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by jhancock 16y ago
yes. I have a site that gets enough SEO juice to have 500-1000 uniques a day for the last 8 months...and none of it from the big G. I've done zero marketing...the eyeballs just keep on coming. I think its fine if some of the first eyebal
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by jhancock 16y ago
Good analysis. I have noticed this behavior is not as typical for poor Chinese (living in China). The new generations in China (under 30) are experiencing something closer to the U.S. "expectation" mind set. But Chinese from my wife's ge
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by jhancock 16y ago
Every time a component in seaside is rendered there is an opportunity to set the url. It can be useful for some apps to not have to worry about this either during some phases of dev or ever. seaside is continuation centric. You have to f
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by jhancock 16y ago
This is a good point. A search engine like duckduckgo can choose to make much less by not tracking so much user data...and its still "enough". There are other vectors to bootstrap a friends/family sharing system that values privacy. Such
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by jhancock 16y ago
It may seem bold but is well supported by Nokia (and Intel). MeeGo will use Wayland. Qt is being ported to Wayland. Nokia has firmly moved all its dev money squarely in this space. Recent moves show this is not an experiment or a side p
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by jhancock 16y ago
my source tells me the qq user base is around 600M
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by jhancock 16y ago
"Do you remember life pre-cellphones? When you left your house you literally dropped off the map." Yes. I miss those days.
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by jhancock 16y ago
I just got a call this morning from a client asking about a charge from "AETRION LLC." for $3 on their company credit card. I was about to tell them I had no idea until I saw this post and remembered I started this DNSimple last month as a
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by jhancock 16y ago
Cringely has a rambling thesis here. Too many loose ends to properly critique. I will give him this: looking up functional diaspora in the big G yields equally rambling results. 1 - first 2 entries are Cringely's own 2 - third entry is a
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by jhancock 16y ago
9 years back, I took a group of Shanghai government officials on a tour of U.S. tech companies. In attempts to appease their stomaches we went to Chinatown in D.C., NYC, SF. They were all terribly disappointed with the food. Why so? Wel
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by jhancock 16y ago
I can easily separate the OP's opinion and leaning from the background he adds to what I will see at the poll on Tuesday. The OP does shed light on what the vote is about, whereas what voters will see at the poll is, I believe, worded so t
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by jhancock 16y ago
You clearly do understand what the words on the ballot mean. I doubt most people seeing this for the first time at the poll will get it. I doubt most will even connect its meaning to employee non-competes. Note the word 'employee' is now
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by jhancock 16y ago
Thanks for posting. I try to stay up on the news yet had not heard of this. I do consider this HN appropriate.
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by jhancock 16y ago
This is valuable discussion but not to the HN audience as we already get it. There are some tough laws that can be applied to his behavior. I don't know what the odds are of getting caught into a criminal prosecution, but you don't want t
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by jhancock 16y ago
somewhat off-topic: I read somewhere recently that 35% of date site users are married. Can anyone confirm this stat or find a source for a more accurate estimate?
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by jhancock 16y ago
it was Thunderbird 3.0.7 on linux
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by jhancock 16y ago
Its still nothing new. IBM was doing this with mainframes in the '70s. The mainframes they installed typically had more horsepower than your were licensed for. When you needed more power, the IBM rep came over with an impressive suitcase
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by jhancock 16y ago
your sign-up email has a confirm link. It doesn't show up as a link in my email. I had to do a copy/paste.
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by jhancock 16y ago
<nit> Sign-up page username field. When I tab out of the field, I get the message of "This username is still available", ok, good to know, but I think it would be better if you only chimed in in case of an error. My first reactio
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by jhancock 16y ago
Any feel for "how many objects" 16GB holds? Sure, I know it depends on how big your objects are. But do you have any rule of thumb?
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by jhancock 16y ago
Your assertion that the China gov sponsors and pays for this is mostly unwarranted. I say mostly, as I can see why someone without experience in what goes on internal to the China gov may think such things. But you still have no evidence.
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by jhancock 16y ago
<aside> Use of the term "camp". This ErlangCamp seems a neat conference. I'm an erlang lover. The website and proposed content seems compelling. I helped start a few "camps" about 6 years ago. The idea was you put together all t
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by jhancock 16y ago
I was told by my lawyer recently that Georgia LLC law has been clarified to provide the same protections for single-member as multi-member. I do agree with your other general sentiments.
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by jhancock 16y ago
Braintree does even out on fees once the merchant hits a few thousand dollars a month in transactions. After grueling research, I wanted to use Braintree for a number of reasons, many of which you've pointed out. But the thing I am bootst
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by jhancock 16y ago
thanks for the tip. looks like a great choice. My MacBook Air is toast...that's what happens when you solder the RAM onto the mobo...$900 repair fee, ouch...I'd rather just buy a new laptop.
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by jhancock 16y ago
My #1 reason to buy Apple laptops: keyboard. All I want is a simple keyboard layout, like Apple's...no extra keys...no numeric keypad...no page-up&down...no custom keys to control media...oh yeah, and also drop all the extra ways to c
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by jhancock 16y ago
No reason to downvote you as its an opportunity for education. Not just for you but for almost everyone on both sides of this debate distracted and not focused on the core problem. The root of this matter is the FCC rules which prohibit t
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by jhancock 16y ago
So far there's not much to move on to. The only leverage they have is work slowdowns and strikes as their product line skills are of value. Guangzhou isn't a place I would be comfortable leading even a passive employee rebellion. Hopeful
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by jhancock 16y ago
This is very poor rational to support this level of usury. There are two components at hand: equity and wages. Employee equity could be increased (much better distribution) and most likely would have only positive benefits. If wages were
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by jhancock 16y ago
hmmm...so how did the U.S. manage prior to China joining the WTO in 2000? I remember 1999 quite well and don't recall significant suffering of the U.S. middle class.

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