…Serious offers only please. If I don't get any acceptable offers by next week, I'll put it up for sale on ebay.
Update: The MBP just arrived back from Apple and the fan has been fixed. They also replaced the new top assembly in order to fix a "crunchy" trackpad button. This means that, while the keyboard is not new and has had my grubby fingers all over it, the area where your delicate hands rest is beautiful virgin aluminum.
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This sort of "code formatting" isn't about correctness, it's about aesthetics, all in aid of making the code easier to read. Typography doesn't address what should be written but rather how it should be presented to make what was written as readable as possible.
§ How We Built eBay's First Node.js Application .
§ What's the shrewdest, smartest maneuver you've ever seen in business? .
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…What idiots we'll look like to sacrifice our early lead for the sake of helping a bunch of flaky eBay sellers." That IS a tough decision. And these forces are what complicate decisions like this, as you said, for entrepreneurs.
ER: Unfortunately, in the business school cases that get written about these things, things wind up looking really easy in retrospect, so the narratives we have make it seem, sometimes, like the founders must just have been idiots. Why didn't they just …
Fact 1: eBay sells 10,000 cars a week on mobile and targets $20B in mobile commerce for 2013
That is a staggering stat . The market tends to talk about photo-sharing apps (which also care about user experience!) and Facebook. But the reality is significant money is being spent on other mobile commerce apps and, just as the Internet proved, you need to manage the customer experience if you hope to get satisfied, return traffic.
Fact 2: Network-connected native apps are becoming …
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…performance? Once again, it depends on your application - as with any performance metric, measure it. The Ebay tech team recently published a great overview of various image optimization techniques :
This test from webpagetest.org compares the page load time of WebP vs. JPEG. The test has one page with 50 images in the WebP format, and another page with the same 50 images in the JPEG format. Because the WebP page had to download fewer bytes (474484 vs. 757228), …
A plastic case (~$12 on eBay which includes 3 heatsinks)
A SD Card reader (likely build into your laptop or PC already)
Network setup
A network lead and spare network port on your router
A DHCP server (your router likely has this enabled already)
A quality 2GB (or more) SDHC Card
I use a SanDisk 8GB Class10 30MB/s card (~$8.50 on eBay)
A 1Amp+ micro USB power supply + cable
I use a 2Amp dual portapow supply (~$20 on eBay)
Total cost: ~ 76.5 AU$ (= ~79 US …
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…great year in mobile. We came across an interesting conversation between eBay's VP of Mobile and our friend Robert Scoble. The conversation covers the impact of mobile on e-commerce, and how it fits into eBay's broader mobile strategy for this holiday season and beyond.
Steve Yankovich , eBay's VP of Mobile and now VP of Innovation and New Ventures, chimed in with a few key thoughts on how mobile will shape the future of e-commerce, referencing …
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…validity into account. They even enforce DKIM validity on eBay and Paypal messages as these domains are obviously interesting for phising and abuse alike.
Rocket Science
Is setting up an e-mail server that hard? In the basics, no. Setting up an MTA to send a message to another MTA is not anywhere near rocket science. And while e-mail is nothing more than exchanging aforementioned messages, we are already halfway, right? But the challenges administrators have to deal with …
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eBay has also adopted Node for ql.io, a data-retrieval and aggregation gateway. Benchmarks by eBay indicate that the company can support 120,000 active connections per Node process on a standard workstation.
Modules, Dependencies and Collaboration: The Node Way
Node's module system was built from the ground up to provide the cleanest possible experience for team collaboration and application deployment. Furthermore, many Node module developers have fully embraced the …
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…Paypal is, as mentioned, responsive when I have problems... but the CEO of eBay isn't running git bisect for me if I have an API issue, so I feel no need to keep them in my plans forever.)
Two minor niggles mentioned for the purpose of completeness:
They occasionally expect me to be a better programmer than I am, by trusting me to do things correctly the first time. (A customer had — I kid you not — a lightning strike hit her computer during checkout, and as a consequence the …
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