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Why you should turn down a job offer from Facebook

Aug09
by on August 9, 2014 at 3:00 pm
Posted In: Analysis and Opinion, Around the Web, Entrepreneur

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Ilya Pozin is a serial entrepreneur, writer and investor. He is the founder of online video entertainment platform Pluto.TV, social greeting card company Open Me, and digital marketing agency Ciplex. Receiving an offer from a huge, established company like Facebook is a dream come true. Suddenly you’re imagining the great perks like a huge salary, free lunches and plain bragging to your friends about who you work for. But before you sign on the dotted line, ask yourself a simple question: Is this truly your dream? All of the benefits of working at a well-known company like Facebook can often blind you to…

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Google’s new Chrome Experiment tells the story of a unique spacecraft

Aug09
by on August 9, 2014 at 12:36 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Google, Product Launches

Google has launched a new Chrome Experiment focused on ISEE-3, a small NASA spacecraft that has roamed the Solar System for 36 years. The craft has now been turned into a ‘citizen science’ project thanks to a crowdfunding campaign. The ISEE-3 is set to pass the Moon tomorrow and to mark this, Google has published a video documentary enhanced by WebGL graphics, a chance to explore data collected by the ISEE-3, and a live visualization of its current position – all built with the modern Web technologies the company likes to showcase. A “live lunar flyby demo” is promised for tomorrow, so it’s…

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3 tools to help protect your brand while retargeting

Aug09
by on August 9, 2014 at 12:00 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Design & Dev, Insider

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Sam Barnett is the CEO and co-founder of Struq. It is possible for almost anyone to undertake some basic retargeting and get positive results. However, some methods are easier than others. The ‘easy’ method often results in damage to brand image as users feel hounded by seeing ads too often and for products that they have already purchased. This has led to a lot of advertisers going to external providers for their retargeting. There are three key tools that your retargeting provider should have so that you can enjoy the benefits of retargeting without sacrificing brand image or performance. 1. Frequency…

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One of these things is not like the other…

Aug09
by on August 9, 2014 at 11:56 am
Posted In: Around the Web

Sometimes when I copy code from the web and paste it into VBA, I get something like this:
 
Error
 

…and I’m damned if I know why. It’s not the usual culprit of incorrect quote marks. It’ something else, and I don’t know what.

Usually I just retype the offending line:
 
No error
 
…and after looking in vain for a difference, simply delete the bad one, and put it down to inexperience.

But not today. Because I’m tired of being compiled around. So today, I’m gonna find out why. And I’m going to use Excel to keep VBE honest. Conquer and #DIV/0, I say.

If I paste the two formulas into separate cells in Excel, then I can clearly see that something is amiss. I just can’t clearly see the actual something:
 
Excel 1
 

Okay, let’s get nasty, and atomise these suckers so I can compare their DNA:

=MID(A,ROW(A1:INDEX(A:A,LEN(A))),1)
=MID(B,ROW(B1:INDEX(B:B,LEN(A))),1)

Array
 

Well take a look at that…there’s the culprit:
 
False
 
No wonder I couldn’t see it:
 
Different

In this particular case, the culprit looks like Ken Pul’s Blog platform…I stole the code from a comment Jan Karel left there, and note that the code has no similar issue if I lift it directly from Jan Karel’s site.

There you go. Busted.

Makes me feel like singing:

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