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by qeorge 14y ago
Saying Nate Silver is "wrong" is like saying the weatherman is wrong. Neither is taking a position, just reporting an aggregated statistic.
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by qeorge 14y ago
Is it fair to call this a similar service to Zapier that runs at a lower level of abstraction? This appeals to me, because I find its much easier to express myself in code. Zapier is awesome because it makes it so non-programmers can link a
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by qeorge 14y ago
A hosting company without 24 hour support is not a hosting company. Go with Rackspace. They're expensive compared to budget hosts, but they seem to have an army of sysadmins available 24/7/365 that never say "that's your problem" / "not in
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by qeorge 14y ago
Microsoft has always provided amazing support for our Office 365 account (hosted Exchange, like Google Apps). Its a paid service though ($6/user/month), so perhaps that's the difference in our experiences. Most recently, I filed a support
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by qeorge 14y ago
I think the "Ask" link at the top does this - it actually shows Ask HN and Show HN posts. http://news.ycombinator.com/ask
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by qeorge 14y ago
My assumption is these bot accounts are used for selling Likes/Follows on Facebook, and they Like everything in sight so that the paid Likes blend in. That said, its unbelievably frustrating if you are trying to run Facebook ads. Nothing ag
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by qeorge 14y ago
Absolutely does not work on Facebook. Or, I can't figure it out. Every time I run Facebook ads I target them to Raleigh, NC, USA only. Almost all the resulting clicks are foreign (according to the IPs I see in my analytics). YMMV
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by qeorge 14y ago
Brennan also just did a really good podcast with Patrick (patio11) and Keith Perhac on how freelancers should double their rates (with transcription!). Definitely recommend it to anyone who sells services. http://www.kalzumeus.com/2012/1
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by qeorge 14y ago
Windows 7 does this in a cool way: http://superuser.com/a/277955 It tries to load a text file over HTTP ( http://www.msftncsi.com/ncsi.txt ) and fetch the DNS record of dns.msftncsi.com. If the return of either is not as expected, Windows
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by qeorge 14y ago
This is an example of comments that are hurting HN's quality. Absolutely nothing useful to add to the discussion, just snark. Yet for some reason its the highest voted comment.
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by qeorge 14y ago
Do you think YC helped the Black Swans become Black Swans, or were the founders unstoppable?
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by qeorge 14y ago
Anecdotal, but maybe helpful: we had a customer purchase software from us almost a year ago, who paid via PayPal but using their Visa. They've now initiated a chargeback. When that occurs, Visa takes the money from PayPal, who takes it from
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by qeorge 14y ago
Another option would be to leave with the student, and let your other "kids" stay if they want to. That's a pretty shitty experience, to be the only one who can't get in and have to walk away alone. A little solidarity would have gone a lon
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by qeorge 14y ago
Their blog has more information: http://wpengine.com/2012/07/wp-engine-announces-git-push-to-... Also, their git site has a bit: http://git.wpengine.com/
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by qeorge 14y ago
Yes, but they have to recalibrate them every so often and they get overly sensitive again. Problem is, every time it beeps at you and the cashier overrides it, it averages your item's reported weight with the ones its seen before. So if a c
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by qeorge 14y ago
I'm curious to see if this works. "SETI but paid" is a very tempting idea, but we could never get the back of the envelope math to work out to the point where we could pay the contributors anything compelling (e.g., enough to offset their p
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by qeorge 14y ago
We implemented Trello, along with daily working/billing about a month ago, and I don't think we'll ever go back. Working on one project per day instead of trying to do 100 things at once cut my stress in half and doubled my productivity. Tr
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by qeorge 14y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feist_v._Rural This is (to my knowledge) the most relevant case regarding facts and copyright. Rural made a local phone book, and Feist made an aggregate phone book which wholesale copied Rural's listings (and
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by qeorge 14y ago
Thank you so much! Wow. Just seeing this response. I'll definitely check out your eBook. Thanks again!
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by qeorge 14y ago
At my shop in Raleigh, NC, we order lunch delivery once a week from a local, home-based cook for $8/person (sandwich, side, drink). It's our favorite day of the week now, and one of our most productive because everyone eats together in th
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by qeorge 14y ago
I've fired people and I've been fired. Its excruciating for both sides, and embarrassing for the person being let go. There's very little danger of it being too "rosy." Fred's further advice of getting right to the point and giving them hon
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by qeorge 14y ago
Does anyone have experience with drop shipping? Specifically, how to connect with a supplier? I get the concept, but I have no idea where to find a good supplier. We'd love to do an e-commerce play but don't have anything (physical) to sell
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by qeorge 14y ago
We sold Lachy the PSDtoWP.com domain a couple years back. Helluva negotiator, would never have guessed he was 15(?) at the time. :) Glad to see it worked out. Congrats!
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by qeorge 14y ago
Leaving this here in case it helps someone: In Firebug, you can ask the :hover state to stay active. 1. HTML tab 2. Click on the element 3. Style menu on the right panel 4. choose :hover It tricks the browser into think
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by qeorge 14y ago
I'm expecting the book to go much further than this. Your list is a fine starting point, but its fairly basic and lacks specifics. I want to know about the weird things that happen when you push your PHP stack to really ridiculous limits.
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by qeorge 14y ago
Maybe I should file a bug report then? [Note: I literally just downloaded it, upgraded, and had this experience.]
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by qeorge 14y ago
Note: if you're upgrading Firefox and you didn't have SPDY enabled already you'll have to enable it manually. (about:config, network.http.spdy.enabled = true)
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by qeorge 14y ago
In my (limited) experience with Mongo, its just not like that. You can't just (quickly) query any key in the document - you have to define indexes anyway or you'll be doing the equivalent of a table scan or Map/Reduce. Document databases sh
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by qeorge 14y ago
Here's what one looks like, for the curious: Mobile: http://i.imgur.com/kQlmh.png Desktop: http://i.imgur.com/ZiOqX.png This appeared in my news feed last night, and is still there now. It moves like a normal item (i.e., its not 'sitcki
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by qeorge 14y ago
Really cool, but I'm worried about your sample size. http://beluga.grooveshark.com/artist_report.php?artist_name=... 100% male?

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