, so I may go ahead and integrate with them. At first, I was seeing this as less of a near-real-time service and more of a, "hey, heads up" service, but I can see real value in providing more immediate monitoring and notifying.
3) Great point. I'll definitely add this to the FAQ, and FYI, it's polling every hour right now. As I mentioned above, I'm rethinking this, so I'll probably decrease the polling wait period significantly and I might make it user configurable. The connection is very light weight, so it's easy on my server and the clients'.
I'm glad you think it's a good idea. There doesn't seem to be much interest yet, but I'm still optimistic!
I like all of your suggestions, and I'm going to work on implementing them.