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Hipchan | 14 years ago | on: DotCloud Pricing Announced

Is websocket support for node.js coming any time soon?

There are already solutions for nginx/websockets on github.

Hipchan | 15 years ago | on: Mozilla: Browser Benchmarks Suck

Sorry man. I thought it was clear that it was says me. I'm just one data point obviously, but the speed differences on the sites I go to/make was clear. I removed the earlier comment, it probably sounded more authoritative than it should.

And I was referring to whatever Chrome web developer timeline calls 'paint'. FF could be faster in other parts of rendering, I don't know. But paint matters to me the most right now and FF disappoints there.

Hipchan | 15 years ago | on: Hire based on interest, not credentials

That's great when you're hiring CEOs or product people, but I think if you're hiring a manager it's ok if his interest is more in managing than the end product.

Otherwise what happened to Google will happen to you.

eg, losing people like Sheryl Sandberg because you can't accommodate the needs of competent careerists for self advancement.

Edit: Just want to clarify that I'm not disagreeing with the original post. When you're small everyone's a product person, but you can take that idea too far.

Hipchan | 15 years ago | on: The War Over ‘Mother’s Day Flowers’

I honestly don't get what Google is supposed to do in situations like this. Google's algos are supposedly measuring for 'relevance'. But when it's not documents you're talking about but companies offering probably identical flowers for probably similar prices it's hard the make the argument that one is more 'relevant' than another.

I honestly think Google should start a different 'business' section of the search engine that plays by different rules. That is ranked by custom satisfaction or price or something.

Otherwise the only ones who win are the SEO companies.

Hipchan | 15 years ago | on: Google humans.txt

I'm sure that's true, but I don't see why it would be unreasonable to use more inclusive language from the beginning.

Hipchan | 15 years ago | on: Google humans.txt

There was actually a question there. I wrote it. I asked whether or not humans.txt is speciesist, and narrow minded. It's a reflection on our current understanding of who our peers are. I felt that future generations would look back on humans.txt with contempt. What might AI, aliens, or other hereto undiscovered sentient organisms think? There are groups working on genetically modifying dolphins to make them more intelligent. I wouldn't want them to feel like they are second class citizens. I proposed people.txt.

Stackoverflow was probably not the right place for the question so it got closed with extreme prejudice.

Probably should've tried LessWrong

Hipchan | 15 years ago | on: Inuit.css - Another CSS framework

Looks nice. But there should be some way to see the source without downloading a zip.

Github is an easy answer, something like what the HTML5 Boilerplate or backbone.js does would be even cooler.

Hipchan | 15 years ago | on: Facebook - The Send Button, Because Sometimes It’s Private

I think a social layer is inevitable, the way that people used to interact with websites purely through urls today is too impersonal. What Facebook is doing is creating a great abstraction layer to improve the UX of the web as a whole.

Which is fantastic, except that it's Facebook.

Support an open competitor.

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