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by eggbrain 13y ago
Not many now, but if websites start feeling the squeeze from ad revenue, it will become more common (see Hulu making commercials 2-3x as long if Adblock is enabled). It's also an unfair comparison because Adblock is opt-in -- you have
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by eggbrain 13y ago
This can only play out a few ways, right? A) Firefox holds its ground, Advertisers hold their ground as well. Advertisers refuse to work with websites that support the version of Firefox with "Do Not Track", unless the websites ad
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by eggbrain 13y ago
Unfortunately, this isn't the first time this happened. This also won't be the last time either. When you build apps on a platform, be ready to run into brick walls if you start to enter (or have already entered) areas that the pl
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by eggbrain 13y ago
Note: this isn't the full article. I finished the text thinking "hmm, that didn't sound so bad", but just before commenting, I searched for the article -- there is a lot more content in the Kotaku article than what is posted here (From "One
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by eggbrain 13y ago
I'm finding it hard to think up ways that this differentiates itself enough from Foundation or Bootstrap to be useful -- and your website isn't providing me any reason why as well. Compare to http://twitter.github.io/bootstrap/ and http:
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by eggbrain 13y ago
Does this chain all the way down? Aka if my prerendered page also contains a link that prerenders a page, does that page get loaded too? If so, if I prerender a page that prerenders the first page, does this crash the browser?
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by eggbrain 13y ago
I've been using GMail since its inception, so I figured I'd try the authors first suggestion, FastMail to see how the competition was fairing. The article mentions that FastMail operates both "free and paid tiers of service", so I figured I
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by eggbrain 14y ago
Looks to be mostly just splitting by the period -- see article "Startup == Growth", page 17 near the bottom (splits on 1.7x at the period, although it shouldn't)
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by eggbrain 14y ago
Some thoughts: 1) When I click the "list" button at the top next to the essay name, it shows me the same list that is on the left side of the screen. Why? Is there something I can do there that I can't do somewhere else? 2) Why make your au
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by eggbrain 14y ago
I think the biggest thing for me is that my smartphone has always been a "private" thing for me, a place where I can choose to interact with people, or spend hours playing Angry Birds. With this phone, I'm forced into an environment where I
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by eggbrain 14y ago
If you believe this so heavily that you are already quoting your previous comment, why not short Bitcoins at https://icbit.se/ ? Surely you'd make a killing on it if what you believe is true. It's easy to make grandstanding statements from
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by eggbrain 14y ago
I guess when your content width is 400px, 200 words is all you need to make it a wall of text and push it past the fold.
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by eggbrain 14y ago
It seems incredibly odd that a company would announce a public firing of their employees -- yet alone put it on their public Facebook group page, a page that should be focused on selling their product.
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by eggbrain 14y ago
I'm not familiar with the virtual assistant space, but my question is: Let's say I have the Lite plan, 5 hours/week. I then ask to get something done, like one of your examples: "Please create a professional powerpoint presentation from the
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by eggbrain 14y ago
I get immediately suspicious when the ingredients to make such a product aren't listed. Run faster, think clearer, all for 1/5th the price, with just one simple trick a single mom found! I'll assume this must be either satire or a sales pit
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by eggbrain 14y ago
I agree it has some great upsides. I love the idea of localization, and version control is nice to easily revert changes, etc. Having a scalable comic that can change text on the fly is something that I've been hoping for for a long time. B
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by eggbrain 14y ago
Here's my problem. It works, fairly well. But I spent about 15 minutes doing one panel, trying to figure out the minor nuances. I kept thinking to myself "I could do a whole comic in about 5 minutes in photoshop" as I adjusted the person's
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by eggbrain 14y ago
The whole issue is that Rails has tried to package what's 'probably a good idea' into the framework by default for quite a while. Unless every guide ever tells you to subscribe to the rails-security group, only those 'in the know' will know
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by eggbrain 14y ago
That assumes you know about the vulnerability, though. If you aren't subscribed to an email group, you might not find out for some period of time. The majority of Rails programmers, or beginners even, aren't a part of these email groups, so
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by eggbrain 14y ago
Agreed, there is a small possibility that the patching might break the app in a major way, but for the majority of apps (especially those developed by one person just for fun), the benefit of being patched will likely outweigh the chance th
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by eggbrain 14y ago
'I don't know if I like the idea of a single point of failure; whatever service pushes the update would have a big, fat Wile E. Coyote target on its back.' This is a solved problem though, right? Antivirus companies deal with this when they
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by eggbrain 14y ago
Would it ever be possible to have a self-updating framework? As in, I use Rails to develop web applications. In the past months, I've had to painstakingly go back to every single app I've ever worked on, and manually update it in whatever m
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by eggbrain 14y ago
It seems like having to install multiple different versions of Ruby/Rails is an important thing for a new person to learn, but we have RVM. It seems like getting a rails app deployed on a server is an important thing for a new person to lea
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by eggbrain 14y ago
Do NOT make this community about persecution -- I see no reason to list his Facebook profile in this thread other than to harass -- even if he has it listed in his profile.
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by eggbrain 14y ago
What your talking about is the JOBS act ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jumpstart_Our_Business_Startups... ), and it should be going into effect soon.
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by eggbrain 14y ago
Word to the wise -- open this link up in a new tab unless you like clicking back more than a dozen times
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by eggbrain 14y ago
I hate to be 'that guy', but this was just on the front page 4 hours ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4990950
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by eggbrain 14y ago
>That's the point. If you're doing something for free as a helper then there's no consequence for saying "hey sorry i haven't gotten around to the website yet, i've been really busy...". Agreed, but if you have no experience, nothing wi
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by eggbrain 14y ago
In my experience, the best way to learn to code is to find someone who needs a website built and offer to do it for really cheap, though not free. I'd highly disagree on this. The minute someone offers some sort of compensation for
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by eggbrain 14y ago
I want to admit up front that I am not a parent, nor am I a teenager -- I'm just a twenty-something caught between the two age groups. When I wanted something when I was young, my parents treated me somewhat like an adult -- if I wanted som

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