putlake

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by putlake 12y ago
I'm the founder of a wiki so I know some of these legal issues better than most (although, of course IANAL). Typically how this is supposed to work is: Wiki's terms of use say (1) Users own the copyright to their contributions (au
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by putlake 12y ago
Something that Facebook and Quora have in common is that the initial set of users were cool enough to prime the pump of viral growth. With Quora, you had awesome people giving answers only they had. Like a startup co-founder talking about t
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Ask HN: Alternatives to FeedBurner
2 points by putlake 12y ago|0 comments
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by putlake 12y ago
10 million++ page views per month for them to seriously consider partnering with you.
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by putlake 12y ago
Todd, I signed up with BSA today after seeing your comment here. You do not use HTTPS for publishers to log in. This does not inspire confidence in the company.
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by putlake 13y ago
We use MongoDirector and have been pretty happy with it. They have a Bring Your Own AWS infra plan that works perfect.
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A progress bar for AJAX requests(blog.diffen.com)
5 points by putlake 13y ago|0 comments
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by putlake 13y ago
> It took a few clicks to find out what Box is > I wonder, what's the incentive to use Box instead of Dropbox? Surely you are trolling. Box has a much more sophisticated offering for enterprise customers, including a platform
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by putlake 13y ago
No, it shouldn't start at 0% and shouldn't go to 100%. If I did that then a 4% drop wouldn't register at all. I know Y-axis scams all too well and this isn't one of them. Browser market shares move very, very slowly and
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by putlake 13y ago
The blog post links to several other sources of browser market share. You are free to look them up. I have nothing against IE and there is no cause for bias in something like this. "Windoze" is general humor, it's not irony.
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by putlake 13y ago
No it won't. I hate non-zero based graphs as much as the next guy. Except when necessary. In this case, a customized Y-axis was necessary to really show the magnitude of the drop. 4 percentage points dropping out of a scale of 100 won&
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The Decline of IE and Firefox(blog.diffen.com)
37 points by putlake 13y ago|44 comments
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by putlake 13y ago
Yes, this is similar but more sophisticated. With RapGenius, taking action was easy because the company admitted what they were doing and all the evidence was in the open. Also, the links were clearly spammy. With these examples, the links
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by putlake 13y ago
I am in the middle of a redesign and the new design uses Droid Serif. I wanted to avoid an extra HTTP request and bundle the WOFF font file in the CSS (using data URIs). The other option was to host the font on my server to avoid the DNS lo