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hayksaakian··on Ask HN: Google removed my site from search results, what can I do?
When you say it was on github pages, do you mean it was on a github subdomain like example.github.io ?
hayksaakian··on Ask HN: Google removed my site from search results, what can I do?
Do you still control the old domain?

Don't rely on the "site move" tool to talk to the crawler.

You need to 301 redirect your pages from the old domain to the new domain.

I see this all the time with clients who skip some basics when changing domains.

I'm happy to talk you through this via HN comments

hayksaakian··on Ask HN: Shopify self hosted e-commerce alternative?
I'll vouch again for WooCommerce. I've built multiple sites with it for clients and it's ideal for a small business with tech-savvy operators.
hayksaakian··on Just Eat Takeaway to acquire Grubhub for $7.3B
Right, I was just giving an example of how a smaller company can buy a larger company
hayksaakian··on Just Eat Takeaway to acquire Grubhub for $7.3B
1 example: they could take on debt from a Bank to make the purchase for example.

"Just Eat Takeaway was created this year through the $7.8 billion combination of two of the earliest participants in Europe’s food-delivery market, Just Eat and Takeaway.com. It has been fighting competition in Europe from Uber Eats and Deliveroo, a London-based company whose investors include Amazon.

Mr. Groen, a Dutch entrepreneur, founded Takeaway.com in 2000 when he was a student frustrated with the challenge of ordering pizza online. He took Takeaway.com public in 2016, and now has a net worth of more than $1.5 billion, according to Forbes.

In addition to the deals for Grubhub and Just Eat, Mr. Groen bought the German portion of Delivery Hero’s business for about $1 billion in 2018."

They've been aggressively acquiring competitors for years, so this seems par for the course.

hayksaakian··on We ditched Google Analytics
if all you need is counting a number of users, then you can use cloudflare analytics
hayksaakian··on Just some red flags. No big deal. Just ignore them
More context for the OP:

https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2020/02/29/poof/

hayksaakian··on Next.js 9.4 – Fast Refresh, Incremental Static Regeneration
Sorry for over-sharing! i'll try to correct my note to clarify about domvm
hayksaakian··on Next.js 9.4 – Fast Refresh, Incremental Static Regeneration
Later in the thread, the author links to this site as a real world example using domvm* -- even anecdotally it feels very fast!

https://us.thermosoft.com/floor-heating/systems/thermotile-m...

* Edit -- initially i incorrectly claimed that this site uses mithril -- (it uses domvm w/SSR, not Mithril)

hayksaakian··on Ask HN: How come there is no example code for B2B-SaaS apps?
I'm not sure you'll find something with such a specific requirement.

The first thing that came to mind is server management tools like free alternatives to cpanel/webhostmanager

https://froxlor.org/

You'll have better luck searching online if you look for "free / open source" + specific problem/solution rather than "b2b saas app"

in this example i searched for "free alternative to cpanel"

hayksaakian··on Mark Zuckerberg Asserts Control of Facebook, Pushing Aside Dissenters
I think you're missing the point of the OP

If Zuckerberg undermines the leadership of his operators some of them will move on to other companies.

It's not feasible to run an enterprise as large as Facebook as 1 person at the top, so you need leaders with mutual trust to execute in their department.

hayksaakian··on Letter to Myself in Late 2008
It doesn't sound right, but that's how it is most of the time.
hayksaakian··on Ask HN: Do I need to register a lot of redundant domains?
If you're using .anythingbesidescom (for example.io) then get the .com too

Besides that it really doesn't matter unless you're a million dollar brand.

There's better ways to spend $10 in your small business.

If you have a trademark on your brand name, and someone else tries to squat your name in another TLD, file a trademark dispute to force them to release it. (Assuming your trademark isn't a generic word like "apple" where someone could conceivably have something like apple.accounting without being confusingly similar)

hayksaakian··on Ask HN: Good ways to capture institutional knowledge?
We record screencast videos demonstrating how to do a process. New people can watch those videos to learn how to do it.

If we find a better way to do something then we make a new video.

There's a team member who transcribes videos into google docs for people who like to read and search in google drive.

It's pretty simple and it works wonders for an international team.

hayksaakian··on Google interviewing process for software developer role in 2020
They're weighing the cost of all this up front work vs the cost of making a "bad" hire, onboarding them, and then firing shortly after they start or being stuck with them in the long term.

Google has so much "demand" to work for them that they can be this picky.

hayksaakian··on Ask HN: What interesting problems are you working on?
Interesting idea though I didn't see any examples of what that looks like on your website or links to live sites doing this.

Hard to think about it just in my mind with no visuals.

hayksaakian··on Uber sells food delivery business in India to Zomato
what if Uber becomes an international holding company for ride sharing businesses?

Is that a better or worse future?

hayksaakian··on Show HN: Monitor a Hacker News post over time
Weird to see posts like this that randomly spike in the number of votes

https://hacker-news-analytics.christianfei.com/stats/Exploit...

hayksaakian··on Show HN: A beetle generator made by machine-learning zoological illustrations
Minecraft?
hayksaakian··on Guide to speaking at tech conferences
Thank you for creating this, I've already shared it with a few people
hayksaakian··on Show HN: Nodetube – Open-source YouTube alternative with image and audio uploads
The More competition for YouTube the better.

The bigger question to answer: How do you appeal to viewers?

hayksaakian··on Fake “like” factories – how we reverse engineered facebooks user IDs [video]
Can you do a "link to website" ad and then link to your facebook group?
hayksaakian··on I only use an iFrame to crawl and scrape content
I think the basic utility is that you keep your parent-frame JavaScript context.

Normally if you click a link with jQuery, you lose the current context after the next page loads.

By controlling it inside an iframe it's more convenient

hayksaakian··on AirPods Are Becoming a Platform?
A lot of "could" and "would" to speculate about airpods becoming a platform.

The article vastly overpromises and underdelivers

hayksaakian··on Henry Heinz used ketchup to improve food safety
Is this a "submarine piece"?

It reads less like a documentary and more like a biography

http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html

hayksaakian··on Genius sues Google and LyricFind over allegedly stolen song lyrics
When you license lyrics, you don't necessarily get the actual written words to use (the lyrics).

You simply get permission to use the lyrics.

Genius volunteers listen to music and write down their interpretation (punctuation, spelling, spacing etc.)

Genius has a TOS to prevent republication of their content.

Genius started the lawsuit because they claim Google violates this TOS by duplicating Genius's unique transcriptions.

Google specifically claims they are NOT scraping Genius, but Genius claims they have proven that they do with watermarks.

Genius is taking them to court.

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYqV5aReGjE

hayksaakian··on Show HN: AI Dungeon 2 – AI-generated text adventure built with 1.5B param GPT-2
So technically "kill all the orcs" was interpreted correctly
hayksaakian··on Raspberry Pi 4 WiFi stops working at 2560 x 1440 screen resolution
You could use "quotes" to format quotes. Just a suggestion.
hayksaakian··on Just how fast is too fast when it comes to web requests?
Another common option is a "toast notification" (see android) or other separate confirmation message to acknowledge your action.

"Sent X" or "Finished Y!" is sufficient to distinguish a failed ajax call from a successful button press

hayksaakian··on Synthetic Content
It seems like we're close, but we're not there yet.

Read any of the articles on the two sites mentioned in the OP and they are clearly nonsense.

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