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blahpro

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About blahpro

http://benhodgson.com/

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    Comment #44249658

    "except for a few pop artists here"

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    Comment #39196618

    I agree with the sentiment, but costs do impact revenue when those costs represent an investment in something that can be used to increase revenue, like employees.

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    Comment #30555075

    Nothing compared to loss of life and suffering of the Ukrainian people of course, but: this is sad. From the article: "It will cost over USD3 billion to restore the plane [...]". T…

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    Comment #23615018

    Please consider adding instructions for reproducing the issue to this thread. E.g. what's the name of the business that's using your URL, and what's your URL? Without such instruct…

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    Comment #22996369

    As far as I can tell, that GIF is showing Duo video quality before and after using a new codec design to improve quality particularly over low-bandwidth connections.

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    Comment #18122163

    Nice! I think there's an error in the bottom-left of the footer, which says "Day of the Day", instead of "Day of the Dead"?

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    Comment #18040291

    Just like any other email provider supporting POP3/IMAP.

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    Comment #12264427

    Yeah but the image comes straight out of cache.

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    Comment #12263120

    I like this bit:

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    Comment #9094253

    Hmm. This article refers to the data centre as an "Apple Factory" and misspells Tim Cook's name.

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    Comment #9041076

    Interesting article, but would greatly benefit from a "TL;DR" summary at the top.

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    Comment #8289716

    I would argue that this could be counter-productive. 24/7 immersion in an employer-owned and operated environment doesn't sound healthy from a work/life balance perspective.

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    Comment #7815776

    Yes. If you had an XSS vulnerability via a GET querystring parameter, an attacker could encourage a victim to visit a URL which exploited the vulnerability (or, say, iframed the UR…

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    Comment #7737416

    It'd be interesting to see an animation of the diamond/square iteration progressing in 3D, starting with a flat surface and ending with the finished terrain :)

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    Comment #6744546

    "Airplane Mode" claims to use a Parrot AR Drone 2.0 (~$290) for parts. The controller used is actually an infrared one from a smaller and cheaper (~$20) RC helicopter, like this: h…

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    Comment #6683288

    Molly's books were what really got me started with web development. She was kind enough to send me a signed copy of one of her books when I was probably ~13 years old after emailin…

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    Comment #6659572

    This is extremely laggy for me in Safari 7.

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    Comment #6570721

    Pretty cool! Some feedback: lose the flashing instructional text.

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    Comment #6534108

    This is what PayPal have charged for as long as I can remember. I always assumed that later entrants (Stripe etc) adopted that price point to be competitive with PayPal.

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    Comment #6457163

    Zynga's market cap is listed as $2.9 million. Presumably this is a typo; it's ~$2.9 billion .

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    Comment #6431283

    platform.twitter.com is currently CNAMEd to EdgeCast CDN. It looks like the CDN is sitting in front of Amazon S3; http://platform.twitter.com/blahblahblah gives an S3-like 403 resp…

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    Comment #6430707

    My guess: many CDNs allow you to exclude the querystring from the cache key, so it's possible that one person requested the URL with ?torrent in the querystring (which causes S3 to…

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