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visuralon Load testing? Try to take down your app for $1 with blitz.io

$1 ph is only for Heroku apps - link is here http://blog.mudynamics.com/2011/08/11/blitz-io-scaling-out-h...

visuralon A writer leaves Microsoft Word

I think the more important tools in this case though are language, grammar, and punctuation.

visuralon Google Chrome – Why I Hate It And Continue To Use It

In regards to #1 - I'm not sure what you mean by "manage".. the 3 places cater to 3 distinct use-cases -

- The downloads bar works in the 90% use case - we just want to download something and open it. When you click a download(s) in the bar, the bar closes after the download is complete.

- The dock icon lets you know how the download is going, when you're in another app / away from the browser.

- The download tab gives you your complete download history, for when you want to look back for old downloads.

visuralon Google Chrome – Why I Hate It And Continue To Use It

So? If it doesn't cause a problem... it isn't a problem.

visuralon Google finally has a 404 page that isn't ugly

Base64 is ok when the response is gzipped

visuralon Google: Bing Is Cheating, Copying Our Search Results

Really? Doesn't the intermediary that narrowed the list from several billion possible matches to the best 10, including correcting the inherent spelling errors in the query carry some value?

visuralon ACM considered harmful

I let my membership lapse a several years ago, and they're still sending me _snail mail spam_ to sign up again.

visuralon Root keys for Sony’s PlayStation 3 go public

Also, the Game Gear played Master System games with a cartridge adaptor (not strictly "backwards compatibility" but cool nonetheless)

visuralon Rate our newb project: Twordsie (your top tweeted words)

URLs seem to be included too - my top word was "clicky" and that's because I use getclicky.com 's URL shortener - clicky.me

visuralon Ask HN: Any web startups using Java?

Damn, you're right. I must have been thinking about Star Wars.

visuralon Ask HN: Any web startups using Java?

My startup http://www.onmydoorstep.com.au/ is Java/Wicket/Guice/Lucene based.

Java's greatest strength is it's speed, a dearth of open-source libraries for pretty much anything you'd need. It's very possible to write light-weight simple code, if you shift out of the enterprise mind-set.

visuralon Ask HN: Why are there so few apps being built with JSP?

Try Wicket+Guice - no XML at all.

visuralon Ask HN: How do you organize your physical documents at home?

Anything that comes in gets scanned to PDF, filed, and backed up to multiple disks + the cloud. If the physical copy is tax/business-related it's filed in the current year's tax folder. Otherwise its shredded.

visuralon Apple kills fonts in iBooks, strikes blow to standards

That doesn't change the fact that Apple is ignoring the published standard.

If that's what they want to do, then they should call it a proprietary format and let people choose whether they want to use it, not have their cake and eat it too.

visuralon Groggle boggled by Google mean spirit

This guy should just be pleased - national publicity in the major papers.

Best thing he could do is change the name quick and get people using the service.