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by qeorge 16y ago
The founders are already going to be super-rich. This isn't Twitter, Groupon is already profitable and raking in the dough. That gives them the freedom to ride this thing out and see where it goes. Truckloads of money are great, but this is
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by qeorge 16y ago
Beautiful building, had lunch with a friend there. IIRC it also housed DoubleClick before the merger, so "moving in" was a matter of Google taking over their floor(s).
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by qeorge 16y ago
Not mentioned here, but "RIM said Kik Chief Executive Ted Livingston worked on product strategy for its BlackBerry Messenger." http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405274870459480457564... Not a minor point.
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by qeorge 16y ago
I'll bite. I write CakePHP apps for my clients, and I've heard this "cake is slow" meme before. Never been a problem for us, and we've shipped a lot of apps. In almost all cases, the benchmark was done with no caching. I don't know who laun
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by qeorge 16y ago
He's referring to NetFlix being a customer of Level3, not the end user being a customer of Comcast. NetFlix uses enough bandwidth that they'd have direct deals with Tier 1 providers like Level3.
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by qeorge 16y ago
Living Social is the only one I've seen that has the offer volume of Groupon (always a good offer, every day). I think that's the key. I've done some modest research here, and it seems like the surest sign that one is going to die is when t
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by qeorge 16y ago
If Mr. Borker is threatening and defrauding his customers, as he clearly seems to be doing, this is a matter for the authorities. They should have no trouble shutting down his business and website. The SEO aspect is interesting, but rel="no
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by qeorge 16y ago
Copyright infringement in the US is absolutely a crime, and 4-5 year sentences are not uncommon: http://www.cybercrime.gov/ip.html
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by qeorge 16y ago
Jeez, give him a break. Everyone has to start somewhere.
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by qeorge 16y ago
That's the same threat the TSA agents make. Don't assert your rights or it'll be a huge pain in the ass. Civil disobedience is not for the meek.
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by qeorge 16y ago
I think he means both Google and their customers. Google should get it, in that they need to offer support if they want to run this kind of business. But customers should also know that Google doesn't do support, and they will need support,
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by qeorge 16y ago
Good catch Max. I'd initially assumed it was $17 one-time from the headline, but given that the normal cost of this plan is $150/month $17/month seems more likely. Noah's on HN though, perhaps he can clarify?
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by qeorge 16y ago
He's still correct. Even with IE, you just learn how to deal with it and you move on with your life.
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by qeorge 16y ago
MySpace is not what it used to be, but I still don't think its dead. Facebook has eclipsed it as the mainstream social networking site but there are still things MySpace does better. Notably, you just can't do as much with your profile on F
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by qeorge 16y ago
There is no mention of metabolism anywhere in this article. Not sure where you got that. 3rd sentence: "Dieters have been encouraged to employ this trick for ages, with the reasoning quite simple: the water fills the stomach, thus reducing
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by qeorge 16y ago
I think your first instinct was right. The Post-It logos made me think its officially related to 3M, but upon closer inspection I don't think it is. I expect those logos or the entire website will be gone shortly.
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by qeorge 16y ago
Accessibility, SEO, and maintainability are the business reasons. But the larger reason, the why , is that its easier for a computer to parse. If you want to be part of the Semantic Web[1], you should make your pages as machine-readable as
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by qeorge 16y ago
Wow. This changes my opinion of Facebook's webmail offering significantly. Congrats to Mr. Buchheit and YC, you're both making out like bandits.
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by qeorge 16y ago
Given that email is already free, and spammers can register free email accounts, is that really any authentication? I expect they'll just drop the requirement, and offer you an @facebook.com email during signup.
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by qeorge 16y ago
Highlighter.com looks pretty cool actually, and that's a great domain. The description they gave it is terrible though - its a new kind of commenting system for bloggers, not a way to collect things you find online.
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by qeorge 16y ago
Absolutely, and I didn't mean to imply otherwise. But Dvorak seems particularly quick to call tech companies stupid, and I wonder if that's a result of not having been in the trenches himself.
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by qeorge 16y ago
John Dvorak seems to have an unlimited supply of complaints, and rarely anything constructive to say. Wikipedia suggests he's never built anything of his own. Always a bridesmaid, never a bride. Perhaps that's part of it?
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by qeorge 16y ago
He did it within 3 hours of it going on sale in Europe. That's pretty quick!
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by qeorge 16y ago
Its awkward, but it means "everything after this rule is !important." So you are parsing it correctly, its just a weird context. But now that you've mentioned it, @important would be a lot more intuitive.
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by qeorge 16y ago
Nit: he's not really "chasing them down", he's sending @replies to their public messages. I get the feeling those sending messages into the ether about global warming are looking for an argument. But your point is well taken. I would find t
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by qeorge 16y ago
Great, thank you! Reported here: http://groups.google.com/group/mod-pagespeed-discuss/t/6bdf2...
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by qeorge 16y ago
Regarding 'Outlining CSS', there's also a risk of breaking sites that depend on the specificity rules of CSS[1]. I think this should be added to the risks list for this filter[2]. Does anyone know how to ping Google about such things? [1]
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by qeorge 16y ago
Buy the AdWords, write blog posts, and tweet to reach their old members. Target your landing pages to ex-drop.io customers. Offer an import tool. Show how their old features map to yours (e.g., "What drop.io calls a drop, we call a workspac
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by qeorge 16y ago
Quite interesting. I suppose you could ask the user to press "z" and see which KeyUp event fires. Would love to hear a more elegant solution.
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by qeorge 16y ago
Job boards and craigslist suck just as much for employers as employees. Because the cost of applying is 0, people send their resume to every single job they can find. Its a chore to separate the wheat from the overwhelming amount of chaff.

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