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by axod 16y ago
Do you really hold up the pages you post from Mahalo as a shining beacon of something you want to be known for? Pages full of auto-generated content and ads which you have managed to get Google to index? I'd understand if you were desperate
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by axod 16y ago
Cool. If that's the case, if they get everything they need from that page, you can safely remove all of the adsense plastered all over the page right? Since people are sitting on that page learning to play chords, and the content is so awes
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by axod 16y ago
Do you think those types of pages are providing real value to users? Come on... get real. There's obviously a reverse incentive at play here which stinks (IMHO). If you make the page useful to users, they wouldn't click on any of the ads. S
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by axod 16y ago
I see http://www.mahalo.com/how-to-make-strawberry-shortcake has 4 adsense units on it. Adsense says you're allowed a maximum of 3. Something I'm missing? Or is there some special Google deal by which you can add more than 3 and get away
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by axod 16y ago
Doesn't Google have a feature: [x] Never show me any more results from foo.com I hate that site. Remember my preference. If not, it should do.
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by axod 16y ago
That's frightening.
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by axod 16y ago
I mean the chrome bar and firefox equivalent - not labeled as a search bar, but it works as one. OK, not that new, but in terms of the internet, fairly new.
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by axod 16y ago
More likely is that they do use a search engine, but don't realize it. For example, new browsers with search bar functionality etc.
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by axod 16y ago
>> "They may even say "I hate you" or something similar. " My son (4) regularly says he's going to go and buy a new daddy. Yesterday I wouldn't let him do something so he took my fathers day card away that he made me! Made me laugh
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by axod 16y ago
I think it may be Pixars influence... Up! and Wall-e were both pretty adult intellectual movies (yawn). Hopefully Toy Story 3 has something for the kids as well (Haven't seen it yet).
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by axod 16y ago
Of course they do. That's the problem with democracies. They all turn into a cesspit of idiocy unless you keep control.
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by axod 16y ago
Sensationalist link-bait headlines have no place here IMHO.
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by axod 16y ago
Reading a newspaper is a completely different experience to getting all your news online. I started getting newspapers delivered when I was about 20 (I'm 32 now). The funny thing is people who moan on and on and make fun of people who get t
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by axod 16y ago
http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/scribd.com doesn't really show that, but then alexa is always to be taken with a pinch of salt.
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by axod 16y ago
No user cares or even knows that it's an image vs something else. As long as you can select the text etc it's exactly the same.
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by axod 16y ago
> "User Engagement Triples" Overly vague. Does that mean 3 times the page views? Nothing much seems to have changed on any traffic measuring sites (quantcast, alexa, etc).
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by axod 16y ago
Google managed. (They've been displaying pdf's using HTML for ages now). I know it's cool to hype up everything as HTML5 now, like it's something totally new and completely different to anything that went before, but it's not. It's just som
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by axod 16y ago
The task for a spammer isn't to hack <USERS> account. It's to hack ANY account. Being able to hack any posterous account is going to be far far easier than trying to hack a particular account.
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by axod 16y ago
It'll be that way until the US get rid of its guns, stop fighting the world and get some human rights in place... Don't count on that happening for a few hundred years yet though.
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by axod 16y ago
Surely the easiest way would be to require you put your password somewhere in the body of the email. eg: Hi this is an example blog post I'm gonna see if this works ys8uc99p
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by axod 16y ago
> "The other fix would be to use an email address that can't be guessed from the blog address. In other words, the email address is the password." You'd still be sending your password in the clear, possibly through other peoples mail se
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by axod 16y ago
> "Why does it matter if "anyone cares?"" Because some people are obsessed with what is 'fashionable' rather than what works to solve a problem.
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by axod 16y ago
> "Why don't you teach people then how to spend their time better with constructive arguments?" Yeah but it's like trying to tell people "Hey don't buy that prada coat for £500 that doesn't actually cover you properly from the rain, buy
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by axod 16y ago
Why is startup time relevant if you're doing backend server stuff? It's pretty much the ideal use case for Java. Java 7? meh. If you like chasing new shiny things all day, sure. Javascript is a great language, no doubt, but for me, it lacks
955.
by axod 16y ago
...and then interesting to see which client app is first to filter them out.
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by axod 16y ago
I think both have great support. They both have active and lively IRC channels where staff hang out. It's usually very quick to resolve issues with slicehost and linode. The pain point for me at slicehost was bandwidth - they charge a lot,
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by axod 16y ago
The transfer is a bit poor on prgmr though. $20 gets you 160GiB vs 200 on Linode. Also overage charges on Linode are pretty cheap (half what they are on slicehost). Depends if you need ram/disk/transfer though.
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by axod 16y ago
Also, no one cares if something uses css rather than js. The endless "X done only using Y" is cool from a hacker perspective, pushing boundaries is where the awesome hacks come. But users will just go 'meh'.
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by axod 16y ago
I wear glasses and my left eye is pretty useless - my brain pretty much ignores any signal from my left eye unless I cover my right. So unfortunately I can't really tell how much importance there is in things like this. You're probably righ
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by axod 16y ago
Lacking one eye really doesn't matter that much. You move your head a bit, you instantly know where everything is in 3D.

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