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by rkalla 15y ago
Noticed this in Gmail, and then suddenly realized how often I used the logo to refresh or go back to my inbox after digging down in a sublabel. Have been mildly annoyed needing to target the much smaller "Inbox" link in the left now.
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by rkalla 15y ago
You answered my poorly-worded question. Thanks.
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by rkalla 15y ago
There was an HN article posted 6 months ago (maybe?) from an ivy-league study (Harvard I want to say...) that found the difference between productive people and unproductive people which seems to suggest the opposite of this blog post. The
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by rkalla 15y ago
This obsession with self-promoting links is what makes reading sites like BoyGeniusReport and everything in the Engadget family so frustrating. Editorial rules seem to be that any in-story link MUST be a self-reference to some keyword mat
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by rkalla 15y ago
Are you guys taking care to send as-plain-as-possible markup from the server to the client and then style it up to keep most the UI development in CSS or are you just sending through raw, styled HTML that gets inserted as-sent directly into
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by rkalla 15y ago
EasyDNS is excellent, but more expensive. It isn't a good place to park a lot of domains, but a great place to host a few important ones. YC/HN uses them, I've contacted them a few times, nice Canandian group.
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by rkalla 15y ago
OT: As the son of a grammarian, I actually appreciate the correction ;)
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by rkalla 15y ago
> So this was an escalation on the part of Gigya from "We've > changed our pricing, we don't offer a free version any more > so you have to choose a new option." To "You ignored our > previous response, let's b
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by rkalla 15y ago
Completely agree; #3 being the key difference between a more appropriate response and the one they got.
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by rkalla 15y ago
Good clarification; "young" meaning "inexperienced" or "stupid like a fox"[1] and not age-dependent. [1] http://download.lardlad.com/sounds/season6/lemon15.mp3
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by rkalla 15y ago
This reeks of a team floundering trying to figure out how to keep a ship from sinking. 1. Our "Free" product is now $6000/year ($500/mo) 2. OR give us a link-back 3. OR prepare for a lawyering While the response is inflammatory a
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by rkalla 15y ago
I absolutely agree; whatever algorithm (or lack of) that Apple uses is a far cry from the detail-oriented work they do on most other things. Not only do my Genius recommendations rarely change, the hit rate of things I actually want to pl
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by rkalla 15y ago
In the context of general marketing you are right, but in the context of Apples walled garden (app store) not only is that their job, it is their reason for existing. The more content they can get under your nose that you like, the more con
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by rkalla 15y ago
Oh, I don't think it matters. It just depends on the social circles you run as to what the noun in that sentence is. You a farmer in Illinois? Then the noun could be "John Deer" or "Monsanto" and you'll get appropriate responses. If you are
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by rkalla 15y ago
One the 2nd page near the end they discuss the feasibility of adding network-transparency to Wayland; according to the author Wayland is both hugely asynchronous (so network lag isn't a blocking issue) as well as completely event-driven, so
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by rkalla 15y ago
Unfortunately I think it is worse than just justifying your purchase; for a lot of people it is defining their identity. You say "iPhone's are stupid!" and all they hear is "I think YOU are stupid!". A lot of people define themselves by d
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by rkalla 15y ago
Keep in mind I don't know your situation or what idea for a game you have in your head, but are you coming at this from too much of a black-or-white angle? No you can't create Skyrim iOS edition in your free time, but you could create somet
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by rkalla 15y ago
I am surprised I don't see the geographic distribution of AWS as a huge appealing aspect of the service. If you are trying to deploy a global solution, I don't know any way as cost effective as rolling out images to all the regions you need
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by rkalla 15y ago
Out of curiosity, why? The prestige (completely legit answer) or are there topics you want to cover in depth that the PhD program will provide? If so, which topics do you want to deep-dive on?
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by rkalla 15y ago
What I have found helps me get over these "I know what I SHOULD do..." humps? If I pick up a book or find a good source of information on the subject and start reading it, I find that it lowers the barrier to entry for me just enough and st
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by rkalla 15y ago
I specifically see "games" a lot from developers and I always wonder if they have all 5 or 6 talents necessary to pull it off. I think most developers are interested in the engine development (a known quantity) but when it comes to the ar
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by rkalla 15y ago
Absolutely right; hence my 2nd paragraph :)
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by rkalla 15y ago
The "serialization using ByteBuffers" should be clarified that it is "serialization using direct ByteBuffers" -- as in they exist in the native OS memory space and not inside the JVM's heap. Direct ByteBuffers are excellent when you can
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by rkalla 15y ago
Just a small suggestion in that case (because it makes it so painful on mobile devices). Little dragon logo (maybe 15k?) and a CSS3 gradient? http://www.colorzilla.com/gradient-editor/ If your site was otherwise graphics-heavy I wouldn't
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by rkalla 15y ago
In this same vein, I am curious what you guys think of using semi-colon and comma characters in URLs when pointing at an endpoint that generates a response that would typically be provided by a query string, e.g.: http://site.com/gene
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by rkalla 15y ago
Ahh, that's a good point, my example wasn't a great one. It seems an app-specific prefix is the way to go WRT my question.
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by rkalla 15y ago
I like seeing an attempt at cleaning up the X-abuse, but the recommendation of using standard-looking extensions so that if they ever leak into the standard space you aren't left with a "Standard" that is named "x-something-something" -- ma
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by rkalla 15y ago
This is an impossible-to-answer question. I do NOT speak for the Blekko company, but while they are small and making $100,000s or millions it is easy to say "We are free, no spying!" (same for DDG). As soon as you take Blekko public and the
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by rkalla 15y ago
Looks like the Blekko team was watching this thread and probably the traffic in-bound from it and (maybe) tweaking on the fly.
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Ask HN: Anyone using Blekko instead of Google?
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