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by bbarrows 12y ago
I am hearing some very interesting points about how money could be a poor motivator or even a deterrent (it sounds like some people are saying, because it makes them evaluate the time they are spending on the question and therefore how much
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by bbarrows 12y ago
Caching issue.. Just disabled caching.. Site might get overloaded again now due to HN traffic but im bringing up another large instance as I type this.. (facepalm) should have prepared..
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by bbarrows 12y ago
Embarrassing.. and fixed. Thank you
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by bbarrows 12y ago
Moderator goes through and does his best to ascertain whether or not the question was answered and who answered it best/first. If no suitable answer is available coins are refunded. Otherwise an appropriate answer is chosen after 5 day
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by bbarrows 12y ago
Should be fixed. Was that due to a "Unreadable CAPTCHA token file" error? That was a permissions issue with my deployment..
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by bbarrows 12y ago
I put this up too soon.. so I am trying to deal with scaling and some other issues right now but to briefly try to answer those questions/points.. The point is not to get anyone to be your "part time DBA" that was just some e
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by bbarrows 12y ago
I recently finished my site QABounty. I would get annoyed when I could not get anyone to answer my questions on sites like Stack Overflow so I created this site, https://qabounty.com/ . It is basically your standard QA site
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Show HN: QABounty – Make money answering questions(qabounty.com)
31 points by bbarrows 12y ago|23 comments
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by bbarrows 13y ago
Great work! Loads quickly for me
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by bbarrows 14y ago
Must stay up all night and develop first DataChannel based P2P BitTorrent style file sharing implementation tonight..
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by bbarrows 14y ago
I actually was just trying to provide some context and show that there are already some well developed P2P live video streaming solutions around. I am not trying to say BitTorrent Live is proven or correct in anyway. By saying that Live doe
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by bbarrows 14y ago
After working for Bittorrent (I recently left for job that fit me a little better) on the Live team for almost two years (more so on all the software supporting the actual core protocol itself which Bram himself works on mostly..) it is awe
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Save your favorite PyCon live video streams now(bbarrows.com)
1 points by bbarrows 14y ago|0 comments
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Unlimited Vacation Time(bbarrows.com)
47 points by bbarrows 14y ago|55 comments
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by bbarrows 14y ago
If you get going fast enough it looks like the collision detection skips over bubbles.. Pretty fun game tho
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by bbarrows 14y ago
Awesome site. Im curious as to how you defined your heuristics? Finding good obscure music seems like a hard thing to do programmatically. It seems like you would want to find "good" music (which maybe could be determined by how many unique