melvinmt

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by melvinmt 15y ago
If your business can simply be cloned by just reading comments on the internet about it, your business is not that great to begin with.
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by melvinmt 15y ago
Don't use IMAP for backups, use POP3 instead. If your e-mails are deleted in the cloud, your local IMAP e-mails will disappear as well.
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It’s Official: Facebook has filed for a $5 billion IPO(thenextweb.com)
3 points by melvinmt 15y ago|0 comments
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by melvinmt 15y ago
This is not cognitive dissonance, this is just guilty conscience that you're talking about.
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SOPA is dead: Smith pulls bill(mashable.com)
227 points by melvinmt 15y ago|76 comments
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by melvinmt 15y ago
"Why did SimpleGeo fail? 1. You could mean "to dwindle, pass, or die away". To this definition, I would say that no, in fact, SimpleGeo did not die, as it's going to be thriving at Urban Airship, working towards a larger goal of building a
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SAP Will Buy SuccessFactors For $3.4 Billion(techcrunch.com)
2 points by melvinmt 15y ago|0 comments
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by melvinmt 15y ago
Stocks that are publicly traded on exchanges are considered to be liquid too (because he can sell them at any given date).
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by melvinmt 15y ago
It is not subject to taxation since the money has already been accounted for in Bermuda (where there is no corporate tax). It is effectively the same as money laundering, but then legal and on a much bigger scale.
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Phorce-field: A Phish-proof Password Ceremony(cs.sunysb.edu)
1 points by melvinmt 15y ago|0 comments
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When to kill your tech startup(dirkdekok.com)
13 points by melvinmt 15y ago|2 comments
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Tinypay.me raises 1 million dollars to change the world of e-commerce(blog.tinypay.me)
1 points by melvinmt 15y ago|0 comments
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by melvinmt 15y ago
It's not that fast, Facebook actually starts the search query from the second letter (about 174 ms), before that, it uses the prefetched cache of first degree friends and apps.
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Groupchat.tv Brings a Google Hangouts-Like Experience to Facebook(techcrunch.com)
1 points by melvinmt 15y ago|0 comments
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Show HN: Group video chat with friends on Facebook (HAPI Hackathon)(groupchat.tv)
4 points by melvinmt 15y ago|1 comments
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by melvinmt 15y ago
I believe the best solution for fraud is to require the user to take a webcam shot of yourself while holding the ID next to your head. I had to do that once to verify my identity.
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by melvinmt 15y ago
Whoa, I think calling people after only 10 mins after I've sent the mail is pretty obtrusive. Surely I would give them enough time to read the mail, think about it and give me a reply whenever they're able to (within a reasonable amount of
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by melvinmt 15y ago
There's a € 25.000 euro fine on every violation of the court order. Google doesn't want to take a chance to leave room for even the smallest amount of ambiguity, so that's why they've removed all links to those newspapers.
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by melvinmt 15y ago
To me, Quora felt like a big blog site, where nitty people spent hours of writing nitty comments and the 'question' just set the topic. Quora was never that interesting as a pure Q&A site. If you ask practical, unsexy questions you will
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by melvinmt 15y ago
Had to reboot my server 4 times, before I finally got to install WP-Cache hehe. Hope it holds for now :)
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by melvinmt 15y ago
Working on it, didn't expected this much traffic.
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by melvinmt 15y ago
Light is not slow, you're just comparing the wrong things. A processor computes instructions in parallel. It's like comparing the speed of 3 separate light beams to a single light beam. You can't say the 3 light beams were faster because th
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by melvinmt 15y ago
Wow, this looks indeed way better than identicons. I'll email you to enquire about the code.
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by melvinmt 15y ago
It's not silly for people who are actually using this. I'd rather pay for the service than living with the uncertainty of getting a banner because you can't pay your CDN bills. That's really the only thing that prohibits me from using this
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by melvinmt 15y ago
Yep, I agree on the +1 part. Sometimes I hesitate to like things with FB because I know I'll be spamming my entire friend list. Liking is not the same as sharing.
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How to turn Google+ in a real app on the Mac (plus.google.com)
2 points by melvinmt 15y ago|0 comments
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by melvinmt 15y ago
I've been able to video chat with EVERY contact I have through a range of services (Gtalk/Gmail, Skype, MSN Messenger, iChat and even my Nokia N95) for years now, and I still don't feel the incentive to do it - so that's why I'm not too exc
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by melvinmt 15y ago
Spotify has completely replaced iPod on my iOS devices and iTunes on my MacBook. Coming from Europe, I'm using Spotify in the States for over a month now so I guess that once you get a (paid) subscription it works everywhere in the world (i
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by melvinmt 15y ago
One notable addition: relative time is the same for everyone. What I mean by this is that instead of messing with timezones (by trying to guess the user's timezone or even worse, asking for it) in most cases it is sufficient to tell the use
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Is Responsive Web Design a Game Changer?(aaronweyenberg.com)
1 points by melvinmt 15y ago|0 comments

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