Fun! I think having a max-width for the main div would help the UI a bunch, the header stretches my entire screen and the "How to Play" modal is pretty wide. It would also be good to be able to close the modal with the Escape key or by clicking outside of it! Lastly, a "Give up" option might be nice. I love the concept and I think the directions are well-written with helpful images.
Hey everyone,
I'm also a co-founder of CueNotes. Try installing the chrome extension we built and then watch this Limp Bizkit video with comments by Fred Durst: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fx9n-1ginEc
These guys are in my backyard and are featured in a great documentary on sustainability which focuses on the Sourland mountains in NJ (http://www.sourlands.com/).
It's a really fun tech podcast that is always one of the first things I listen to when a new one comes out. Just check out the list of recent interviews: Gabriel Weinberg, Derek Sivers, Jessica Mah, Patrick McKenzie, and more.
What he's trying to say, I think, is that you can only benefit from "being at the right place at the right time" if you have put in the effort to be ready to capitalize on that moment. If you put in the hard work, then there are many right moments and right places, otherwise they're just another moment that passes you by. DHH seems to be very angry lately, no?
One factor that I think the post gets wrong is that it's hard to make a bomb. The NYC "bomb" that just fizzled is a good example. From the limited descriptions it sounds like that thing would never have blown up. Catch fire and burn, maybe. You can't just throw some propane tanks, a couple of fireworks and gas together and expect it to blow up. The Oklahoma bomb was a huge undertaking.
Also, the more time and effort you put into building a real bomb, the more likely you are to get caught - buying lots of (the right kind of) fertilizer is a telltale sign.
I suspect there is a missing qualifier there. i.e; "Bombs are easy to make if you have some common sense".
Bombs can come in all shapes and forms; I'm willing to bet the vast majority of people here (for example) could overcome the problem of a) building it and b) not using obvious "tell tale" materials. Off hand I recall Meth can be created out of "household" products and the reactions involved can be very volatile/explosive - that seems like the possible makings of an effective bomb right there.
(also; tracking fertilizer sales is probably not going to help you ID terrorists :) I bet the numbers are just crazy - also, any sensible terrorist will be nicking small quantities from farms etc.)
On the other hand terrorist converts acting alone are, I suggest, less likely to be able to do the correct research and construction.
You don't have to set up a lab; the bomb is produced by unstable chemicals. At the very least you could drive up a van and mix those chemicals together.
So the article says that #0044CC is the $80 million color. But if you check bing.com they're using #0033CC. So what's up? Maybe it's a trick to get everyone to switch to the obviously inferior #0044CC color while bing laughs all the way to the bank with the real killer color!!
Bing - #0033CC
Google - #2200CC
DuckDuckGo - #3068DD
Facebook - #3B5998 (what where THEY thinking? ;-)
The point isn't that there's a magic colour, it's that they A/B split tested the new colour against the old one and saw an increase in the number of people clicking. It doesn't mean the process stops right there.
It really still depends on your use case. At my day job I advocated switching from SVN to HG and the change has been great - now we "branch" and merge constantly and it really helped our processes. On my iPhone game at home I still use SVN with beanstalk.com and it works great.
Very nice vision by Penguin. I can see the iPad being used by little kids all the way up to college students. I wonder how many colleges will give every incoming student an iPad?
