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1,316 karma · joined May 5, 2014

no, not that one, the other one.
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robtaylor··on A black market where people pay for Instagram verification
Pretty sure this type of thing happens everywhere - years ago I paid for some dofollow links to be placed on specific aged topic based BBC news articles.

£500 a link was paid... a few days later they appeared.

They lasted about three years if I recall right before disappearing for whatever reason.

robtaylor··on Ask HN: Is Anyone Living “The 4-Hour Work Week”?
"Early in 2010 I made the decision to become fully licensed, which significantly cut into my revenue. MetroLyrics did the same before me, and AZLyrics eventually followed suit."

...is a key two lines to me.

robtaylor··on Ask HN: Do you have a side project that you would like to sell?
How do you generate relevant traffic out of interest?
robtaylor··on Slack Is Raising $250M from SoftBank, Others
"I've had a chance to interface with a number of their team members"

TIL people actually say stuff like that.

robtaylor··on 18yo arrested for reporting a bug in the new Budapest e-Ticket system
This is where anonymous notification / bug reports are useful, and then follow ups in public if no action after a period of time.
robtaylor··on Startups that were massively funded that died in 2017
Time + Money = More Money
robtaylor··on Startups that were massively funded that died in 2017
anyone got any contact details for said wealthy Chinese businessmen (and women!) ?
robtaylor··on I'm a creep. I'm sorry
Money can't buy class and all that.
robtaylor··on Ask HN: How much ad revenue you make from your side project?
Your top right logo is 2.3meg https://www.alittlebitofspice.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03...

It can be much smaller and still get the 'retina' effect, saving load time and bandwidth.

robtaylor··on A faster BBC News front page
'...due to the unique way the bbc is funded...' etc etc

Normal life does not count in the BBC :)

robtaylor··on SpaceX to Send Privately Crewed Dragon Spacecraft Beyond the Moon Next Year
...and back!
robtaylor··on Pakistan airline admits taking extra passengers in aisle
Record is 1,122 passengers on a 747 to Israel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Solomon however that was extraordinary circumstances.
robtaylor··on POTUS Twitter account is registered to a private Gmail account
Tweets sent out under that username can for example affect stock markets in real time.

If something is built up as being the point of contact for the most powerful person on earth then the security of the medium is relevant.

"I was hacked" would be a terrible reason for WW3 :)

robtaylor··on Google Has Started Penalizing Mobile Websites with Intrusive Pop-Up Ads
I specifically asked Google rep on that point and he said penalty would still apply.

One G product can affect another it seems.

It is worth bearing in mind that not all sites are reliant on google traffic, so more cash from Adsense at a hit on ranking may mean more £ and zero traffic impact.

robtaylor··on Ask HN: Have you ever worked on a product that was killed by technical debt?
Wow.

"The consequences of the failures were substantial. For the 212 incoming parent orders that were processed by the defective Power Peg code, SMARS sent millions of child orders, resulting in 4 million executions in 154 stocks for more than 397 million shares in approximately 45 minutes. Knight inadvertently assumed an approximately $3.5 billion net long position in 80 stocks and an approximately $3.15 billion net short position in 74 stocks. Ultimately, Knight realized a $460 million loss on these positions. "

https://www.sec.gov/litigation/admin/2013/34-70694.pdf

robtaylor··on Dragons' Den winner has £100,000 funding withdrawn
Welcome to journalism 2015 onwards...
robtaylor··on SEO Plymouth and Co
Domain owned by 'James Jenkins', link posted here by person with same name.

No relevance to this aggregator.

robtaylor··on SEO Plymouth and Co
SEO Plymouth and Co seo-plymouth.co are spammers?
robtaylor··on Ask HN: Would you launch a startup with .xyz TLD?
I agree on the latter about service and quality.

However... would you trust payment on a .info, .biz etc names?

Some have more trust than others - Nominet do a fair bit of work in the .UK namespace to build that itself to a trustmark. If only someone was doing that internationally!

robtaylor··on Shrimp Trap
On reddit overnight there were tens of posts on this from separate users, now I see this on here.

Is this common / natural or is there some PR at work?

robtaylor··on New MacBook Pro Is Not a Laptop for Developers Anymore
Just need the 'Macbook Is DEAD' style articles...
robtaylor··on MacBook Pro
It is with UK prices http://www.apple.com/uk/shop/buy-mac/macbook-pro
robtaylor··on Vine will be discontinuing the mobile app
Another lesson on brands being platform agnostic, big Vine, Twitter, Facebook, $whatever numbers count for nowt.
robtaylor··on Steemit Surpasses Reddit in User Engagement
Is alexa a benchmark that people actually use?

It was a very low weighted indicator when I did analysis on domains back in '05, has it improved since?

robtaylor··on Losing our business – we didn’t see it coming
On their about page

"In 2015, Reframed.TV exceeded investment expectations with no commercial revenue."

No details of the metrics but that itself would be an interesting post considering the staff numbers and investment.

robtaylor··on Losing our business – we didn’t see it coming
"Country of residence Grate Britian"

errrr!

robtaylor··on Muhammad Ali has died
I preferred HN in the time when you had never published a comment.
robtaylor··on “I made an app that orders delivery to a random location, and ubers you there”
no - and just googled him and he is much smarter than me :)
robtaylor··on “I made an app that orders delivery to a random location, and ubers you there”
Twitter liveblogged thread documenting outcome. Not me.
robtaylor··on RIP Kuro5hin
Why does it need to go offline? A read only state would cost peanuts.
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