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by ronnoch 16y ago
Between this and the fact that Ahmadinejad never said Israel should be wiped off the map[1], I'm beginning to think MSM reports about Iran can't be trusted. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahmoud_Ahmadinejad_and_Israel#...
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TechCrunch: WordPress Gives Us The VIP Treatment, Goes Down On Us Again(techcrunch.com)
6 points by ronnoch 16y ago|1 comments
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by ronnoch 16y ago
Anyone else surprised that TechCrunch is hosted on Wordpress.com?
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by ronnoch 16y ago
Their blog says "we couldn’t be happier that Apple has chosen to leverage our own Readability as a native feature in the Safari browser." http://blog.arc90.com/2010/06/10/why-we-built-readability/
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by ronnoch 16y ago
the most common meaning of the word, the one that 99% of all people who read it are going to think is computer criminals. Perhaps PBS should consider the power and pervasiveness of the common tongue before writing
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by ronnoch 16y ago
I wonder if this is how non-programmers feel reading Stack Overflow.
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by ronnoch 16y ago
You're exactly right about the difference, and I'd add that bias against SEO is dangerous in the second case because the good kind of SEO is absolutely critical to the success of most sites. Catering to the user and offering content / servi
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by ronnoch 16y ago
What about non-addicts? I very rarely drink caffeine (just midterms and finals, basically) but I'm pretty sure that when I do, the effects are no illusion.
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How HTML 5 link prefetching can make your site load faster with one line of code(keyboardy.com)
69 points by ronnoch 16y ago|29 comments
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by ronnoch 16y ago
In Firefox, you can do: <link rel="next" href="page2.html"> Then page2.html will be silently downloaded when the browser is idle, and served from the cache when the user finally clicks the link. It's called prefetching and
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by ronnoch 16y ago
Open Library, perhaps? It's run by Archive.org and has a developer API: http://openlibrary.org ETA: I see they also offer raw JSON downloads of their entire collection: http://openlibrary.org/data#downloads
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Man builds working computer inside LittleBigPlanet video game (2008)(youtube.com)
114 points by ronnoch 16y ago|10 comments
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by ronnoch 16y ago
Good quote, but to be fair humans have known that the earth was round since 300 B.C. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spherical_Earth