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811.
by almost 17y ago
Amazons own SQS service has a simple solution to this problem. When you get an item from the queue it is temporarily hidden then once you've processed it successfully you explicitly delete the item from the queue. If the item is not deleted
812.
by almost 17y ago
That was my first thought as well. But I guess it depends on how often they need to update things. It might be quite nice to be able to deploy design tweaks in an hour rather than 30. But if this was a one off or very infrequent then I thin
813.
by almost 17y ago
Obviously I skimmed the article far too quickly. Here's the relevant bit: Compare the numbers of gifts for the two banners: #18: 832 gifts, $15073.47 total #22: 301 gifts, $9572.83 total Not close right? But look at the
814.
by almost 17y ago
From a very quick scim of the original blog Wikimedia blog post it looks like the total for #18 was higher (with the same number of impressions). What this suggests to me is that the lower amount shown on the banner made people feel there d
815.
by almost 17y ago
That may be unlikely to be frame-ups hoping to be NYTimesCo's subsidiary. It deserves more expensive to a blackhat SEO strategy. If having spammers link farms pointing at them. This is why Google would be careful when making these situation
816.
by almost 17y ago
That's most kind of you, thanks!
817.
by almost 17y ago
I wouldn't get to hung up on being "scabable" if I were you. Just do it and worry about that later if it becomes an issue (which it probably won't, plenty of sites are successful at what they're doing without having to many troubles in this
818.
by almost 17y ago
For those asking "What on earth is Munsell Color Space?": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Munsell
819.
by almost 17y ago
I'm not sure exactly how you can accidentally include an affiliate tag in a link. That and the rather over hyped title really do make it seem like this was rather deliberate. If I were you I'd either edit the link (if that's possible) or de
820.
by almost 17y ago
I don't think Amazon affiliate links are appropriate for posting to Hacker News. Does anyone else think it's ok to do that? edit: Non-affiliate link: http://www.amazon.com/Ultimate-Ears-Isolating-Earphones-Micr...
821.
by almost 17y ago
Ok, that makes sense. It was just the way he wrote it looked like he was comparing having a special drive letter with having a special folder which didn't make any sense. Being able to use arbitrary folders is indeed a very useful feature.
822.
by almost 17y ago
I don't understand how "You have to remember to put all your files in a special folder" (Dropbox) is much different than "You have to remember to put all your files on a special drive".
823.
by almost 17y ago
Ok, that makes a bit more sense. It's not that no one can be censored, it's just that the power to do so doesn't rest with a small group of admins. That sounds much better, hope it works out!
824.
by almost 17y ago
This worries me a little too. What about the guy who posts several messages an hour all consisting of only of swear words or who posts answers to newbie questions with links to Goatse or any of the infinite other ways I'm sure exist to tota
825.
by almost 17y ago
It is written in JS and it looks like that JS can be edited in the editor and reloaded on the fly. That's the core of Emacs I think, being able to recode the editor on the fly. I haven't actually tried that with YMacs so I don't know how we
826.
by almost 17y ago
Maybe there are people who found the article interesting and worth sharing but did not have anything original to add to the discussion. That doesn't seem too far fetched to me....
827.
by almost 17y ago
A decent used bookstore is a wonderful place. I can imagine wanting to support them if I lived nearby.
828.
by almost 17y ago
"Ymacs is an Emacs-like editor that works in your browser. Which applies, at this state of affairs, only if your browser is Firefox. It looks pretty good with other browsers, but it seems to be almost impossible to catch all the required
829.
by almost 17y ago
This seems like a good opportunity to plug my friend Felix's Machines. A weird collection of music making machines that remove the human from performance. Check them out here: http://felixsmachines.com/ Don't miss the very cool video here
830.
by almost 17y ago
Robots, lots of big robots :) So what I do now but more so...
831.
by almost 17y ago
So which browsers and OSs are supported then? Because when I go to browse fonts I just see a whole load of Arial :p A search function would be good too, the question I want answered is can I do my existing design using it.
832.
by almost 17y ago
I've committed a quick fix for the problems to me clone of the Git repo here: http://github.com/almost/redis Check the changed doctests for examples of why it was a bad idea not to sanitize key names and other params. Ignore the changed d
833.
by almost 17y ago
Redis is really cool, I can think of lots of uses for fast and lightweight and there's at least one project where it would have saved me a lot of effort if it had existed then! Watch out for the Python library though! It doesn't even try to
834.
by almost 17y ago
This seems so obvious there must be a good reason why they're not doing it. Anyone know?
835.
by almost 17y ago
Let bindings create a new local scope. It's only in the GHCi prompt that they apply "from this point on". It is possible to do a more global redefinition but as far as I know you'd have to suppress the Standard Prelude which would mean you
836.
by almost 17y ago
Someone did a real world thing similar to this using a 3D printer. They evolved their creatures up to a certain level in simulation then made them real with a combination of 3D printed parts and manually inserted motors. I've seen the video
837.
by almost 17y ago
In an apartment with no garden/yard? Is that a good idea? Apart from that, +1 for the general awesomeness of ferrets :)
838.
by almost 17y ago
This letter was written quite some time ago, it's certainly not an attack on open source never mind a continuing one :p
839.
by almost 17y ago
If you're looking for a Python CMS you might want to check out http://django-cms.com/ I'm sure it's not for everything but for me it's worked really well. It handles all the CMS bits in a nice way and you can still write custom Django bit
840.
by almost 17y ago
It can be, among other things. I'm just experimenting with it now by writing a literate PIC Assembly program in it. I've got circuit diagrams in DITAA, textual design stuff and the ASM source itself all in one file. So far so good...

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