ScottWhigham
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- June 4, 2008 (18y ago)
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Email me at first.lastname@liamg.com
Dallas, Texas
- The Story of Notepad++ (lifehacker.com)
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My understanding of heartbleed is slight, yes, so I could have this wrong: "Heartbleed allows the attacker to view other sessions' information stored in memory." Is that correct? Assuming that is correct (of which I'm…
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We're in the middle of hour #11 right now and they are submitting > 1,500 page requests per minute steady throughout that entire time. I had originally scheduled it for 11PM to run using the "Slow" setting for their…
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I'm working as a solo developer on a website. I need a place to store my steps to repeat my unit tests that involve manual interaction w/ the browser + tools. Right now I'm using Evernote to store/track these. I'm just…
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I used HNSearch just now to find a recent link about African charity "success" [0] and I was surprised that, by the second page of results, there were stories from 2+ years ago that have no votes or comments. I would've…
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Amazon A9 is now a decade old. Amazon has really been doing a good job at ads lately too - contextual ads that are very good and rival Google AdWords in terms of connecting with users' wants and needs IMO. So the…
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I've been playing with it lately - I dig it. I was just looking up some World Cup results with it - it's great for filtering and finding "quick and dirty facts" from HTML pages. There's tons of uses (can query Hadoop,…
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Over the past 2-3 weeks, I'm seeing so many "marked as spam but isn't really spam" emails that I'm suspecting something has changed with their algo. These are not just random, mom-and-pop emails that I'm talking about -…
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I need to amend a tax return and, today while searching in Google for something [0], I clicked the first result which was a Forbes.com link. I was immediately taken to an ad with a "Continue to this site" link. How do…
- New Google video: Expanding your site to multiple languages (googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com)
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Let's say that you can't use AWS or other cloud-based systems out there and that you need to roll your own CDN. You need to: 1) Have multiple cloned servers in 3-5 locations 2) Have a way to route a specific customer's…
- Music Stock Exchange "TweelX" opens today (hypebot.com)
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I need someone to handle customer service - an in-office person, to be specific. I'm in Texas also - any suggestions for which job boards to target? I used Monster last year and had only 2-3 viable candidates out of 10+…
- Chase.com is down (downforeveryoneorjustme.com)
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Just a curiosity really - do any of you guys and gals who live in SV go to the Quakes games? I never hear anyone on here talking about them but I know there are lots of sports fans here. For anyone who doesn't know:…
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In the footer of the main site pages is the "Feature Request" link [1]. I've submitted a few recently but I noticed today that the last comment that you seem to have replied to and said, "Done" (effectively) seems to be…
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I'm wanting to help a few of my customer service agents get better at soft selling. Does anyone have any books/DVDs/online courses they could recommend? I'm finding lots of stuff for real estate or auto sales (or other…
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Our site's SSL is fine - it's a cert of the garden variety that does the basics. I've been reading a bit more about the extended validation certificates and wondering: are they worth the extra cash for a retail commerce…
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We manage it in-house now and have for years. It works well but there are times when it doesn't work so well. A specific example is when a customer is browsing our site on a Friday afternoon and they want to…
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We're about to move into a new house in the Dallas, TX area and it's a home we expect to be in for 20+ years. We're looking at lots of options for sustainability and a greener lifestyle. One of the options we are…
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Yes, I can use Google Alerts with a site that has vBulletin - that's not what I'm having trouble with though; I'm struggling with just using Google Alerts to monitor a specific subforum in a forum. Let's be specific:…
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Sometimes I look in my Gmail's Spam folder and see 100+ Russian emails that are all spam. Why do these even get to me? It makes no sense - they are all 100% spam. Google surely has algorithms that can show them that…
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My bookmark is for http://news.ycombinator.com/classic which, if you aren't familiar with it, only shows submissions that have been upvoted by someone who has an account age of one year or older. With all the new…