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by kierank 17y ago
SimpleCDN change their pricing structure often. I've also experienced quite significant amounts of downtime. Also their routing system routes me to Chicago even though I'm based in London.
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by kierank 17y ago
It's because they have a tracking script that is overloaded and thus can't redirect you to the mirror url.
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by kierank 17y ago
_Only with the permission of the rights holders._ I don't have knowledge of the specifics of the case but I believe Google only have the permission of an organisation representing authors, not the authors themselves.
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by kierank 17y ago
Slackware is really about just being able to install what you like, whatever way you want to and it will just work. There's no need to have installed by default random daemons like Cardbus. Unlike ubuntu the other day, which felt like insta
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by kierank 17y ago
Well the people looking at Google Finance are generally well-off. It's the same reason why advertising on Bloomberg TV or CNBC is expensive.
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by kierank 17y ago
Funnily enough the public library here (or the person who runs their catalogue) uses amazon associates: http://library.redbridge.gov.uk/02_Catalogue/02_005_TitleInf...
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by kierank 17y ago
You charge the price+vat, then pay your VAT to your home government. But since it's a "Value-Added" tax you claim back VAT on the goods and services you have purchased.
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Silicon Valley Fight Club (Video)(espn.go.com)
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by kierank 17y ago
What's he's talking about really is strong filtering. Current filtering systems weight user contributions equally which means trolls and other junk get in there easily.
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by kierank 17y ago
Nail biting. Yes and no. Now it's not as bad as it used to be.
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by kierank 17y ago
You'd need some form of delineator.
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by kierank 17y ago
I expected a lot better from the Telegraph. However it seems online right now they are more interested in chasing digg traffic with sensationalist articles and headlines. (see http://econsultancy.com/blog/3801-telegraphs-social-media-st...
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by kierank 17y ago
I think it might be an SEO reason too. I remember they had a "people on this page searched for" box which was quite clever.
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by kierank 17y ago
Yeah, you're right, youtube uses SVQ.
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by kierank 17y ago
There's nothing about On2 that's worth more than ~$10m. It has quite a large customer base. Brightcove, Skype, Youtube to name a few. Obviously not in the league of H.264 though. EDIT: but still lossmaking... http://www.on2.com/file.php?2
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by kierank 17y ago
On2 had already disclaimed all their patent rights on Theora.
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by kierank 17y ago
Your also missing out on the fact there are "mature startups" that really should be classed as personal projects since there's no real revenue, only eyeballs.
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by kierank 17y ago
Somewhat ironic that a website about satellite internet has giant PNG files on it.
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by kierank 17y ago
There are official designations for material classed as "Top Secret" - These are "merely" confidential minutes from the Board of Directors meeting.
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by kierank 17y ago
Yep, they had one of those at my primary school.
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by kierank 17y ago
You're missing the fact that the people that are happy to pay full price are also (as a general rule) also happy to pay less than the full price.
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by kierank 17y ago
I'm amazed by their living/working space and it makes me feel a lot less bad about where I work from.
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by kierank 17y ago
One of the things that caused me a headache for about an hour was realising that you had to do a conn.commit() when updating or INSERTing.
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by kierank 17y ago
It's called not cutting corners and doing things right. You haven't seen Quicktime's H.264 encoder... Personally I think they have just managed to convince people that if something looks and feels good nothing else matters. That and playi
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by kierank 17y ago
IF they keep their pace of innovation, music industry in europe is bound for a shakeup. I'm not sure about this. I think spotify might become europe's YouTube merely because the benefits of the paid for model aren't that large compared to
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by kierank 17y ago
Flash connects to the RTMP server directly unless you firewall it correctly and thus can do the geolocation there.
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by kierank 17y ago
I don't consider Techcrunch tech journalism personally; I consider it tech company/tech startup journalism, which is slightly different.
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by kierank 17y ago
We have an equivalent of On in British English (I'm not sure if it's used in America) but it's considered posh. E.g. One is not amused.
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by kierank 17y ago
A while back I had a long, 1 hour train journey underground. In the mornings when I had a Palm Vx, then later one of those generic HTC phones I used this: http://www.plkr.org/ and synced up all the news sources I read (bbc, guardian etc)
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by kierank 17y ago
China, a country with 2 billion people has only 300 million users on the internet, compare this with America or Britain which has almost 100% internet access. You're getting confused between availability of internet access and the actual

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