lootabooga | 14 years ago | on: So how many readers _actually_ read a blog post?
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lootabooga | 14 years ago | on: So how many readers _actually_ read a blog post?
People in general, might.
I do read, top to bottom, a lot.
And the scrolling js thing might tell even more than if they "scrolled to the bottom of the page", if it incorporated time data, i.e how much time it took them for each scrolling. If it took them long enough to scroll, then we can bet they actually read it.
lootabooga | 14 years ago | on: Wordpress on Heroku
You could use a WP plugin that stores them on Amazon S3. It's not free, but it's like < $1 month for normal blog needs.
lootabooga | 14 years ago | on: Wordpress on Heroku
No, but you can pay someone $100 to install it for you and more or less forget it afterwards (since even WP version updates are mostly automatic from the admin UI --and even themes can be installed that way now).
Or, even better, use a Linode image with WP already installed, boot it and you're in business.
lootabooga | 14 years ago | on: Iran blocks Tor; Tor releases same-day fix
Well, the main hurdle isn't technology, it's always politics.
Tor might have fixed the block, but an Iranian using the system could still be imprisoned by the government for using it...
lootabooga | 14 years ago | on: Turn PDF to Flash Flip Book with Page Turning Effects
No, please don't.
lootabooga | 14 years ago | on: iOS is anti-Unix and anti-programmer
"It's always choppy over WiFi in London from experience as there's so much interference from the amount of WiFi networks around and contention from the overcrowding."
Something that, magically, Manhattan, say, has managed to avoid.
Oh, and your experience is "borrowing an iPad for a week".
lootabooga | 14 years ago | on: iOS is anti-Unix and anti-programmer
> "The more I use graphical interfaces (or anything that does not operate on text streams - commandline curses programs included), the more I am struck by how profound the loss of composability is".
Er, try Automator.app for an example of non text-stream "composability". Also: Quartz composer. Also: Max/MSP.
Oh, and text-stream composability might be the "unix way" in, but is not exactly programming, it is command line glue.
Composability in programming itself is achieved via other means, for example objects, widgets, components, messages, etc.
lootabooga | 14 years ago | on: Generation X Stymied by Baby Boomers Refusing to Give Up Jobs
Mankind might --"free-market" neo-liberals and Ayn Rand fans, though, never.
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A lot of excellent texts I've come upon are not immediately capturing one's attention. In fact their intro text could be utterly lame and/or boring.