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Wow, I didn't realize the little article I wrote for Lifehacker would have such a big impact on this project. Also didn't realize he had passed on the project to Cloudflare. They're a great team so I'm happy it's in their capable hands now!

Censorship comes in many forms. Governmental censorship? Bad. Self-censorship of a platform such as Twitter, good, and necessary.

I agree this could be the case. I would love for there to be a 'better way' for everyone to consume RSS feeds, just haven't seen them yet.

Which analytics software uses this? We primarily use Google Analytics, the user agent from the web server log file isn't getting passed back to them.

Having struggled with RSS in the past, I will give a few reasons of why I ended up removing RSS from my blog:

1. RSS traffic trickled down to almost nothing. Hardly anyone uses RSS any more as a daily reader^1.

2. Spammers were using my RSS feed to wholesale copy the content from my blog. Identical copies of my blog went up in several different locations, each with their own copy of ads from the scammers. Some of these blogs ranked higher than mine for certain search terms. Google would eventually catch on and remove them, but it was like playing whack a mole.

3. We did not make any money from the RSS feed. Even if we did find a way to monetize it (injecting ads into the feed, for example), see #1.

As a techie, yes yes yes I would like to have an RSS feed. But from a business standpoint, it doesn't make any sense these days.

^1: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=US&q=r...

This seems interesting, but without knowing what a course looks like, I won't sink $84 into it.

If the creator(s) are reading, I would suggest making the first chapter free. That would work better to get visitors to sign up & pay. For example, from what I can see there are 9 missions, so the first is free, pay to continue.

This has been coming for a while. We attempted to create a push-based notification system based on MQTT. It worked well, then the notifications started getting lost. Turns out, the receiver service was getting killed in the background. We found out the best way to get reliable notification was through Google's own GCM (which has now moved to Firebase Cloud Messaging.

We learned its incredibly difficult, if not impossible to build an app (with reliable notifications) that do not use Google services.

You can say its in an effort to maximize battery resources, which I totally understand, but by requiring a Google service (and now library) you are truly tied in to and reliant on their systems.

BTW, as others have pointed out, there are open source Firebase libraries (https://firebaseopensource.com/projects/firebase/firebase-an...)

Had the opposite reaction. Went in not knowing, then when I saw Tarkin and Leia I was kind of thinking, wtf? They digitally rendered their faces? When I talked to friends afterwards they didn't notice it. This must be pushing some sort of mental limit of our brains - not everyone recognizes faces/cg the same as others.

I'm curious too, since the max resolution appears to be 220x220 on a 2GB GPU in my testing. If that is a linear relationship, it seems like it would be ~ 1080x1080 for a 12GB GPU.

Oh wow, the TI-99/4A, I learned BASIC on this computer! If you didn't have the tape storage unit, which could save data onto an audio cassette, you had to re-type your program into the computer if the power went out or unit was reset.

It also had an external voice processor as an addon which was really creepy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUPkCNcT1Yw

I see the primary 'Advisor' to Wallarm is the primary author of Naxsi, so perhaps this is a commercialization of the Naxsi firewall product.

What I can tell you is that you are not alone. The startup/coding world, and even just the world in general can be very stressful. Many of us have gone through similar things as you.

It is important to figure out yourself first, and move on from there. You may sometimes try to handle everything internally and it is just impossible to do that all of the time. If you reach out to your friends and family I think they will be more supportive and understanding than you may think.

Feel free to reach out to me if you need someone to talk to - its my user @gmail.

All VPS systems suffer from the "noisy neighbor" problem. You may have been on a DigitalOcean system with a lot of neighbors with other high i/o activity, and on Linode you could have been on a server with no neighbors.

The only way to test this is to get a random sampling of servers (which in of itself may be difficult) and then re-do the testing.

That is to say, on a VPS you aren't the only customer using i/o.

I used the Bitcoin client on my phone, after the transaction went through I clicked "Confirm transaction" and it has already accepted it. I'm guessing with smaller transactions they just assume it went through, otherwise they don't ship it within the hour you get the order, so they have some protection against doublespends.

Just ordered a mini-helicopter on Overstock using Bitcoins. The checkout process was flawless. I used the Bitcoin client on my phone to send the amount by snapping a shot of the QR code on the website. Went right through, hit confirm, and the deal was done!

Couldn't have been an easier process and can't wait to get my helicopter.

- The SSDs are a main selling point

- Their website is easy to use and clear

- Access via a simple API

I've used them for some side projects - although they aren't feature-full for bigger ones, they are great to use.

The "Get notified for Android" link just takes me to the iTunes download page. Would like to sign up for when it comes to Android. :)

What about the possibility that end-users' computers are breached?

- User/pass is saved in the 'Remembered password' area of browser (this is decodable by malware) - Email is screen-scraped by malware - Email is sniffed during login at a wifi hotspot (Password is encrypted, user/email may not be) - 3rd party apps that are linked to your dropbox account

I'm not saying that this wasn't caused by the database breach, but there are a TON of reasons that this could have happened. Some on Dropbox, some on the end users.

