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Re:How to hack your brain - Part I: Sleep on Friday June 26, 2009 @03:39AM (#675098)

This study http://www.oniros.fr/A1350.pdf seems to indicate that sleep duration has no effect. Their interpretation is that a process is triggerd when you enter sleep but once triggered it is independent of wheter you sleep or not.

Re:Bing Brings More Conversions at Lower Costs on Thursday June 25, 2009 @10:54AM (#673733)

if impressions are down, it follows traffic would be

From what I understand it depends on the CTR.

My point is that a lower CPA is largely useless if the volume is also lower.

Now I don't get this. If you want more volume, you buy more impressions, don't you? CPA going up means you get more value for money invested.

Please correcct me if I am wrong.

Re:Bing Brings More Conversions at Lower Costs on Thursday June 25, 2009 @10:31AM (#673686)

So instead of providing negligible traffic compared to google, it now provides 22% less traffic

The 22% drop is not for traffic but for impressions.

Cost per Acquisition (CPA) down 3%

It seems however that it is positive for publishers since CPA is going down.

I don't know much about SEM but to me it seems that their advertising network is qualitatively better than before. At least on this matter and if figures are correct.

Re:Stop Password Masking on Tuesday June 23, 2009 @05:31PM (#671204)

Fair enough. I agree that the website may expose a "global" password as you and another person said.

I guess I'll design my future login boxes with security enabled by default and unmask option for the responsible user who would need it...

Re:Stop Password Masking on Tuesday June 23, 2009 @08:38AM (#670253)

not having someone look at your password over your shoulder is a requirement

What I say is that sometimes this is not a requirement even if the website offers a login feature.

I guess that for my online mail client I would prefer to have a masked password field.

Now for my account at an online rss reader I actually don't care that much because there is nothing to protect (at least in my opinion) and no value for someone to steal and remember my password. Maybe however I still want to be protected against someone on the web who happens to have the same name as I do and wants to steal my account... However the probability for this guy to be over my shoulder is quite low.

Maybe this is all a question of personal interest. Some users will prefer usability over security while others will prefer the opposite no matter the application. If this is the case then I would vote for having the option to toggle between one and the other...

Re:Stop Password Masking on Tuesday June 23, 2009 @08:14AM (#670214)

I have to disagree. Who wins between usability and security depends on the application you're using/building.

Rarely there is one good solution to fit all problems.

Re:Stop Password Masking on Tuesday June 23, 2009 @08:09AM (#670209)

Well that's actually their responsibility...

However they would appreciate the feature if they can't manage to make their password work (e.g. caps lock, different keyboard layout, etc.)

Re:GWT, Cappuccino, Sproutcore: AJAX-Framework-Shootout on Tuesday June 23, 2009 @05:57AM (#670066)

However I am wondering how much time is gained when one needs to custom design is website/web app.

As anyone had success on customizing cappuccino's design in a small time frame? How does it compare to the other frameworks?

Re:Someday we will all program in Python on Monday June 22, 2009 @09:06AM (#668674)

Well I guess the list comprehension and list slicing features in the above example are more interesting than the for loop.