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Re:Show HN: I built a cron job scheduler on Thursday May 28, 2020 @02:44PM (#23340840)
Sorry, but I can't stop thinking about how useless your comment is.
Re:Tips for Building Voice User Interfaces on Friday January 17, 2020 @11:45AM (#22076252)
Re: Slowness, you can tell Alexa to 'talk faster' now. Multiple invocations seem to let you increase it a fair bit. Agree with the rest of your points though!
Wow, that's crazy cheap. What would a day on HN do I wonder?
Re:Sistine Chapel on Friday May 30, 2014 @06:32PM (#7824463)
You may be referring to Michelangelo and the Pope's Ceiling by Ross King. Fantastic read for the interested. http://www.amazon.com/Michelangelo-Popes-Ceiling-Ross-King/d...
Re:Announcing Xamarin 3 on Wednesday May 28, 2014 @11:49AM (#7810868)
This is cool. I didn't know about Xamarin until now. I use Rdio a lot, and it's generally a very good, smooth-running app on my Nexus 4. Didn't realize it was built cross-platform like this!
Direct Traffic is either just what it says, or traffic from 'https://' (SSL) sites. Your site is just http:// (no SSL) and thus can't get the referral information.