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Why Google made this change, from the article, "In this case, we are following the lead of the UN, Icann [the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers], ISO [Internation…

Another example: long form sales pages. They've been discussed here on Hacker News before, and many people here hate them, but they do (apparently) convert very well.

For a bare-bones approach, this shell command would also do the trick. cut -d\ -f1 ~/.bash_history | sort | uniq -c | sort -rn | head (Note: There should be two spaces after the -d…

You're right, but money already is involved in these articles. Authors and actors (and agents, I've suspected in a few cases) are keeping a biased eye on their articles. I think it…

I've always wondered why Wikipedia doesn't include affiliate links to Amazon on all their book and movie articles. I think their current logic is that affiliate links force them to…

(from Jakob Nielsen) "Web users spend 80% of their time looking at information above the page fold. Although users do scroll, they allocate only 20% of their attention below the fo…

As someone with technical knowledge and no purchasing power, I dislike talking to salespeople and technical people. I just want the name of a product that I can recommend to my bos…

Some bots auto-revert changes that are likely to be vandalism or spam, like if an anonymous user adds a link to a blog on a free blog hosting site. (Specifically, see http://en.wik…

Sometimes you can work around this. Find the install.rdf file for the plugin, and change the maxVersion variable to "4.*". It doesn't always work, but I've had good luck with it.

I ran it for Javascript, Ruby, and Perl, and I got this: {"JavaScript"=>48, "Ruby"=>46, "Perl"=>28}

I was about the say the same thing, but about Infoseek.

Politics and current affairs Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime. By John Heilemann and Mark Halperin The Bridge: The Life and Rise of…

I disgree. If someone replied to a post with, "You're wrong and an idiot," but the original poster replies with a reasoned defense, then I would certainly vote down the first reply…

Which is often "just like game X, but more complicated." I think that's the route of most startup pipe-dreams: Take a successful site or product, and make it more complicated.

Did they actually say "appreciate"?

"some youths high on googlemania - a local thing" Is this really a thing in Germany? That's the weirdest part of this whole story, that kids would care that much about an internati…

I've been trying to work this one through. One possible solution, (using a hefty dose of mathematical illiteracy, that looks like one of those word problems that occasionally appea…

Maintainability. Same reason that, when you code, you want to include comments, have good variable names, use reasonably-sized functions, etc. It makes maintainability and future e…

It was a weird title. I did an an quick poll of two non-programmer, LOL-speak experts, and I got these answers: - If you can read this, you can get a job in financial program (if t…

Some people (myself included) like use Facebook as a mirror to their own social circles. Defriending someone from Facebook for an inappropriate post would be like defriending them …

Even most of the original commentators, back in 02002, thought it was easily doable.