I only read Twitter in real time. It's like a pseudo-IRC chatroom for me. When I'm watching sports, I can fire it up and see real-time reactions (from the various sports people and writers that I follow) and have everyone go "WOW LOOK AT THAT SHOT" at the same time. Makes it almost as nice as having a living room full of friends.
If your TTL is very low, you end up creating/handling a lot more DNS traffic, because your records are flushed from the cache more often and have to be re-retrieved. Also, many public DNS servers (e.g. your ISP's, or Google's) set a minimum TTL on all records (overwriting any lower value) to minimize DNS traffic/requests. Setting your TTL to an hour is fairly standard, but some DNS hosts (especially old ones) will leave the defaults set to something like 48 hours for no real reason.
I have always been a big fan of rap vocabulary, and I've already lost an hour poring over different results. What would be amazing would be a cross-reference to the Google Trends results for the same words. You could try to see the difference between cultural events (global) and specific events in the rap community (local) that caused certain words to spike or ebb.
I choose to let sites do what they want with ads, since it is their site and their business plan/model. I also choose not to visit sites that have ads that I don't like.
Well, games have been around for a far shorter time period than movies, so you're not comparing games from 1920 to games from today (and thus the overall effect of inflation is lower). Also, since the former #1 game (BLOPS 2) came out just a couple of years ago, and GTA V beat it by 60% on launch ($800m to $500m), inflation didn't play a significant role.
Canadians and US Short Code owners get all of the cool toys (for now, at least). I have been waiting for Twilio MMS for at least a year, but it looks like I have to wait a bit longer (or get into the beta).
I would also suggest that any iOS users move away from Google Authenticator and towards Authy or another solution. Google Auth in iOS7 has been deleting labels, and even worse, deleting tokens, for many users. The app hasn't been updated since 2011 and there's been no word from Google on an upcoming update to fix the issue. With iOS7's launch/announcement next week, I suggest looking into a new TOTP app (like Authy) before upgrading.
If I like an article I see on HN, I'll go back and check a few of the previous entries on the blog. If there are a couple of similarly interesting articles in the last 10 entries or so, I'll add it to my RSS reader. If not, I'll just wait for the next interesting one to get upvoted into my sphere of visibility.
Do note that you will need new keycaps to use Dvorak or Colemak. Each row of keys in a WASD keyboard has a slightly different height/slope, so you can't move the keys around between rows (without having all of your keys being different heights, that is). You'd have to order new keycaps with the correct letters AND the right height/slopes.
WASD Keyboards (well, Weyman) has given me some of the best customer support over the past few years. They even recently fixed my busted Caps Lock key (my own fault) outside of warranty for just $10. I broke my space bar in-warranty, and it was fixed for free. I wanted some custom settings/layouts the keyboard designer couldn't handle, and they obliged. My WASD has lasted for several years now (including a few minor repairs) and I've had nothing but good experiences with them. I've been waiting for their v2 keyboards (they've been "coming soon" for months) and I'm excited to see they finally launched!
I know that Montecito was one of the highest priced zip codes in the USA, as of a few years ago. SB is stuck between the ocean and the mountains, with no room to grow.
I believe if you're a verified business account and the total is under $20 or so, no signature is needed. If it's over a certain amount, then you have to get a signature, which means you're going to be swiveling or handing someone an iPad regularly.
Depends on if you're re-spinning between turns. Otherwise the first guy might get a 1/600 chance, but everyone afterward has better (or worse?) than 1/6 odds.
I have to imagine the overlap between Linode customers and smart phone owners was so large (and the cost of implementation so low) that leaving out hardware authenticators makes sense for v1.
Treat every gun like it's loaded, check both ways before crossing the street, and assume that all of your unencrypted data is already compromised. Sounds like good advice to me.
I see a lot of complaints about companies not doing business in every country. When I look at the tangled mess that is the worldwide copyright system, I feel privileged, not entitled, to services like Spotify and Netflix. They've put a lot of work and effort into making their service legal and profitable (not an easy combo), and so if they're not available everywhere, I give them the benefit of the doubt. Every company would love to be ubiquitously global, but the copyright system is what's blocking them, not their own ineptitude.
I hate it when an adult writes content as if they were their child. It's pretty obvious that this is being written and organized entirely by the mom, and I'm guessing the kid has minimal involvement besides wanting to go to camp and wanting to make a video game. It's great that the kid wants to make games, but having the mom "pretending" to be the kid just rubs me the wrong way.