crystalarchives

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by crystalarchives 18y ago
Disallowing reassignment would leave a finite amount of (useful) keyphrases; my business model is to charge for people who wanted to keep their keyphrases for a duration of time. Maybe I should make that more clear... Detecting circular ass
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by crystalarchives 18y ago
http://www.tinyurl.com They're not really a startup since they only accept donations, but I loved the idea so much I made my own version which does not randomly assign a string but instead allows users to pick their own phrase: http://ww
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by crystalarchives 18y ago
Although I am fortunate because I can say that nothing like this has ever happened to me, my sincerest, warmest condolences go out to you and your roommate's friends and family. I cannot imagine what it must be like. I hope you find strengt
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by crystalarchives 18y ago
I'm in the same boat as you, and it's rough. At first I didn't believe in PG's advice for multiple cofounders, but as time goes by I definitely think it's important now. As a one person shop I can't do much more than consulting, and as a te
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by crystalarchives 18y ago
I've done web development (PHP/MySQL) on both Windows and Linux, and Linux wins hands down for me primarily because of the number of useful utilities at my disposal on the command line and ease in moving around the directory tree. However,
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by crystalarchives 18y ago
Good to hear I'm not the only one who feels that way who had the same experience.
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by crystalarchives 18y ago
I'm trying to capitalize on the trend of searching for a company slogan or phrase instead of going to the actual site. A lot of businesses are posting ads (non-internet) that say "Go to Yahoo.com and search for <company name>" inste
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by crystalarchives 18y ago
I removed it, I understand now - it's better to wait until entirely too much spam arrives before implementing CAPTCHAs.
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by crystalarchives 18y ago
I don't think so, I think it's for Rails and Django pretty much. I've never had an issue although I only run Rails.
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by crystalarchives 18y ago
Asmallorange is also extremely good, I used to use them but I couldn't find a way to host multiple sites, which was crucial for me.
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by crystalarchives 18y ago
I use WebFaction and am very pleased with them. They support hosting multiple sites on one account, PHP, Rails, and Django while having extremely fast and helpful customer service. The latency is good, although not blazing, and I've had per
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by crystalarchives 18y ago
The screenshot idea is genius, I'm going to try that. Simple is good, I'll definitely take that into account.
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by crystalarchives 18y ago
I know, I hate captchas myself, but I don't want spammers to hammer the server with porn sites or anything like that.
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by crystalarchives 18y ago
Yeah, the idea is for people who want an immutable keyphrase to contact me for some sort of contract where they ask for a specified amount of time for the keyphrase to stay constant for some reasonable sum of money.
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by crystalarchives 18y ago
No, not at all blunt, this is exactly what I'm looking for. The unique selling proposition is that I plan on shifting this idea to the mobile market, since typing long URLs on a numpad is complete torture, and am just fleshing out the idea
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by crystalarchives 18y ago
I'm most interested in whether the idea is easy to understand, any feedback is very much appreciated!
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Ask YC: Feedback on an alternative to TinyURL(oneryng.com)
4 points by crystalarchives 18y ago|15 comments
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OneRyng - Better than TinyURL(oneryng.com)
1 points by crystalarchives 18y ago|1 comments
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by crystalarchives 18y ago
Amazon seems to offer payment processing as well, but it's in public beta. Is anyone using that? Sorry about being hush on the details, I'll let you guys know it all soon. ;)
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Ask YC: Best credit card payment processor?
27 points by crystalarchives 18y ago|22 comments
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No More Plastic Filling Landfills?(news.therecord.com)
1 points by crystalarchives 18y ago|0 comments
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by crystalarchives 18y ago
I'd stick with what you're familiar with, otherwise you'll lose a lot of time relearning how to perform sysadmin tasks on the new system.
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by crystalarchives 19y ago
I actually did.
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The Story of Stuff(storyofstuff.com)
1 points by crystalarchives 19y ago|0 comments
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by crystalarchives 19y ago
Depends on the type of documentation, but I'm a fan of LaTeX since there are so many tex2____ programs out there that'll convert LaTeX to whatever format you want. The learning curve is steeper but the flexibility is high.
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by crystalarchives 19y ago
I'd recommend getting familiar with Windows, Mac, and UNIX/Linux environments. A lot more opportunities open up to you when you're competent in each of the Big Three operating systems; you don't have to be a guru, just be experienced enough
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by crystalarchives 19y ago
I'll have to second not using an IDE; I use (g)vi(m) instead. It forces me to understand each step of the development process, reduces the overhead of any machine I work on, and allows me to work on pretty much any server, anywhere, using j
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by crystalarchives 19y ago
It does look very similar to the YC sites, but that's not a bad thing at all - it looks very good, intuitive and beautiful.
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by crystalarchives 19y ago
I'm not worried about him not knowing what a tar file is - fine, he likes Windows, whatever. What greatly disturbs me is his choice of text editor. Notepad? Seriously?! If you've only programmed with IDEs or Notepad, that is a serious probl
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by crystalarchives 19y ago
I wish I could upmod this so many times... Amazing article, everyone should read the entire thing. I hated math throughout school, although I was told I was "good at it", even though I had no clue what was going on. Now I know why! What can

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