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by qeorge 14y ago
Not everyone who can run a node.js server wants to ( raises hand ). Think about Mailgun: obviously I'm capable of running a mail server and parsing incoming mail. But they can do it better, at a price that's cheaper than my time, and give m
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by qeorge 14y ago
It sounds like the basic idea is that these flights are there for the taking, but the search engines to find them all suck, to the point that someone will pay $40 to hire a flight search expert. Some immediate concerns: Is this really a pro
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by qeorge 14y ago
Considering Google's ARPU is ~$30, and Facebook's users aren't nearly as valuable as Google's (IMO), that's a big hell no.
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by qeorge 14y ago
To that end, you guys may want to try creating some evergreen content pages that are accessible to the search engines. Right now there's only 3 pages (other than your blog) which can be reached by a crawler: home, about, & contact. Mint
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by qeorge 14y ago
Your thesis is that without the death penalty there would be more Ajmal Kasabs. That there are would-be-terrorists who don't act because of the death penalty. To me, that's absurd on its face. Such persons are beyond reason. Don't forget, a
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by qeorge 14y ago
You can make your own pretty easily with a bash script. You basically just need to clone from git, setup a VirtualHost, and restart Apache/nginx. I don't have experience setting up Scala, Ruby, etc, but I've done this for PHP and its trivia
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by qeorge 14y ago
Big fan of Doodle or Die. Two things I was very impressed with: 1) Ability to play without signing up. When I finally did sign-up, they asked for few permissions from Facebook (only name and email, IIRC). 2) Trolls don't ruin the game. The
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by qeorge 14y ago
Awesome story. Reminded me of this one from Derrick Sivers: "In 1996, I had a little record label, so I got a UPC barcode account, so I could put unique UPC barcodes on my CDs. I had to pay $750 to the Universal Code Council to get a compa
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by qeorge 14y ago
But if you send a message they won't see your message until you're both online again. So if you sign off before you sign on, it won't send until both clients are online again (could be days). If you use multiple computers it gets worse - if
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by qeorge 14y ago
This explains a lot, thanks. We noticed that the traceroute for one of our domains was running through Asia (usually DFW) and found it odd. It also changed shortly when the sites came back online. Glad to know it was just a mistake though,
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by qeorge 14y ago
My biggest complaint with Skype is its inability to persist chat messages when one client is disconnected. If this addresses that it would be great. That said, we're using HipChat now and love it. If you use Skype for group chat and don't u
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by qeorge 14y ago
Reminds me of Yahoo's Search Monkey (RIP). DDG seems like a much better home for this (awesome) idea. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo!_SearchMonkey
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by qeorge 14y ago
You guys should take this much more seriously. This blog post has a tone of "much ado about nothing". This is a very serious exploit. Combined w vulnerabilities in other unsecure but popular plugins[1], this exploit is as damaging as one ca
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by qeorge 14y ago
Regarding the changelog specifically, I found this to be quite weird: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:FhfL-lo... (The changelog that's posted live ends at 3/06/2012. The one in Google's cache lists changes up to 4/23,
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by qeorge 14y ago
For instance, given a street segment ranging from 1000 to 2000, it takes a very simple calculation to determine that a house at 1500 should be about halfway. This is why its so much harder to geocode in rural areas. I suspect its also why
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by qeorge 14y ago
Definitely. I meant that it probably didn't use the clipboard or keyboard emulation, and so it would be safe from those particular attacks. Didn't mean to imply it would be safe from everything. To nitrogen's point, there's definitely a cor
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by qeorge 14y ago
Its been a while (AOL ;), but IIRC the Windows API lets you SET_TEXT directly by window handle. Assuming that's how 1Password works, it should be safe. I think that's a fair assumption because using the clipboard or SendKeys to an input box
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by qeorge 14y ago
Might be asking to much, but is it possible to get a direct link to the file? Otherwise programs like HipChat are unable to auto-embed the photo, because its HTML dressed as an image. For example: https://www.dropbox.com/s/caha7e5v0js24mj/
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by qeorge 14y ago
Hey Greg and Liyan! Those are great steps, didn't know you had done them. Helps a bit. I'd still have to replace your widget, but it would at least be possible. I'm certainly open to brain-picking, email me anytime (in my profile).
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by qeorge 14y ago
For AdSense? (assuming, I'm surprised how high it is too) Honestly AdSense eCPM is through the roof since they started doing retargeting. Its now much more about your demographics than your content. For example, back in the day, a forum for
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by qeorge 14y ago
I'm your target audience. I've built this exact function into client apps (upload from various sources and edit with Aviary). Its a PITA. I'd consider yours, but there's a couple big problems right now: 1) Doesn't support IE. 2)
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by qeorge 14y ago
Its not really. We're still figuring things out, nowhere near their traffic, but similar eCPM. (Android/AdMob) http://imgur.com/9pT9V Comparatively we get $5-10 eCPMs from AdSense on websites.
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by qeorge 15y ago
FWIW, Android's browser has pinch-to-zoom & reflows the text when you stop zooming. Works fine.
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by qeorge 15y ago
Incoming anecdote.. My uncle, Peter Dussmann, started out cleaning offices, then started an office cleaning company, than bought an office building...now he owns one of the largest service companies in the world (50k+ employees). http://de
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by qeorge 15y ago
An easy litmus test: Would it be OK for the cleaner to subcontract the work? If so, it could be legit. If not, they're employees. From the original thread, I don't get the impression he'd be OK with subcontracting, so he is probably non-com
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by qeorge 15y ago
I agree with everything you've said, but most especially: "Use it or not. I don't care."
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by qeorge 15y ago
Lots of JS in the <head>. Moving that to the bottom of the page would help the perceived load time a lot.
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by qeorge 15y ago
It reminds me of HN itself. I don't want to know what the "average" likes to read, or even what people like me like to read. I want to know what smart, interesting people (not me!) like to read. In other words: I want curation by an expert,
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by qeorge 15y ago
I haven't laughed out loud from a website in a long time. This is really well done. Nice work.
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by qeorge 15y ago
We currently use SWFUpload + ImageMagick + (sometimes) Aviary in our PHP apps. We're using Mailgun for receiving images via email/SMS. I'd love to replace that with Chute. Checking it out now.

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