Hawkee

These are quite nice. I was able to import the entire .svg set into icomoon and incorporate a select few into my icon set. The only issue is that they render slightly smaller than my normal icons, so I need to adjust the font size accordingly.

Just got accepted to Product Hunt, http://www.producthunt.com/posts/hawkee

Here is a world I've been running for 2.5 years. Spawn has been moved several times, so the world spans tens of thousands of blocks. If you look carefully you can find large settlements from continent to continent, http://treestop.com:8123

I used to be into affiliate marketing back in the datafeed hey-days on Google. Now in order to succeed in this business you need to come up with something viral and useful. I think this is a very good example. I'm not sure this can compete with something like retailmenot in terms of revenue, but it's certainly an innovation.

While this does offer some historical significance the cost to maintain old web properties can far outweigh the value in keeping them. I run an 18 year old site and lately I've found quite a lot of relief in removing older features. In fact I'm considering removing the very feature that "made" my site many, many years ago. It's certainly a necessary move if you want to stay relevant online. I'm sure there are some folks at Yahoo who are very excited to shut this down and close the book on what is likely a maintenance nightmare.

Silly me. I forget that not everybody lives in the world of development. Considering this it seems every language is experiencing a downturn. To me this looks more like a fault in Google's trend calculation. Maybe it doesn't consider search inflation from year to year.

Great read, but I think it's a few years too late. When you compare how PHP is trending against languages like Python it's following a similar path as perl, https://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=php%2C%20javascript%... - I'm surprised JavaScript isn't having much of an upturn lately.

It's been years since I've visited this site. While it could use a technology update, the content is still quite humorous.

I love the way they do it in Taipei. They have attendants at every station where you hand them your card and cash. 2 seconds later your card is updated. It's actually faster than using the machine as there's never a line.

I used to be into online retail sales before I got fed up with all the money grubbing. It was all about Black Friday and if you weren't ready with a major production by then or at least Cyber Monday you'd miss the boat on a huge influx of potential revenue. If your Black Friday effort went viral you'd be riding the gravy train all holiday season. I get the sense April Fools has become the Black Friday of social media. If your joke goes viral you've got a huge opportunity for viewership and brand awareness. No thank you. My site doesn't celebrate any "holiday".

I wonder if Google has considered supporting Markdown in Gmail yet.

How about Facebook add a "Follow" feature to get 100% of the posts? They don't even need to show the number of followers a page has received. At least then users have the option to see everything a page has to offer. "Likes" no longer have any meaning, so we need something that actually means something.

I agree. They've really diminished the value of a like. Rather than encouraging unliking they're making the content providers pay to make their likes more valuable than the likes of their competitors. It makes business sense for Facebook, but it really destroys the value to the user. I'm tempted to delete my Facebook page, but I still do get a little engagement. We'll see how long that lasts.

I've been developing from a single screen for 17 years and have never desired a second. Part of the reason is I work from a laptop and rarely at a desk. But practically speaking I get a lot of work done on a single screen. My eyes can only focus on a single window at a time, so I have no problem using swipe gestures to quickly jump between tasks. Another advantage is I don't need to twist my head every which way to view different windows. The window I need meets my eyes rather than the other way around. While the article is mainly an opinion and offers little scientific research I do agree with his opinion.

Maybe they're after the comments that require several hours of research and multiple drafts. Anybody who can make a couple comments over a short period of time isn't putting in a whole lot of thought and effort into their comments. I get the feeling they're looking for comments that resemble blog posts rather than the conversational type of comments.

After reading a lot of the discussion about Facebook's Hack I can see why this is necessary. I agree with a lot of the concerns here though. Particularly, commenting on older posts will never elicit an endorsement. I'm also concerned about how many qualified folks will actively endorse comments. This can be quite a job endorsing every good comment on the site. It might require following a comment feed covering the entire site, but who would want to do that? Will there be any sort of reward for endorsing comments? I'd be afraid to endorse the wrong comments and lose my ability to endorse. In any event, I'm very curious to see how this pans out.

These look quite bad on a retina display. I wouldn't use any icon unless it was a font icon.

