erikwiffin

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by erikwiffin 17y ago
we do that at my newspaper because it's an easy way to track outbound links. sure we could set up our own outbound redirection thingy, but bit.ly is les cool and we have other things to work on.
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by erikwiffin 17y ago
I've tried using it in the past, but it wasn't very helpful. The site I wanted to visit wasn't "down" according to notify mee, it was showing a very friendly and approachable server error page. If notify mee can't magically figure out that
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by erikwiffin 17y ago
The point of libel laws is that 50 years ago, the NYT could make libelous accusations against someone and they would have had no platform to defend themselves. Thus they were given a legal platform. Now, if someone says mean things about yo
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by erikwiffin 17y ago
I work at a newspaper, and it goes a little something like this: The people in charge don't really think of their website as a part of the world wide web, but as a part of the newspaper. There are a lot of reasons for this, journalism sch
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by erikwiffin 17y ago
reminds me of a joke: a farmer has a bunch of chickens that aren't laying eggs, so he asks a physicist for help. the physicist leaves, does some calculations, etc etc, and comes back with the following answer. "well I've solved your
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by erikwiffin 17y ago
I haven't seen that. Guess I need to go downtown more often then. The mall cops at Westfield use them though.
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by erikwiffin 17y ago
I stopped answering questions pretty early on, as I was getting tired of clicking randomly at yet another colour test.
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by erikwiffin 17y ago
Does Wolfram|Alpha have an API? if so, you could do a pretty cool question/answer thing. erikwiffin: @tweetin why is the sky blue? tweetin: @erikwiffin The sky's blue color is a result of the effect of Rayleigh scattering. Shorter-wa
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by erikwiffin 17y ago
"People use banks because banks operates on certain standards and laws, which enables easier movement of money from one bank to another for bank customers. Cloud vendors should also frame certain laws and standards, that will enable moving
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by erikwiffin 17y ago
I think it would be cool to see some kind of google maps mashup showing various startups around to world. There would obviously be a lot on the US West Coast, but I'd like to see how distributed around the world they are.
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by erikwiffin 17y ago
my point is that I've gone from knowing almost nothing about computers to being a programmer since I started high school. If I had learned about what I wanted to learn at 8 years old, I'd be digging up dinosaur bones in Alberta.
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by erikwiffin 17y ago
My computer experience going into high school was playing commander keen on a 486. I went to college to get a diploma in computer animation. I am now a web programmer. People change.
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by erikwiffin 17y ago
You need a submission form. or not... there's no way you could sort through all the submissions you'd get. If you can keep it from devolving into thedailywtf.com then you'll have a very loyal reader in me. I work in PHP and I would love to
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by erikwiffin 17y ago
I think you're on to something here. At work, a short comment in an email can very quickly build up into a large and complicated discussion. Lots of branching, occasionally hitting reply instead of reply-all, really a nasty mess. Part of th
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by erikwiffin 17y ago
To be fair, I didn't know that google would be offering portability until I read the story on TC. Sure I could follow Google's blog, but I don't. Maybe I'm just really good at ignoring Arrington's drama, but I really appreciate the informat
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by erikwiffin 17y ago
A lot of suggestions were made as to how this could be better. I've implemented most of them if you want to check it out.
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by erikwiffin 17y ago
I've implemented http://mailhide.recaptcha.net/ that should fix the worst of things.
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by erikwiffin 17y ago
You can now edit and delete your listings. Also, I've implemented mailhide.
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by erikwiffin 17y ago
I've added one here: http://domains.wiffin.com/about.php
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by erikwiffin 17y ago
I've changed the fulltext to allow for a wildcard after the actual query. It's not perfect. "cool" wont match "imcool.com", but hopefully people will use the tags category to their advantage.
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by erikwiffin 17y ago
Right now, as a service to the Hackernews community, I wouldn't consider charging anything. If this really takes off (unlikely) then I'd consider setting up a service where people can pay each other through the site, with my holding the m
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by erikwiffin 17y ago
yes, all my domains are also listed there. But from what I remember, sedo had a lower bound on how much you could sell a domain for, and takes a cut of the sale. Right now this is more of a craigslist knockoff, but tailored for domains.
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by erikwiffin 17y ago
I'll add a comments field. I haven't implemented editing yet. I was looking to show off a very unfinished product to the audience who inspired it before making it a really viable service. Mailhide sounds like a good idea. Thanks for the p
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by erikwiffin 17y ago
Hacked it together in a few hours last night, didn't bother to set up an about page. In retrospect... probably a good idea.
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by erikwiffin 17y ago
The search function is a mysql fulltext. Obvious drawbacks to searching for words inside of words, so I added a "tags" parameter. from the looks of things, if you had searched "riveting" you would have found something. Obviously this is not
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by erikwiffin 17y ago
After this thread earlier: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=652952 I decided that it would be fun to put together a "domain name classifieds". There's a few things I'd add, but I wanted to get some feedback first, see if I was even hea
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Would you use this classifieds service for domain names?(domains.wiffin.com)
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by erikwiffin 17y ago
The very first thing I did when I landed on your site was click the big blue link. That took me to Gizmodo. You've already lost me as a user, because Gizmodo is interesting, so I'm not inclined to hit the back button. Maybe what you should
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by erikwiffin 17y ago
at work I read hacker news until something clicks... kindof like staring our a window ;) at home I just swear at my computer until things work the way I want them to.
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by erikwiffin 17y ago
Could I make a request for an example of good documentation? Obviously this is hilarious, and for the most part "do the opposite" would work just fine; but a readable, friendly, best-practice "this is how you should document stuff" articl

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