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Re:A Stack Overflow user's reply to Experts Exchange blogpost on Wednesday February 16, 2011 @09:15AM (#2226377)
Experts Exchange was the first site to come into my mind when I first heard about Google's Personal Blocker.
Re:Piracy Doubled My App Sales on Monday January 17, 2011 @10:52AM (#2112446)
"Obscurity is a far greater threat to authors and creative artists than piracy" - Tim O'Reilly.
Re:Cuil Goes Down for Good on Friday September 17, 2010 @11:08PM (#1703610)
DuckDuckGo is Cuiler. http://cuiler.com
Seems so, at least it's the database which failed and not the web server. A web server failure on a site covering real-time web servers news would be too weird.
Re:Ask HN: Food hacks for eating well? on Sunday July 25, 2010 @11:41AM (#1545709)
Any personal experience you can share?
That's what happens when trolls feel like reddit, HackerNews and Quora are not fun enough.

Once they are fed up with bug trackers, they will probably move on and start contributing troll code to open source projects.

Re:Zappos Headers on Thursday July 22, 2010 @07:14AM (#1537843)
Zappos Head[hunt]ers
What kind of session data do you store in MySQL?
Re:Ask HN: Whatever happened to finger? on Tuesday July 06, 2010 @08:24PM (#1492881)
You can actually finger twitter/stautsnet users using any.io

  finger username@[email protected]
  finger [email protected]@any.io
Re:whatthecommit.com - a commit message generator. on Monday July 05, 2010 @11:39AM (#1488429)
git commit -m "$(curl -s http://whatthecommit.com/ | awk '/<p>/ {sub("<p>", ""); print }')"
It is not supposed to be safer - it's only purpose is to help you let your friends know what kind of content they are going to see - I hate clicking bit.ly just to see it's a TechCrunch link, which I usually don't like reading, same goes for video links.
It is not supposed to be safer or easier to remember - it's just supposed to help you let your friends know what kind of content they are going to see - I hate clicking bit.ly just to see it's a TechCrunch link, which I usually don't like reading, same goes for video links.
This is also based on a great open source script (yourls.org) which also has a wordpress plugin but most content websites do not seem to care about this and keep using services similar to ShareThis which create bit.ly links. I wish services like ShareThis would let site owners point an A record to their servers and host a URL shortening service for their domains.

URLs are longer than usual shortened URLs but are still much shorter than most sites' inner links.

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