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The headline should read, "Facebook earnings gain as they insert 82% more ads".
There's got to be a point where it just gets too saturated for users, just like Myspace did. Maybe not this time?
We tip barbers and coat checkers along with waiters, but not doctors, flight attendants
You don't tip people who already get paid really well. I guarantee that you would tip your doctor a lot if doctors usually only made $8/hour.
Exactly. A lot of players have one great year, it's the ones with consistent careers that stick out.
Also, Zuckerberg's recent purchases seem more like defensive measures than investments. Seems more like Gates than Buffett.
This sounds kind of like the earned income tax credit, which is basically a reverse tax (if you don't make enough to pay taxes, you get a subsidy instead): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earned_income_tax_credit
Expanding EITC substantially would be politically easier than attempting to do this, since it already exists and has bipartisan support (as opposed to raising the minimum wage). You need some sort of job for the EITC, though.
Kinda random, but I associate the word "popcorn" with time, because when I was a kid growing up in the Bay Area, we always dialed POP-CORN (767-2676) to get the current time. Probably just a coincidence?
Yeah, the story isn't quite as compelling when you put it that way. That first album would cost millions of dollars to release if they put it out today. The list of expensive samples (Johnny Cash, Led Zeppelin, Michael Jackson, etc.) on that album is totally out of control...
I've used Linode for the last 4 years, and prior to this week, I've only had 2-3 instances of downtime, usually only for a few minutes. This week, it's happened 3 times, which really sucks.
I've been using DigitalOcean for about a year, and I experience downtime with them (NYC1) about once or twice every month. But they're $5.
This sort of thing happens to every VPS provider at some point, and switching to DigitalOcean isn't going to make a huge difference in that respect.
I do wish Linode were a bit better about updating their status page. I don't like relying other peoples angry tweets to determine if it's Linode, or just me.
The entire Dallas Linode went down at the same time as flapmmo.com. I think we took it down playing too much.
Edit: It's not a coincidence, they really are on Linode in Dallas...
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:YkUAh7u...
You don't need a VPN to do this. You can just go to Southwest.com. I always check their website after I check Kayak because they don't list Southwest's flights.
Wasn't there supposed to be a new UI with this release? When you Google "firefox new ui", the headlines all point to 25 having that. http://thenextweb.com/insider/2013/06/05/mozilla-is-planning...
Same here. I read it in school during Black History Month just about every year as a kid. I don't think teachers worry about getting sued by the King estate for photocopying the speech, any more than they worry about kids singing Happy Birthday in class.
Drugs. Either the pharmaceutical variety, or some sort of mechanical equivalent. Who needs entertainment when you can simulate it for cheap?
Throwing more developers at a problem doesn't always help things. Sometimes, it can actually makes things much worse. One very talented middle-manager can often lead to more productivity than adding 20 inexperienced developers to the mix.