I found a very employer who was willing to take me on as a remote employee. At first they were apprehensive because they preferred face to face interaction. I started out coming to the office at least once a week then they realized that wasn't necessary. I was getting things done without coming to the office so they let me stay home full time. It really comes down to your work ethic and whether or not you'll remain as productive at home. If they're open ask if you can do a trial run by working at home 3-4 days a week.

I followed this link looking for a live demo. I was sadly disappointed. This is certainly something I need to experience before passing any judgement.

This reminds me of a case I was involved in several years ago, http://techcrunch.com/2008/07/17/channel-intelligence-sues-j... - It ended up blowing up in their faces. I remember getting the phone number to the CEO of Channel Intelligence and calling him up directly. His response was, "Can you all just stop calling me! We'll fix this, just stop calling me!" I believe they were trying to collect license fees to establish their patent, but in the end they had to give it away for free to everybody involved. Those who wouldn't accept it got no further legal action. 5 years later Google bought Channel Intelligence. Go figure.

I could never justify the cost of a Keurig when a traditional coffee maker costs just 20% the price. After using a drip machine for many years I finally decided to brave a more unique solution, the Aeropress. Now I know what great coffee tastes like. I tried a Keurig equivalent recently and I can't believe how much worse it tastes. With a Keurig you pay a premium price for poor quality coffee.

Thank you for chiming in. Facebook should add a new filter limiting the audience to users who have fewer likes. So for example he could advertise to folks who are interested in cats but have fewer than 5 overall likes. Likes from more discerning users are certainly more valuable than likes from generous likers. How about another filter limiting the audience to users who have posted X number of entries to their timeline or the number of years they've been on Facebook?

I figured this was a result of their use of Craigslist data. The best part about Priceonomics is the ability to find the average selling price of an item on Craigslist. I figured Craigslist sent them a C&D, so they buried the search.

Pretty neat, but where is the textarea?

I charge less than $100/hr for my best client and it's been a very good relationship. I've had consistent work for over a year and hopefully it'll continue for a couple more years. I think it really comes down to the longevity of the work and the nature of the relationship.

I've been an independent business owner and freelancer for the past 8 years. For many of those years I ran my own websites and supported myself from recurring income through affiliate links. That was great, but I didn't like the business of customer sales and felt what I was providing no human value. It was basically SEO and affiliate sales. I got out of that and moved to freelance to provide more of a useful service to humanity. This has been quite a change, but it is much less stressful than keeping up with Google's search engine changes.

If you're looking for more free time, expect to earn less. In order to earn full time income you'll need to sacrifice your time. I'm fine with this. I earn enough to support the family, but not enough to buy a fancy new car or even to live in a nice neighborhood. I'm happy living lean and don't want a life of luxury. I find a more humble existence much more fulfilling. It really comes down to what sort of lifestyle you're after.

I was with ThePlanet for many years before the merger with SoftLayer. Up to that point they were very reasonably priced and offered great service. After the merge the prices nearly doubled and when re-negotiating my contract they basically gave me the impression I'm not a worthy customer due to the prices I was used to. They're after enterprise clients now and this acquisition just furthers that goal. As a small business owner I'm happy to be out and won't be returning to this company again.

If you read the NYTimes article linked here in the comments you'll see that they poured concrete over everything before burying it.

For anybody who might try to copy and paste from this article it is actually "rsync -a --delete empty/ your_dir". The dashes are improperly encoded for a copy/paste.

The online affiliate industry should be happy about this. For the past few years states have been instituting laws stating online affiliates earning commissions on sales constitute a physical nexus. This first passed in New York and Amazon began collecting tax from New York residents. Many other states followed, but rather than collect the tax like they did in NY they started killing off their affiliates in each of these states. I know of one particular case where Fat Wallet moved out of state to avoid being severed by a majority of their affiliate partners. States have been trying everything they can to force online merchants to collect tax, but they've been failing miserably. Amazon even said they would start collecting tax if the federal government steps in. It looks like we've finally reached that point. There's a lot more history to this issue than it appears.