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by jeff18 17y ago
"Where there's smoke, there's fire" That's the mantra of conspiracy theorists, UFO forums, and Bigfoot communities. Let's give Yelp the benefit of the doubt before we assume that they are illegally extorting small businesses based on no pu
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by jeff18 17y ago
Yelp does not need to extort people to be insanely successful. It would be a pretty bad move, given that if they did actually do this, someone could: a) Simply print out the email where Yelp explicitly extorted them. b) Record the phone ca
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by jeff18 17y ago
Everyone is a "volunteer reviewer" on Yelp. That's how the site works. If Yelp actually told this guy to stop writing reviews, he should post the email and it would be #1 on Hacker News, etc.
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JavaScript Override Patterns(webreflection.blogspot.com)
5 points by jeff18 17y ago|0 comments
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by jeff18 17y ago
I gave this an honest try because the video looked awesome, but sadly it is not useful to me. I basically just got a list of thousands of retweets for blog posts and a bunch of Disqus comments. Despite combing through many pages, I serious
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Dragonegg Successfully Self-Hosts(blog.llvm.org)
33 points by jeff18 17y ago|9 comments
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Bespin Embedded 0.6.1: Syntax Highlighting Rebooted(mozillalabs.com)
15 points by jeff18 17y ago|2 comments
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JavaScript Overload Patterns(webreflection.blogspot.com)
2 points by jeff18 17y ago|0 comments
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by jeff18 17y ago
While it seems awesome that jQuery has doubled its speed in a single point release, I'm tempted to look a gift horse in the mouth and ask why this is the case? In WebKit (and increasingly FireFox and Opera), it seems like pretty much every
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by jeff18 17y ago
Whoa, crazy. It might be cool to make the scribd portion slightly smaller or somehow distinguished from the rest of the title.
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Invisible computer graphics(blog.wolfire.com)
6 points by jeff18 17y ago|1 comments
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by jeff18 17y ago
FYI, it looks like the title was changed to [scribd] but the file is still a PDF.
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by jeff18 17y ago
Are you claiming that books, software, and other pieces of intellectual property become cheaper over the years because the creator has finally recouped his or her costs of the initial creation and benevolently decides to give consumers a br
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by jeff18 17y ago
What I meant was that they have a single fixed cost (which may actually be very small) and the cost to manufacture an infinite number of them is near zero, despite charging a pretty penny for each one.
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by jeff18 17y ago
Cool article and informative anecdotes, and I ultimately agree that a $500 of wine is overpriced but for different reasons. I can't agree with the article's reasoning which is essentially: products should be priced based on how much they co
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QuirksBlog: Browser news from the Mobile World Congress(quirksmode.org)
3 points by jeff18 17y ago|0 comments
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by jeff18 17y ago
Have fun! I am going to take my virtual disk image to another service, and then switch back to Slicehost when they decide to start competing again. :) I didn't mean "commoditized" in a bad way, I mean in the sense that Slicehost is doing s
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by jeff18 17y ago
For some context -- Slicehost has had sort of a user insurrection on their forums, complaining that despite their massive influx of capital from Rackspace, Slicehost is totally uncompetitive with Linode and the hundreds of other nearly iden
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Google App Engine Blog: Scalability means flexibility(googleappengine.blogspot.com)
1 points by jeff18 17y ago|0 comments
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The breakdown of browsers HN readers use (according to referral traffic)(i.imgur.com)
2 points by jeff18 17y ago|0 comments
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by jeff18 17y ago
An article I wrote recently got on Hacker News. Here's the segmented referral traffic from HN to my blog: http://i.imgur.com/7gnH0.png
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Apple's iBooks Dynamic Page Curl(blog.steventroughtonsmith.com)
28 points by jeff18 17y ago|21 comments
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by jeff18 17y ago
To summarize, unprivileged accounts (e.g. a commenter) can view the deleted posts of all users (e.g. the admin).
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WordPress 2.9.2 (security fix)(wordpress.org)
3 points by jeff18 17y ago|1 comments
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by jeff18 17y ago
That's not quite how it works. It's more like implementors (who make up most of the working group) create features, prefixed in a clear namespace e.g. -o, -webkit, -moz, etc. and then submit proposals for these features which are reviewed a
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by jeff18 17y ago
These tables are just begging for a third-column: price. It's cool to know how these stack up to each other, but in order to actually get any utility from the article I'd need to go to 26 providers and see their pricing. I would also like
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by jeff18 17y ago
This is pretty meaningless. I hate seeing flamebait like this on HN. It would be one thing to intelligently argue that the WHATWG should make everything public and explain how this would benefit the community. However, this guy is simply
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by jeff18 17y ago
I will give you 50% of market value for your Kindle.
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by jeff18 17y ago
If I am ever successful, this is my dream -- having money to sponsor people to make my dream apps like this [and open source them for the community].
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by jeff18 17y ago
It's a great idea to leave a backdoor on all of your clients' sites controlled by a random dude.

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