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BrindsleyQuives | 11 years ago | on: Dropbox Pro – 1 TB for $99/year

Jottacloud is a Norway based Dropbox clone. Their datacentres are powered by green energy and their Pro account offers unlimited storage across unlimited devices for $9,90/month (even cheaper than Dropbox's new lower prices). To be honest, it was a bit glitchy with regards sync-ing, when I first signed up about a year ago, but it's come on in leaps and bounds since and is now pretty much as seamless as Dropbox for me. Usual referrer link below gets us both some extra GB, when you sign up for the free account:

http://www.jottacloud.com/signup?referer=2166DD2B220919EFE10...

BrindsleyQuives | 12 years ago | on: The new TLDs are here, do you really need Yourname.BLARGH?

>>Maybe someone will make the next del.icio.us?..

Let's hope not. I could never remember where that first dot went and usually took at least a couple of goes to find the site. Thankfully they can now be found at the less 'look how clever we've been', but infinitely easier to remember delicious.com

BrindsleyQuives | 12 years ago | on: Is HN designed for fast readers?

^^ What s/he said.

I appreciate that the karma system and voting introduces a lot more complexity behind the scenes with regard to how the top stories are ordered than the simple "newest" stuff on top approach of most news or blog sites. But I don't see why that is allowed to 'break' the display. Irrespective of how you select your records from the database, it's fairly basic practice to paginate the results with some kind of begin=1&end=50 URL appending.

Also the 'expired link' page doesn't even display a link back to the homepage. So you have to either use your browser's back button [unless that link has also now expired], or manually edit the address bar URL, to get some content loading again.

My original question was of the type "Is this really badly designed, or am I missing something really clever?". I think I have the answer now.

BrindsleyQuives | 12 years ago | on: Bitcoin mining? – Had to close my AWS account

Exactly. The tl;dr; version seems to be:

"I stupidly uploaded my private Amazon keys to a public website and somebody used them and ran up a huge bill. It must be somebody else's fault, not mine"

Boo-fuckin-Hoo! —was there something put into the water supply about 10 years ago that removed the entire human race's ability to take responsibility for their own actions?

BrindsleyQuives | 12 years ago | on: Gnome 3.12 Released

Congratulations for making out that much from the voice-over on the video. I could barely understand a word she was saying. Sounded like a cat on helium being strangled.
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