Don't expect your email address to stay private. That's what passwords are for.

I just purchased it, and it appears to be downloading now. Note that I had pre-applied for a reduced price offer since I had just purchased a new Windows 7 PC. The URL I used was through here: https://www.windowsupgradeoffer.com/en-US/MyOrder

It is currently downloading through a "Windows 8 Upgrade Assistant" program. This program took all of my information and charged my credit card, and is downloading the files as I write this. ETA 15 minutes total.

Screenshot: http://cl.ly/image/2t3T2M261P2a

Yikes - I would like to read this but I can't even save it to Instapaper for my reading time on my mobile device. Irony...

Another reason to use DDG - they don't "bubble" you with their search results, and have a strict privacy policy. See: https://duckduckgo.com/privacy.html

I have them set to my search engine and I would say about 90% of my searches hit productive results. For the other 10%, I consult with Google via their handy link or just via Google directly.

You can't compete with Google for breadth of web search, but I find most of my searches don't utilize that for accurate results, eg finding a company page. When I look for a specific error message or help with a code snippet, GOOG is still king.

Why not just 18... why not 48 or 128 or 1024? Questions like this are always loaded. First of all:

- This assumes the end user is familiar with command line usage. The typical consumer of VPSes aren't, in my experience, and rely on something like cPanel to do all administration. Which is why you can't really run on 64MB.

- The site itself doesn't take up RAM, just disk space. If you have 1024 static sites the only thing taking up ram is the configuration of the sites sitting in Apache's memory. As long as there isn't a lot of traffic on the site, it doesn't really matter how many there are.

- You could have 1 static site that has a medium amount of traffic and it would bring the 64MB instance to its knees as soon as you have more than a few concurrent connections.

Anyway, from this hoster's experience, when I get a question like "What can I run on a 64MB VPS" the easy answer is "Not much" because usually the type of person that wants to spend $3/mo on 64MB VPS instead of $7/mo for a 1GB VPS doesn't really have their priorities in place.

Yahoo has been lacking any major "must have" products in the past what, 10 years?

Here is a list of everything they offer: http://everything.yahoo.com/

Delicious was about the only thing that the 'tech' crowd uses. Think about the people you know who might use Yahoo! Mail or Answers. It is the decidedly less-tech people who use these products, mainly as a throwback to the Yahoo! of 2000. Of course, Yahoo!'s goal isn't to cater to tech people, but people who click on ads. I imagine their revenue is declining for even those main-stream products, but for them to cut out the more tech oriented services which actually have a chance in the future to really get 'big', is just delaying their demise a year or 2.

All of those are clouds, not really meant as an always-on home in the cloud (or at least an expensive option). I'll assume you are looking for low-budget since you mentioned "Academic project."

What you are looking for is probably a VPS (can be had for < $10/month at many, many places) or simply setting up an old computer on your home connection. Even if you have a static IP, use DynDNS or similar service to get a static address to connect to.

I think this should be a call to arms to network, web and system admins everywhere. This is a problem that everyone knows about but nobody wants to do anything about since it requires additional setup. Usually the barrier is a technical issue that the end user can't figure out. However since submitting forms via SSL is something the developer can do without impacting the end user at all, this is a simple fix for just about any website. You need a static IP and an SSL certificate, and they are both cheap.

Running out of IPv4 space is an issue in this regard, but hopefully with more people wanting SSL it will push providers to IPv6 quicker. Nicely done EricButler!

This is a good list to get started. I write for MakeUseOf - generally to submit your app there, use submit@makeuseof.com or if you want to send a direct message to me, dave@makeuseof.com.

Your app must at least be in open beta, and must be free or 'freemium'.

Same here - just my first honest impression. Spammy words: 123, affiliate marketing, free, make MORE money, affiliate program.

As the others have noted, no lyrics have been coming up for me.

But on the flip side, it does pick up my 'currently listening' song from last.fm very fast. I use Spotify, it must publish currently listening pretty quickly. I think its only about 10-15 seconds.

Just a couple of 'ideas':

- Fix the lyrics api issue

- Show the last X songs played so you can go back and search the lyrics for them.

- Enunciate what the site does better than the text box on the side. From the text on the site it looks like it is just a lyrics search engine... display what sets you apart.

Great idea!

Inverted here. I was born in 1980 and just thought most people did it. Then I noticed more and more that I have the change the default settings in games. Now, when I play with my younger cousins, I have to change their settings. Funny how you don't even notice a little thing like mouse inversion, but it is 'impossible' for me to play without it!

This is brilliant! I'll make a web page on Geocities to advertise it. Just got this cool animated gif of an "Under construction" sign emailed to me on my Hotmail account, will be sure to include that on the page as well.