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thinkzig

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About thinkzig

Unapologetic Microsoft developer, bootstrapper, and one-man band. Creator of LicketyTrip (http://www.licketytrip.com), a travel site for last-minute vacation rentals.

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    Would you care to elaborate on this? I think Pavlina is an odd guy, but I've found some of his advice to be quite helpful over the years. I don't agree with everything he says, but…

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    Comment #7068069

    Great work so far. The tool was very intuitive and easy to use. My suggestion: once I've defined an API, let me apply it to multiple targets that I supply to you programatically. T…

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    Comment #6978370

    If only there was a way to check and see if these links were generated by a widget and not actually part of the article's HTML. Oh wait... there is! Viewing the source from the "6 …

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    Comment #4510772

    I agree. The landing page leaves much to be desired. I've read over it a few times and I still have no idea what your service does or why I would want to use it. Please consider re…

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    Comment #4292872

    This is the first I've heard of your service. It looks really cool. I would find the image conversion particularly useful. Is it possible to upload a file and have it saved at mult…

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    Comment #2954712

    Things are never as fun as they were back in the good old days. :)

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    Comment #2948359

    Congrats on the acquisition. You're quite prolific when it comes to churning out the various web apps you produce. Could you give us some insight into how you come up with the idea…

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    "Later on that evening, officers say they arrested Faith Clifton, a 19-year-old white female of San Francisco. Faith has been booked into San Francisco County Jail on possession of…

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    Comment #2746749

    Agreed. If that's not an example of YAGNI I don't know what is.

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    Comment #2560624

    Please consider changing the background and font combination. The "DISCOVER HOW PEOPLE INTERACT WITH YOUR WEBSITE" is very difficult to read and the light gray on darker gray text …

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    Comment #2517561

    While you're right that all CAPTCHAs are annoying, the CAPTCHA ads are a whole different level of annoying. I think you'd lose more goodwill than you'd gain in money from doing thi…

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    Comment #2517546

    Agreed. So much of making things easy for the user is sticking to convention and giving them what they expect to see. I think most places use the "Forgot Password" link now so I th…

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    Comment #2013597

    https://secure.delicious.com/settings/bookmarks/export

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    Comment #1934275

    If I wanted to try this on a PC does anyone know of a good indexing app for Windows 7?

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    Comment #1872929

    You rock. This weekend I was planning to start evaluating A/B testing frameworks for my ASP.NET-based travel site. I was really hoping I could find something like Patrick's framewo…

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    Comment #1703510

    Who's writing recommendations that say "switching ciphers fixes the problem"? Visual Studio Magazine [1]. I've enjoyed reading all your comments on this thread. You clearly know yo…

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    Comment #1703492

    What led you to say that it was? Section 5.1 of this whitepaper[1] by Rizzo and Duong, that lists Ruby on Rails as one of the web frameworks vulnerable to this attack. Granted, thi…