casta

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1. 61.▲
   Do waterfalls play chess? and other stories(aeporreca.org)

   28 points by casta 15y ago|1 comments
2. 62.▲
   by casta 17y ago

   I did it: http://www.bitlet.org
3. 63.▲
   by casta 17y ago

   I know that lack of a progress bar is a problem, but please note that it's a prototype I built in my spare time. I used theora because I wanted a free video codec. The bittorrent client is coded by myself with help and support from a friend
4. 64.▲
   by casta 17y ago

   Thank you for sharing your thoughts. 1) You're right: It's bad, but in order to open connections to different clients it needs a signed applet. I also considered a custom plugin but I thought forcing a user to install it could be ever worse
5. 65.▲
   Ask HN: please review my technology.

   25 points by casta 17y ago|25 comments
6. 66.▲
   by casta 18y ago

   I wrote my little web app without caring about scaling. Now it has about 20000 visitors a day and an average of 8 request per second. The uptime command says: load average: 0.16, 0.19, 0.15 (on a dual core machine.) Should I have any proble
7. 67.▲
   by casta 18y ago

   Also consider that if you write your app with a little bit of "code responsabiliy", usually when you need to scale, you have so many users that you can afford to rewrite your code thinking about scaling.
8. 68.▲
   by casta 18y ago

   Free drug samples for small guys. Too bad the drug quality is poor.
9. 69.▲
   by casta 18y ago

   Orange names? I'm almost color blind and my LCD screen doesn't display the color in the right way, I never noticed the colors. :°(
10. 70.▲
    by casta 18y ago

    I suppose they're Latin-origin words
11. 71.▲
    by casta 18y ago

    They're not perfect, and I think these fifteen minutes could have been a good opportunity for other search engines: I feel good for this.
12. 72.▲
    by casta 18y ago

    Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca
13. 73.▲
    by casta 18y ago

    I get frustrated and pissed off even when I mispell a word typing on the iPhone.
14. 74.▲
    by casta 18y ago

    That's a "specially designed for Googlers with a 'droid' on the back" G1!! You could resell it on ebay, et voilà, you'd get your bonus!
15. 75.▲
    by casta 18y ago

    I wanted to learn programming when I was at the high school and I saw the first 3d games on playstation: - Wipeout - Battle Arena Toshinden - Ridge Racers More than ten years have gone, and now I'm an almost happy R&D developer at www.m
16. 76.▲
    by casta 18y ago

    Just tried from English to Italian, and I must admit it's quite funny
17. 77.▲
    by casta 18y ago

    It prints money! :D http://gonintendo.com/wp-content/photos/prints_money.gif
18. 78.▲
    by casta 20y ago

    Thanks for the feedback. Good advice, definitetly. The only problem is about the language filter: we already thought about it, but now we have only one story in english, so you wouldn't have seen anything. This is one of the first things we
19. 79.▲
    by casta 20y ago

    Thanks for the advice! The only thing that makes us feel bad is the impression that we developed it without interest. We built novlet in our spare time while graduating, so we couldn't spend the time we would have liked to, however we were
20. 80.▲
    by casta 20y ago

    We provided a demo link: novlet.com, but apparently they didn't visit it.