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by davidmat 12y ago
Strong incentive to dive in to CloudFront CDN it seems. Transfer from AWS to CloudFront 'edge' caches is now free, and outgoing from CloudFront to the internet is nearly 30% cheaper all of a sudden.
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by davidmat 12y ago
I just found out yesterday Chrome has one as well https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/chrome-dev-editor-...
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by davidmat 12y ago
Earlier discussion -> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8116233
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by davidmat 12y ago
I don't find it aggressive, it seems more like Dutch directness to me. As an inhabitant of a neighbouring country, I must say it's an acquired taste ;)
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by davidmat 12y ago
yes, social media mavens and SEO gurus ;)
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by davidmat 13y ago
This is really neat! Congratulations to Ben for another great feature. I don't know if it's coincidence, or maybe personal bias, but since going Open Source the pace of improvements to Feedbin has really picked up. I subscribe to
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by davidmat 13y ago
Could anyone recommend some solid introductory material on data analysis/data visualisation? I'm thinking this data set seems like a fun way to fill a rainy weekend, going for a dive into these worlds :)
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Belgium's national telco believes NSA planted malware on its systems(deredactie.be)
5 points by davidmat 13y ago|0 comments
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by davidmat 13y ago
http://webcron.org/ does this
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Common (tech) recruiter techniques to watch out for(kernelmag.com)
2 points by davidmat 14y ago|0 comments
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by davidmat 15y ago
AFAIK, to activate full screen mode using a keyboard shortcut for any app using the Lion-flavored full screen, you'll need to create a shortcut yourself :( http://osxdaily.com/2011/08/10/full-screen-keyboard-shortcut...
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by davidmat 15y ago
Not right now, but soon (in a few weeks - months) there will be a whole avalanche of laptops coming out based on Intel's Ultrabook platform; very much 'inspired' by the MacBook Air.
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by davidmat 15y ago
I don't really want it per se, but isn't this quite similar to pixelpipe? Since that service already exists since 2007 or so and they recently (April) raised some $2.3M, there must be quite some people who _do_ want it.
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South Sudan: How do you start up a nation?(bbc.co.uk)
2 points by davidmat 15y ago|0 comments
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by davidmat 15y ago
You've got to be kidding! Think about it, Clippy wasn't really all that bad; he was always there for you, giving handy tips & tricks. But most of all, his funny animations provided a ray of light when you needed it most - when any of th
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by davidmat 15y ago
My top 5: 1) Poor separation between content and presentation 2) Way too many features enabled by default. 3) Bulleted lists don't always indent in predictable fashion, which is annoying 4) When cooperating with a few people things go reall
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by davidmat 15y ago
"PowerPoint is by far the worst app in the Microsoft Office suite" Really? I nominate MS Word for that title. Maybe we should hold a poll :)
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by davidmat 15y ago
Reminded me of the recently announced Free Wifi at Brussels Airport (Belgium), "Open every Fri and Sat from 6 am till 8 pm" https://twitter.com/#!/BRUXX_be/status/81621976745127936
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Could Valley-style entrepreneurship help Greece overcome it's crisis?(blogs.forbes.com)
3 points by davidmat 15y ago|0 comments
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New VC fund turns to designers, not developers(thedesignerfund.com)
2 points by davidmat 15y ago|0 comments
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by davidmat 15y ago
In all seriousness, this is actually my main use case for the private browsing mode in chrome: to search google without the filter bubble(1) It's quite shocking to see just how much those results differ from the ones I'm usually served, act
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by davidmat 15y ago
Still, you have to admit, the iPhone is working pretty well as a Nokia killer ;)
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by davidmat 15y ago
Hey everyone, I have a semi-related question (since it's briefly mentioned in the article): is it possible to make a decent salary exclusively by doing freelance work through vWorker (rentacoder) and the likes?
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by davidmat 16y ago
Long shot, but anything in Central/Eastern Europe?
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by davidmat 16y ago
Am I the only one thinking that the screen is on the wrong side and this is a very poor choice UX-wise?
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by davidmat 16y ago
I second the full RSS feed request
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by davidmat 16y ago
Their fault. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don%27t_be_evil
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by davidmat 16y ago
Probably the site's author sees it from the PoV that it's just too expensive in the US. Other systems offer the same level of health care, at a far lower cost to the patient.
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by davidmat 16y ago
348.48 at the moment, according to google finance.
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by davidmat 16y ago
Or... you can just link up facebook with your old Yahoo mail address.(the one from the 90s you still keep around and check every 6 months or so ;) This lets you import your facebook contacts in your yahoo address book, so you can export the

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