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901.
by cbr 14y ago
People who pronounce "URL" as "earl" say "an URL". (One of my coworkers does this, Australian if it helps.)
902.
by cbr 14y ago
I don't know about Minneapolis, but in MA you can withhold rent if the landlord isn't meeting their obligations. (Downside is making the landlord-tenant relationship more adversarial.)
903.
by cbr 14y ago
their Mod_Pagespeed service mod_pagespeed is an open source Apache module, not a service. Google also runs PageSpeed Service, an optimizing proxy. Both support automatic conversion to progressive jpeg. SPDY does as well, t
904.
by cbr 14y ago
What seemed less accurate? They should be doing almost exactly the same thing.
905.
by cbr 14y ago
Checking with some people here, it's actually more complicated than this: what I described is true for IE9 and below, but for Firefox, Chrome, and IE10 measured page load time will include execution of these deferred scripts.
906.
by cbr 14y ago
From memory, if something has no caching headers PageSpeed Service will treat it as Cache-Control: public, max-age=600 Combined with serving html as uncacheable, this is a pragmatic and functional way of dealing with the many sites
907.
by cbr 14y ago
you have to be extremely careful with setting headers for objects or every request will be proxying for an image from Cloudflare, back to the internet, then to your servers, then back through the internet, through Clo
908.
by cbr 14y ago
With defer_javascript on, browser-reported page load times tell less of the picture. The problem is that what browsers report back to your analytics service is the amount of time that passes before the onload event while defer_javascript [
909.
by cbr 14y ago
> Not to be confused with mod_pagespeed, which is an Apache module PageSpeed Service proxies your site, but aside from that the optimizations it makes are very similar to mod_pagespeed (and ngx_pagespeed). Which makes sense: they're cl
910.
by cbr 14y ago
I do set everything on Facebook to be public. That way I don't need to worry about the inevitable bugs and misfeatures that make things public when you think they aren't.
911.
by cbr 14y ago
DJB claims QCs don't break AES: http://cr.yp.to/talks/2008.10.18/slides.pdf
912.
by cbr 14y ago
> far too important to leave to a company that > considers support an exercise in statistic management My impression is that paid Google Apps support is pretty good: http://contact.googleapps.com/
913.
by cbr 14y ago
You can set gmail to use the smtp servers associated with your-real-domain.com and avoid this message.
914.
by cbr 14y ago
Fetching the url and sticking the "title" in the subject might be better.
915.
by cbr 14y ago
at the time there was still a school of artificial intelligence that assumed that a big computer running a really sophisticated program could be equivalent to a human mind We're talking theory, so imagine we have extr
916.
by cbr 14y ago
Price floors are dumb, but I don't see where Canada's constitution would prohibit one. (I don't see what would prohibit a US city or state from enacting one either.)
917.
by cbr 14y ago
It's implausible that these characters just happen to appear with a language-like frequency distribution and are all meaningless spaces Really? If I were to try to pick random letters I suspect I would end up mirroring th
918.
by cbr 14y ago
If it's in development and not released yet.
919.
by cbr 14y ago
http://aws.amazon.com/importexport/
920.
by cbr 14y ago
Not necessarily. Depends on whether you would have bought it for yourself.
921.
by cbr 14y ago
You seem to be implying that the argument is absurd, but reductio ad absurdum is valid. "If X were true then we would have impossibility Y, so X must be false."
922.
by cbr 14y ago
You can also use this illusion to make 'octveless notes': http://www.jefftk.com/octaveless/
923.
by cbr 14y ago
Perfect symmetry makes it more impressive?
924.
by cbr 14y ago
> the benefits of wearing a helmet apply equally to pedestrians and automobile drivers/passengers Cycling is about six times more likely to kill you, per hour, than driving. So while helmets in cars would help some, the case for them o
925.
by cbr 14y ago
> there's really just not much more a smartphone can, or really should do Really? What about: * haptic feedback as a 2d surface? http://senseg.com/ * replacing all the cards you carry in your wallet (NFC) * going a week on a charge
926.
by cbr 14y ago
A little looking suggests [1] that the high cost of shipping to Canada was from import fees: Shipping + Import Fees Canada $ 35.75 $ 162.63 United Kingdom $ 42.60 $ 85.65 Hungary
927.
by cbr 14y ago
Why would an automatic X% donation be "escaping [your] responsibility as a citizen"?
928.
by cbr 14y ago
Can you tell me more about the GiveWell verification?
929.
by cbr 14y ago
Still cheaper than west Cambridge, I'd bet: http://www.jefftk.com/apartment_prices/rooms.html
930.
by cbr 14y ago
They threatened this in a phone call, but he didn't record it so he didn't include it in the letter: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4325593

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