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Likely, I have a fair amount of contact with random internet people (running game servers), seeing quite a few spam emails from y7mail.com; notably from people I have previously ha…

And a summary of that attitude: https://twitter.com/steveklabnik/status/293831920872194050 Why would anyone want to work with Steve?

You can go look it up, but IIRC, the slingshot method (using a rare alignment of planets) produced a higher "speed" (so to speak) than would be reasonable to produce even with toda…

This works: https://www.23andme.com/special_offer/49NOV2012/

It seems they have judged the potential for "free" marketing to be worth the risk of a backlash from the 4chan community. Given they are in the business of allowing users to post c…

I still use MSMoney. For my relatively simple home finances, its absolutely perfect.

SVGs tend to be smaller because it is a vector format. It has nothing to do with XML; it seems highly likely a binary encoding for SVG would be massively more efficient than xml.

There is an exploit made possible by returning 'unwrapped' json in response to GET's. This details it fairly nicely: http://haacked.com/archive/2008/11/20/anatomy-of-a-subtle-js...…

Not worldwide (Australia only) and not as permissive with input format, but geocoderweb.veda.com.au is very fast.