novaleaf

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   by novaleaf 7y ago

   Funny, the article says a CTR of 4.42% is average. Yet my 5% CTR for my own domain name, Google Adwords charges me upwards of $0.50/click, and says I'm penalized (higher cost) because of low engagement. This is for keywords with
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   by novaleaf 7y ago

   yes I agree, but the number of dead Vietnamese was not the reason for the war's unpopularity in the USA.
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   by novaleaf 7y ago

   more like gave up getting butchered.
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   by novaleaf 7y ago

   that's it. wow 50% increase in stars in one day. sly HN success!
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   by novaleaf 7y ago

   History proves this. Only modern democracies don't have the stomach for it.
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   by novaleaf 7y ago

   My project has 2 stars, 0 forks, and I also can't stop keeping it updated :)
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   by novaleaf 7y ago

   That doesn't seem to stop the article's example though.
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   by novaleaf 7y ago

   never use debit cards for payments. When fraud occurs you have little/no recourse. I dislike credit cards, but at least with them you can contest fraudulent charges and more often than not, succeed.
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   by novaleaf 7y ago

   I left msft in 2007 and at that time they were in full "security is important" mode. Due to backcompat it's of course hard (impossible?) to remove local exploits, but RCE is a lot harder. For example I don't know the l
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    by novaleaf 7y ago

    I think the key mitigation is: > "I do not imply, for instance, that we should always suppress the utterance of intolerant philosophies; as long as we can counter them by rational argument and keep them in check by public opini
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    by novaleaf 7y ago

    IF YOU READ THIS YOU WILL GO BALD. ... oh wait, sorry that wasn't very punny.
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    by novaleaf 7y ago

    one could argue that the stock market of today is vastly different beast from that of 1870, or even comparing to 1970.
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    by novaleaf 7y ago

    thank you so much for putting the Popper quote here. This is the first I have heard of it, but it sounds very reasonable.
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    by novaleaf 7y ago

    I do intermittent fasting. Stop eating around 4pm and start eating around 9am. (no food around 17hrs/day). The first two weeks are the hardest (hunger pains during fasting hours). Afterwards, hunger pains still occasionally occur bu
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    by novaleaf 7y ago

    Hmm, i though we could flag comments. I guess not. It seems to be @MZS is someone naughty and trying to get referral commissions. visit http://www.spot.im and you'll see what I mean. His link just redirects to the origina
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    by novaleaf 7y ago

    In Washington I think the cycle is similar for hardwoods. Wherhauser is a pretty good steward of their land, as that's really the only "asset" they have.
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    by novaleaf 7y ago

    Yes it's ugly, but much better to clear cut pockets every couple decades than to clearcut everything to turn into farm land.
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    by novaleaf 7y ago

    Tip on claiming 10hrs: I don't think it's hard for anyone to claim 10hrs on this. Just reading the news/basic research over the last 1.5 years can quickly reach 10hrs. For me, I also signed up for credit monitoring a month a
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    by novaleaf 7y ago

    Yes, but burning a "good" stolen card to buy a $3.50 subscription is a waste. Using an "exhausted" stolen card would get flagged by a good payment provider (Stripe!) The only issue is in some parts of this world credit c
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    by novaleaf 7y ago

    please do realize that using chrome, even in incognito mode, everything you do is sent to google. Re your question: I use Firefox with 1st party cookies only (and the other associated privacy options) and it works pretty good. Some WebA
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    by novaleaf 7y ago

    maybe he can, but I know that google cloud's loadbalancer doesn't let you.
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    by novaleaf 7y ago

    one benefit of putting version in the path is it makes it easier for loadbalancers to direct traffic. like v3 could be served from different servers than v2
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    by novaleaf 7y ago

    My lowest paid tier is USD$10/mth. As my target audience are developers, I think it's hard to believe that any of them would really be unable to pay that, yet still gain value from my service. Maybe I'm just a peace loving h
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    by novaleaf 7y ago

    I feel his pain. I run a SaaS with what I think is a pretty generous free tier (PhantomJsCloud dot com), and yeah, I have numerous people from all over the world doing their best to shit all over it: - switching IP addresses every request t
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    by novaleaf 7y ago

    I don't mean it in a "just the way it is" sense. but rather that there are a TON of companies that do this. get mad at all of them. as for the OP, hope he used a credit card (not debit) and if so, dispute the charge.
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    by novaleaf 7y ago

    Isn't this the whole point of yearly subscriptions? Seems like you should be shaking your fist at the sky instead of at Pluralsight. 1) capture additional revenue from those canceling (even better: not using) prior to 1 year 2) captur
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    by novaleaf 7y ago

    I think the only reason it might be hostile to agile is if your interface keeps changing (api other things contact it with, or what it contacts others via) But if those things are constantly in flux, it really isn't a good candidate fo
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    by novaleaf 7y ago

    your 2 sentence explanation is better than the entire article!
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    by novaleaf 7y ago

    what about the other way around? Generate a diagram from your existing cloud (and then maybe tweak the diagram then round-trip it)
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    by novaleaf 7y ago

    yeah, kind of annoying to see this "everythings fucked" narrative as the top post, while it lacks any kind of evidence (even anecdotal would work)