Skywing

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by Skywing 15y ago
I develop using 3 different computers every day. My work laptop, my personal desktop at home and my personal laptop. This is the setup that I find myself using most often - even with my laptop: 1. Eclipse (with Aptana plugin, remote system
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by Skywing 15y ago
It's fun to witness the statistics, though. There have been over 1000 unique visitors over the past 2 hours, with an 11% conversion rate.
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by Skywing 15y ago
Indeed. It's in the footer.
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by Skywing 15y ago
I don't see how to select a finer grain of control over what Crowdwoo needs, via Twitter's site, though. I've selected Read & Write access, because I need to be able to follow the winners. If there is a way to de-select the ability to p
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by Skywing 15y ago
No, it will not post tweets on your behalf. It will automatically follow the three winners of the lottery, though. That is all.
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by Skywing 15y ago
I guess the cool thing is that those are all basically HN readers. Would be a pretty solid HN user following.
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by Skywing 15y ago
My most common scenario for kick-starting my creative coding is to bust open the REPL and brain dump the more difficult concepts just to see if they're feasible. I use the REPL so I can quickly debug code and see immediate results. There's
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by Skywing 15y ago
Correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't that kind of backup Amazon's claims of the term "app" being generic - whether you think those old apps were worthy of the current term or not? I've used the term app for as long as I can remember. Apple
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by Skywing 15y ago
This would probably not be in his best interest.
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by Skywing 15y ago
I have been working on something else in the Twitter-space and then saw a blog post about a concept like this. I decided to take a quick break from my actual project and code up Crowdwoo. It's a simple lottery-esque site except it costs not
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Show HN: Super-size your Twitter audience. Simple afternoon project.(crowdwoo.com)
3 points by Skywing 15y ago|1 comments
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Ask HN: How do you advertise to potential customers?
2 points by Skywing 15y ago|0 comments
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by Skywing 15y ago
or, look into Flask or Tornado which do this with less LOC by default. :) http://flask.pocoo.org/ http://www.tornadoweb.org/
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by Skywing 15y ago
You know, that's strange, because I first heard about this site nearly a year ago through somebody on IRC. When I first heard of it, I thought the same thing - this is going to go nowhere. Then a few months later I recall seeing them make a
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by Skywing 15y ago
If this were to emulate some of my friends then it could respond to just about anything with "that's what she said."
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by Skywing 16y ago
this is impressive.
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by Skywing 16y ago
One thing I learned from these startup weekends, too, is that it's just one weekend. You weren't necessarily forced or desperate to find a team or co-founder there, especially with it being your first startup weekend-style event. It's just
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by Skywing 16y ago
I agree. Although, I'm not a huge fan of the common phrasing such as "impossibly simple", or "stupidly simple". Something about having the word impossible or stupid in big bold letters on my landing page just makes me feel like I could choo
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by Skywing 16y ago
It just depends. When I see that it's a real-time chat room built on top of node.js, it doesn't really interest me. A chat room is basically the Hello World of node.js/socket.io, and I think I built my first one in a matter of hours. But, o
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by Skywing 16y ago
You have a point. On our IRC server, we have discussions every few months about the state of the server. We've linked and de-linked with many people over the years. We always discuss whether or not it was for the better or not. Following ou
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by Skywing 16y ago
Well, I've been in the field, professionally, for about 3 years and have yet to see anything above $70k, so from my perspective you're doing just fine. :)
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In regards to the opinions about the quality of HN
19 points by Skywing 16y ago|5 comments
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by Skywing 16y ago
Correlation is also why we started this. A little story: we were using Cacti on a cluster of ours. I was showing a friend of mine the graphs, only because I was explaining our infrastructure setup. I noticed one had unusually high CPU load.
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by Skywing 16y ago
Alerts, in various forms, are definitely one of our top priorities. That was the spark that ignited our project. So, we're focused on making those as intuitive as possible. As for auto discovery, we have a rudimentary form of this in place.
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by Skywing 16y ago
Thanks for the response. We really started custom building our own tool, in house, to do exactly what we wanted. We manage about 150 physical servers, so we can't benefit from the underlying hypervisor info that some VM platforms provide. W
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by Skywing 16y ago
I hadn't seen Scout, yet. That's good to see a similar service. Having not seen them until now, I can say that we had planned to provide slightly more for less than they do, in terms of data logging and analytics. It's neat to see them, bec
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by Skywing 16y ago
Just looking for some feedback on the initial concept. Thanks.
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Ask HN: What do you wish monit/cacti/nagios/zabbix/etc would do?
14 points by Skywing 16y ago|12 comments
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by Skywing 16y ago
I've never been accepted into YC so this may be totally wrong, but ... Don't lose sight of the real value in this for a group trying to create their own startup - the mentorship, fraternity, alumni network, initial amount of funding and the
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by Skywing 16y ago
With that in mind, what is your idea for Wompt? Why would the mass market adopt it? I mean no disrespect but Wompt is pretty simple in its current form. Where are you going to go from here? How do you plan to keep people using it after toda

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