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holdupadamon Google account activity

I don't live in America and haven't been for years. Noticed I have logins with "tch network services" and have no idea why that would be the case. I don't use any VPN services (esp. not to login into my accounts). Anyone have any ideas?

holdupadamon Human Based Translation API

Cheers

holdupadamon Ask HN: target="_blank" thoughts?

Totally agree.

It seems like a convention that exists for sites that want to force the user into their content even when they want to leave. Unless it is a file download link - I find it incredibly rude.

holdupadamon How I was rejected at Microsoft

Why is your name green?

holdupadamon Why Your Startup Needs a Visual Dashboard

Do a lot of startups make their own dashboards like this to show their specific data?

holdupadamon Server Power-ups That Worked For Our Startup: Handling 10x Traffic

Thanks for the heads up - this will be fixed in a few hours.

holdupadamon Server Power-ups That Worked For Our Startup: Handling 10x Traffic

I haven't really had to scale a system up like this before. As a freelance web developer moving to a bigger slice? on linode has been good enough for any wordpress blog or simple site.

That said, I didn't realize what a massive undertaking it could be like this describes.

Anyone had any similar scaling challenges with less conventional web-stacks? Im particular I'm wondering how a node.js/mongodb stack would do this same thing.

holdupadamon Server Power-ups That Worked For Our Startup: Handling 10x Traffic

Ya, but that comment is not bullshit-free.

holdupadamon Power Blogging Hour (and Why You Should Have One Too)

My mom used to have a power cleaning hour when I was growing up and that house was spotless! I can see how this kind of focused attention is great for getting through things that are a bit annoying to do.

edited for cussing

holdupadamon Google Translate Easter Egg

Pretty funny result.

Makes me think if machine translation is to improve it will almost certainly require human translators to contribute. The style in which Google is doing this seems like this will happen more often.

holdupadamon Ask HN: I didn't install these Chrome webstore apps...how'd they get there?

here is the thread about it

http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Chrome/thread?tid=5139...

holdupadamon MyGengo launches $30,000 API bounty

The API itself doesn't cost money to use but the translation service does though. Devs can charge a small overhead fee to their clients and profit themselves.

holdupadamon MyGengo launches $30,000 API bounty

Our mistake - actually the total prize money up for grabs is over $45,000

I'll throw up the updated number after some sleep!

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