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811.
by cbr 13y ago
I'm on v28, and I don't see a malware warning on that page.
812.
by cbr 13y ago
It's easier now, in that we have good well-documented software, but the external environment has changed. While other servers used to just accept the email you sent, spam countermeasures have gotten complex enough that if you just fol
813.
by cbr 13y ago
.2 per year is so much an overestimate that it makes your whole calculation off. For a scenario that specific .2 is maybe a billion times too high. (.2 is approximately once every five years ,for crying out loud !)
814.
by cbr 13y ago
You can generally get the page deleted only if it doesn't meet their criteria for a biography of a living person. Asking permission or being acceptable to the subject aren't in the criteria. See: http://en.wikipedia.or
815.
Is Pandora Really Exploiting Artists?(jefftk.com)
2 points by cbr 13y ago|0 comments
816.
by cbr 13y ago
By "OPML" they mean the subscriptions.xml file in your Reader takeout .zip It's a list of the feeds you follow.
817.
by cbr 13y ago
Many projects require copyright assignment in case they want to relicense. I wonder if they did that here?
818.
by cbr 13y ago
"If an incremental safety improvement results in higher manufacturing costs, the realized value of the improvement must outweigh those costs." That actually sounds pretty reasonable.
819.
Is Unicode Safe?(jefftk.com)
13 points by cbr 13y ago|1 comments
820.
by cbr 13y ago
While in Boston "the [number]" would mean a bus.
821.
by cbr 13y ago
straight_talk isn't comparing Singapore to North Korea; they're arguing that Tloewald's definition of evil is too strict because it wouldn't include North Korea.
822.
by cbr 13y ago
Saving lives 5x more efficiently would be awesome. But how many people over how many years does that take? It may be that someone like Trigg who is earning to give would actually do better to go into malaria research, but it's a hard ques
823.
by cbr 13y ago
"unless you're doing it like Bill Gates and can have very tight control over what your money is actually doing" This kind of impact is actually accessible even to people who are giving smaller amounts: http://www.givewell.org/charities/top
824.
by cbr 13y ago
"Warren Buffet just gave his money to Gates" Warren Buffet realized that a new charitable foundation wasn't needed and that by donating money through the Gates foundation he could accomplish more.
825.
by cbr 13y ago
We can't talk just about Buffett without considering reference classes. Before starting his career investing, Buffet didn't know he would do as well as he did.
826.
by cbr 13y ago
"If that is the best way to use money (and you choose an effective charity) that is what they will do." There are actually a lot of legal constraints on charities that make "invest the money for decades and then spend it" not work well for
827.
by cbr 13y ago
Supposedly Apple sold 23M iPads in Q1 2013, or 250K/day [1] but Google sold 4.6M Nexus 7s in 2012 [2]. [1] http://techcrunch.com/2013/01/23/apple13q1-iphone-ipad-ipod/ [2] http://techcrunch.com/2013/02/19/analyst-estimates-peg-total...
828.
by cbr 13y ago
Really? Cite?
829.
by cbr 13y ago
He said "conversions" were falling, which means sales: http://successfulsoftware.files.wordpress.com/2013/05/adword... But he doesn't say whether conversions-per-incoming-click are declining.
830.
by cbr 13y ago
Is this out of date: https://support.google.com/talk/answer/29291
831.
by cbr 13y ago
monetized?
832.
by cbr 13y ago
people use things in apparent ignorance of their historical context The people behind the Go language are definitely aware of the gopher protocol.
833.
Keeping Choices Donation Neutral(jefftk.com)
1 points by cbr 13y ago|0 comments
834.
by cbr 13y ago
The Model S is "Cool", perhaps, but not even vaguely innovative. It doesn't change any business models, it doesn't bypass anything or make any real changes , it's just a new kind of car that doesn't use gas (really, a big golf cart). It
835.
by cbr 13y ago
Why is it so expensive? It's not using top of the line processing, according to leaked specs. It's about as powerful as the original Kindle, which cost $159 right now. Is miniaturization and a metal headband a $1,341
836.
Helping Specific People: Why I'm Excited About Watsi(jefftk.com)
1 points by cbr 13y ago|0 comments
837.
by cbr 14y ago
I've narrowed down the problem to a specific change, and updated the installation instructions to use a release from last week before that change. People are reporting that this fixes it for them. I'm going to be putting out an updated ve
838.
by cbr 14y ago
I'm debugging this now. If you have anything atypical about your setup it would be great if you could post it to the bug: https://github.com/pagespeed/ngx_pagespeed/issues/292
839.
by cbr 14y ago
It does; that's definitely one of the intended uses.
840.
by cbr 14y ago
You can do this with Tengine [1], a version of Nginx that supports loadable modules: https://github.com/pagespeed/ngx_pagespeed/wiki/Using-ngx_pa... [1] http://tengine.taobao.org/

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