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by bazillion 7mo ago
"But as the days of Noah were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be." (Matthew 24:37) More and more, you are seeing what occurred in the time of Noah become commonplace to talk about under the guise of technology. In Noa
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by bazillion 2y ago
The company is a chess related company that sends instructors to school for afterschool events, so he would be teaching kids, instructing other instructors, helping run events (chess camps, tournaments, etc.), and giving private lessons.
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by bazillion 2y ago
Is an O-1 or EB-1 visa viable as a grandmaster in chess? There are, for instance, only about 100 grandmasters in the United States right now. We're looking at bringing over a Chess grandmaster to our company, but don't know the
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by bazillion 4y ago
I asked GM Minh Le (twitch.tv/gmminhle) to try it out, and he got a 2046 FIDE rating with 2306 lichess rating, after beating the bot. His actual FIDE rating is 2542 standard ( https://ratings.fide.com/profile/12401
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by bazillion 4y ago
In Top Gun 2, he uses it twice. Once, during the training dogfight where Rooster has a chance to shoot him down (he says, "Too late, you had your chance" and then pulls off the maneuver, targeting Rooster instead afterwards). Af
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by bazillion 5y ago
I think the fundamental argument against early abortion is itself not religiously based. That argument goes like: 1. There is a secondary organism (life) within the womb upon conception. 2. That life will become a human being. Therefo
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by bazillion 8y ago
Since you have them with an onclick, add: onauxclick="e.preventDefault(); window.location.href = '/stories/brumate';"
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by bazillion 9y ago
My entire product of doing in-image advertising[1] was created in order to build a new concept website for my uncle's nautical antique store[2]. He has a store built out of an old lighthouse in Old Town San Diego, and it's basica
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by bazillion 9y ago
I use this to do a `git pull` on all of my folders inside of my "sites" folder: #!/bin/bash for i in /sites/*/.git; do ( echo $i; cd $i/..; git pull; ); done
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by bazillion 9y ago
I've always thought of Houzz as the perfect example of a site that would be ten times better with my startup's technology -- as an example, here's a comparison of Houzz's UX vs. my UX on the same image: https:/&#x2
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by bazillion 9y ago
I've been saying that the ad model is broken for a while, and prescribing a real fix for it: a new form of native advertising that actually benefits the user. My company, PLEENQ[1], makes it so users can hover over an image and click
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by bazillion 9y ago
Unfortunately (in terms of programming credibility), it's done manually. The process is extremely fast though -- just seconds to do a highlight, and a built-in search that hooks into all affiliate networks (Commission Junction, Linksh
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by bazillion 9y ago
Oops, good catch! Fixed it.
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by bazillion 9y ago
I'm curious what you think of my ad network[1] -- it allows for native ads that are non-intrusive and actually benefit the user. When you hover over an item in an image, an ad is displayed, but hovering off of it makes it go away. Her
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by bazillion 10y ago
They need to mapped individually, but it's a really simple interface to do it. I've also just added a templating system that allows you to customize all aspects of the popup, and am about to go live with a split test system that
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by bazillion 10y ago
If your site has a lot of image content, I'd love for you to try out PLEENQ ( http://pleenq.com ). It doesn't inconvenience your users, and in fact helps them buy things directly from your images. You can also use it o
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by bazillion 10y ago
They're manually created by the website owner.
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by bazillion 10y ago
Thanks a lot for that! I think that's one of the core underpinnings -- advertising that brings a benefit, and therefore shouldn't be blocked with an ad-blocker. Hopefully, this is the direction advertising goes towards.
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by bazillion 10y ago
They're hand-labeled. In the future, I'm sure I'll be hiring a bunch of Google people to build the "automatic" part.
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by bazillion 10y ago
It doesn't allow me to edit my original post, unfortunately. I guess too much time has passed since I posted it.
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by bazillion 10y ago
Unfortunately, the publisher disabled the PLEENQ tag on that page (probably because of unknown lot of traffic to a test post!). Here's a better link: https://www.theskinnyconfidential.com/2016/10/28/the
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by bazillion 10y ago
Great idea! I've been incorporating different styles of UI features that the website owner can enable/disable at will, so I'll add this one to them.
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by bazillion 10y ago
Please try going to https://www.theskinnyconfidential.com/2016/10/28/thehangover... and tell me if that first image shows up with hovers for you.
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by bazillion 10y ago
The publisher just disabled the tag on the page. Please go to: https://www.theskinnyconfidential.com/2016/10/28/thehangover...
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by bazillion 10y ago
Try going to https://www.theskinnyconfidential.com/2016/10/28/thehangover... -- the publisher disabled the PLEENQ script tag on the worldlifestyle demo page.
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by bazillion 10y ago
Oops guys! It looks like the publisher temporarily removed the PLEENQ script tag from that page. Go to https://www.theskinnyconfidential.com/2016/10/28/thehangover... for a better example. This is actually
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by bazillion 10y ago
Oh, I read that as performance on the page for some reason. File size is exactly the same regardless of how many images/PLEENQs.
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by bazillion 10y ago
I have it disabled for all mobile/touch type platforms. The demo will only work on desktop, unfortunately. I'll be enabling the mobile version(s) of the plugin, once I finish testing them out and creating a way for each website t
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by bazillion 10y ago
I have a test page that does 1000 images with 2-4 PLEENQs on each image, and performance is good with an 8-gig of ram mac mini and an iPhone 5 (my test platform for the mobile version). I do about 10 million impressions a day, and the reque
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by bazillion 10y ago
Best comment I think I've ever gotten on it, thanks!

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