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by dminor 16y ago
I never applied because they don't have a Portland office.
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by dminor 16y ago
I'm guessing most people do it either because of security or for deployment into non-wordpress situations (e.g., you can basically host your small blog/site for free in App Engine). For infrequently updated sites where there aren't multiple
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by dminor 16y ago
> you can always go back to renting in 5 years For definitions of "always" where the real estate market never tanks and houses are easy to sell.
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by dminor 16y ago
Another issue with this is that it gives Google Analytics a pretty dominant advantage. Suddenly all other analytics packages are shut out of Google search query data, unless Google is benevolent enough to create an API for it.
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by dminor 16y ago
Well, people are conditioned to expect it now, so taking it out could potentially have adverse effects. Might make an interesting A/B test.
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by dminor 16y ago
Yes, you'd have to somehow separate the dynamic content from the static content so they could be fetched in different requests and then combined (probably via ajax). If it's just your username and karma then it's simple enough, but if the c
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by dminor 16y ago
I've used this technique and works great (article is from 2006). There's a video of it somewhere too, which is helpful for seeing how "wet" the dough is. If you want to make bread on a regular basis check out "Artisan Bread in Five Minutes
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by dminor 16y ago
I think it's a law that any protocol or technology with 'simple' in the name invariably isn't.
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by dminor 16y ago
T-Mobile seems to have gotten away with it, so it was probably just a matter of time. 4G is just much catchier that HSPA+. Coming soon: LTE aka 5G.
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Google developing NFC payment system(electronista.com)
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by dminor 16y ago
Performance. Many of your visitors will already have it in their cache.
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by dminor 16y ago
That's all well and good for unsolicited email, but for those of us who have lists of people who have signed up to receive email from us, this sort of thing is terribly relevant. And if you're selling things online and aren't creating the
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by dminor 16y ago
Actually the core of XMPP is fairly small - an XMPP server need not implement every extension ever conceived of. Given that it's widely deployed, solves the presence and federation, and is implemented in a wide variety of languages, I think
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by dminor 16y ago
I think 1/12th of the entirety of humanity using your service is something of a milestone.
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by dminor 16y ago
Seems like there's a bunch of recurring credit card payment services out there now; what made you choose Spreedly?
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by dminor 16y ago
> Who's going to seriously invest in an online word processor or spreadsheet with Google apps squatting on the territory? Just MS. There are 6 listed here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_suite Google's word processor began life a
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by dminor 16y ago
> Anyone who drinks wine regularly can pick out a high-end Burgundy Pinot from a collection of mid-range California reds. Well, I drink wine quite regularly and I wouldn't be so confident, but I have very little experience with high end
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by dminor 16y ago
There's a correlation, but it's a weak one. Bad wines are almost always very cheap, but the range between decent and great is too subjective to expect a strong correlation.
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by dminor 16y ago
Previous (extensive) discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1719277
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by dminor 16y ago
Yep, just got one too. Willing to trade for a Nexus S though :)
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by dminor 16y ago
From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiller_VZ-1_Pawnee "Due to aerodynamic effects in the duct within which the propellers rotated, the platform was dynamically stable, even though the pilot and center of gravity of the platform were fairl
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by dminor 16y ago
This paragraph is particularly moving: "If I may be permitted to say so, the most fortunate experience of these past twenty years has been the selfless love I have received from my wife, Liu Xia. She could not be present as an observer in c
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by dminor 16y ago
For a similar adventure, check out bumfuzzle.com and go back to the very beginning of their blog.
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by dminor 16y ago
Someone in our office got hit by this - nod32 didn't stop it. In addition to hdd plus, the tdss rootkit was installed.
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by dminor 16y ago
Wasn't this already known? I seem to remember a discussion months ago about why some highly upvoted articles disappear faster off the front page than others.
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by dminor 16y ago
Do what you can to get links to your questions with the question title as anchor text. 1) Is it possible to require the question title as anchor text in the creative commons link that points to the question (and not a nofollow link obviousl
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by dminor 16y ago
Sure, but I'd rather not get bitten when I'm on a system where I don't have that alias defined.
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by dminor 16y ago
I also occasionally forget the -s, and really wish it was the default since I'm almost always creating a symbolic link.
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by dminor 16y ago
> In modern society most people have lost their respect for nature. So the people who don't risk their lives climbing mountains have lost their respect for nature? I think you might have that exactly backwards :)
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by dminor 16y ago
I like the white label idea - I think that's going to be pretty successful.

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