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by Encosia 16y ago
For different data point, I'm ecstatic about U-verse here. It's definitely the fastest, most-stable residential Internet connection I've had. I know that some cable service and things like FiOS are faster, but U-verse is the fastest thing
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by Encosia 16y ago
It seemed that MySpace belonged in the former group not too long ago, dominating competition like Friendster. With only ~10% of the world's population on Facebook, it may still be too early to speak definitively about the future.
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by Encosia 16y ago
I only skimmed the article, but my understanding was that they're using long polling to connect the clients to the message queue. In that case, using node.js and socket.io (as swanson suggested) could considerably reduce the number of co
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by Encosia 16y ago
I'd probably pay to use this if it had Outlook integration.
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by Encosia 16y ago
You can rebuild indexes in-place in even the free versions of SQL Server.
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by Encosia 16y ago
To be fair, Alexa doesn't purport to rank by page views.
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by Encosia 16y ago
There's not much to celebrate here, unfortunately. The bill was brought to vote using an accelerated procedure that requires a 2/3 vote. When it goes through the regular process that only requires a simple majority, it will pass easily if
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by Encosia 16y ago
Being overqualified refers to employers turning applicants down, not job seekers considering themselves too good for the job. It doesn't make sense for an employer to spend the time/money to get you trained and productive if it's obvious t
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by Encosia 16y ago
Good point; I missed that he was talking specifically about their managed email service vs. their hosting accounts. In terms of confidentiality, the Google Apps for Business terms and conditions are more reasonable than the free version. S
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by Encosia 16y ago
I used to self-host my domain's email, moved to Google Apps a couple years ago, and can't imagine going back. The onslaught of open relay probing and inbound spam was unbelievable. At some points, I honestly thought I was under a targeted
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by Encosia 16y ago
Even if you exclusively use Google's web interface to search, the Bing toolbar gathers anonymous data about your browsing (if you've got that option enabled). It's fairly clear about that when you install it. To my knowledge, all of these
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Microsoft's Bing versus Google, some observations(jacquesmattheij.com)
2 points by Encosia 16y ago|2 comments
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by Encosia 16y ago
Yes. From the original article yesterday: This all happened in December. When the experiment was ready, about 20 Google engineers were told to run the test queries from laptops at home, using Internet Explorer, with Suggested Sites and the
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by Encosia 16y ago
The Google engineers who planted the phrases were running the Bing toolbar themselves. That part isn't in question.
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by Encosia 16y ago
http://www.xbox.com/en-US/Xbox360/Consoles/Bundles/Xbox36025...
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by Encosia 16y ago
I've got one - my first console purchase since a Sega Dreamcast in the 90s. I think the more people that experience playing them, the more they're going to sell.
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by Encosia 16y ago
This looks great. I'm helping a friend with a site where this would be perfect for improving his conversions without as much work on my part. One question though. Do the visitors get a cookie to maintain the split on return visits?
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by Encosia 16y ago
I think it's hard to even begin to understand how deeply the Sherman Act has shaped the last decade at Microsoft. One man's languishing is another's staying out of trouble while continuing to rake in massive profits.
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by Encosia 16y ago
I didn't know what to expect, which is why I was testing. All of the desktop browsers on my machine do resolve the protocol-less URL in the address field though (as HTTP). I mentioned it because I can see how it would be easy to notice that
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by Encosia 16y ago
They do work in every browser browser I've tested. It's worth noting that I did find a couple browsers that won't accept a protocol-less URL in the address field (iOS Safari being one), but those browsers did properly handle protocol-les
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by Encosia 16y ago
It has taken over two years to get to the point we're at now in terms of a critical mass of sites linking to the Google CDN via the HTTP references. I'd have a hard time recommending people begin switching to the SSL reference now (sacrifi
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by Encosia 16y ago
As it turns out, Google does serve the script with SSL at https://www.google-analytics.com/ga.js if you request it. So, //www.google-analytics.com/ga.js works.
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by Encosia 16y ago
You may be correct about that. The last time I did in-depth testing, browsers were raft with inconsistencies when it came HTTPS caching (regardless of whether you sent the correct headers). Firefox wasn't even caching HTTPS content in me
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Cripple the Google CDN’s caching with a single character(encosia.com)
30 points by Encosia 16y ago|17 comments
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by Encosia 16y ago
That's the priveledge that Chrome extensions require in order to inspect URLs as you load them, so they can conditionally apply themselves to the appropriate site(s). As far as I know, there isn't a more granular priveledge to allow access
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by Encosia 16y ago
Using standardized gear doesn't really have much to do with expecting to go pro. It's painfully frustrating to play most any sport or game when the results of your actions aren't consistent. Couple that frustration with the fact that regul
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by Encosia 16y ago
Superficially, that seems like a great idea. I'd be concerned about wear and weight though. What happens when it's kicked into a pole, a car, a wall, etc? What happens when someone directly kicks the output port? I can't imagine this no
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by Encosia 16y ago
Hosting isn't really an issue. I've been running a .NET site on Softsys' VPS hosting for a while now, which has features and pricing comparable to something like Linode. If you outgrow that level of hosting, go Azure or colo your own machin
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by Encosia 16y ago
The simplicity of #1 and #2 seem to be overlooked too often, in search of solutions that look and feel more like traditional object orientation.
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by Encosia 16y ago
As it turns out, it works pretty well with the latest IE9 Platform Preview, long as you switch IE's user-agent to one of the supported browsers. I think you're onto something though, because it does look less shiny in IE than in Chrome.

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