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by alanh 13y ago
Absolutely. 90% of the time I hear about SEO is via spam submitted via my contact form. As you say, that is unfair to the people doing good work, but also completely… fair… for me to make that association
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by alanh 13y ago
There are many resources for this already.
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by alanh 13y ago
The author is a YC partner, so it almost automatically gets up-votes for that. (He’s right, but so are you — it’s hardly newsworthy.)
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by alanh 13y ago
Yes, and his blog’s title uses an ASCII straight quote in lieu of an actual apostrophe. Before that, Posterous’ default template had tiny, light grey, non-subpixel-antialiased text for body copy. It was excruciatingly hard to read. I never
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by alanh 13y ago
I’m not sure you understood what he meant by “good.” > The opposite of good is bad. The opposite of nice is unlikeable. That’s still a little vague. “Good” can mean “skilled” (as I think you interpreted it), but he actually means “hon
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by alanh 13y ago
Apologies for the self-promotion, but at NoRedInk, we are funded, have traction, and are hiring while improving the status quo of grammar education.
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by alanh 13y ago
I did not miss that. If a lot of the data in question is in the form of sparebundles, mp3s, and/or video — for me, it would be — then good luck meaningfully de-duplicating and compressing that.
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by alanh 13y ago
This is absurdly expensive. If you have a 400GB laptop, fully backed-up and with negligible deltas, you are paying $1440 a year. (400GB is not an absurd amount, either. I personally would ideally have about that much in my off-site backup.)
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by alanh 13y ago
Notice how all his "similarities" (minus twitter follower counts!) pit common and painful pratices from 1999 with demos from the modern day. Seriously. Demos! Which means that, no, we have not actually regressed into 1999. Elegant trollin
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by alanh 13y ago
Well, the oldest I had called “Kids’ Rave Book Reviews” — KRBR for short — and I had started off what I vaguely hoped to be a community project by posting my review of The Ear, The Eye, and the Arm, which I had just re-read in sixth grade
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by alanh 13y ago
No, you’re saying that filtering people == having a call to action. That is a false equivalency. I’m also not sure if you are attempting to attack me for only discussing Google. Of course I consider my criticism to be broad enough to apply
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by alanh 13y ago
So, there’s a semantic trick here. Technically, when an AdSense client targets their ads only to North American users who expressed an interest in <certain medication>, Google didn’t “sell that user’s personal information,” but… w
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by alanh 13y ago
Because you cannot immediately think of a study does not mean one is not possible. Consider: Measure changes in parents during child-rearing and correlate with measures of amount and style of "care" given to children. Are those that are mor
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by alanh 13y ago
I’m sorry, but your comment is quite confusing. Would you mind clarifying your points?
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by alanh 13y ago
You guys had the BEST loading animations, with that dancing h-house.
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by alanh 13y ago
My first actually-online website was on Angelfire. I’ll never see it again, because: 1. It was auto-deleted after a period of inactivity, 2. The Wayback Machine doesn’t know about it, and 3. My local copy was deleted by Microsoft thanks to
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by alanh 13y ago
Interesting! Sounds like we have different dispositions. For me, making money is a much more conscientious endeavor. (It’s spending that is automatic.) I think my main motivations here on HN are to learn and to inform — although maybe I’m j
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by alanh 13y ago
Hmm. My chiropractor says that standing is good and that alternating between sitting and standing is better!
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Ask HN: Chairs for use w/ standing desks?
5 points by alanh 13y ago|7 comments
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by alanh 13y ago
Ha! :)
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by alanh 13y ago
Huh. I used it successfully (pushing and cloning) several times over the last three hours, including just fifteen minutes ago
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Tell HN: We should say “shim,” not “shiv”
47 points by alanh 13y ago|12 comments
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by alanh 13y ago
Transcoding is not a computationally cheap endeavor…
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by alanh 13y ago
It’s like a classic John Siracusa criticism, but without the eloquence. Can’t disagree.
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by alanh 13y ago
My understanding is that you can use e.g. "rel=canonical" links to tell bots what the indexable URL of the current page is. Other tools in the box include UA sniffing and sitemap.xml.
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by alanh 13y ago
> I didn't notice the browser ads the http. This is baffling for me. You are not new to the Internet, but until only quite recently, every single browser always showed the protocol is the address bar. Only of late did Google Chrome an
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by alanh 13y ago
The material you quote is confusing, but what Stack Overflow and GitHub do that Markdown does not define is allowing auto-linking of URLs without the angle brackets. That is, http://ajh.us/ on SO or GH is the same as < http://ajh.us
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by alanh 14y ago
As another commenter here notes, this is in fact a “radial menu.” Terminology is important. Language loses power when we use words incorrectly, so please: Do not call this a “tooltip.” Tooltips are only ever displayed on hover (and disapp
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by alanh 14y ago
Content mirror: http://peg.gd/38G
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by alanh 14y ago
I can’t read the article. This URL ends up showing me “All the paths to immigration” or something. Does anyone have a copy of the actual content I can read?

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