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Kesty
13y ago
That may be true in the USA, in many other countries there are no such things. The PC industry is in a way better shape. Steam, GOG, ps3 and xbox store. There are way less restrictions based on countries and delays, and almost all games hav
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13y ago
While it means that customer repcan not see the password or that the password is hased, they should have a system to let them acces your account without asking for your password.
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13y ago
Every time I see people start arguing about editors I end up here http://xkcd.com/378/
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13y ago
Actually not in a case like this. This is not a pool for finding what is the "Best Language" (best language for what ?), but a pool to find what languages programmers like or dislike. That is a matter of personal taste and opinion
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13y ago
Reasons range from: 1) Big corporations don't like to overspend on PC hardware and can have great deals with anyone but Apple. 2) A company that work mostly on Windows platform (.Net, MSSql) 4) As weird as it sound some people might ac
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13y ago
Is not about Apple haters is that the security code is actually more secure than TouchID. If having TouchID will increase the amount of people that doesn't lock thir phone I'm up for it. But is not this amazing super-secure techno
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Kesty
13y ago
In the contact form the name is: Hidden McRedacted
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13y ago
I think it depends on why you are making the API. If the intent is to publicize your business by letting other programmers integrate their app/website with your service then I agree with designing an "API" that way. Because you don't want p
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13y ago
I've seen some of the new proposed ad-format for applications, they are a lot more intrusive than the one you will find on a webpage. And that is for a simple reason. On a webpage you can put more ads per page than on mobile. Say that on yo
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13y ago
It might be a joke, but is real. Adwise, the reason why you have more impression doesn't really matter.
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13y ago
Citogenesis http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/citogenesis.png
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Kesty
14y ago
I think the best advice is not that you should start working right now, but that you should plan that the last 20% of your project is the one that will take most of the time.
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14y ago
That's true if you are building something tangible. You can't simply start building something (like a bridge) and fix the mistakes you make while you are making them. But for programming ? You don't have those kind of costs.
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14y ago
The "bad" about that is that if "to google" became generic for "doing a websearch" is to stop other search enginge to start saying "Google it with Bing!".
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14y ago
Most professional website that base their income on ad selling will not rely on a Pay Per Click affiliate model, but will have an "Ad Sale Departement" that will sell most advertisment by a cost per Impression model (CPM, Flat Rate). By pro
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14y ago
I agree but, as you sayd, is a minority. Most people that say are not influenced by ads actually are even if they don't even notice. And I'm confident that most of the people that are using adblock are not in that minority. If you are not i
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14y ago
I don't think the ad business model is unsustainable for the simple reason that Advertising is too important for most Business to let go. I do belive that advertising agency have not kept up with the new Technology and are playing catch up
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14y ago
I can't tell you how many or which in the global market, because I have no idea and would only speculate. I only have an idea on the numbers in the country I live where I work for an online only news website that makes all the revenue with
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14y ago
If you are not talking about subscription I could see that happening but there is not a way to do that right now. The best way to do this would be a webservice where you can put some money and affiliates website can check if you are logged
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14y ago
On smaller website that use Advertising networks like adsense most ads are pay-per-click. On bigger website with a dedicated sale team most if not all ads are CPM payd per impression. Edit: Also I don't really buy the "I've never in my life
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14y ago
Because in the ads world more users is equals to more money. A small fee for hiding ads will not generate a small revenue stream but, at the same time, decrease the value of your adspace. And selling a consistent and growing userbase is eas
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14y ago
The point against AdBlock is that it will block ads from website you like and that make most, if not all, their moneys from ads revenue. You enjoy "free" content from someone and you block the only way they make enough money to stay alive a
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14y ago
I'm not trying to discount the value of risk avoidance they are both important and should both be used, but mitigation should always be the priority of the two. 1) When you have neither you should focus on risk mitigation first. 2) Having a
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14y ago
Everyone makes, has made and will make mistakes. Junior/Senior is not important. You also could set up 20 layers of dev environments and it still doesn't matter, mistakes can still reach the outer layer. You need to have the ability to reco
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14y ago
I've did a very similar thing after one year working at my company instead of clearing the whole user table I replaced every user information with my account information. I forgot to copy the WHERE part of the query ..... The only differenc
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14y ago
I'm sure it is, it's just that I personally don't like to register to stuff. I need to have a valid reason to register to a website and usually "to find out what the website does" is not one of them. I'm just saying that an explanation on w
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14y ago
>[...] Tracks requests etc. And it alerts you if the page has over X requests in a day. That's the (for me) interesting part but there are no signs of any of that on the website. Probably if I register everything will be explained to me
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14y ago
Since there are not FAQ/About/Explanation pages can you explain what is the idea behind this ? Other than an online webpage editor that works in Chrome. Edit: I'm asking this because I only see a web editor and a save button that ask you to
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14y ago
I am somone with a very low understanding of Video compression, who (working in a small company) had to create a "simple video compression system" for the dozen of videos we put online everyday. I'm saying that becaouse I'm probably someone
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14y ago
I think the kind of defense you need to use depends on what kind of website you have. Based on my experience if you have a small/medium website you won't find bots that execute javascript, understand a web page or use human spammers. Those
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