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by bprater 19y ago
The real challenge is building out the back-end that deals with the service you select. (Unless you plan on handling unsubscribes manually, which might not be a bad idea if you are dealing with a low volume of users. IE: I'd pay someone $8/
1202.
by bprater 19y ago
Ultraedit+WebDrive was my wet dream. It was the only thing holding me back from switching to Mac 100% of the time, until Panic churned up Coda.
1203.
by bprater 19y ago
If you aren't necessarily focused on tying hardware controllers to a software app (which limits you to MIDI stuff), you might consider one of the basic programmable microcontrollers, like the Parallax BASIC Stamp: http://www.parallax.com/
1204.
by bprater 19y ago
Spring 1999.
1205.
by bprater 19y ago
Search.
1206.
by bprater 19y ago
How did Slashdot do it?
1207.
by bprater 19y ago
Please note that it is a PDF in the title!
1208.
by bprater 19y ago
We could really use a down-mod button. Also vote on headlines.
1209.
by bprater 19y ago
$50/mo, that's all?
1210.
by bprater 19y ago
"First and foremost..." Any article using that phrase is undoubtedly the worse article I've read that week. And ding, ding, this one is!
1211.
by bprater 19y ago
If you need to do form stepping, you need to look at something like Perl's Mechanize package. (Ruby has one too.) Spend time reading articles related to Mechanize. Your resulting code is going to be fairly terse, so you don't really need to
1212.
by bprater 19y ago
How often do you go back and look at aggregate sites like this one?
1213.
by bprater 19y ago
Hacker news?
1214.
by bprater 19y ago
this is hacker news because...?
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Is this Hacker News or Re-reddit?
1 points by bprater 19y ago|2 comments
1216.
by bprater 19y ago
Come on -- this is Hacker News, not reddit.
1217.
by bprater 19y ago
Maybe there are 5 people on the team. That gets it down to $80/hr.
1218.
by bprater 19y ago
I think the question is valid, but I really appreciate YHN because it is all hacker related news.
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by bprater 19y ago
If you are a strong programmer, go with Flex Builder trial, later you can ditch it for a basic text editor like Textmate and use the command-line compiler. Dive into some Flash Game Programming books and Actionscript 3 books and look at fre