Mahn

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by Mahn 12y ago
My previous employer was a company doing hundreds of millions in revenue per year built almost exclusively on ppc advertising. I think the question is not whether ads work, but when and in which cases do they work.
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by Mahn 12y ago
Come on, it's an app that sends freaking messages. More complex things have been created as non-profit open source projects.
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by Mahn 12y ago
That wasn't quite like building your own levels though.
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by Mahn 12y ago
There are large PHP production applications out there that can't easily be rewritten overnight (e.g. Facebook's frontend), a better PHP parser is a great improvement for those cases.
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by Mahn 13y ago
> but it seems the whole "game" and all mechanics are just designed to slowly get you hooked and extract money at the most susceptible time Welcome to the games industry of today. It's all about this everywhere you look; i
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The history of Bitcoin in 4 minutes(i.imgur.com)
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by Mahn 13y ago
> Read-Only > Memcached Well duh.
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by Mahn 13y ago
No.
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by Mahn 13y ago
> IE pushed a lot of boundaries back in the day And then fell asleep for years. If it hadn't been for Mozilla, people would still be using IE6.
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by Mahn 13y ago
If I had money in bitcoin I'd find this movement terrifying. It is not correlated with broader economic movements or the inflation rate of USD, and has all the classic hallmarks of a bubble, including true believers telling everyone i
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by Mahn 13y ago
When he did it. Good luck with that time travel.
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by Mahn 13y ago
> Is it considered that hard and expensive to just run a full backend stack on your own machines Well time is money. Things that are not core to your business like managing email servers are better off outsourced; not because they are ha
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by Mahn 13y ago
Well it's built on top of Linux so it would only make sense. Plus they seem eager to get people to hack it, so why not? Can't hurt their business either way, they still own Steam as a store.
734.
by Mahn 13y ago
How about we let Reddit be Reddit and facebook be facebook?
735.
by Mahn 13y ago
Same here, I'd happily give it a go if it were self hosted since I was planning to build one from scratch, specifically with redis.
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by Mahn 13y ago
Redis is very much proven, tech giants are using large redis databases for quite some time now, see e.g. Instagram or StackOverflow. Maybe go with "Modern, proven technologies"?
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by Mahn 13y ago
Google is doing something very similar to this by the way. On their search results page, if you hover on any link the destination address shown on the bottom part of the browser looks like it'd take you directly there if you clicked, b
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by Mahn 13y ago
This is why I'd like to see APNGs catch up. There's a huge difference between 1-bit and 8-bit transparency, dithering and resizing would not come anywhere close to simulate this.
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by Mahn 13y ago
Clever idea, someone should turn this trick into a library.
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by Mahn 13y ago
Good luck transferring USD to BTC-e, and good luck getting a wire through from Mt.Gox afterwards.
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by Mahn 13y ago
This isn't "less evil" either, this is taking advantage of the unaware visitor resources without his consent; if I found a site doing this I would think it's downright malware.
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by Mahn 13y ago
> They were incredibly efficient with space Not saying they were not, but compressed 64 color graphics/palettes and 6502 machine code would usually not take an enormous amount of space.
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by Mahn 13y ago
Is this a good idea for him anyway, to openly divulgue every step he takes? Or did the information just leak ?
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by Mahn 13y ago
Yeah, I hate this. Can we all agree on just notifying the user of the existence of the localized version of the page in these cases, without explicitly and automatically forcing the localized version on them? I'm pretty sure this can
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by Mahn 13y ago
The market isn't by any stretch of the imagination mature, but my impression by watching the price these past three months is that external events do influence the price from time to time. That being said, the shifts happening lately
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by Mahn 13y ago
Technically speaking you would need one single rule in your web server configuration that rewrites all urls to a single router.php file (for instance), and code there your own logic to handle urls in PHP. This is not very different from o
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by Mahn 13y ago
There's always a bit of luck involved in these things that escapes reason. I seem to recall that at some point the landing page of Posterous was considerably more cluttered than the LP of Tumblr, and that kinda gave me the impression Tumblr
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by Mahn 13y ago
It's just PR speak for "we'll look for ways to make money with it that don't suck too much". Don't take PR speak too seriously :)
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by Mahn 13y ago
I don't think this is paranoid at all, so far all the online hosted wallet services, including exchanges, are young companies run by few people with usually questionable technical competence, and hence are very prone to being hacked every n
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by Mahn 13y ago
Now all we are missing is a Chrome Extension that automatically injects this in every page and stays hidden. Perfect office prank :)

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