benhoyt

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A browser-agnostic plugin system?(blog.brush.co.nz)
21 points by benhoyt 18y ago|7 comments
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by benhoyt 18y ago
I run DecentURL.com, and have had basically the same experience. I made a few dollars off some "$7 premium services" for a while, but recently stopped running those as there just wasn't enough demand. Not that I made "selling" DecentURL a p
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by benhoyt 18y ago
Checking a publicly-available URL blacklist is a good idea, thanks! I may well end up adding a captcha of some sort. However, that effectively means I can't have a public "create a DecentURL" API call like I do now -- they'd have to sign up
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by benhoyt 18y ago
Thanks for the comment. Unfortunately what I'm seeing is that each time they submit it's with a (somewhat) different IP address. For a given link, they might be all within 173.x.y.z, but if I ban 173.*, won't there be legitimate IP addresse
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Ask HN: how would you protect a URL redirection service from spam?
10 points by benhoyt 18y ago|9 comments
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Cracking an INI file with a jackhammer(blog.brush.co.nz)
1 points by benhoyt 18y ago|0 comments
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by benhoyt 18y ago
The other thing is that believing in natural selection is quite different from saying "man evolved from monkeys". Also, it's possible to believe that God created the heavens and the earth, and that he created it 10,000 years ago but 14 bill
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by benhoyt 18y ago
Preface: one thing I like about PG's essays is that even though I often strongly disagree with his position, they really make me think, and force me to clarify my own position in my mind. The essay said, "people can never have a fruitful ar
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by benhoyt 18y ago
I'm curious about this -- can you explain how it's a security problem, and why that changed ~2005?
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RAII, AC/DC, and the "with" statement(blog.brush.co.nz)
13 points by benhoyt 18y ago|11 comments
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Ask HN: Kiwi programmer keen to work in the U.S. for 1-2 years. Bad idea? Any advice?
5 points by benhoyt 18y ago|3 comments
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by benhoyt 18y ago
It's quite possible I'm unclear, but I made it so you can start a list and try it out for free ... you only have to pay when you want to share it with your guests. Also, you can try out the demo list as much as you want (either as the bride
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by benhoyt 18y ago
You're right, there are quite a few free ones. I did a fair bit of hunting 6 months ago, and I have yet to find one that's free, good-looking, and doesn't require a big sign-up process for the guests. (If you can point me to some I've miss
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by benhoyt 18y ago
Thanks for the useful comments. The main difference between Gifty and traditional gift registries is that with gift registries you're tied to a particular store, say "Bed, Bath & Beyond". With Gifty you can add gifts to your list from w
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by benhoyt 18y ago
Really? I'm very interested to know how the UI prevented you from starting a list. Do you mean a bug or a useability issue? Please explain, and if there's an issue there, I'll fix it. The problem with pastebins / Google spreadsheets / etc f
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by benhoyt 18y ago
Oh yes, that isn't the clearest, is it? I mean "without buying doubles of things for the wedding couple." Like three toasters. I'm thinking about the multiple-people-chipping-in thing, but I haven't implemented that yet.
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by benhoyt 18y ago
I'm curious why it's off-putting. Is New Zealand that bad a place? :-) Or does it just strike non-NZers as parochial?
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How would you commercialize my startup, Gifty.co.nz?
7 points by benhoyt 18y ago|17 comments
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by benhoyt 18y ago
Hi, Ben from microPledge here. Hmmm ... it's not that PayPal is an "unreliable" payment provider. We found them to be pretty reliable. It's that we (and you, by the looks) are contradicting their ToS in quite an up-front way. We didn't know
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Protothreads and C++(blog.micropledge.com)
3 points by benhoyt 18y ago|0 comments
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by benhoyt 18y ago
You might be right for birthday lists, but I think for weddings, $20 is not bad. Part of the reason I made Gifty is so people weren't forced to buy from a particular shop, or buy online, or whatever -- there are lots of such wedding registr
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by benhoyt 18y ago
Mainly because I've undercharged too often for things in the past. I like giving stuff away, but this time I thought I'd have a go at making it a bit of a business up-front. If I simply get no-one over the next wee while, I'd consider makin
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Gifty.co.nz -- gift lists made simple (my new little web project)(gifty.co.nz)
4 points by benhoyt 18y ago|8 comments
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Take the Tetris test (an Arc version, anyone?)(blog.micropledge.com)
6 points by benhoyt 19y ago|0 comments
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by benhoyt 19y ago
Actually, it didn't for me. I click on "log in", then click the Clickpass drop-down, type in my own OpenID, it goes through to MyOpenID and verified that. Then it takes me to the "merge with your existing Hacker News account", and I type my
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Emailing your web app's Python tracebacks in web.py(blog.micropledge.com)
3 points by benhoyt 19y ago|1 comments
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by benhoyt 19y ago
I haven't run the .exe, but the source code looks pretty non-jokish to me.
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DecentURL.com, convert crud-looking URLs into decent ones(decenturl.com)
5 points by benhoyt 19y ago|0 comments
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by benhoyt 19y ago
Main reason I didn't mention that is because speed is rarely the main problem in my field (embedded systems). People have used bytecode interpreted Forths (usually a 10x slowdown) on slow micros and it's often good enough. In fact, a C-to-b
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by benhoyt 19y ago
Good stuff. It's that second level of indirection that got me (your STRINGIFY2/STRINGIFY combo).

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