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by richardv 14y ago
This feature didn't work at the best of times, and became so unreliable... I also don't believe that the blocked sites was linked to my Google account, because I had blocked sooo many different pages on W3Schools that I just abandoned using
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by richardv 14y ago
I enjoyed watching the video since if I had read your comment, it would have spoiled the entire reason why this post is pretty hilarious..... Finding out the context of a "joke" before the joke being told is kind of a spoiler. Anyway, watch
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by richardv 14y ago
When Fox news present the data.... http://www.businessinsider.com/fox-news-charts-tricks-data-2...
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by richardv 14y ago
Is this even possible? 1000 listings, and 50 dollars invested, would mean that even at a 10% conversion rating which I think is safe to say, for a fresh launched website is obscenely high, would mean you were paying 0.5 cents per click. (ha
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by richardv 14y ago
> "it seems you bogged down parts of the network" It's MIT and Dropbox... I'm sure internally MIT can handle a one thousand new mailing lists at any given occasion (until they are deleted), and I'm 100% sure Dropbox didn't even notice a
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by richardv 14y ago
I'm not being cynical, but are they purposefully holding back some of the more important details on the "How it works" on http://www.tweaky.com/ I can't actually find the details on this. Is this an offline service, or are you expected t
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by richardv 14y ago
Are you enacting Poe's law? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poes_law I seriously cannot tell, and you didn't wink at the end? Since McDonald's are easily franchise-able, I suppose they could legitimately be used as a Mafia Front... But rea
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by richardv 14y ago
It's hard to ever say one use-case/situation is wrong, another is right. The ends justify the means... etc. yaddy yadder ya... I also wasn't looking to single you out.. I know it was a high voting comment since it was at the top of the thre
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by richardv 14y ago
This is a really disturbing story. I hope you get a satisfactory resolution. Anyway, there has been a trend recently with regular HN'er saying that people should stop using HN as a way to get justice. "HN is not your mommy". I strongly beli
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by richardv 14y ago
Can someone explain how she is able to do this? Set aside the boldness of the move, but if anyone ever should be put on some kind of "garden leave" or some kind of non-compete it would be a person moving from a prominent position in Googl
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by richardv 14y ago
Just in case you aren't aware, all companies award themselves an EPEAT grade. Once they award the grade, it is then reviewed and the grade can be lowered if they don't live up to the standard. I only bring this up because you would be misle
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by richardv 14y ago
This reminds me of all of those times that people would tell you that their websites get 100k+ hits per day. Um.. no you don't, you have 100,000 requests to your servers per day. Each page request generates a subsequent 248 requests for ass
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by richardv 14y ago
Isn't the title misleading? - The guy wasn't domain squatting at all. - They weren't Wedgies.com (they were Wedgi.es) - They didn't sidestep him at all. They negotiated fairly. If you like domain stories, check out Klouts.. (Which I actuall
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by richardv 14y ago
So he leaves StackOverflow and thinks that he can start continuously marking awfully snide remarks about PHP programmers. Either he has changed a lot, or he was putting up a massive charade while working on StackOverflow... The last 4 to
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Jeff Atwood: PHP Programmer - You write PHP, That's hilarious.(twitter.com)
4 points by richardv 14y ago|7 comments
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by richardv 14y ago
This is ridiculous. I actually started reading with a really positive mind, but Richard Branson is never going to see any of that $1M. - Scott... got the idea when his computer crashed and he lost a spreadsheet containing all his usernames
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by richardv 14y ago
Tips for the Timeless Startup: - Don't ask permission for anything. Just do it and apologize if you get caught. - Don't hash your user passwords. Ensure that you have a "database leak" at least once once you hit over 100k users. (Make sure
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Linux Tips: Alias'ing (2007 article)(freesoftwaremagazine.com)
2 points by richardv 14y ago|0 comments
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by richardv 14y ago
Start/Stoppable video so you can replay scenes http://vimeo.com/44424340 "We believe in the power of iteration, we originally started out as StumbleMonkey, which was like AirBnb but for online-dating, so when you left town you could rent
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by richardv 14y ago
Is this sustainable? > Now, when a user wants to cancel, we give them two buttons front and center... If it’s because of price, we’ll give them an instant, lifetime discount;
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by richardv 14y ago
Profit share is always going to be a really bad idea for you in building a new company. How can you rightly invest your time in a project, and want to see it succeed if you are always looking out for the short term gain, rather than the lon
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by richardv 14y ago
"finally" raises funding. In my mind the $750M valuation is still actually pretty consevative. GitHub has a long long way to go and I see so many great things ahead for the team, but I don't understand why they would raise $100M? Is this a
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by richardv 14y ago
I got five words into that article and hit back to find a different source. > "Little-known social coding start-up GitHub..." Really? The Gigaom is a much better read. http://gigaom.com/2012/07/09/github-finally-raises-funding-1...
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by richardv 14y ago
CSS is the easiest part of the design cycle. (The hard part is actually mocking something to look great.. implementing it is the fun part.) Creating CSS which matches your design should not really be an issue, and as others have pointed out
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by richardv 14y ago
I found this really helpful. Not so much to do with the actual article, but to do with actual making me aware of Google Refine. Installation was a breeze. I couldn't find any instructions, but it was as simple as downloading for Linux, extr
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by richardv 14y ago
The attached PDF article is worth a read. TL;DR... (Of the PDF not that article) --------------------- > Ensure that your statistic results are trustworthy. Incorrect results may cause bad ideas to be deployed of good ideas may be inco
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by richardv 14y ago
You quoted me totally out of context (I don't use SHA and you are implying that I do. I didn't spot that in your original paste snippet, and clearly wrongly assumed that you were just referring to the concatenation of hash to salt.) Nothing
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by richardv 14y ago
I believe that the original comment thought it was bad because the hashed password is stored alongside the salt. But, in practice this is never really a problem, because if they can get your hash, then the salt is usually always recoverable
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by richardv 14y ago
I think it is only creepy when you consider that no benefit can be achieved based on the sex of an author. For instance, your enjoyment levels of a piece of software bares no correlation to the sex of the developer who created it. This is i
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by richardv 14y ago
I have so much sympathy for you. (Along with anyone else that tries to produce anything that runs on any iOS device and it's walled garden.) It's easy to see that when building a platformer game, unimpeded multitouch functionality is pretty

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