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by drp 17y ago
Check out insurance auctions. If you can find a car that was totalled from hail damage or extensive scratches you can pick it up for cheap ($400-$1000) and still have a realiable vehicle for the summer. In college, I had a '96 Jetta with
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by drp 17y ago
You shouldn't include www. in the submission form. A person who is submitting a web application probably knows what a URL should look like, and it's possible (likely) that the app doesn't start with www. (see the URL you're currently visit
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by drp 17y ago
We used a vacuum press at work for a couple of years. It makes great coffee and it's mesmerizing to watch, video here: http://daily.hotpads.com/hotpads_daily/2007/01/coffee_revolu...
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by drp 17y ago
How many major awards for websites are there, and where does Webware 100 rank in terms of prestige and accomplishment vs. Webby Awards, etc.?
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by drp 17y ago
Short answer: it depends. /blog is better if you just want more pagerank for your main domain, subdomain is better if you want to build your blog into something important on its own. A subdomain blog with good pagerank also gives you the a
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by drp 17y ago
I thought the claim that they've created the 44th most powerful supercomputer to power their searches was rather interesting.
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Wolfram Alpha Architecture(highscalability.com)
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by drp 17y ago
One could always view tinyurl as a type of lossless compression for essentially limitless amounts of data. In that sense you can store as much as you like in a single tweet.
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by drp 17y ago
The forced unicode String complaint is quite valid. Implementing any sort of large in-memory index in Java basically requires a parallel implementation of String (not actually 'implements String') to keep its memory usage down to a reasona
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Vote in the 13th Annual Webby Awards(pv.webbyawards.com)
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by drp 18y ago
I work at (and and found my current apartment using) HotPads - http://hotpads.com We list about 300k rental houses and apartments all over the US
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Scalability lessons learned from YouTube, Flickr, Google(hfadeel.com)
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We've been working on this for quite some time and have hundreds of thousands of rental listings on our site (don't want to spam, if interested look at my profile). We're doing well, but it's still amazing how well craigslist dominates all
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Do you have a valid hacker's license?(voices.washingtonpost.com)
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Yahoo PNUTS(glinden.blogspot.com)
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by drp 18y ago
I'm very happy with a pair of Philips noise canceling headphones that I purchased for $60 a couple of years ago. They work best for drowning out air conditioning and fan noise, but since they're full size, they make everything quieter even
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Interview with Malcom Gladwell(goodreads.com)
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