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by vladd 16y ago
Not quite that strong: http://siteanalytics.compete.com/altavista.com/
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Namecheap offers a 4.99 USD transfer special using the "byebyeGD" coupon code, valid until 11:59pm EST 1st of April 2011: http://community.namecheap.com/blog/2011/03/30/elephants/
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Search "register domain GoDaddy" on Google and click on their sponsored links. They contain an embedded coupon code bringing down the .com price under 8 USD (the ad is targeted for most countries).
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Never ever disclose your previous compensation. If they insist, say you've signed a legal document for confidentiality. It's part of any recruiter training to avoid causing legal damage (they never ask you to disclose proprietary info from
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This winter, all got a 150'000 USD convertible note with interest at IRS's AFR, with a 2 years maturity date.
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You can have multiple sitemaps. You can ping just 1 sitemap containing only the links that you want to notify. You can use the optional <lastmod> tag to indicate a URL's last change date.
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There is an API via which you can describe your URLs (it's called a sitemap) and you can ping to Google your sitemap when its content changes. You can have multiple sitemaps and ping only your changes. More on www.sitemaps.org . But Google
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Indeed. There are only 86K seconds in a day, or 31.5 million seconds in a year. Even if you assume that Google refreshes a page only a couple of times per year (which is absurd in terms of their freshness), it still means that you cannot ha
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- horizontal scrollbar on 1280x1024, (don't skip testing these things, it's important) - 'leave feedback' button overlaps the text on the left side for me, I cannot read it comfortably. - on http://www.epihu.com/en/peoples , sort based on
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Just make her pick a number between 1 and 10, you'll have at least 10 times more success probability.
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Benford's law applies to those cases where you can assume that the logarithms of the numbers are uniformly distributed. While it's perfectly reasonable to assume that for, let's say, Microsoft's yearly revenue, Apple's stock price, or a num
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Portability and standards are difficult things to build, and they cost resources to develop, like anything else. Users don't understand the need for them and would happily jump in IE6, Windows, iPads or a similar 'ecosystems' until somethin
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Without storing UUIDs (unique user ids) in cookies you're severely limited in gathering metrics for scaling up your business. For example: - you cannot determine if the user that just made a sale today by coming directly to your website is
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Click-able link to the submission mentioned: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2289425 .
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Some of this year's jewellery for those that need the motivation to begin reading it: >> Throughout my lifetime, politicians and pundits have constantly moaned about terrifying problems facing America. Yet our citizens now live an a
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Hipmunk Releases Agony-Free Flight Search Tool for iPhone(mashable.com)
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If you're bold enough to switch to server-side JavaScript and move your coding inside the browser, there's a step-by-step tutorial for Erbix at http://www.erbix.com/documentation/tutorial/ that describes how to get started. (disclaimer: I
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Schools are designed to provide education for the masses, just like jobs are designed to reward workers' efforts with money. Such schemes remove the low / high extremes (slackers / highly gifted people) by conforming them to a pattern which
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"Something you have" actually implies "something an attacker wouldn't have". Hardware tokenizers, SMSes via mobile phones or secrets available only on your phone are all things that confirm a physical link with you that the attacker cannot
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In a well-functioning market, the price should be driven by competition towards a level a bit above the production/R&D costs The main issue is that R&D is largely a fixed cost. It takes the same amount of engineers to writ
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It seems they implemented a gradual increase of daily quota to protect themselves against spammer abuse. Here's the link to the document describing the system: http://docs.amazonwebservices.com/ses/latest/DeveloperGuide/...
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Non-trimmed article links: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-01-21/google-said-to-gran... http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/technology/2011/01/google-er...
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On the same line of thought, we're working on http://www.erbix.com which provides Server-side JavaScript hosting (and a browser-based code editor) using the open-source Rhino engine. To help SSJS in getting main-stream adoption, we've cod
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Maybe not a 1st degree friend but a friend of a friend or something like this. A feature that finds out the "shortest chain" friend that rents out an apartment in your destination city would be interesting. But you need a social graph for t
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The 'new' page is a spare resource, there's a limited number of people looking over it so if it is flooded with bursts of new posts then the ability to promote worthy news to the main page is damaged as the amount of time spent in the 'new'
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Traffic in December exhibits weird patterns (lower for business sites and higher for leisure sites due to the holidays). I wonder if they avoided a December 2009 to December 2010 comparison on purpose (or if they preferred the Jan-vs-Dec on
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You can add to the list http://www.erbix.com/ (for server-side JavaScript). We're using RingoJS as an engine (you can go to http://www.erbix.com/documentation/overview/nodejs/ for a comparison with NodeJS). Disclaimer: I'm affiliated wi
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I'd define PayPalism as businesses with a significantly risk of fraud as a result of conducting financial activities and transactions with "online" customers. Such businesses take huge risks since they are dealing with money and their bad p
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Try to separate the JavaScript language from the additional bindings that the platform gives to you. If you learn client-side JavaScript for use inside the browsers, differentiate what's a language feature and what's part of the DOM. If you
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0) Be prepared Be proactive. Plan for the solutions below in advance, not when traffic is hitting your servers and SSH along with everything else is unresponsive. 1) Availability for investigation Renice sshd to make sure you can get to you

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