Travis

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by Travis 17y ago
Well, you're going to see drastically different numbers depending on content. The CPC ranges from pennies to around $50 for specific ads. So you can't make any sort of comparison between your site and your friend's. I recommend that you j
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Personally, I'd rather fill out a captcha each time than have an account. I just don't see a reason why I'd need an account. However, I suspect that this might be a pretty diverse issue (i.e. people feel strongly about each side, so there
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by Travis 17y ago
It looks very vaguely like the New England Patriots' logo...?
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A few thoughts off the top of my head (feel free to contact me out of band if you want more...) - text is nearly unreadable - there's no separation for any of the posts. no rankings, you can't visually separate elements within the post. t
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I manage my own, but I do that for my other jobs as well. So I guess you could say I'm a part time sysadmin. I say do it yourself. You don't have that much fine tuning to do. I just personally doubt that you're going to get very good "ma
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by Travis 17y ago
You can add more than 1 Amazon account to a Prime account. For example, I go in with 3 other friends; we can all use our own accounts, split the $79 (making it $20 apiece), and get the free 2 day shipping. Truly it's awesome!
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I think your confusion comes from the transition the world is undergoing WRT communication. Currently, there are so many ideas out there that the issue is to filter the ideas, rather than generate them. Perhaps when communication was much
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completed!
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I speak only for my startup, but we are honestly so busy and broke that it would be difficult for us to allocate resources (even if it's just mind share) for something like this. We've chosen to focus on the product experience, as we solve
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I have to suspect they will increase privacy controls shortly. Remember, this has only been out for 24 hours. Plus, I trust google more than facebook (I think). You hear what Zuck said? (This is paraphrased): "If we built facebook today I
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The delays and bugs importing tweets, I think, will sort themselves out as it matures. One really powerful thing I see is that it could serve as a mechanism to join the various microblogging (and, really, blogging as well) platforms into a
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by Travis 17y ago
Well, the past 15 years have been about increasing the amount of data a person sees. Then it was about producing content yourself. Then it was about social networking, then producing content on those networks. I think the search engines t
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by Travis 17y ago
Yes there is. If my company is not going to make any money from someone surfing on an iPhone, it will cost me money to test and make compatible, but I will realize no revenue from it. The ad extremum argument might be, "yes, there IS a bus
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by Travis 17y ago
This article almost reads like a list of stuff NOT to do, in my opinion. Of course, I am more of the "build something lasting, and of quality, and get on with your life" school than the "money over everything I'm going to die here at work"
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by Travis 17y ago
Ritarius, Here's a good post, if a bit old, on best ways to grab domains. It's changed a bit as domain sipping is no longer allowed. But it'll give you a good idea of one guy's attempt. http://www.mikeindustries.com/blog/archive/2005/03/
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by Travis 17y ago
Can't find the link, but flikr recently had a post somewheres (maybe highscalability.com? I cannot find it for the life of me...) about how they handle unique IDs. In essence, they have one "ticket server" that only runs a single database
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by Travis 17y ago
Yes, it is a very complex field of study. I am able to sleep at night by following as many of the best practices that are out there, even those I don't think apply to me. For checklists, look at the NSA's guide to hardening computers. You s
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by Travis 17y ago
Well, you can either keep bugging them to no end, or you can wait for a week or so then politely bug them again. Remember, this company has a million other things to do besides hire you. So while it's the most important thing to you, the r
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by Travis 17y ago
Couple of different options. There is a FF addon called gmail addon that makes it easy to switch. You could do the "forwarding" route which resends the email to your master account. You can add accounts to your gmail account, which will
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I do the exact same thing, except I'm more fluid with my layouts.
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Yes, it will let you host effectively unlimited domains. However, they usually say that only is allowed as long as you're not impacting other users on the (shared) host. If you ever were to try running a serious site off those, it would e
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by Travis 17y ago
Yes, I think it's unethical. First, the data belongs to me, and I'm allowing a specific site to use it -- not you. Even for sites that claim they own my data, it still doesn't give you any rights to it. Further, it is likely a violation o
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Ask HN: product roadmap drawing app?
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http://www.whenisgood.net/
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If you do want the SICP route, there's a free course going on right now at http://www.crunchcourse.com/ for SICP. I'm taking it at the moment ;)
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No, I wouldn't recommend this. It'll cost you anywhere from a few thousand to 10k+ per month. There are much better ways for you to "get the word out".
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I'd like to concur on the design element. You're asking me to trust you, but your site looks like it was designed by an amateur? Secondly, I would change the presentation of your "is it safe" FAQ. Yes, I am comfortable with Amazon or Gmai
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The web apps I've seen that do this all look pretty scammy. I wouldn't want them poking around my site. Then again, it is a public site, so... Anyhow, since there are several major attack vectors, there are also several different types of
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by Travis 17y ago
I actually signed up for a USAA free checking account minutes ago. Fully online. Not military -- they just opened it up. They gave me the option to select an overdraft account. I chose not to. So I'll get point of sale declines if I ev
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by Travis 17y ago
Agreed. Also probably the only way you won't get shut down by CL. I've heard that they monitor their usage pretty closely, so if you were to do something like cross-post from your forms or use CURL on your server to retrieve the forms/CAP

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