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There are ways to make a lot of money with affiliate marketing, but that can involve a lot of trial and error and can (usually does) involve bootstrapping with a lot of your own cash or a credit card. Although I know of at least one person who turned millionaire after bootstrapping by maxing out his credit cards, I would never suggest doing that. It's a deep hole to climb out of if you fail and for every success story, there's probably 100 failures not talked about. In short, the successes I've seen involve buying advertising to get people to a landing page that generates leads with commissions that (hopefully) pay you back more than you spend getting the traffic. It's a delicate operation that pays well only if you get the landing page and affiliate choices right.

I've also seen wealth generated with mailing lists. This is another affiliate marketing play that can be done without feeling too spammy and can still add value to the user.

Similar to a mailing list, a forum can be easy to set up and maintain. Also like a mailing list, if you create a large enough user base, advertising can pay off.

One of the better earners is a subscription model for just about anything. Software provided for free with a "premium" set of features for $x per month is a good way to generate a user base more easily.

A couple things to keep in mind: 1. You will almost always have more success when you're passionate about the subject matter. 2. It will take time. Most overnight successes are preceded by years of ramp-up.

I hate spam as much as the next guy, but this is more of a case of the plaintiff not reading before he clicks and agrees to things. We all do it, but we don't then sue a company for it. I really wish a ruling like this was made on a case in which there was no opt-in, but this guy (even by his IN-action of NOT un-ticking the box) opted in.

I'm of the opinion that trusting any of them at this point could disappoint.

Someone please change the title to "How not to disclose a vulnerability"

What happens at the restaurant?

Anyone else open it at work and then immediately close it?

Great concept, but I don't know how comfortable I am giving them access to all my accounts when all they do for me is choose which card to charge. And how do the purchases show on my card statements? Are they all from Wallaby now?

The author left out a detail? Does his account impersonate someone else? I think that's an important part of the conversation, even if the messaging is presumptive.

The first thing I did when I saw Famo.us last year was rip into the code. With a little persistence, you can pretty easily use the code without waiting for their release.

I absolutely want one of these. They've thought of everything. As I went to pledge my money for it, I found that the starting pledge that actually gets me a wheel was $550 and that's all gone. So to get one will run me $590 and presumably more in retail. This is where "more accessible" as one of their goals falls short.

It looks great, but I'll have to pass at the price.

Well that answers my question.

The internet becomes much more tolerable when you learn to tune out the trolls who find their only happiness in trying to bring down others.

I don't like this as standalone authentication, but as part of a 2-stage scenario, I would use it.

I'm liking Ghost so far, but it's still a very early release and yet to include some base features

I don't see the problem. If you're playing on Facebook all day rather than working, perhaps that discussion at your annual review is needed. I get on Facebook and Twitter occasionally at work, but not enough that it would impact my work and consequently, not enough that I'd worry about anyone knowing how much I'm on social networks.

$4.5k is decent. Were you expecting to get rich? There are contests where you can rake in much larger amounts, and you could make a killing forming a penetration team if money is the issue.

"So, the best GUI for Git is a command-line based UI?" lol

Nice idea. Maybe we should use shame.php and shame.js as well.

Read this as "terrible" the first time and was confused. Nice effect.

The difference is that not everyone who sends an email is a personal friend and not every email truly deserves that much time, either. I've found myself with the same problem, resulting in many emails not getting a response for over a week. I'm hoping this catches on. Anyone who thinks its too impersonal should simply not indicate VSRE in their email and not worry about brevity in their replies.

Is this really something worth making an argument AGAINST?

This cannot end well.

IMHO, Google should make support liaisons (more) available. They have people who work closely with developers and then thousands of developers do the work for free and just interface with liaisons. Support should be this way, too. Give us easy access to some liaisons and provide a solid system for helpful volunteers to support the family of products.

What it boils down to is that 403, 404, 500, etc. pages are there to identify a problem loading the resource you're after. In the case of a 500, I might agree, but with the 404, you're getting what it's supposed to give you, and that's a heads up that the url you were shooting for was not found. Some companies get creative while others create useful links and guesses, but either way, you got the intended message, "not found".

Great idea. I always hated trying to remember tiny urls seen in print, as well.