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91.
by drp 17y ago
Yep - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=791285
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by drp 17y ago
I would be very interested to know the breakdown for HN users.
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by drp 17y ago
That's called "banner blindness". It's important to keep in mind that banner blindness applies to things that look like ads, not just ads. http://www.useit.com/alertbox/banner-blindness.html
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When should you store serialized objects in the database?(mysqlperformanceblog.com)
3 points by drp 17y ago|0 comments
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Helping Computers Understand Language(googleblog.blogspot.com)
23 points by drp 17y ago|2 comments
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by drp 17y ago
States in this case is referring to US states, so I wouldn't say the statement is general.
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S3 Versioning Beta(developer.amazonwebservices.com)
11 points by drp 17y ago|1 comments
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by drp 17y ago
I agree that sites.google.com needs to appear differently. It actually took me a minute to realize that article wasn't on a google blog (I'm reading on my phone). Feature request here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=996374
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by drp 17y ago
Remember when video conferencing was the future? The new future is video conferencing without the video, just the audio!
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Building Super Scalable Systems: Planet-Scale Applications(highscalability.com)
4 points by drp 17y ago|0 comments
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by drp 17y ago
If you're adding more verticals to a parent product, make sure the verticals you add are closely linked in the mind of consumers, and not just in the data that defines them. We've seen both sides of this at HotPads. The site started out wi
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by drp 17y ago
Is that a hash tag? This is not twitter.
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Teaching a Computer to Understand Japanese(googleresearch.blogspot.com)
1 points by drp 17y ago|1 comments
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by drp 17y ago
Showing subdomains on all google domains would be nice. There are lots of submissions from sites.google.com that seem much more clickable because they end with (google.com). Similarly I'd be more likely to click a link from code.google.com
105.
by drp 17y ago
It's the game. It's tough to get used to. It's called Speed Forge 3D if you want to try it out - there's a lite version in the Android Market.
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by drp 17y ago
Linux compose key: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=962683
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Ask HN: What do you use for issue tracking?
5 points by drp 17y ago|6 comments
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App Engine Request Performance in Java(googleappengine.blogspot.com)
2 points by drp 17y ago|0 comments
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by drp 17y ago
To get to the firebug-ish dev tools, right click and select "Inspect Element", or pull down on the "Control" menu (top right) and you should see a Developer menu.
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Google Chrome for Linux(google.com)
181 points by drp 17y ago|78 comments
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Using Fake Documents to Get a Valid U.S. Passport(schneier.com)
1 points by drp 17y ago|0 comments
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Sometimes eight screens are better than one(google-latlong.blogspot.com)
3 points by drp 17y ago|1 comments
113.
by drp 17y ago
It's skirting profitability though. From http://www.4chan.org/news/?all#95 "We've long since shed the notion of recouping costs through donations, and instead turned to ad revenue for covering operating expenditures. Our entry into the w
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by drp 17y ago
I very strongly doubt that they will be unable to profit. They've just managed to rack up so much funding without doing so that they haven't made it a short time priority yet. If they had no master plan for huge profitability only idiot V
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by drp 17y ago
Why?
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by drp 17y ago
Wow, that's a huge improvement for Android Market sales figures in general. Just 3 months ago a top 5 app was getting $64/day http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=796685 and now #14 in travel is getting as much as $156.
117.
by drp 17y ago
That kind of salary still lets him build substantial personal wealth, so if he manages it wisely there will likely still be quite a large sum to pass to his heirs.
118.
by drp 17y ago
Just having money doesn't mean he has to blow it.
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by drp 17y ago
Is displaying a "that domain doesn't exist" page considered redirection? Otherwise what would you see in your browser? I wouldn't say OpenDNS is evil. Offering an ad-supported free service is how many things are allowed to continue existi
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by drp 17y ago
This was inevitable, and will give OpenDNS some major competition. Google could make tons of money from ads and sponsored results on error pages.

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