julio_the_squid

It's not a result of being logged in. I was logged in, and signed out, and dogpile was still above altavista when I refreshed the page. However, when I cleared my cookies, Altavista and dogpile switched places.

Most likely due to this : http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=977461

Who knows why Google calculated that my behavior indicates I'd be more interested in dogpile...

Indeed, I've noticed in the niche we're in, several sites have copied the wording on our advertising sign up page. Of course, it's complemented by strong similarities to our layout and functionality, but there's something that seems more blatant about duplicating prose.

We've had several people imitate our site, not just in overall functionality but to the point of copying specific phrases, design elements, the layout and so on. I agree though that they might be able to get that far, but what they're lacking is the focus that made us create what we did in the first place. Each of these sites has tried to branch out a bit (you know, steal our ideas as a starting point, and build from there) and they've totally missed the mark with each new addition.

Right on about the ethics, too. Someone who builds their business on a purloined platform can clearly not be trusted in general.

I have another server with Slicehost, and it's been down once in the past year. Overall I'm somewhat more please with Slicehost. These are the two linode issues that affected us:

http://www.linode.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=4822&sid=1c... http://www.linode.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=4908&sid=1c...

Both times I've had issues it was definitely not my connection. One time the disk went out on our cluster, and they also 'took the opportunity' to apply an upgrade. The next time it was 'network problems' at the datacenter. Both of these were reported on their status (except the second time, I couldn't even access their forum/status pages).

I've heard a lot of good things about Linode, but I can't say I'm thrilled at the moment. I have a site partially hosted on Linode and the Dallas datacenter has had two failures in the past month, during our busiest time of the day. People going to our site at noon and the page not finishing because the image server is down (with all our ads) is clearly a very bad situation.

It's not really a sign of reliability how I can't even get their blog to load.... It's been loading the entire time I was writing this and I've only received the page title so far! What's going on over there?

Well, they've certainly received a lot of publicity out of this. I read Tech Crunch an average amount and I actually wasn't aware at all of this device until recently. The device looks fairly average to me, and I can't image spending that much on a limited tablet style computer.

The racism in the comments over at engadget sure is unpleasant. Also, the green screened pictures is certainly doing them a disservice!

Pretty ridiculous. Why not just make one version for internal distribution, and a completely separate document for the public?

I don't find screencasts useful, I suppose for the same reason I don't like video interviews. It requires a different sort of attention than text and is more time consuming. There's no cut and paste for code in screencasts, and I find it difficult to follow the flow of tutorials. I guess I'm not a video oriented person - I don't have a TV and don't watch much on the computer. I'd prefer normal text documentation any day.

Mmm... maybe I'm just feeling flibbly today but I'm not a big fan of this. It makes me feel seasick for some reason.

When I start IE6, About 1/3 of the time rather than open the homepage I have set, it loads Microsoft's IE8 download page. This doesn't seem to be new.

Is IE6 really that prevalent still? I don't work on a particularly tech-oriented site, and only about 3.5% of our visitors appear to use IE6.

We're down to 37% IE these days. Only 8% are IE6, for a total of under 5% IE6 usage.

I don't really know what the difference is between our site and the sites that say they have 65% IE still... it's not at all oriented towards techy type people. We have 45% FF and 15% Safari.

It's a significant enough number of people to test new features with IE6, but not enough to go wild trying to make it perfect. If I was developing sites for clients, I'd go for option #1.

I personally don't care about having a Facebook account any more than I be buffing up my MySpace account or a WoW character anytime soon. This cartoon sums it up my attitude pretty well: http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_zp_eKXDTiU0/SiQyLywcJ7I/AAAAAAAAE7...

However, I agree that since so many people use Facebook, it's a useful and important place to promote your business and for which to offer services.

It used to be that when we released widgets it was important to test on Blogger, Typepad, etc. but these days more potential users are on Facebook than Blogger. Of course, Facebook makes you jump through hoops to integrate anything with their site, but the large potential audience makes it worth it.

I agree, the number of views is less important than the number of answers. The font for both of them is too large.

To be honest I think Stack Overflow needs a bit of a redesign. The fonts are all a bit too large, and it's the same on this new site. The size of the font for the questions titles is too large for me to read the titles comfortably.

It looks great! I never played this game, but loved the semi-sequel, Flashback.

I'm having issues with Firefox 3.0.15 on Linux, though. It slowed to 5 fps and essentially froze. I'll try Chrome.

I could do without the term as well.

It's like calling FreeBSD 'NoNT' or Linux 'NoWindows'. Just because SQL is what people are used to using for persistence doesn't make this a good name for an alternative style.

Yep, #1 happened to me the other day. We hit our Apache server limit of 256 and the site slowed to a crawl. I'm not really sure what was causing the load to be like 50-90, but requests were quite delayed waiting for an open process (keepalive was at 5 secs).

Indeed, my first idea was indeed to install nginx for images really quick. However, I have no experience with nginx. Thankfully, we had a spare server and I offloaded the images to there for now... Throwing more hardware at the problem usually works.

I've not had a problem with Flash on Linux in the past 6 years or so.

Ubuntu handles older devices better than Vista, for the most part.

Most newer ones are fine, too. I installed Ubuntu on my mother's laptop and she's been very happy. Her camera works fine, just plug it in and it works. I've not had any issues installing printers.

They had a GPS device they wanted to use, and that didn't work since the driver is very specific and it's not very common. For most purposes, though, it's quite easy to set up.

Seriously, their response was to disable spaces in the form?

There is no legitimate reason for anything other than \w to be in there... how about a real filter? Twitter has been lazy and generally pathetic in just about every area since they began... talk about getting lucky with a good idea.