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901.
by bprater 18y ago
Not sure if that's an accurate story title. If the server room were duct-taped up, it might be funny. But burning a CD to give tax avoiders a bad day because you are pissed at your employer, just not the same.
902.
by bprater 18y ago
Firebug is one of those tools you use and then can never go back to not having again. Awesome to hear a big ramp up in development. I'd be happy to pay for some kind of special version.
903.
by bprater 18y ago
I'm embarrassed to say that not once, but several times, I've collect loads of feeds and then rarely made good on reading them all. The stuff I was interested in would change over time, so I was left with feeds I wasn't so interested in any
904.
by bprater 18y ago
Points for creativity!
905.
by bprater 18y ago
Can anyone tell what the app did?
906.
by bprater 18y ago
Whoa -- midi time!
907.
by bprater 18y ago
If you're a hacker and haven't tried jQuery, you are truly missing out. It is one of the most fun technologies I ran into last year.
908.
by bprater 18y ago
From a marketing perspective: What is the fire burning in the pants of your market? (And who is your target market -- you've got teachers and students and school admins, please pick one.) The first thing I see what I visit your site: "You'v
909.
by bprater 18y ago
Don't be too hasty in judgment. My brother is a very good ColdFusion programmer. He got his start in the language because it was what I was programming with at the time. (Don't forget, around '99 when I got my start, there was Perl, ASP and
910.
One of the most sobering reads on our economic future... from our friends in Moscow...(links.org.au)
16 points by bprater 18y ago|7 comments
911.
by bprater 18y ago
Mmmm.... hacktastical.
912.
by bprater 18y ago
Not sure how this is entirely different that using a library of images that are tagged with common words. Is it a cat? dog? frog? giraffe?
913.
by bprater 18y ago
I'd say this is a pretty big deal if they push it into normal SEO results. I'd welcome it. I'm tired of spammy grayhat results I get now. Just clicking [X] would feel good. I think Google is finally realizing that the algorithms still have
914.
by bprater 18y ago
"Drive traffic" is still the problem. If 10 people a day visit and a person gets 2 hits out of getting their link on the page, they won't be back. If 10,000 people visited the page each day, and having a link on the page guaranteed 1,000 vi
915.
by bprater 18y ago
Agreed, you are missing an important element. There has to be an overriding reason why I should point my browser to your page or grab an RSS feed (assuming you have one). Can I win $100 a day by visiting your page, etc.? Find a hook.
916.
by bprater 18y ago
Can someone decode what the hell this article is about? A paint server is a.... ?
917.
by bprater 18y ago
Not entirely related, but I really like using 3rd party DNS services. (I use DNSMadeEasy.) They offer reliability, because they disperse their DNS machines geographically. If you keep your TTL low enough and your host has a massive outage,
918.
by bprater 18y ago
Great hack, always wondered how the tape was used as a recording device.
919.
by bprater 18y ago
Smart move.
920.
by bprater 18y ago
Can someone with an account please paste the article?
921.
by bprater 18y ago
Incoming rant: "Viximo is a venture-funded startup, based in Boston, building a digital goods platform that will help creators, developers, and online communities monetize social interactions." Seriously, guys? Is this what you do with your
922.
by bprater 18y ago
Anybody go to the last open house?
923.
by bprater 18y ago
I'm not sure what out of the box means. Good clients like Coda and YummyFTP support SFTP.
924.
by bprater 18y ago
If you post an old link like that, can you make it obvious why you did so?
925.
by bprater 18y ago
GEOS (for the c64) was the most damn amazing thing I saw back in the day.
926.
by bprater 18y ago
Well said.
927.
by bprater 18y ago
And in all honesty, if I stumbled on your site in the middle of the night, I'd immediately hit the back button. I would have no idea it's a personal site, or even what the point is. The biggest words I see are 'jrock.us' which has no meanin
928.
by bprater 18y ago
I know folks in the business of selling educational material to corporate customers and it's a huge business. If you have a corporate credit card and have to spend so much for education each year that kind of money is a no brainer.
929.
by bprater 18y ago
FYI marketing folks: this is how you snap an idea into people's brains: use an existing concept that everyone gets (buyers and sellers of drugs both distrust each other) and then link it to a more complicated concept. And paper writers: usi
930.
by bprater 18y ago
Create a proof of concept and make it publicly available.

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