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tdupreeon GoDaddy out of control - Sites hacked again

It seems just about any choice is better than godaddy. I have found 1and1 to be pretty decent. Private registration, decent control panel, and around $7 as well.

tdupreeon Bye Bye Flash: GitHub's Network Graph is now Canvas

He mentions using haXe for his source. Has anyone here used haXe? Could you tell us about your experience with it?

tdupreeon Tell HN: Our startup is improving online advertising

Hey James, glad to hear from you! Ad Zerk does sound similar, seems like we both had the same itch to scratch :) It is good to hear of another HN'er working on the same problem space. I am sure that our friendly competition will only lead to better products for the both of us.

tdupreeon Tell HN: Our startup is improving online advertising

Deckeo (pronounced deck-e-oh) is a platform that enables you to simply sell ad space on your website, or go big and create your own advertising network if you wish. We are focused on targeted, quality, advertising using a cost per impression model. We think that the The Deck Network and Fusion Ads are on to something with their advertising model of having only one highly targeted, well designed ad on a page. We found that there were not any great solutions for emulating that style of ad serving for our own sites so we set out to create a platform to allow ourselves to do this.

We give you the tools and the infrastructure to create an ad network that targets a particular demographic without you needing to write any code or host any applications. For instance, you could create your own ad network to target a home and garden demographic in the same way that Fusion Ads is a network that targets a design professional demographic. We aren’t Fusion Ads or The Deck Network, rather we enable you to be the “Fusion Ads” for your particular demographic or niche.

We just put up our public facing site yesterday and I am sure there is a lot more we can do to better explain how we are positioned in the market or what makes us different. If you have any more questions or comments, we’d love to answer them.

tdupreeon Tell HN: Our startup is improving online advertising

Here's the url to the beta signup page: http://deckeo.com/beta_signup.php

tdupreeon Hacker News Chrome Extension

This isn't quite splitview, but you might find my Hacker News OnePage extension for chrome useful.

https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/plldnnbdlbgbiknj...

tdupreeon Ask HN: What are you working on tonight?

Working on a new website for a client to help pay for the bootstrapping of my own startup. Getting to mess around with a custom mootools carousel with some nice UX stuff goin on.

tdupreeon Hacker News OnePage for Google Chrome

I figured there may be some of you who use the Firefox greasemonkey version of this, and would appreciate a chrome version as well. I have found myself using Chrome a lot for my normal browsing and breaking out Firefox for web dev.

tdupreeon Pirate Bay’s Ipredator VPN Opens To The Public

From their FAQ->Security page: "For security reasons Ipredator do not use any American software neither for encryption nor for any other part (we anticipate that most users will in spite of that use an American OS), but there is noting stopping an advanced user from accessing Ipredator with a more secure operating system or use a specific VPN-client." I don't think I've seen a call to use linux worded like this before..

tdupreeon Ask HN: Please review my new website www.favilous.com

Congrats, delicious needs more competition in this space. I started working on something like this with a couple buddies of mine about two years ago with the read sites later stuff, syncing across browsers, etc. Our project, favtopia.com, ended up getting put on a semi-permanent hold as we had other things we needed to work on. I think you guys are on to something really useful, with a lot of great features other offerings lack. Just keep refining your landing page (and the rest of your site), making what you do really clear to your visitors, and I think you guys will do well.

tdupreeon Amazon CloudFront Now Supports Streaming Media Content

You can find the Amazon CloudFront prices here: http://aws.amazon.com/cloudfront/

For United States Edge Locations it is $0.17 per outbound GB for the first 10TB. So using between 0MB and 1024MB will cost you $0.17. Use 1025-2048MB and you will be charged $0.34.

tdupreeon Announcing Amazon CloudFront Streaming

Another HN discussion about this: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=998259

tdupreeon Google releases a Chrome extension to identify web app performance problems

I believe you can run Speed Tracer against any web app (it's working fine profiling my stuff and I don't use GWT), kinda like using Firebug.

tdupreeon Ask HN: How do you consume Hacker News?

I was thinking the same thing a while back. An API for HN would be awesome. A problem with that though is that it is really only a one way street and only allows for passive consumption rather than easily interacting. While a site-scraper API implementation would be handy, I think people would lose out on the functionality and community interactions that can only really be had at news.ycombinator.com.

Still though, I suppose some sort of site-scraped data (perhaps hosted on google apps for everyone to use) could be used in tandem with a greasemonkey script to further enhance the site without taking away the interactivity, that could be interesting...

tdupreeon Ask HN: How do you consume Hacker News?

