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by klint 14y ago
Most PR is not news. Writers for daily papers and blogs may run something they know isn't news to meet a quota (I've been in that situation), but the best way to pitch us is to give us something that's actually news. My advice: 1) We're not
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by klint 14y ago
I can't say what the best long term strategy is, but I can say that as a tech journalist I almost always prefer to hear from someone involved in a company rather than a PR firm. But hiring a full-time internal PR person isn't the same thing
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by klint 14y ago
"The fact that it rarely pays more than $300/wk (unless it's snowing) makes it a less viable option for people trying to make a good life for a family. That part's not really mentioned in the articles glamorizing the lifestyle." Here's a bi
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Is Hacker News The Superior Commenting System?(hopelesscom.de)
2 points by klint 14y ago|0 comments
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by klint 14y ago
Thanks, I'll have our webmaster check with Justin.tv.
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by klint 14y ago
On devopsangle.com or somewhere else? We don't do any sort of banner advertising, popunder or otherwise so unless our site has been hacked (I'll look into it) then it sounds like you've got malware on your computer.
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by klint 14y ago
So far, yes.
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Cloud in a Box? Meet IBM’s PaaS in a Box(devopsangle.com)
2 points by klint 14y ago|0 comments
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How to Spot a Reseller on Etsy(primesurrealestate.com)
1 points by klint 14y ago|0 comments
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by klint 14y ago
I'll take another stab at explaining this: Originally everything was done on dumb terminal connecting to mainframes. Then we got PCs and workstations that could run client-server applications where there UI lived on the workstation but the
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by klint 14y ago
Actually, there is one old model that this new model does remind me of: IMAP (and Exchange as well). The e-mail client caches local data, can operate offline and interacts with one server that synchronizes data across multiple clients.
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by klint 14y ago
These new tools are fairly different from the client-server applications of the 90s (and 00s and even now). Those desktop applications did have a lot of chrome on the client side, but the "real work" was being done on the server. Normal AJA
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by klint 14y ago
Right - it's not that no pages are going to be rendered and transmitted. You've obviously got to get the HTML/CSS/JS into your browser somehow. There's also going to be a certain amount of heavy lifting that will keeping happening server si