Fubaredness Is Contagious

I was under assumption that when a site moves to a new domain or URL space, the best thing to do from SEO perspective was to put up one’s site at a new place and set up old site to do HTTP 301 redirects (Moved Permanently).
I did it a couple of weeks ago when I [...]

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Today I would like to continue my never ending quest of finding parallels between IT and economics and social sciences. I will start with a preamble, but if you are already familiar with a concept of “operations alert” in context of IT, you can skip it.
Preamble
I have spent a big part of my career in [...]

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Today I discovered that Firefox 3 will refuse to display a site over HTTPS if its SSL certificate is revoked. And even though I am not questioning merits of this decision, I still would have preferred to have this behavior configurable, either somewhere deep in Preferences or at least via about:config (quick scan of the [...]

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http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/05/19/21FE-startups-intro_1.html and http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/05/19/21FE-startups-winners_2.html

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What we in IT call a “bad state” (as in “application ended up in a bad state and needed to be restared”) in economics is called “bad equilibrium.” Here is more on General Equilibrium theory.

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