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Regarding the grocery stores... Layout changes from time to time, often in subtle ways such as (locally, this happened several months ago) the chilled juices being swapped with the chilled raw meats. They were back-to-back, in adjacent aisles. However, this would cause people to have to go searching for these relatively highly sought products.

This, in turn, would lead them past special offers and other 'impulse purchase' shelves. It keeps people in the store for longer, which may lead them to spend more money.

I don't believe it's in a grocery stores interests to get people in and out as soon as possible, so don't expect their cooperation ;)

Off Topic also: google still count them as backlinks, but do not pass on Pagerank juice. They might still count them as a small factor in website rankings.

Irish mobile operators(specifically 3) just began to introduce 'all you can eat', or unlimited, data plans.

As I understand it, the AUP is limited to 1TB per month - more than my residential 500GB cable cap. I know several people who tether their laptops and phones, to use it in their own homes.

Personally, I use less than 100MB mobile data a month, but I also don't use a conventional (Android, iOS) smartphone any more. I went dumb ;)

Instrumental music, like Pelican, God Is An Astronaut, Japanese Telecom and some Classical music for coding.

Graze.com aren't really competition to this - same idea, different niche.

This seems to be more directed to people who like sweets and snacks, while graze.com is centered around heath food.

I've generally seen it been called white-hat. In my (limited) experience, black-hat is generally used to reference automatic link building, content spinning etc., while white-hat to reference link building through other means that Google will(or can) not automatically penalize.

No, black hat would be more comment backlink blasts and such, using tools like scrapebox.

I think it's called "white hat" more so than "black hat" because it's usually "safe" to do so. i.e., Google will not be able to automatically detect these links which are against their terms of service to penalize them.

Very common, link purchasing is a widely-used 'white hat' SEO practice.

There's a quick bit of discussion about this already here on HN[1]

1: http://news.ycombinator.org/item?id=2819709

Is there a way to block the page before loading? I see a (long) flash of the webpage before the block screen appears in chromium 11.0.696.68 (84545) Ubuntu 10.04

Otherwise, I like this plugin. I used to block websites via /etc/hosts, but it gets annoying having to jump into sudo and edit the file on my lunch, and sometimes, I forget to reenable it.

Like now.

AFAIK, it is currently not a crime within the United States, although there is legislation in the pipeline to make streaming a felony[1]. These websites rely on having links to the copyrighted content, rather than hosting it themselves.

[1] http://news.cnet.com/8301-13506_3-20071913-17/senate-group-b...

Oft touted on HN here is tarsnap[1] and rsync.net[2]. They both have different pricing models, and both seem to focus on security.

[1] - http://www.tarsnap.com/ [2] - http://www.rsync.net/

The full statement is available here[1].

[1] - http://www.consilium.europa.eu/uedocs/cms_data/docs/pressdat...

Currently reading Little Brother by Cory Doctorow - an OK book - and keeping Starting Strength by my side as a reference.

Starting Strength is a great introduction to weightlifting and getting stronger, I highly recommend it.

What about if a developer were to now download the source code available here? Could they, in theory, develop with it as they've never attempted to reverse engineer it themselves?

By using ToS, you're limiting enforcement to the people who do the RE, rather than an implementation, surely?

Zynga are an extreme 'yes' example.

I have experience with some FB apps, mainly just app versions of websites. These were not monetized(by me at least).

https://developers.facebook.com/ is your friend!

you forgot the TLD on showmethecurry.

http://www.showmethecurry.com

The only memory-based effects of methamphetamine I've heard of have been impairment, not improvement. Do you have any citations?

Also, methamphetamine has a very high addiction potential. I don't know if this does - I've yet to even glance at the paper - but I would be willing to hedge money on your comparison being between apples & oranges.

Ireland has a huge cost-of-living, awful healthcare, and is terribly run.

It's a good place to house a corporation(the tax is very low) but for living in... You'd want to be very secure, financially.

An interesting post on habit-setting is on the front page right now.

http://lifehacker.com/#!281626/jerry-seinfelds-productivity-...

& the comment thread

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2262437

I'm not familiar with that service, sorry.

However, looking at their FAQ from [1]:

"Totally customizable, each Cloud Server gives you full root access"

so I would imagine you can make any changes you'd like. However, every host is different and YMMV.

[1] http://www.rackspace.com/cloud/cloud_hosting_products/server...

Without being familiar with your service, do you implement caching? memcached[1] may lighten your load if you do not.

What web server do you use, apache? Perhaps nginx or lighttpd would be a better fit if you do use apache.

Check out this post[2] for more details on decreasing load.

and try not to knock your server offline at your peak time ;)

HTH.

[1] http://memcached.org/

[2] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2220273

Silverex[1] is what I used to use back on windows. Nowadays, irssi with screen running on a server.

[1] http://www.silverex.org/

One thing I quickly noticed, is that your advert is hard to click on particular adverts[1](in Chromium on Fedora, at any rate). I cannot click the advert below the top of the image, to the left or right. In some places this can cover half the advert.

[1] http://reversegif.com/9z7

I don't think Pepsi is a "generic" cola.

Pepsi is its own brand unto itself, and in fact turned down an offer of Coca-Cola trade secrets before[1].

[1] http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/5152740.stm

There is also http://www.icombinator.net/ and http://ihackernews.com/ which are web-based, not apps.

What are you doing that is different to other VPS providers?

[edit] that popup on your homepage... It just wants to make me jump ship. You have a nice uncluttered design, no need to have a pseudo-popup that makes your website seem it's hosted on geocities :)

Web development, or web design?

Development could mean code ignoring the front-end design to the OP.

Sounds like something I could use. Very interested

I'm starting work on a few university projects, the main one being a multiplayer zombie game, turn based, online. see how it works out ;)

also a side project I want to have out before November, in rails. But I'm keeping it mostly-hush for now =)