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Not true if you use a secure/intelligent email client, like Gmail. It will prompt you with a yellow bar above the email before loading any images. It also implies that they'll open…

Google Domain Blocker: (userscript/greasemonkey), for those interested. http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/33156 You can also sync them for Firefox across multiple machines using …

You guys never did male beauty pageants for charity? We have them like twice a year here, and they're quite successful and overall a lot of fun (granted, I never dress up... just l…

I'm working on a project now that will aggregate self-motivated learning online. Watch a lecture on YouTube? (Many universities post them). Get credit for it. Start a discussion wi…

Large companies have often used internal memos on purpose for leaking information. On some level, they want the information to be leaked (companies with thousands of staff makes it…

The ultimate test? Work with them.

Very well put. Especially B.

Yet you're getting bombarded with spam. Not to mention, Facebook accounts are very easy to create. So I don't see that either.

I doubt it. Most schools block Facebook, whereas most do not block Gmail (many rely on Gmail themselves). Using a Facebook email is just asking for accessibility problems.

Wrong -- your FB email address will likely have the same prefix as your vanity URL. Guess that that means? Spam bots know your email address already.

The interface'll have the be unbelievably amazing and innovative for this to even make a dent in people's minds. And as others have pointed out, Facebook.com is not associated with…

Not probably, it definitely is. Sir Ken Robinson is amazingly brilliant, and his value for creativity is revolutionary. Creativity defines the world we live in. He defines creativi…

Which leads me to think that this just may be a setting stone to future, more important memos. No sense in scaring them unless they wanted to secure the channel for something else.…

I solved this a while back and posted my results on Twitter. [SPOILER: DON'T FOLLOW IF YOU WANT TO TRY IT YOURSELF FIRST] http://yfrog.com/mto4sp I'm not sure if this was the expec…

The problem isn't really what questions are being asked, it's that questions are being asked at all. Verify by phone/text, and encourage it's kept up to date (by periodically confi…

But when it's actually leaked and posted, it'll most definitely be trimmed.

CPUs today are a lot less based on raw MHz/GHz and more about the technologies in which they achieve them. This can be easily seen with some single-core CPUs out-performing dual co…

My advice is to do searches of your interested... Find people who talk about what you care about; even more importantly, people who interact with their followers. It all depends on…

It's getting quite a bit of users, and the average session length is 14 minutes. Quite interesting :) I love it. It's sort of like Gmail, minus the notifications through my phone (…

The left side is newest, the right side is news (homepage).

Apache handles dynamic content better than nginx in most cases. Nginx is usually only desirable when memory is a constraint or for serving static content. I've optimized apache, an…

It's all written in php/codeigniter and mysql. It's very fast thanks to codeigniter being very lightweight and due to caching provided by mysql. I'll try to write a blog post tomor…

I just modified the way the queries run; duplicates should be MUCH less common now.

I just significantly improved caching to further reduce the necessity of hitting Hacker News. This should fix a lot of performance issues as well as blank pages. As for duplicates,…