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by tothrowaway 8y ago
Gmail, Google Maps, Google Fiance, Yahoo Finance, Reddit, Netflix and NewEgg.com are all significantly less useful/usable than they used to be. We need a term for when a company purposefully makes their website worse. It's kinda l
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by tothrowaway 8y ago
That's my bread-and-butter. I take a good SaaS and strip it down so it's simpler for people to use (and for me to build). Then I sell it for significantly less than my competitor. Simple & cheap is "better" for some
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by tothrowaway 8y ago
You'll see similar language on LegalZoom, or any legal form website. Legal advice has a specific meaning in each state. Things like legal facts and forms are generally not considered "legal advice".
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by tothrowaway 8y ago
I use arq as well. Some things I don't like about it are: 1. There's no information about what it is doing (which file are currently being backing up, what's the current upload rate, what's the estimated completion time,
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by tothrowaway 8y ago
Well done! The content is excellent and I like the design. "Happy, Profitable, Efficient and Green". That's something I can get behind. Subscribed.
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by tothrowaway 8y ago
Another way to get out of subscriptions is to change your billing credit card to one generated by a service like Privacy.com. Then just close the card out. Some sites/services are getting more savvy about pre-paid cards though (Digital
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by tothrowaway 8y ago
https://send.firefox.com is another one.
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Ask HN: Why does the TSA still exist?
5 points by tothrowaway 8y ago|7 comments
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by tothrowaway 8y ago
Took me a minute too. "pie crust".
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by tothrowaway 9y ago
https://www.phaxio.com comes to mind. I'm not a designer, but I always thought it looked polished.
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by tothrowaway 13y ago
nip.io and xip.io can do this: mysite.com.127.0.0.1.nip.io mysite.com.127.0.0.1.xip.io Your server must route the request to the appropriate vhost though (e.g. ServerAlias mysite.com.*.xip.io).