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by novaleaf 10y ago
Yes, "inbound marketing" (a blog) is probably the biggest accelerator to growth I can (and should) do. I'm holding off for now though, as I need to make the product more friendly to business users first. Right now PhantomJ
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by novaleaf 10y ago
fyi, I did a small edit: I forgot to mention "support" which is arguably the most important role once you have an actual product. I solicit users to email whenever they have a question/comment/issue and reply to everythi
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by novaleaf 10y ago
I run https://PhantomJsCloud.com I started it as a free MVP about 2 years ago while in Thailand, and given that I was attracting a slow but steady stream of users I decided to build out a commercial v1 from it. The freemium SaaS
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by novaleaf 10y ago
no figures, but there is the northern route (north of russia) so getting to europe via sea is pretty direct. Thank global warming for that! https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2011/oct/05/melting-...
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by novaleaf 10y ago
The posters rebuttals against the threat are totally under-thought cop-outs. For example, his first argument about "how would Hawking get his cat in a cage?" just put food in it. It's not hard to imagine an AI could come u
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by novaleaf 10y ago
the title matches the page title, and is very descriptive as to the contents.
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by novaleaf 10y ago
I use Promises extensively, including cancellations (via the bluebird library) and find the following to be strong reasons not to ever use them, if they are to be implemented in a similar way that Bluebird uses them: 1) forward propagation
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by novaleaf 10y ago
A bit of anecdotal insight: I have a relative who is psychologically incapable of finding a job due to fear of rejection, and will justify not applying for any job by considering how hard it would be to get a job. Quite literally he fin
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by novaleaf 10y ago
fyi, it looks like this may be overblown. Richard Wang, the person who registered the .cn domains, posted this in the thread: --------------------------- I wish everyone can talk about this case friendly and equally. It is very common that
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by novaleaf 10y ago
is Gravity Falls in the center of that thumbnail?
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by novaleaf 10y ago
> a consequence of having an illegitimate regime I'm not sure how you can claim that, unless you consider anything other than Direct Democracy to be illegitimate.
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by novaleaf 10y ago
To contrast, here's my experience with the Moto G4 I bought from Amazon: 1) Ordered a G4, free 2 day delivery, see that occasionally when it gets hot, it freaks out and registers false taps. RMA'd to amazon. RMA'd to amazo
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by novaleaf 10y ago
alas, being capable does not always make it true.
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by novaleaf 10y ago
To the parent poster's credit, I think there there might be something to it, the kid is busy learning, and perhaps if he/she is spending all day learning social/environmental survival skills instead of learning academics, the
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by novaleaf 10y ago
> bought enough time for corrupt officials to arrange for bail for members Sounds like an employer that looks after it's employees!
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by novaleaf 10y ago
I wonder if some "AI Gen 3.0" machine learning / cognitive machine system could have caught this, without human intervention? I just yesterday attended a presentation by a ex NSA guy (who's of course pitching his compan
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by novaleaf 10y ago
if you have some good links, i'd love to hear :)
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by novaleaf 10y ago
A real tragedy. A socialist utopia that was so hell-bent on opposing any economic policy tainted by USA or UN hands, it basically did the opposite, every step of the way. This is a great counter-example showing how modern economic theory i
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How Venezuela Imploded(npr.org)
11 points by novaleaf 10y ago|6 comments
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by novaleaf 10y ago
for non-developers, I advocate the use of google sites, which is basically a google managed wiki. very good for intranet sites, and passable for client documentation portals.
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by novaleaf 10y ago
If you want a candidate to win, use the most effective hacking tool available: social engineering. As a bonus, it's legal! It might sound flippant, but I wouldn't be too surprised if the masterful politicians (in the USA or ab
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by novaleaf 10y ago
mojang? could someone please inform me how it's related? (mentioned in the article that this tech comes from mojang, the makers of Minecraft (?!?!?!))
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by novaleaf 10y ago
my attempt at a thought experiment that seems to suggest elliptical orbits are better in this regard: if you have an efficient insulator, you could absorb an arbitrarily large amount of heat at the perigee, and retain it for the remainder o
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by novaleaf 10y ago
i suppose, but one reason I had no interest in math in school was I saw no practical point to a formula, and less-so for a proof. It may be a personality issue with me, compounded by less-than-engaging math education techniques, but I th
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by novaleaf 10y ago
sorry, but parts of this article are a bit.... dumb. for example, "minimum production instance", it's comparing a 2cpu aws instance vs a 1cpu gce. no wonder its "50% cheaper". I use GCE over AWS, and run aprox 50 v
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by novaleaf 10y ago
My reason: Math is boring. Cryptic math is... cryptic. CS is interesting because it's about logical expression. You have an idea, now figure out the steps to make that become reality. Sure, some higher maths may be required alon
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by novaleaf 10y ago
i drive automatic, and I use engine braking. just turn off "overdrive", downshift to second, or first
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by novaleaf 10y ago
True, will update the title! (I don't know what my merchant category is btw, it's not listed anywhere on my stripe account)
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by novaleaf 10y ago
I'm the OP, I run a SaaS that uses Alipay via Stripe. I only have a few customers on Alipay (aprox $200 MRR) so not a big impact I suppose. But very short notice and a bummer.
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Stripe stops supporting Alipay on some accounts (email)
11 points by novaleaf 10y ago|6 comments

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