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The "problem" with this kind of tricks is that they works for small/medium website and only if they are not adopted as part as a big library that everyone uses.
They are not that hard to beat if you want to spam someone intentionally or if they are implemented by a well known plugin for (wordpress/joomla/etc..)
1) You don't have/won't access your email account on that computer (ex: Internet Cafe)
2) Spam filters that may delay the mail and so will delay the ability to log in. (ex: Grey Listing)
3) Changing your email account (ex: Work Email to personal email)
It will still be a very bad analogy with a worse conclusion but at least in a "it's my opinion I say what I want" kind of way.
We changed that with bogus writing under the progress bar. The first bar had "searching" under it, and usually that was enough.
If it was still searching after the bar was at 100%, the bar would start the animation again and we would change the text with random stuff like ("building indexes","fetching images","generating tables",etc...).
There are two main difference between the RIAA "every pirate is a stolen sale" and adblock.
1)When you "pirate" something it doesn't mean that you "pirate" everything, while if you install adblock you block the ads on every site.
2)When you "pirate" something it doesn't mean that what you have pirated would have been a legal purchase. But if you go to a website you would have gone there with or without ads. You can say that you won't have clicked on the ad or won't have purhcased anything. But almost 99% of our ads revenue is on impressions and not on click or conversion, so it doesn't really matter if you click or convert the ad.
But, right know, the number of people that use adblock are not that big of a deal (at least on our niche market) that you have to work on fighting it because, right know (for us), it is not worth it.
Their problem is that they want to be "pixel-perfect" across all browser. I get why, but as a User I don't really care as long as everything else works. And chance are that with IE9 and IE10 it will.
I'm not a IE user, but when we stop supporting IE6 we put a big sign saying that if there were problems we won't fix them and to download a modern browser. But people still went to the site even if some divs were in crazy places because basic function they needed worked and maybe they hadn't the chance of upgrading their browser.
If one of your client is once on another computer with only IE installed and doesn't have permission to install another browser, the fact that he can't use the website at all, is that a feature ?
The only one that will leave a good review will be Yelp users that rates everything.
And maybe people that you did them a big favor and they feel they have to repay you someway.
It's a very good excuse to force people on improving their HTML and website speed, but I still would like to see the impact of the Google organic results after only speed improvement and bad HTML fixes.
People that usually go at home around 5:15 but some times are there longer because they want to finish something they are doing. Or sometimes they go out at 4:58 because they have a non programmimng related date.
People that when are not at their job want to go out with their friends, watch tv, be with their family and not think about programming or see a computer for a full night, even a full week-end, but have spent more than once a full week-end experimenting with that new SDK.
People that love programming but want to take a break every now and then.
People that like to go out at their local bar and have a drink with their (non tech/geek) friends and watch a sport match. Only to meet another tech/geek guy they didn't know and end up talking about how they both hate that programming language all night.
Yes, I'll call this the 515 Manifesto.
The main idea of this blog is that the answer to "I have lot of users, how can I generate money ?" is "Get more users and more content !"
It's not. More users and more content means more servers, more bandwidth and more money you have to spend.
It seem that in this "business" is only about generating users and user-generated content and don't worry about the money because some "Angel" investor will save you if you have enough users/content. Let them worry about how to get money out of it.
Why not start something monetizing it from the beggining. Why not add the monetizing problem and possible solution (advertising, premium content,...) at the beginning of the process so that when you grow you will see how it scales.
The main problem is not "How I will I monetize this whitout changing too much of my site" , the problem is "Why didn't you think about it before starting this process."
In Firefox I still see a lot of memory commited to tabs that I've closed long ago, and can't really get a breakdown of my extensions memory usage.
Also what I was wishing is something more like a os task manager. Where I could kill or restart extensions that are using too much memory like I can do to normal applications.
Simply stating that this extensions is using too much memory so don't use it (a la IE) won't help. If that extension is the main reason I'm using your browser I'm not going to turn it off.
I'm not saying it would be easy or even doable right now, it's just what I wish to see in a future web browser to keep the memory down and prevent me from killing it and restarting it twice a day while working.
Also the bazillion extension that exist for Firefox are not really helping.
A "task manager" to be able to keep on eye on all extensions memory consumption (and be able to kill the extension from the browser) should really be helpful.
99% of the time what the client want is "similar" to the other features there are already out there not "exactly the same".
100% of the time they want something that isn't on the standard template that is a huge pain to work into the template you choose from, while it may be alot easier and faster to do it form scratch.
120% of the time the update of the template you choose will break your modification and you have to choose between having a non secure website or fix your modifications (every time)
Template and CMS only work if you know what you are doing and you understand that you are compromising your ideas to fit into the Template/CMS you choose.
On a normal website 10M hits will not be evenly during the day this example hits are only an avarage of 10Kb, and the number of concurrer users are only 250.
Also the test seems to be done on a new wordpress installation. The more content you have, the bigger the database,the longer the comunication with your DB, the bigger the cache, ect...
In a real world scenario you proabbly would need something more than a $15/month virtual server to handle 10M hits in a single day.
Still optimization is always a good thing.
I think that being able to click directly on the heatmap instead of having to close it first, and therefore not losing your visual aid, will be a big improvement.
Anyway, nice job.
P.S. I also have a problem with the height of the rows, tested both with Chrome and Firefox on W7.
That and a (very) detailed list of requirement and goals is the best way to go.
For private freelancers and small/medium jobs suing someone for breach of contract will probably not be a viable option.
The amount of time, effort and money that you need to sue someone and win sometimes is seample not feasible.
Yes, having a contract written by a laywer may work as a deterrent for some clients. But if they don't accept you still need to file a lawsuit.
And there is also the problem that sometimes they simple can't pay. They look and act like they have all the money in the world, but they are actually betting all they have in a website because "making a website is easy and I will make millions with my great idea".
Then even if you win they are simply going bankrupt and you will never see nor your money nor the ones that you spent on lawyers.
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/English_Wikipedia_SOPA_black...
You can not control google or bing shutting down against Sopa, but you can at least control your own website and try to be supportive on HN doing so too.
I may like to know in search what all the Hacker News users like and dislike, but I'm not sure I'm really intereseted in everything they write on their google wall (even if mostly are probably great posts :) ).
Still not the best solution, hashed password (with a salt) are way more secure if your password happens to be 12345.
It's not that bad if you use them, it's definitely bad if you are selling them.
So P2P and file sharing is still illegal since you are uploading while downloading.