michaelhart

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by michaelhart 14y ago
Not true if you use a secure/intelligent email client, like Gmail. It will prompt you with a yellow bar above the email before loading any images. It also implies that they'll open the email, which most average people won't do unless they k
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by michaelhart 16y ago
Google Domain Blocker: (userscript/greasemonkey), for those interested. http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/33156 You can also sync them for Firefox across multiple machines using Dropbox, as the preferences are stored in your profile (II
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by michaelhart 16y ago
You guys never did male beauty pageants for charity? We have them like twice a year here, and they're quite successful and overall a lot of fun (granted, I never dress up... just laugh at my friends a lot). And if he's actually a cross-dres
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by michaelhart 16y ago
I'm working on a project now that will aggregate self-motivated learning online. Watch a lecture on YouTube? (Many universities post them). Get credit for it. Start a discussion with others who also watched it. Ask and answer questions. Fin
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by michaelhart 16y ago
Large companies have often used internal memos on purpose for leaking information. On some level, they want the information to be leaked (companies with thousands of staff makes it nearly impossible for it not to be).
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by michaelhart 16y ago
The ultimate test? Work with them.
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by michaelhart 16y ago
Very well put. Especially B.
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by michaelhart 16y ago
Yet you're getting bombarded with spam. Not to mention, Facebook accounts are very easy to create. So I don't see that either.
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by michaelhart 16y ago
I doubt it. Most schools block Facebook, whereas most do not block Gmail (many rely on Gmail themselves). Using a Facebook email is just asking for accessibility problems.
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by michaelhart 16y ago
Wrong -- your FB email address will likely have the same prefix as your vanity URL. Guess that that means? Spam bots know your email address already.
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by michaelhart 16y ago
The interface'll have the be unbelievably amazing and innovative for this to even make a dent in people's minds. And as others have pointed out, Facebook.com is not associated with professionalism (unless you're a recruiter or tech blogger
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by michaelhart 16y ago
Not probably, it definitely is. Sir Ken Robinson is amazingly brilliant, and his value for creativity is revolutionary. Creativity defines the world we live in. He defines creativity as "the process of coming up with original ideas that hav
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by michaelhart 16y ago
Which leads me to think that this just may be a setting stone to future, more important memos. No sense in scaring them unless they wanted to secure the channel for something else.
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by michaelhart 16y ago
I solved this a while back and posted my results on Twitter. [SPOILER: DON'T FOLLOW IF YOU WANT TO TRY IT YOURSELF FIRST] http://yfrog.com/mto4sp I'm not sure if this was the expected output, as there was no exact confirmation. But I assu
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by michaelhart 16y ago
The problem isn't really what questions are being asked, it's that questions are being asked at all. Verify by phone/text, and encourage it's kept up to date (by periodically confirming). It's really convenient/simple and it's more secure t
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by michaelhart 16y ago
But when it's actually leaked and posted, it'll most definitely be trimmed.
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by michaelhart 16y ago
CPUs today are a lot less based on raw MHz/GHz and more about the technologies in which they achieve them. This can be easily seen with some single-core CPUs out-performing dual core and a few quad core CPUs. Who cares if you have a 3.2 GHz
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by michaelhart 16y ago
My advice is to do searches of your interested... Find people who talk about what you care about; even more importantly, people who interact with their followers. It all depends on what you care about.
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by michaelhart 16y ago
It's getting quite a bit of users, and the average session length is 14 minutes. Quite interesting :) I love it. It's sort of like Gmail, minus the notifications through my phone (which is a good thing, because it would be way too spammy).
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by michaelhart 16y ago
The left side is newest, the right side is news (homepage).
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Facebook Slaps Google: “Openness Doesn’t Mean Being Open When It’s Convenient”(techcrunch.com)
72 points by michaelhart 16y ago|63 comments
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by michaelhart 16y ago
Apache handles dynamic content better than nginx in most cases. Nginx is usually only desirable when memory is a constraint or for serving static content. I've optimized apache, and it's handling the traffic quite well now with average resp
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by michaelhart 16y ago
It's all written in php/codeigniter and mysql. It's very fast thanks to codeigniter being very lightweight and due to caching provided by mysql. I'll try to write a blog post tomorrow... www.michaelhart.me
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by michaelhart 16y ago
I just modified the way the queries run; duplicates should be MUCH less common now.
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by michaelhart 16y ago
I just significantly improved caching to further reduce the necessity of hitting Hacker News. This should fix a lot of performance issues as well as blank pages. As for duplicates, I have tried to make that much less likely by putting the s
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by michaelhart 16y ago
Well, it doesn't update THAT often, so it's not like it's constantly moving :) But that's also the reason why I didn't make realtime conversations... It's too hard to make it not annoying.
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by michaelhart 16y ago
Despite how efficient I made it, apache seems to have trouble keeping up. I'm tuning it trying to find a good balance.
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by michaelhart 16y ago
I wasn't aware, I fixed it :) As for the text, I'll lower the opacity to like 5% and see if that helps. Also adding spacing now. Thanks :D edit: spacing added; looks much better :) thanks again!
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by michaelhart 16y ago
True, but for many people, like me, we're refreshing HN every few minutes anyway. Why not have the 2 most common pages (for me anyway) on 1 screen powered by ajax to load all of the data. I also cache all of the data on my server in a datab
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Realtime Hacker News(realtime.michaelhart.me)
38 points by michaelhart 16y ago|24 comments

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