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What went wrong at Borders? Easy. They have a ubiquitous competitor who offers customers 1,000x the selection at lower prices. The only benefit Borders offers is immediate gratification for those who can't wait a few days, or a week, for their books. Borders has had the stench of death for a long time now. I'm wondering whether Barnes & Noble is next.
Great Stuff guys!! nice vision, presented very nicely!
Interesting-- see this thread http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2099774
Point to the memoirs from survivors that suggest otherwise...
"First, if you want to hire great Perl developers, look for people who have read or bought my book Modern Perl."

Really funny.
When coined, it was very much a He-Man reference. :-)
I'm not sure if you'd really call it 'in flux'.

We've been using websocket for over a year now on Mibbit. I think around 20% of our users currently do websocket.

Fair enough to wait and see though, hopefully they'll do it the same way everyone else has.
> training the users to use longer and longer search queries.
no, it isn't. it's a piece of cake. ... because there just is no competition. so the only thing you have to do is to create content that google sees as valuable (and a webpage that fullfills basic usage metrics requirements) ... but also the return is lower, that's were content farms come on in.

the art of SEO is one of the worst seo books ever, seo is a business, and that book is the worst book ever from oreily. 4 authors republish their outdated blogposts, stapled together in a near random way by an overwhelmed "editor".
This saddens me. Borders have always had nicer stores for a book lover than B&N... I can immediately tell if I'm going to like a bookstore by whether they display books cover-out, or on a shelf with the spine out. This immediately indicates whether they emphasize a large, diverse inventory, or focus only on mass market material. Borders did it right, unlike most other stores including B&N. They have an especially large technical inventory.

Their books were overpriced, of course, but they actually sent out 30%-50% off coupons weekly, bringing them basically to Amazon's levels - so while I did the bulk of my book-buying on Amazon, I really enjoyed dropping into the store every week or two and browsing for something fun to buy.
Well, if you were a self-entitled jackass like DL, you wouldn't.

(Let the politically correct downvoting begin...)
I hate metaphors. This one is obtuse and not very meaningful.
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I just don't see how that relates to "don't dork it up."

The insights gained through your own experience are interesting, but taken as a coherent piece of writing I'd say you dorked it up.
I don't think any of these papers should be behind a paywall in the first place. But that's another matter.
But mammals do! They are social creatures. A social group that has more efficient food use due to turnover of injured members would be selected for.
This is terrible news for all of us. I am forced to use Concur at work and it is by far the worst web application I have ever used.. Hours of frustration every month because of their terrible UX and buggy and confusing UI.

I hope this is not the way TripIt is going because it is definitely the best thing to have happened to travelers in a long time.
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It's getting better with the NIH forcing the deposit of a free to access version of a paper if public money has been spent on it, Pubmed Central is getting quite large.
FTA, his father is a longtime Democratic State Legislator.

He was sentenced to a year and a day in a Kentucky prison camp.
The one issue that I have with this, is that it very much depends on what you do at your particular shop.

Mainly, we use rails and it takes a while to learn all the individual parts of rails - it's just just a different way of writing the same code snippet, like changing languages, but an entirely different way of doing web development (MVC, Rest, Activerecord, Activeresource, Erb, Migrations, Testing) than .NET or PHP often is.

So it's a lot easier to switch languages than to switch frameworks and open source communities (we use lots of community contributed gems in addition to rails)

It took me about 6 months fulltime to get comfortable, and it would probably take a less enthusiastic developer longer.