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Things like Vim can speed up coding, you spend less time on the actual editing of the text. I used to just use vim (macvim in fact), but for php i recently (1 year?) switched to Ph…

go to www.google.com/ncr (no country redirect) and it won't redirect you any more.

This will get abused by fraud really quickly.

Or it could be ad click fraud

I actually thought it was a corrupt file or something - it doesn't sound like anything I'd be able to pick out and understand. If someone can understand at that speed, listening to…

https://laracasts.com/

Despite Spotify occasionally being in the news for not paying the artists much, I bet this does add a lot of new revenue for the music industry. Before I joined spotify (about a ye…

referrer spam is something that has been happening to years, and GA is actually quite good at filtering it comapred to a lot of other stats programs out there. This is really not a…

Expect to get used by spammers (for phone number verification for google/craigslist/etc)

ive been a subscriber of their email newsletter for a while now. (Only noticed emails in last few weeks though). but everytime i see one, i always open it, one of the few engaging …

Looks interesting, might implement this on a project soon. Their pricing is a bit iffy though... " The Face++ APIs are currently provided free of charge. However, Face++ may charge…

Interesting that as one of the main images for it, they use 'flappy birds' ( http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/kindle/dp/2014/M/... ) according to wikipedia, its an offici…

This is hardly a new thing. Ad networks have always had (a very small %, but still there) a problem with people using exploits in flash ads. Especially ad networks for more 'dodgy'…

Very off topic, but their html is wrong: " https://www.backblaze.com/blog/hard-drive-reliability-update... src=' https://www.backblaze.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/bl... alt…

1) Who cares about ads on Facebook? They are not giant ads, or popunders or whatever. Sometimes they are relevant. The FB page 'ads' (that say they are sponsored) can be very relev…

Almost all FTP programs have sFTP support built in (and I can't see FTP programs starting to call themselves SFTP programs). I know transmit for mac does support sftp (and a few ot…

Not sure what this is referring to. I have Transmit for Mac. It is pretty much bug free, and works great (its my go to FTP program). There aren't really any features I wish it had …

This one is interesting too... http://ssbkyh.com/works/cat_human/ " Human faces recognized as a cat face by a cat face-detection algorithm" and "Cat faces recognized as a human fac…