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811.
by zepolen 17y ago
It was because if something cost 9.99 and the customer gave a 10 dollar note, he would have to open the register to return a penny instead of pocketing the bill. It's also the reason those cash registers made a loud ding when they opened.
812.
by zepolen 17y ago
I didn't think much of it, but after using it for a week, I wish it was used everywhere. To those of you who haven't used it, try it out before condemning it. It's really nice to login with the click of a button (no typing usernames and pas
813.
by zepolen 17y ago
If those 1968.41 [#/sec] were on a quad core then python can match it.
814.
by zepolen 17y ago
Might want to aggregate listings when zoomed out. I made a site like this for fun (getting to know google maps) for Greece: http://www.plot.gr/properties/map?lang=en
815.
by zepolen 17y ago
What site?
816.
by zepolen 17y ago
Why use HAProxy at all?
817.
by zepolen 17y ago
Good work, though this looks like a perfect job for Yahoo Pipes. For example: http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.info?_id=672ce7db13a3ac1ec... This one filters out stuff like techcrunch/Ask YN, but you can easily make it only allow certain
818.
by zepolen 17y ago
Is their revenue entirely ad based?
819.
by zepolen 17y ago
The site felt very slow for me.
820.
by zepolen 17y ago
Classic chicken egg problem inherent with sites that depend on users to generate the content. Without existing content, users won't find it useful. Without users you can't get content. In any case, don't fake it, duping your users is the wo
821.
by zepolen 17y ago
You could also use: find / -name *accounts* | xargs grep -i automobiles
822.
by zepolen 17y ago
Probably because I don't stick them in my users faces every chance I get; they are just a couple ads in a side bar.
823.
by zepolen 17y ago
I probably have the worst. Page impressions Clicks Page CTR Page eCPM [?] Earnings 44,031,234 8,098 0.02% €0.01 €548.35
824.
by zepolen 17y ago
I tried to simulate this by putting a couple laptops next to each other but the flatness of the screens really makes it uncomfortable to work with since as it's a laptop you have to be close to the monitors (to reach the keyboard). If they
825.
by zepolen 17y ago
Why? I don't see how having many users of a free product amounts to anything.
826.
by zepolen 17y ago
Regarding 2. Hang out on the web dev channels on IRC, after a while you can tell who has the chops to handle the work you're looking for.
827.
by zepolen 17y ago
You must admit, this scene is a lot more on topic than a lot of other submissions.
828.
by zepolen 17y ago
"...could not bar an American citizen from boarding a plane, even if a passenger refused to produce any identification at all!" How exactly can you know if someone is an American citizen if they don't show any government approved ID saying
829.
by zepolen 17y ago
werkzeug
830.
by zepolen 17y ago
Does justin.tv pay for their bandwidth from revenue generated or from funding?
831.
by zepolen 17y ago
No need to use class 'levels', as nested <li>'s shows in regards to padding.
832.
by zepolen 17y ago
With extensive experience with both print and web all I can say is: HTML and PDF were designed for two entirely different things, PDF being much more strict in this respect (as it can make assumptions about display medium that HTML cannot).
833.
by zepolen 17y ago
Why does yc silently ban users without giving them any notification so that they still continue to post unaware that none of what they write is being shown on the site?
834.
by zepolen 17y ago
The problem is template rendering, string handling is a (relatively) expensive process. I found utf8'ing my entire workflow (instead of decoding to unicode then reencoding to utf8) drastically affected performance (using python).
835.
by zepolen 17y ago
> trying to get your site to handle traffic on a 3GB server and a 15GB server. I find that I always hit cpu limits way before memory becomes an issue.
836.
by zepolen 17y ago
My input: Never update images, ever. Apart from the fact that web browsers are notorious for over eagerly caching images no matter what http headers are specified, you have no control over external http proxies and their versions of your
837.
by zepolen 17y ago
No, as it's signed and also will have a timeout long before someone can brute it.
838.
by zepolen 17y ago
Wordpress can't do it by itself, it can't configure the webserver, and if you meant loading and serving the file by itself - it still means using a heavy php process instead letting the webserver serve a few bytes of disk (which they are al
839.
by zepolen 17y ago
App servers don't handle the spoon feeding of clients, front end webservers do, at least in any sane architecture.
840.
by zepolen 17y ago
location /people-are-twice-as-smart-as-they-talk-three-times-as-smart-as-they-write { serve static_article.html }

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