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Strong incentive to dive in to CloudFront CDN it seems. Transfer from AWS to CloudFront 'edge' caches is now free, and outgoing from CloudFront to the internet is nearly 30% cheape…

I just found out yesterday Chrome has one as well https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/chrome-dev-editor-...

Earlier discussion -> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8116233

I don't find it aggressive, it seems more like Dutch directness to me. As an inhabitant of a neighbouring country, I must say it's an acquired taste ;)

yes, social media mavens and SEO gurus ;)

This is really neat! Congratulations to Ben for another great feature. I don't know if it's coincidence, or maybe personal bias, but since going Open Source the pace of improvement…

Could anyone recommend some solid introductory material on data analysis/data visualisation? I'm thinking this data set seems like a fun way to fill a rainy weekend, going for a di…

http://webcron.org/ does this

AFAIK, to activate full screen mode using a keyboard shortcut for any app using the Lion-flavored full screen, you'll need to create a shortcut yourself :( http://osxdaily.com/2011…

Not right now, but soon (in a few weeks - months) there will be a whole avalanche of laptops coming out based on Intel's Ultrabook platform; very much 'inspired' by the MacBook Air…

I don't really want it per se, but isn't this quite similar to pixelpipe? Since that service already exists since 2007 or so and they recently (April) raised some $2.3M, there must…

You've got to be kidding! Think about it, Clippy wasn't really all that bad; he was always there for you, giving handy tips & tricks. But most of all, his funny animations provided…

My top 5: 1) Poor separation between content and presentation 2) Way too many features enabled by default. 3) Bulleted lists don't always indent in predictable fashion, which is an…

"PowerPoint is by far the worst app in the Microsoft Office suite" Really? I nominate MS Word for that title. Maybe we should hold a poll :)

Reminded me of the recently announced Free Wifi at Brussels Airport (Belgium), "Open every Fri and Sat from 6 am till 8 pm" https://twitter.com/#!/BRUXX_be/status/81621976745127936…

In all seriousness, this is actually my main use case for the private browsing mode in chrome: to search google without the filter bubble(1) It's quite shocking to see just how muc…