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I have 'google analytics opt-out plugin' firefox addon, as well as adblock plus.

"Cookies are disabled

Your browser's cookies seem to be disabled. Ads Preferences will not work until you enable cookies in your browser."

Another blog post with slightly better explanations, found this link on IRC.

The FICS database of games is also available on: http://www.ficsgames.com/ - currently hosts about 120 million games in its archive.

Best client for FICS is Babaschess - http://www.babaschess.net/default.asp

I don't like Python either and prefer Perl. (In Python I did not like indentations, dicts, tuples, lists, and the IDLE gui.)

http://www.7-zip.org/

My advice is to find your niche. Do something different. When you bid on something that has a perfect fit to your skills you will have an advantage. Get in contact, build a rapport by responding fast, thoroughly and accurately. If possible, send some sample work or ideas on how to solve a problem. Try and bid on something you are likely to win, and always bid on a project that when you look back, it will seem like a stepping stone in what you learnt or experienced. Don't bid on dull jobs or those that require little skill. There are plenty of people around for that already. Be smart.

If I started over, in hindsight, maybe I would have taken a different route, by researching companies and building a network of contacts, e.g. through HN or Linkedin. I would be more confident about my skills too.

One last tip: work hard and read a book on self-motivation. Good luck! :)

EDIT: even if it is forced for 24 hours, at least put a message up on the site or remove the non-working buttons!

I wonder about the contract terms of this device, otherwise for $200 it is affordable, and I will be upgrading.

There are many torrent spiders/indexers that host torrents from many websites. e.g. http://www.torrentz.com/ and nearly all torrents use DHT and multiple trackers. Taking 1 site down temporarily doesn't affect anything.

Hosting on google or similar, would defeat the point of a decentralisation. As more people join it, setup their nodes and share files, there may be redudant copies of data. It is just faster and cheaper to host it on a single big server.

Normal users want to communicate, they do not care about installing software or anything more complicated than a simple web registration form.

A feature I would like is to be able to export a copy of all the data I can see and use it offline e.g for backup. Currently Facebook does not have this option.