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spocked

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About spocked

Father to two, husband, son and Entrepreneur (in descending order of priority)

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    Comment #10452940

    That's a good point. Will add a tutorial in the next version. There is no setup to be done. Once the extension is enabled, you simply visit any supported website and the keyword me…

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    Comment #10452909

    You can go to the options page and simply disable any of the supported websites. Additionally, if you see the source code, you can see that there is no tracking information sent to…

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    Comment #10452872

    You could simply generate a large amount of noise and send it to the API to foil any such evil plan. The API url used is right there in the chrome JavaScript code, as mentioned by …

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    Comment #10451386

    You shouldn't see any slowdown. The code uses minimal resources - reads the table data, calls a webservice and injects the keyword volume and cpc numbers.

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    Comment #10448394

    I need to listen to music that I already know pretty well. It works like white noise in the background. If I listen to anything new, I cannot focus on the programming.

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    Comment #10366086

    By 'non standard', do you mean the new ones like .club, .online, .global or just any extensions that are not .com, .org or .net? (a) Brand new extensions - it will depend on whethe…

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    Comment #10249875

    I get very distracted at 1x. There is a speed of maximum efficiency that works for me - generally around 2X. When information is thrown that fast at you, as long as you can catch i…

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    Comment #10247845

    This is from personal experience - works for me, may not work for you. I have found that people who enunciate every word they read in their heads read a lot slower than those who c…

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    Comment #9544066

    https://wordpress.org/news/2015/05/wordpress-4-2-2/ This is a critical security release. The cross-site scripting vulnerability lets a commenter compromise your website.

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    Remind HN: Update your wordpress sites

    Wordpress released version 4.2.2 a week ago with some important security updates. As someone who owns multiple WP installs, it is critical for me to get these updated asap. I am su…

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    Comment #9373679

    Images work really well when the user is surfing in general and not looking for something in particular. That explains why images are very important for Facebook Ads, while keyword…

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    Comment #9373499

    Linode - $100/mo SendGrid - $5/mo Facebook Ads - $200/mo (roughly - not fixed)

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    Comment #9373486

    Just finished filling the survey. Next time, try to not force the user to select the "Never" option. If I have not used that OS or browser, I will simply skip over it.

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    Comment #9372658

    A 1% CTR is quite normal for an adsense advert. Assuming your advert is a banner ad, it should have similar CTR. It is important to understand that over time people develop banner …

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    Comment #8783084

    I love the teardowns that Samuel does. There is so much you can learn from looking at just a bunch of them. Recommended to anyone who runs an app.

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    Comment #7697354

    I don't think building my own mail server would be feasible. I'll check out web faction. Thanks.

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    Ask HN: After Google Apps and Outlook, which email provider for custom domain?

    Recently Outlook stopped their free email service for a custom domain. Some time back Google Apps had stopped their service. I need a single email with my custom domain. Any recomm…

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    Ask HN: How many of you contribute to Wikipedia?

    The "Wikipedia for Sale" post on the front page made me wonder how many people on HN actually contribute to Wikipedia. I have never, but am interested in figuring out why. I love W…

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    Comment #6556405

    I have used http://www.fotolia.com/ and find them to be the cheapest stock photo websites out there. http://www.istockphoto.com/ has a much larger collection, but they are a lot co…