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by motherwell 12y ago
What makes you think that the solution they implemented was a good one, and should have worked?
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by motherwell 12y ago
Everyone - repeat after me: SEO DOES NOT HAPPEN IN ISOLATION! I repeat: SEO DOES NOT HAPPEN IN ISOLATION! If one improves a factor on their own site, it doesn't mean that will make a lick of difference in rankings because: 1. That may
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by motherwell 12y ago
I wish he'd start charging me again. I'm cool with paying for the work he has already DONE, I don't need new work or new things, the back catalogue, even if it was free, would be something that $9 is and amount I'd happi
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by motherwell 13y ago
Fuck that's awesome! It needs a lot of work, but I love the ideas behind it. Keep chugging away!
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by motherwell 14y ago
Have you looked at the design? This site is a classic example of not over doing anything. It is about conversation and knowledge, and NOTHING else. An extra minute on table-less design would be a waste.
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by motherwell 14y ago
>Finally, after 22 days, it came back up in the rankings That is EXACTLY what is supossed to happen. Google runs a SE with over 5 billion URLs - if anyone tells you, or told you, that a transition was seemless and instantaneous, they li
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by motherwell 15y ago
How? Generally curious, because I have ALL those symptoms.
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by motherwell 15y ago
You HAVE TO have negative gearing - and it isn't like a family home is tax deductible!
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by motherwell 15y ago
So true! But dude, you are in PERTH - the most isolated city in the world. Sydney and Melbourne are far less like that, especially now the dollar is high and we are starting to get better cultural acts visiting. And I think many Australians
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by motherwell 15y ago
Waiter, boot polisher, hair dresser... anything you need to be there in person to do. For everything else, there is outsourcing :)
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by motherwell 15y ago
I wonder if the solution to this whole issue is a proper market, and true innovation, in student lending. A competitive financing market, where college hopefuls compete for access to lenders' funds, and lenders compete to get quality studen
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by motherwell 15y ago
I lie that, but I think the article implies that unequal societies encourage migration: > unequal sharing of scarce resources created more incentive to migrate in search of additional resources. In other words, societies where some have
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by motherwell 15y ago
https://github.com/nvie/gitflow works really well. The original post http://nvie.com/posts/a-successful-git-branching-model/ was really compelling, and using it has really helped, at least what I do.
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by motherwell 16y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extortion > Extortion, outwresting, and/or exaction is a criminal offense which occurs when a person unlawfully obtains either money, property or services from a person(s), entity, or institution, through
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by motherwell 16y ago
Problem is, I'll be out, say at movie, something goes wrong, I get a frantic call asking what is up, have to taxi home to sort it out. So an iPad/iPhone app would REALLY help there.
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by motherwell 16y ago
Sweet thanx guys!
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Ask HN: Anyone have an iPad SSH client suggestion?
5 points by motherwell 16y ago|8 comments
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by motherwell 16y ago
What is the margin of error? For example, if Texas debt is between 10 and 30 billion, then we can't comment. But if it is between 20 and 30, then I think we can reasonably say that Texas debt to GDP is worse.
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by motherwell 16y ago
That's really cool and super fast (my god is it fast!). If you are going to launch this, can I suggest that, rather than IP detection, you build out a series of pages for each location, e.g. New York City, London etc. That way you can get S
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by motherwell 16y ago
If a business is profitable, a publicly listed company can "arbitrage" the deal. As some rough numbers, a private sale nets 2-4 times profit as value. A public company is valued at 10-12, sometimes as high as 20 times. If they buy a company
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by motherwell 17y ago
In the same way that marketing exists to game people into buying things? A one word argument, "game", lacks substance. The goal of SEO, good SEO, is to build a site that caters to both users AND SEs. After all, users make you money, and ign
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by motherwell 17y ago
"Good development of a good service and spreading the word about it is what's needed to get customers." That's a touch simplistic. Spread the word where? To whom? How? The issue of getting customers is so complicated that we are all here, r
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by motherwell 17y ago
Bah! What dross. This is the same BS that gets spewed about everything "If you have a great product, you don't need marketing", "If you're a great writer, you don't need an editor" etc etc A web designer / developer is someone who builds we
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by motherwell 17y ago
"They probably decided to compete on a numeric basis " Really? I would think if you go freemium, you at least have to offer a compelling "free". 1 GB seems useful, 250MB seems useless. Interesting how that stuff goes, and also good to have
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by motherwell 17y ago
Wasn't this already discussed: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=619110
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by motherwell 17y ago
Just for clarrification: 1. robots.txt excludes CRAWLING e.g. downloading but NOT indexing, e.g. including a URL / site in a database of known URLs / sites. 2. Robots meta tag disallows INDEXING but NOT crawling. So it is semantically corr
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by motherwell 17y ago
Then why write it? That is a new, interesting angle no one else has offerred, and it must have been inventd by someone for some reason. It ws interesing in many ways that are unintentional: e.g. because it shows how to fight this sort of pl
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by motherwell 17y ago
The only reason to use blog.subdomain is if you plan to host it seperately, e.g. on another platform (PHP or windows or whatever), another server (Wordpress has security issues some might worry about) etc. Otherwise, subfolder is either bet
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by motherwell 17y ago
That is like saying the 100m for men has changed. It hasn't, you just have to be better at it than 40 years ago. Nothing has really changed: build something people want, using terminology they use, and get third party citations. Job done.
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by motherwell 17y ago
Interesting how the last few paragraphs on Taboo relate closely to this Paul Graham Essay: http://paulgraham.com/say.html

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