yahelc

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by yahelc 15y ago
Same here. It'd be great to put up some HTML5 Geolocation as a choice for users to select (obviously, not requested by default, since that'd be an obtrusive behavior for a widget.)
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by yahelc 15y ago
As far as I can tell, the edge cache doesn't work predictably; it relies solely on standard caching at the Google infrastructure lebel. The Cloudflare caching appears to be more centralized and covers a higher percentage of hits. But, I hav
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by yahelc 15y ago
Inertia; I initially built the API in PHP, but switched it to AppEngine when ProgrammableWeb listed it and people actually started using it. The front end uses the API though, and doesn't get enough traffic to justify worrying about scale.
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by yahelc 15y ago
Ah, yes. My unusual advantage here is that SharedCount doesn't use the datastore, which I now realize is likely not the case with ThatHigh. (In fact, when I had to migrate my app from MS to HRD, it kept failing because I didn't have any dat
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by yahelc 15y ago
If you implement optimizations, you can really significantly curb the cost. I spent some time tuning SharedCount's API, which would have cost me $30-$50/day, and its now at about $1-$2/day. - Move to Python 2.7 and enable multithreading - S
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by yahelc 15y ago
You might want to read up on the developments of the last 24 hours. Santorum has gone from being a fringe minor candidate to being the last conservative standard bearer with a shot. It may be temporary, but he lost the Iowa caucus by 8 vote
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by yahelc 15y ago
At best, IP Geolocation will get you to a nearby city; it won't get you down to the neighborhood/block level reliably. Try HTML5 geolocation. The user has to give permission (through the browser), and its not universally supported, but, the
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by yahelc 15y ago
Where can I access the raw Israeli Census registry? I'm an non-resident Israeli citizen; I'm curious as to what it has on me (and if I can de-anonymize myself.)
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by yahelc 15y ago
I'm also anti-case, though my hubris resulted in this beauty: http://cl.ly/0y3b2K3l3E2m2n1A0L2l Ironically, breaking the screen only hardened my resolve to not use a case; why let the crack be in vain?
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by yahelc 15y ago
I was more interested in the source for the specific number you gave. Should have been less snarky, sorry!
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by yahelc 15y ago
[citation needed]
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by yahelc 15y ago
I don't think its a question of if poker is a skill; people, skilled or unskilled, can become dangerously addicted to poker and lose their shirts in the process. Most legitimate games of skill do not involve risking your livelihood to parti
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by yahelc 15y ago
I kind of assumed that's what they did; that's what CloudFlare does. Uh oh.
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by yahelc 15y ago
Totally coincidentally, I was just working on a User Script that does this for all Hacker News posts; basically, puts the full, unqualified hostname in the parenthesis after the post. It's surprisingly simple. https://gist.github.com/15226
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by yahelc 15y ago
Even worse, goo.gl doesn't actually support HTTPS. So, on HTTPS pages, that will just fail. (It actually just loads google.com)
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by yahelc 15y ago
Is there an algorithmic reason this post isn't higher on the front page? It has more upvotes and is newer than everything but 1 or 2 things ahead of it. Here's a screenshot: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/397675/Screen%20Shot%202011-12-18%20...
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by yahelc 15y ago
It says "Yep" for my handle... Are you hitting https://twitter.com/users/username_available?username=[X] ? I wonder if that private API is rate limited.
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by yahelc 15y ago
http://code.google.com/p/webfinger/
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Google Analytics Site Speed Report now includes four new page speed metrics.(analytics.blogspot.com)
6 points by yahelc 15y ago|1 comments
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by yahelc 15y ago
5. Use find() rather than context This is not really true. The "context" argument uses find under the covers anyway; the performance benefit is literally the overhead of a function calling another function (which is, compared to D
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by yahelc 15y ago
var_dump($hit); Good to see that Facebook's engineers still have a startup-y sense of humor.
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by yahelc 15y ago
Yes, professional sports people do feel taken advantage of. Did you not just see the NBA lock-out? Players genuinely feel like management is taking advantage of them. See this excellent Bill Simmons analysis over at Grantland: http://www
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by yahelc 15y ago
At the margin, each additional hire likely does create additional revenue. Otherwise, Apple would be laying people off at their stores. If anything, Apple stores feel a bit understaffed. After all, most purchases can't be made without an em
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Selectors in Javascript (John Resig, 2005)(ejohn.org)
2 points by yahelc 15y ago|0 comments
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by yahelc 15y ago
Gruber "Statement against interest" heuristic: If he says something an Apple competitor is doing is smart/good/right/better, it should be given extra credence.
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USPTO offering $50,000 prize to modernize its patent processing algorithms.(community.topcoder.com)
4 points by yahelc 15y ago|0 comments
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by yahelc 15y ago
Ahh. The whole time I was wondering: "How is this guy a legend at both counterstrike and cascading stylesheets?"
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by yahelc 15y ago
One problem I see with this: Some people are going to see buttons that are identical in style to Twitter follow buttons, and assume that clicking it will "Watch" the repo. For some subset of the population, they'll either not notice they di
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by yahelc 15y ago
There's probably a good startup to be had in managing the government procurement bidding process for small developers, and thus lowering the barrier to bidding, and reducing the likelihood that contracts will go to folks like this.
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by yahelc 15y ago
iTunes Store != App Store

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