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   by edb 18y ago

   You need to be moderately technical to answer alot of the questions we were getting. In our case, the people who were good on the phone wanted to do more. They couldn't because of the call/email volume and they ended up leaving. Again, this
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   by edb 18y ago

   True story (in a nutshell): I was running a hosting company with a friend of mine. Things were good, our sales were increasing to the point where we quit our jobs to grow the company. It was a good life. Wake up, set your own hours, do some
3. 33.▲
   by edb 18y ago

   I'm a cakePHP user. It has gotten and keeps getting a lot better as of recent, and I really like the community. I looked into codeigniter after using cakephp for a while and it just seemed to have a lot less to offer. I tried symfony too an
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   CUSEC 2009 begins tomorrow. Which talks are you looking forward to?(2009.cusec.net)

   2 points by edb 18y ago|1 comments
5. 35.▲
   by edb 18y ago

   good suggestion. Thanks!
6. 36.▲
   by edb 18y ago

   Is it wise to contact the RIAA and ask them if what I'm doing is legitimate?
7. 37.▲
   Ask HN: How do I find out if I'm infringing copyrights?

   4 points by edb 18y ago|9 comments
8. 38.▲
   by edb 18y ago

   But I literally have EVERY feature he has. It's kind of freaky, but it's a very basic site he's put up. His upcoming features also have a huge overlap with mine. He has, however, gotten lifehacker coverage, as well as on a couple of other s
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   Ask HN: Is this plagiarism or competition?

   5 points by edb 18y ago|11 comments
10. 40.▲
    by edb 18y ago

    I always thought that dropbox would be much better if I could tie it together with my S3 account and just have all the data saved there, to an unlimited amount paid by me.
11. 41.▲
    by edb 18y ago

    the difference being that you pay them . Give me free education and labs (paid by the university, not the state) and the university can have a huge cut of all my ideas.
12. 42.▲
    by edb 18y ago

    I don't know why this framework doesn't get more attention. Good on them for finally releasing the 1.2 version.
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    CakePHP 1.2 Released(bakery.cakephp.org)

    1 points by edb 18y ago|1 comments
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    by edb 18y ago

    http://www.ravelry.com/
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    by edb 18y ago

    This should be a feature of hacker news, have a books link at the top menu where you can submit a book and a deadline, then people can commit to reading it, and then everybody can discuss. Upmod if you're committing, then the top few books
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    by edb 18y ago

    CakePHP has changed ALOT, and for the better to boot! As a 6 year php coder and a 2 year cakephp developper, I HIGHLY recommend it. Yes, everyone thinks the docs aren't good. They're currently pretty decent actually. Also, the community is
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    by edb 18y ago

    This is actually pretty cool, but I'm genuinely curious why it's advantageous to write the routes in the controller files instead of one central place that's easily maintained? CakePHP, ( http://book.cakephp.org/view/46/Routes-Configuration
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    Cloud computing comes to a PHP IDE(teknoid.wordpress.com)

    1 points by edb 18y ago|0 comments
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    by edb 18y ago

    These problems have been solved by the various popular php-based MVC frameworks. My favourite is http://www.cakephp.org/ , but I hear a lot of good things about http://codeigniter.com/ as well.
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    by edb 18y ago

    I hear ya. My name is Bill Gates and I sign up to an unheard of amount of services from my apt in the 90210 area. Thank god for the great spam filter I have on my personal email: support@microsoft.com, I get alot of spam there for some reas
21. 51.▲
    by edb 18y ago

    Good point. In the case of both last.fm and HN, maybe they would benefit from a "Lemming" feature that could be turned on and off. :)
22. 52.▲
    by edb 18y ago

    It may be a little shortsighted, but it's hard to sum up all my thoughts in one textarea. The long story short of it is that in my experiences, a real life discussion about music among 5 knowledgeable people always turns into a festival of
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    by edb 18y ago

    Thanks. That got me all wet to dance.
24. 54.▲
    by edb 18y ago

    Anybody know if schools are a good target?
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    by edb 18y ago

    I did a radio show for two years, and all the recommendations on this page are a great way of finding music, but by no means are they better than just reading interviews and articles on your favourite artists, find out what makes them tick.
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    by edb 18y ago

    Thanks for the good reply. I guess it makes sense that I use scribd to get my community going, and if it takes off, use those resources to wean my dependency.
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    Ask HN: Is relying on scribd's API a big mistake?

    2 points by edb 18y ago|6 comments
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    by edb 18y ago

    This looks like a great tool, but here's my beef: I had used assembla.com for a long time. 100% free, integrated svn and optional trac, bug-tracking, per-project access control with unlimited projects, free massages on thursdays; the works.
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    by edb 18y ago

    I hear what you're saying. There's just a key point that I would like your opinion on: So, for the first 4 years, you have no income as you pay off $50,000 of that $200,000 each year. The assumption though is that it's a healthy company a
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    by edb 18y ago

    So, if your site needs a full-time programmer, it's worthless. I mean, it's worth something to you because it can be your income. However, it's not worth anything to an owner since they'd be paying all of the income to a programmer (yes,