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by xyby 12y ago
Low bar or not, if you do anything web-facing, there is no way around javascript. And you will do a lot of stuff in a language that makes variables global by default.
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by xyby 12y ago
Which is a good thing. When you have ... function f($x) { return $x*$x; } ...in your code, you know that you can always call f() to get the square of something. Hallelujah. Functions as they are meant to be.
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by xyby 12y ago
I'm a programming language geek, a code lover and a syntax fanatic. And there are a ton of things I love about php: class Animal // yeah! real classes! { function hello($name="nobody") // n
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1and1 Nameservers down due to ddos attack(twitter.com)
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by xyby 12y ago
Interesting. On your site it says its free. How is it monetized?
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by xyby 12y ago
$200 adsense earnings with 5k visitors? That's must be a misunderstanding. That would be a CPM of $40. The best I ever heard of is $8.
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by xyby 12y ago
Wow. That's nice. I wonder whats better: deliver the content via a <noscript> element or via the fragment url.
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by xyby 12y ago
https://www.lyft.com/work?_escaped_fragment_= Interesting. How did they make google check for that url in the first place? Via a sitemap or something?
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by xyby 12y ago
Don't you rate drivers on Lyft? Shouldn't the rating system take care of this?
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by xyby 12y ago
What does that "talking to people from" mean? How are the engagement numbers? How many followers follow a link when you post to these accounts? When I send out a mailing, about 3% of the receivers click on a link in it. If that wo
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Is Twitter becoming a write-only medium?
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by xyby 12y ago
The prerendering might be in place here. When you set your useragent to Googlebot, you get a page with tons of html. Still nothing readable though. The textcontent Google indexed is not in the body of this but in the metatags. Strange. They
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by xyby 12y ago
Interesting. The content must have changed recently then. Because I see different text in the Google serps then on the page with js enabled. For lyft.com Google shows me "Lyft is your friend with a car" which is not on the page. F
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by xyby 12y ago
The whole Lyft site shows nothing without Javascript enabled. Even the title is set via script. Google indexed titles and content for all pages though. How are they doing that? Are the delivering different content based on ip or useragent o
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by xyby 12y ago
Interesting. How much traffic does it get?
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by xyby 12y ago
Interesting. How do you market it?
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by xyby 12y ago
If you're smart enough to build something that 50k web developers use every month then turning that into six figures is straightforward. How? I have 50k visitors interested in other topics, but wouldn't know how
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by xyby 12y ago
How is iosdevweekly monetized?
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by xyby 12y ago
Wow, that's a pretty minimal and useful website. It took me a moment to figure out what it is about. How many visitors does it get per month?
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by xyby 12y ago
Interesting. What do you use the data for? Why is it valuable to you? How do you estimate the site has thousands of subscribers?
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Ask HN: Examples of profitable little free web tools?
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Sony hack is potentially the worst in history. 100 TB stolen.(gizmodo.com)
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by xyby 12y ago
The idea that having variables which can take on an infinite range of real-valued values fascinates some people. But you can't, not really. Well that would mean it has an infinite amount of bits in memory, right? Beca
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Plant-based gel can stop traumatic bleeding in seconds(cnet.com)
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Senate Republicans block landmark NSA surveillance reform bill(theguardian.com)
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Brazil starts building a fiber optic network to avoid NSA surveillance(washingtonpost.com)
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