I always thought a HN API would be awesome, would give us a lot more freedom to mold HN into different interfaces. I have toyed with the idea of a scraper but I think that ends up being a bit of a broken solution.

I wrote a greasemonkey script for HN a while back that I can't live without now. There are actually a couple great HN greasemonkey scripts out there. You could always try making a mashup of those that have your favorite elements. You may end up making something that a lot of people find useful.

If you like, give Hacker News OnePage a whirl: http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/30512

tdupreeon Tell HN: 360 Voltage is out of Beta (10 PRO accounts to giveaway to HN)

Hi Wade, this looks great! I gave Voltmeter, Randal, and Distiller a go and they all produced clean, easy to understand reports. This product actually comes at a great time because I was just about to get rolling on some A/B testing and SEO tweaking of a site of mine.

One weird quirk, on the Distiller page, when I came to that page from the Voltmeter, I found the site url I was checking was populated over the top of the instructions in the input box. (Win 7, Chrome 4.0249)

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" is supposed to put a stronger emphasis than "

You are right about that. I suppose I was just speculating on why the author was including as a no no. That the thought of "I am 'stronging' this text" didn't indicate significance to him while "I am 'emphasizing' this text" related significance to him. In which case, would seem like just another name for <bold> while not denoting importance.

I myself did not clearly understand that was actually more "powerful" than . I appreciate you clearly stating the relationship between and .

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I don't think anything is wrong with the tag. It is interesting that it is listed next to the /<bold> tags, as is often suggested as a semantically correct alternative to those tags to denote the importance of a specific bit of text.

Perhaps the author feels that only should be used to place "emphasis" on the text in question, and that it should also be used instead of as strong doesn't give as clear an impression of importance as .

I think you are just fine using in places where it is appropriate.

tdupreeon Google Wave's 'Fail Whale'

Article Title: Google Wave to be opened for federation today! Yes, for you to host.

Full link: http://thenextweb.com/appetite/2009/10/30/breaking-google-wa...

tdupreeon Chrome vs Firefox 3.6 vs Safari vs Webkit: Chrome Wins Again

John Resig has a performance rundown that is about one year old that included IE (http://ejohn.org/blog/javascript-performance-rundown/). IE is woefully slow compared to the other browsers in the roundup and is not included in some of the results as it would continually crash during testing. It would be nice to see some more up to date benchmarking with IE, but the link I referenced can give you some insight as to its speed relative to the other browsers.

tdupreeon Poll: Is self-posting ok?

I think you nailed it with "if it's relevant, post it". The fact that you are thoughtful enough to ask the question, means you will probably make good decisions when it comes to submitting personal works. Don't be spammy, keep it relevant, and you should be good to go.

tdupreeon HN: share your unneeded Google Wave invites

I would love an invite! I'm happy to share mine once I'm in. http://mailhide.recaptcha.net/d?k=01M-z0vygKzY6aNETAh9wpew==...

tdupreeon Computer Science Unplugged

I was surprised to see that they have a very nice mobile version of their site for iPhone (and presumably others, although I only checked it on iPhone). This is a cool resource!

tdupreeon Chart of YC companies' hosting decisions

I have had good experiences with 1and1.com as a registrar. $8.99 domains, free private whois, and a decent domain management dashboard, YMMV.

tdupreeon Ask HN : What would you do if you had to switch to a "manual" job?

Forest Preserve Ranger

tdupreeon App Store Lessons: No promo codes for apps rated 17+

"according to Apple, apps that feature an embedded web browser or provide access to 3rd party content also automatically require the 17+ rating, regardless of the application's content or intended audience."

This seems like they will be painting the 17+ rating with an awfully broad brush. Could this really be Apple's best solution to rating apps?

tdupreeon Ask HN: Why do airlines still use "black boxes" ?

This is an intriguing idea, has anybody heard of any research done for this regarding passenger airplanes?

tdupreeon Ask HN: Best way for a small (3 person) team to collaborate with source code?

I have been happy using Beanstalk for SVN hosting. The free version is working out nicely for my team of three. http://beanstalkapp.com

tdupreeon Ask HN: What web server do you use?

I have heard a lot of talk about using Nginx in conjunction with HaProxy, but I don't have any experience myself with that setup.

tdupreeon Ask HN: What web server do you use?

For most of my career I have used Apache. Just recently I choose to run Nginx for a new project and I cant see myself going back to Apache. Just today I came across the Cherokee web server and that looked pretty slick. Does anyone have any experience with Cherokee?