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frankacter··on App Academy's (Real) Tuition Model
If their goal is success for their students, isn't it more beneficial to not accept students they deem higher risk instead of going for a guaranteed cash grab?

Seeing responses from others in this thread, this sounds more like the "pay to present" pitch from earlier in the year where they wind up a startup founder with interviews and congratulatory acceptance calls, only to hit them at the end with a fee to attend..

frankacter··on Improve your touch typing
If you are using AdBlock you can use the element hider helper to hide the div for you.

https://adblockplus.org/en/elemhidehelper#installation

frankacter··on Applebot, the web crawler for Apple
But that is a choice that a website operator has the authority to make given current standards. Apple is ignoring the wishes of a website operator and piggybacking on the trust that a website operator has place in GoogleBot.
frankacter··on Applebot, the web crawler for Apple
>If robots instructions don't mention Applebot but do mention Googlebot, the Apple robot will follow Googlebot instructions.

So if I set in my robots.txt to disallow all bots except Googlebot, Applebot will index anyway? I don't think I like that precedent.

frankacter··on My 5.5 Months on Soylent: The Joys of Not Cooking
Here you go:

http://diy.soylent.me/recipes?tags=Ketogenic

frankacter··on My 5.5 Months on Soylent: The Joys of Not Cooking
As of April 2015:

http://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0421/5993/t/14/assets/files...

frankacter··on News 2D
This is really great. Love the design and interactions. How can I contact you?
frankacter··on Why Samsung Knox Isn't Really a Fort Knox
The PIN issue is only in the deprecated KNOX personal. The managed KNOX (enterprise) doesn't use a PIN.

KNOX Personal was a failed intention to promote KNOX through the end users and only available in the early KNOX dev.

https://twitter.com/xuf_/status/525745093064785921

frankacter··on We’re rolling out our first new build to the Windows Insider Program
The most interesting part of this for me is the “ring progression” they have implemented allowing end users to choose from fast (builds as soon as they are available) and slow (week or more delayed).
frankacter··on A History of Misses for RadioShack
When I was a child my parents both worked full time jobs and could not afford a day care service. They left me, a 7 year old, at the local Radio Shack because it was a place that kept my attention for hours while they worked.

When the first Tandy's started coming in I would spend a lot of time learning how they worked and how to program them to do things. Customers took notice of this young kid and his abilities and wanted it for themselves and their family. Over time the staff recognized the amount of sales I was generating and provided my Mom my "referral cut".

From that early exposure I may not have had otherwise, computers and technology went on to shape my life and are core to the successes I've enjoyed over the years.

While I can't speak to Radio Shacks business models, I am thankful for the shelter and education that one store and their staff provided me.

frankacter··on Law Students Fend Off a Patent Troll
I would as well.
frankacter··on Ghost 0.5 milestone release
I would settle for an Import from WordPress tool.
frankacter··on Show HN: NomadList – The best cities to live and work remotely in
If you make it this way drop me a note and I'll buy you a drink. I've been here 8 years and love it.
frankacter··on Show HN: Words for Chrome – Smarter, safer web comments
>One of the problems with other commenting systems is what I call The Clean Slate Effect. If a troll is sucky on site A, then goes to site B, they start over with a clean slate and can continue being sucky.

How is this different than any other 3rd party commenting system like Disqus or Facebook?

frankacter··on Apple Featured My Game, Here's Why I Changed It
A negative review should not be a mechanism for a feature and/or translation request.

There are specific links provided in iTunes to "Triplezero Web Site" and "Hexiled Support" where these kind of requests should be made.

frankacter··on Why I don’t eat on Mondays
I think a challenge for many is what constitutes 200-500 calories and whether their will power allows them to accurately gauge and control.

Not eating is binary [ ] yes [ ] no, which for many is easier to control versus picking and choosing and limiting quantity.

frankacter··on Ask HN: Why are FB and 4sq breaking up their apps?
From back in January:

http://techcrunch.com/2014/01/29/one-app-at-a-time/

Specifically:

"The other thing that we’re doing with Messenger is making it so once you have the standalone Messenger app, we are actually taking Messenger out of the main Facebook app. And the reason why we’re doing that is we found that having it as a second-class thing inside the Facebook app makes it so there’s more friction to replying to messages, so we would rather have people be using a more focused experience for that."

frankacter··on Ask HN: Which RSS reader do you use a year after Google Reader's death?
Digg Reader
frankacter··on Facebook emotion manipulation study: an explanation
on both web and mobile you can select to view all stories instead of top stories. Here is a direct link for web for you (it's also available via the Newsfeed dropdown option):

https://www.facebook.com/?sk=h_chr

frankacter··on Ask HN: Is there anyone who is looking to expand their business to S.Korea?
Is this you as well?

https://play.google.com/store/apps/developer?id=Jin+Man+Kim

frankacter··on Ask HN: Good (read: cheap) CDN for static site hosting?
Why do you say CloudFlare is spendy? If you are just hosting static assets (images, javascript, css, html, etc) than you can do this with their free plan.

If SSL a must have, their base level $20/mo plan offers this.

frankacter··on CloudFlare acquires CryptoSeal (YC S11)
Just in case you were unaware, jgrahamc (aka John Graham Cumming) is the Platform Lead for CloudFlare.
frankacter··on Soylent Taste Test
It's unfortunate that this mantra is repeated again and again whenever the discussion of Soylent is brought up. At minimum, last September they publicly discuss the fact that they are working directly with nutritionist:

http://blog.soylent.me/post/61556254347/9-15-weekly-recap

frankacter··on Soylent 1.0 arrives at Ars: We mix it up and slurp it down
This is not correct, they have been working with them for a while now:

http://blog.soylent.me/post/61556254347/9-15-weekly-recap

frankacter··on Ask HN: What are your essential browser extensions?
Adblock Plus, Delicious Bookmarks, Flashblock, HN Utility Suite, X-notifier
frankacter··on A new HTML5 Admin Teamplate
What version of FireFox are you using? I'm using FF24 and the sliders and date picker work as expected. Can you provide steps for reproducing?
frankacter··on Poll: Where are you currently living?
Which did you choose? All of us here in Taiwan should at least represent consistently ;-)
frankacter··on Free Music Streaming / Search API to build an app
YouTube?
frankacter··on How we tripled our revenue by adding one button
Japanese!
frankacter··on Adblock buying ads to advertise Adblock
I believe they meant that the ad companies are promoting a product that blocks the same ads they sell. If the promotion is successful, the ad company gets a short term win ($$) but a long term loss in ad views.
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