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by jotto 14y ago
i used this guy's hack to get Windows 8 for $15, no official license, but hey, no prev license required either - supposedly lasts until jan 31 http://everymantech.com/post/40133879737/windows-8-for-15-no...
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by jotto 14y ago
One POSSIBLE explanation for what Facebook would use anonymous bots for: verifying the advertisement goes where the advertiser said it would go. Facebook has problems with fraudulent or confusing advertisements. for example, iPad's being ad
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by jotto 15y ago
Worth noting that Gandi is not a US company and has no telephone number to call in case you need real, live support.
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by jotto 15y ago
Would this be considered price fixing by the surgeons? Is it even possible for a true market price to exist when insurers are involved?
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by jotto 15y ago
https://github.com/codebrew/backbone-rails will generate backbone scaffolding and includes JS that binds your rails model set/get to html element change events so you can go from 0 to functional and see how Backbone could work. Try a new
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by jotto 15y ago
the "too big to fail" situation is dangerous. the banks are _correctly_ making big bets because they know it's impossible to default since the government HAS to bail them out to prevent contagion.
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by jotto 15y ago
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3035418
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by jotto 15y ago
in your thought experiment, the buying power of a unit of currency would go up so the prices would go down. a big reason for a non-fixed money supply is so the government has the ability to change the money supply to maximize employment
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by jotto 15y ago
i dropped gandi this year because they emailed me asking for 1) copy of drivers license, 2) proof of residence, and the current drivers license address must match whatever your current address is. they gave me 1 week to comply or face delet
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by jotto 15y ago
TED talk on this. guy calls it a "filter bubble": http://www.ted.com/talks/eli_pariser_beware_online_filter_bu... TL;DW: filter bubbles/group think might be bad for a functioning democracy because functioning democracies rely on good info
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by jotto 15y ago
this whole article is practically useless without data on how the incoming traffic ultimately converted on momentgarden.com. (how many sales did you generate from picture B over picture D?) just like eve online's a/b testing that led to usi
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by jotto 16y ago
Any thoughts on what this is written in? How is it cross platform?
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by jotto 16y ago
this is not exactly true, there has to be a reasonable chance that this is a profitable enterprise defined both by your effort/intention and at least some profitability over a period of time. if it doesn't meet these standards, it's a hobby
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by jotto 16y ago
The people in their study (a group of 12, "bunch of volunteers, usually undergraduates but sometimes businesspeople or graduate students") don't seem like a group that would actually understand the value of their assets despite the value be
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by jotto 16y ago
http://www.prosper.com/ for those that dont know, it's basically peer to peer lending. investors decide how much risk they want to take on, and prosper auto allocates it among people requesting loans. you'll probably get better rate from
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by jotto 16y ago
if you're concerned with CPU performance at all, then stick with dedicated. VPS is performant, but i think you can yield a decrease of 10-30ms in pageload times from dedicated.
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by jotto 16y ago
where did you learn these details about how google's indexing algorithm works?
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by jotto 16y ago
anyone know when we'll be allowed to transfer our cell phone numbers (from ATT/verizon/tmobile etc..) to skype/google voice/twilio?
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by jotto 16y ago
i guess this could serve as a kind of honeypot so the company can observe the attacks on this guy and then improve the service. but according to the FTC in this article their service doesn't work so apparently it was nothing more than a mar
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by jotto 17y ago
fight club: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJdfWdIBfE8 "byproducts of a lifestyle obsession" "things you own... end up owning you" "working jobs we hate so we can buy ish we don't need" edit: link fixed
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by jotto 17y ago
Let us not forget that one of the originals behind Delicious Library now works (or did work) at Apple - http://www.mikematas.com/
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by jotto 17y ago
they had system-wide (cross data center) downtime (as low as 1 hour, others several hours) on October 7th.
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by jotto 17y ago
String.send('define_method', :discount, lambda{ |*args| "#{self} = $#{(args.first*(1.0-args.last))} (#{args.last*100}% off)" })
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"Ruby Metaprogramming PDF Beta Book".discount(21.00, 0.40)(dealzon.com)
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by jotto 17y ago
/mnt is not a ram drive, it's ephemeral hard disk, and EBS has better IO than the /mnt. You only get 1.7GB RAM on the small instance.
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by jotto 17y ago
they're getting closer but they're not there yet. they have an API method in beta that allows you to pull the last 50 posts of a user's mini-feed, and then you can grab comments for each post in the mini feed, but that's not going to get yo
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by jotto 17y ago
back in the day joyent/textdrive was working on some rails specific deployment strategies and just ended up with their "accelerator" AKA VPS AKA Cloud
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by jotto 17y ago
It is expensive, but i've found the dynos to be quite a bit more powerful than you'd expect. for instance, i'm getting the same req/sec from 1 dyno as i get from 3 passengers on REE 187. The CPU speed/rendering time is not as fast (getting
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by jotto 17y ago
they are supporting gems.github.com for 1 year, see article
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by jotto 17y ago
im in

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