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by fendmark 2y ago
There were a number of smaller rental shops in the Chicago area that carried them. Family Video comes to mind. I don't believe the Blockbusters by us ever had them. I still have my laserdisc player, they are becoming a harder to find i
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by fendmark 2y ago
I started collecting Laserdiscs a few years ago after having grown up with them as a kid in the 90s (we only rented them, because new laserdiscs were expensive!) - With the inflated cost of used Vinyl these days, it's been fun collecti
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by fendmark 6y ago
When I saw Foursquare transition from a B2C to a B2B focused company that is when I finally deleted the Swarm and Fourquare Apps. I still don't fully understand their decision to split Foursquare into 2 apps, but what I did/do und
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by fendmark 6y ago
It would be amazing to be able to see what Grocery delivery service has the earliest delivery times open in your area, if it is even possible
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by fendmark 9y ago
We had a health scare that led us to accelerate our timeline (we had always planned to have kids). My wife and I had our first kid at 30, second at 33. The trend these days is definitely to wait till much later, but I can say that I look fo
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by fendmark 9y ago
Tripod pre-Lycos was an amazing learning space for me in the mid nineties. Domains and hosting were significantly more expensive than they are now (especially for a freshman in high school) and Tripod was an amazing lifeline. Little did I k
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by fendmark 9y ago
I have a TiVo HD with a lifetime subscription as well and they are going to have to pry it from my cold dead hands. There is nothing better I've found out there for skipping commercials. That said TiVo really needs to evolve their busi
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by fendmark 9y ago
Police Quest was huge for me. As a kid it was just risque and free form enough to capture my imagination. I always loved knocking over the motorcycles out in front of the biker bar. I re-bought the Police Quest series a few years back and t
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by fendmark 9y ago
Not to be overly contrarian but it does seem that we are getting close to the peak for the craft beer industry. Smuttynose Brewery going up for auction is a great example of this. https://www.pressherald.com/2018/01&#x2
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by fendmark 9y ago
Publishers are buying traffic that is too good to be true from dubious networks and then it is being laundered through the programmatic ad tech machine at scale. Brands looking to build awareness are buying access to this fraudulent traffic
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by fendmark 9y ago
This is absolutely part of the story as well. Anyone subscribe to a Usenet newsgroup lately?
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by fendmark 9y ago
RSS was strategically killed by Google, Facebook, and Twitter and the rest of the web followed. RSS was basically the open source TiVo of content distribution. Content not wrapped in ads, isn't good for business. Period. The creativity
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by fendmark 9y ago
Loved Levy's book on Google, I'll definitely be picking this one up. Thanks for the reco
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by fendmark 9y ago
Such a great article. I absolutely loved all the original Sierra games. There was something magical about them and this is the best explanation of this that I've ever seen. I was 8-9 when I started playing the first Police Quest, such
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by fendmark 12y ago
Agreed. It will be very interesting to see if this deal actually happens. Only time will tell whether the leak was very clever or completely idiotic. The whole world now knows what Beats is "worth" and that Apple is interested in
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by fendmark 13y ago
The most interesting assertion in this video is that the facebook algorithm sends out user updates to a sample of their fans/subscribers and that the engagement performance within that sample is a key determining factor as to whether a
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by fendmark 13y ago
Interesting Yeah, Facebook's robots.txt file white-lists specific search engines and offer an option to get whitelisted ,then there is a wildcard disallow for everyone else. Of course nefarious scrapers can ignore the robots.txt file o
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by fendmark 13y ago
Frank Lloyd Wright is definitely a fascinating figure. I live in Oak Park, IL just a few blocks away from his home and studio; highly recommend checking it out if you are ever in Chicago.
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by fendmark 14y ago
I also vouch for Fever. Someone on HN recommended Fever to me when Bloglines initially bit the dust a couple years ago and it meets every need I've wanted from an RSS reader and more. The genius of it's design is that Fever gets more useful
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by fendmark 14y ago
I am a Cheddar user with a free account and have to say that it really is a well designed, intuitive app. Personally, while I really like Cheddar I do not feel that it is a service that I would ever pay a recurring fee for. I am a pinboard,
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The Consequences of Confusing Privacy Settings on Facebook(online.wsj.com)
2 points by fendmark 14y ago|0 comments
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by fendmark 14y ago
All good points, iamben.
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by fendmark 14y ago
I think the most obnoxious thing about this post (and I saw a Wikimedia employee point this out in the comments as well) is that it completely ignores the fact that Wikipedia is built on the MediaWiki platform and doesn't even attempt to ad
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Netflix sets up own CDN, places servers at ISPs(networkworld.com)
1 points by fendmark 14y ago|0 comments
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by fendmark 14y ago
Having all of these mirrors of their domain indexed certainly isn't helping W3schools from an SEO perspective. It is highly unlikely that this was done intentionally, just wildcard subdomains set as many have already said. Read the last few
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Ipaidabribe.com Shines Light on Petty Bribery Worldwide(nytimes.com)
3 points by fendmark 15y ago|0 comments
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by fendmark 15y ago
Payment Processing.
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by fendmark 15y ago
Sad to hear this. Would have liked to see them continue the show without the Digg moniker and maybe change the format a bit. Diggnation was basically Wayne's World for the tech set and I will definitely miss it. Any suggestions on similar s
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by fendmark 15y ago
I am also a big fan of Fever. I actually use the Sparks feature a lot. It has completely changed how I use RSS, from attempting to read all my feeds to just reading what is "hot." The key is finding RSS feeds of sites that are link aggregat
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by fendmark 15y ago
Saying that you're a victim of "SEO" is about as accurate as saying you are a victim of "Web Development."

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