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by ecaron 17y ago
The difference when using mt_rand is astonishing. PHP 5.3 graph using rand: http://twitpic.com/gq81b PHP 5.3 graph using mt_rand: http://twitpic.com/gq827
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by ecaron 17y ago
These cough aren't cough ads cough or cough solicited cough replies. I'm sure cough cough all posts on cough HN have the majority cough of the replies be glowing cough reviews on the link cough . Cigarettes don't kill peo
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by ecaron 17y ago
Blog about website design + blog post about website security = Excellent source of well-intended data that perpetuates PHP code that people think is secure For a better post on securing PHP scripts, see IBM's post at http://www.ibm.com/dev
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by ecaron 17y ago
Nothing speaks better of Carmack's genius than his magic number: http://www.codemaestro.com/reviews/9
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by ecaron 17y ago
I second this choice. Although it obviously hangs on how often you want to post and how related to your www's concept/product your posts are, the benefit of Google treating it as a 2nd site is tremendous. The site: handler becomes more usef
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by ecaron 17y ago
I think a better resource on the topic is Dan Ariely, his 4 minute video on the topic at http://bigthink.com/ideas/dan-ariely-how-can-people-overcome... , and his book Predictably Irrational ( http://www.amazon.com/Predictably-Irrational-H
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by ecaron 17y ago
But the point of these services is so that you can know how your competition is doing.
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by ecaron 17y ago
We've got a Twitter account, and a Facebook friend's page. I've leaned against doing a blog for two reasons: 1) There are many other experts in this field who praise us & eclipse my knowledge (like http://jobsearch.about.com/ ) 2) Othe
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by ecaron 17y ago
There's no way to them to get that interstitial data without having code analyzed/reporting per-page on the site (either backend Apache-log analysis or something like Google Analytics). Alexa did this for a while with their "embed your site
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by ecaron 17y ago
Since the service doesn't have jobs on it, it just points to josb (like Google, ignoring their cache), there are no resume services offered. For people wanting resume hosting, we point them to http://emurse.com The service charges employe
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by ecaron 17y ago
Compete & Alexa heavily rely on browser toolbars ( http://www.compete.com/help/s11 ) to estimate their data. They work hard to normalize their data, but you can probably imagine that the demographic of people with that kind of toolbar i
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by ecaron 17y ago
Where would you say "Hey, we're better"? Mentioning it on the service's site isn't that useful since the visitor is already there.
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by ecaron 17y ago
We're not charging a fee because we're firmly against charging jobseekers (who are usually unemployed). We're able to finance ourselves through the CPC methods.
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by ecaron 17y ago
The business is a job search website. Although the discussion certainly doesn't need to be limited/oriented towards that niche.
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Ask HN: How does free compete with paid?
8 points by ecaron 17y ago|16 comments
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by ecaron 17y ago
The fact that this article doesn't even mention Drizzle ( https://launchpad.net/drizzle ) makes me question if the writer understands that "forks" is plural.
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by ecaron 18y ago
Cybersource. Far and away. They're great assuming you don't need support, but if you're reading this then you probably don't need no stinking support!