tkaemming

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by tkaemming 16y ago
Regarding conversion rates, people have been trained to distrust email, but the same isn't necessarily true for blogs. If a spammer put together a well-worded "spam" message — especially if it's something people write about all of the time,
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by tkaemming 16y ago
Unless you're one of several companies or high profile individuals that uses the service (YCombinator, Alex Bogusky, etc.) Edit — More extensive list here: http://posterous.com/explore/moreblogs
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by tkaemming 16y ago
You could presumably use the plus sign "hack" to make that a bit easier: http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2008/03/2-hidden-ways-to-get-m...
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by tkaemming 16y ago
I live in Springfield, and so far it actually seems like the most dangerous parts are the right hand turns from MO-13 on to I-44 (step 6 on the interactive diagram). A lot of people forget that although they have bypassed the traffic signal
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by tkaemming 16y ago
Another canonical example is Everyblock: http://code.google.com/p/ebcode/
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by tkaemming 16y ago
There's also a handy little project that allows you to Gist from the command line: http://github.com/defunkt/gist/
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by tkaemming 16y ago
Saying it "doesn't mean crap" is an exaggeration. AWS's physical redundancy offers a marginal increase in reliability (roughly 3.5%, according to their stats) at potentially lower cost than providing the same system in-house because of econ
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by tkaemming 16y ago
The Amazon EBS page states (which the author quotes): > As an example, volumes that operate with 20 GB or less of modified data since their most recent Amazon EBS snapshot can expect an annual failure rate (AFR) of between 0.1% – 0.5%,
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by tkaemming 16y ago
I've always had an apprehensiveness towards classes or jobs that require you to memorize things before you've actually encountered the necessity to do so. If you're paying attention while you're working through math problems, programming as
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by tkaemming 16y ago
They could check the endpoint URL by following the HTTP headers on 301/302 redirects.
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by tkaemming 16y ago
What would happen when those messages are delivered to a user's phone via SMS? There's still a nontrival amount of users having status updates/direct messages delivered to their mobile phones that probably wouldn't appreciate a message with
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by tkaemming 16y ago
While the author has a right to be upset, her attitude toward the support staff — who likely have no control over the situation — is disgusting. ("Your apology is worthless", "Your refusal to check the link", etc. from the email conversatio
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by tkaemming 17y ago
A bit off topic, but double underscores don't actually make members in Python truly private, but mangles the attribute name to prevent you from accessing it unless you really need to: http://docs.python.org/tutorial/classes.html#private-