jpirkola

I started to blog mostly for myself (Dec 2008), and initially that was the audience. After a while I started to find my focus areas and now I have changed the name of the blog twice - and become a tech source magazine like publication with a bunch of writers and hundreds of readers (maxping.org). Money? No, at least not yet - unless $60 from google adsense counts. I recommend to just start doing it and find out how it folds out.

Yes, you can actually see "powered by" link at the bottom of the page too. If you go to about page, you can find a coupon code to get even lower price (and I will get a lower affiliate slice). I didn't do any changes to the page, I just thought that it was a good story and I submitted it to slashdot. They have rejected dozens of my submissions so I didn't expect anything...

The first slashdot day was 2.5 Gigabytes and the second 2Gigabytes of traffic. Then the traffic gradually slowed down, but ended up at double from the previous.

The article was in the slashdot frontpage. It got only ~80 comments so maybe it just wasn't so popular. I am still getting hits from there and all round from the sites that picked it up.

I somehow end up thinking if I ever get to see so many workplaces in RL!

HN has Alexa rank of 7000, while slashdot has about 1000. When I look at HN Alexa rank, a big jump happened in the last month. Anyone knows why? I like HN myself, the philosophy suits me better...

I am using stock Wordpress 2.7.1 (2.7.0 at the time of slashdot effect). I have not enabled any caching plugins at Wordpress. All the pages are generated with php, so I suspect it is impossible to effectively use squid? Here's the website itself: http://www.cybertechnews.org

I am interested to hear your experiences. Ludocraft (one of realXtend developers) hinted a couple of days ago that they are working to get face and expression tracking with web camera to work - and the result is overlayed onto your avatar in real time. (Here's the bit about avatars: http://www.cybertechnews.org/?p=1366)

realXtend (http://www.realxtend.org) for virtual meetings and scrum, skype, google docs

I have noticed that the surrounding brightness conditions should match with monitor, that way it is not so bad for eyes. I am also using lower resolution to make everything look bigger on screen. Taking a hourly break is a great idea as well.

Now the admin account is changed, thanks for the tip. It was hijacked and I could not use it anymore - I deleted the user from the database and made a new one.

Define not to expensive, how should I define it? I want something as good as the unity3d site, in fact I based the information I created on the information they give about their software (Because the framework is really excellent) if I want a good webdesigner what would be realistic for a site in that direction? 1k, 2k, 3k? 5k? in that direction of quality (www.unity3d.com)

The families with Roomba (vacuuming robot) did more cleaning than families without the robot. I am going to use that as an excuse to my better half so that I can buy the thing...

HN: This is the story we discussed yesterday. I did as you recommended and published the thing on my own blog.

It is really really hard to believe that games could live with the network latency, If the lag between pressing a key to move character on screen is over 50ms, the user experience will suffer. Often round-trip lag is more than 100ms which is clearly unacceptable - and it cannot be fixed with prediction.

Okay, thanks for your comments, I appreciate you took time to answer my question. I got really interested about http://Kuro5hin.org (thanks Thorax!) and may try that at some point, they seem to have editorial feedback system too. If I was planning to sell my article, I would have loved ErrantX comment, thanks! I decided to publish the article at my own blog, even it doesn't fit in 100% there. I will post the link here tomorrow for your comments, the title will be: "IT giants back up open source 3D Web".

I could publish it first on my own blog. But isn't it possible to submit the story somewhere without first publishing it at own blog? At least that is possible at Slashdot. I don't need to get paid.

You're right I would, but it is not published anywhere yet. I will post a link here once I have submitted it and it gets published... but I need your advice first to submit it.

It would still take two successive holes to exploit - one to get in, another to get out of the Chrome sandbox. And only 7% of users use Chrome, while 56% users use Firefox (my own web site statistics today ) - If I wanted to do something malicious, I'd get a lot better bang for the bug with Firefox.

Good points, but not so many of them. After having first well designed site I really could use feedback: What if the UI was semi-automatically giving feedback? Like each link could have two variations: normal: _change time zone_ and with feedback: _change zone but why this was buried here_ Now as a webmaster I could follow up if people started to "complain" on something.

Try searching AGI or "strong AI", which is a new movement trying to achieve general AI rather than application specific. I have got a good article on that: http://www.cybertechnews.org/?p=689