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by yaix 14y ago
Informational alerts are useful, even though you rarely act on them. I get a mail every few minutes from a script on my web server (it gets archived automatically). In case the server explodes, I can see the status of that application just
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by yaix 14y ago
Only difference, its really hard to do "git reset HEAD" when the bath tub didn't fit.
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by yaix 14y ago
Nice littel overview, but... "Unicode sucks. This is a universal truth." And here I stopped reading. Unicode is the best thing around, what sucks it that Py2 does not implement it very well. Py3 does, and that is the main reason I really wo
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by yaix 14y ago
Wow, not only is there still a search page under hotbot.com, its also still run by Lycos! It's like time travel...
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by yaix 14y ago
Could you be more specific, because I really have no idea what you mean. I provided "useful information" in saying that it is possible to earn good money with ads, but that it takes more than just copy-pasting a random ad code into the page
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by yaix 14y ago
"drowning in debt"? Nothing changed from ten years ago, except for Greece. And everybody knew that, when they entered the Euro, they were not ready and that some major crisis would happen down the road. Now they have to transform their soci
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by yaix 14y ago
2022? 2030? :-( While I'm really glad they do it and go there, I am not sure if this is the right way. If anything was to go wrong, then the complete mission is lost. And that would be terrible considering the timeframe of 20 years. ESA sho
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by yaix 14y ago
"Advertising [...] the amount you get [...] isn’t big and only pays off with high traffic" Realy? Glad you think that. And: no, it does not suck but can provide a positive user experience if done correctly. And: no, I am not talking about h
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by yaix 14y ago
I agree that Goog is currently making mistakes, but this one isn't one of them. Of course they consolidate all the upvoting and liking stuff into one database to then use that in their universal search ranking. Whining about not getting up
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by yaix 14y ago
My guess would be, the "static" part.
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by yaix 14y ago
Just assume that it is UTF-8, no sniffing needed. If it's not, then convert it to UTF-8.
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by yaix 14y ago
There are thousands of ways to implement Microcredit, and some implementations have been in ways that were already proven to not work very well. But to make money. Yunnus/Grameen had some good ideas (read his book) that are not really about
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by yaix 14y ago
Same here, it has a few bugs and sometimes X will hang and require a restart, that is really annoying. But for the most part it is fast and reduced to an 20px pannel at the bottom of the screen.
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by yaix 14y ago
Had the same issue on my work netbook, it was getting slower. Then I "cleaned up" Xfce, removed a huge desktop background image, switched to a lighter window decoration and button theme, and that helped a lot. Not Xfce it is fast again. Jus
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by yaix 14y ago
As much as I dislike Goog for it's terrible costumer service, but these kind of investments make Goog as a company -- as well as it's founders -- so different from other corporations. Autonomous cars, Google earth/sky/moon/mars, Google glas
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by yaix 14y ago
Didn't know. That's handy and it works per window. Any more magic?
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by yaix 14y ago
>>China’s clever solution is to make every fapiao a lottery ticket. That's not "China's clever solution" but quite common. They had that in Mexico already more than 10 years ago when I lived there (the cash register in stores whould
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by yaix 14y ago
I am using Xfce as a desktop since Unity/G3 came out and made working on my netbook impossible. Xfce is quite fast and works mostly very good.
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by yaix 14y ago
>> "Big, gaping garages"? "WalMarts, Targets, and mega-malls don’t even bother catering for the pedestrian shopper" The problem is not the car, its city planning. Don't make the roads wider and wider, build good and fast bike paths.
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by yaix 14y ago
Relative to what? Because it looks like nobody has done it yet.
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by yaix 14y ago
Add "gl=us&" to the query (after the "#" or after the "?") to see results for US geolocation. And search from an Incognito Window, so your Google Cookie is not sent along with the search request.
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by yaix 14y ago
I tried a Google search for "domain name" (in Chromium Incognito Window, to avoid any "social" stuff) on my Netbook. I don't see Wikipedia or NameCheap. I don't see any search results at all. What I see above the fold is exclusively adverti
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by yaix 15y ago
My recommendation would be: don't! Its simple and to the point.
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by yaix 15y ago
Good designers sure are. I was more worried about the bad designers ;)
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by yaix 15y ago
Thanks. I haven't looked through the source yet, but it looks promising. Hope there is no Flash involved.
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by yaix 15y ago
Hosting on Amazon. I am pretty sure he could run the site from two or three USD 100/month servers easily, even though its written in ColdFusion.
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by yaix 15y ago
Thanks. I had seen this encoder before, it has one problem >> The encoder expects a „CanvasPixelArray“ (as returned by the „getImageData“ method of a canvas). I'd like to use raw binary data simply read from the local file system, a
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by yaix 15y ago
Tell that to all those paying AdWords costumers that got kicked without explanation about two years ago. The webmaster forums where full about it.
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by yaix 15y ago
>> “If we could be in some magical jurisdiction that everyone in the world trusted, that would be great,” Take your servers, move to Iceland. Uh, no! They have laws protecting personal data.
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Ask HN: Possible to re-compress JPEG on the client before upload?
7 points by yaix 15y ago|12 comments

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