eruci

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   by eruci 8y ago

   Simple. Send the customer to PayPal with a subscription request, the amount and customer id. They activate the subscription and pay. Get that id back via IPN after each new subscription. Deliver the service. Done!
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   by eruci 8y ago

   This is unnecessarily complicated. That's why I handle all subscriptions with PayPal.
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   Google Analytics Spam

   1 points by eruci 8y ago|0 comments
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   by eruci 8y ago

   https://books.geocode.xyz/
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   by eruci 8y ago

   The key to building an idea is getting excited enough about it. Blind faith is counterproductive, as is faith in general.
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   by eruci 8y ago

   My first customer found me before my showHN post ( publicsonar.com - they needed a geoparsing tool). I'm not entirely sure how they found me, perhaps from a talk I gave on my book scanning project. I also don't know how the other
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   by eruci 8y ago

   Hi. I used to run a fanfiction site (which I sold about 2 years ago) and one of the things I found quite difficult was monetizing in this field. (I did integrate ebook exporters, readers and other rings and bells into the app after quite a
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   by eruci 8y ago

   Yes.
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   by eruci 8y ago

   I've bootstrapped everything I've ever built. Yet, I constantly get investor pitches from bootcamp/accelerators/etc. One of them I got just the other day put forward this interesting offer: "$25K for 6% equity&quot
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    by eruci 8y ago

    There is more than one way to do it. Or, only one: Perl.
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    by eruci 8y ago

    A new version will address the issue of local names. It will also solve the problem of crossing national boundaries via the integration of OSM admin{} polygons. And add support for elevation up to +-18000 meters. The documentation is quite
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    by eruci 8y ago

    Interesting idea. How do you plan to implement Z and up to what height/depth?
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    by eruci 8y ago

    Geohash does not provide a one-to-one mapping. Geohashes "u150gxv4" and "u150gxv5" and others, decode to (50.8,4.38). Also, geohashes of many proximal points are very different (see http://geohash.org/f84
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    by eruci 8y ago

    That's because a) Polygons are quite large (over 20k square kilometres) b) Manchester is a long name (I limit geoname length whenever possible), c) Manchester is possibly similar sounding to another big city name.
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    by eruci 8y ago

    I think it is an important problem since it has gotten the attention that it has.
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    by eruci 8y ago

    Yes. I've built one of them. https://3geonames.org . Open source. Works offline. No database is needed. Based on geonames.org. I also know of at least 2 other open source alternatives (what3ducks and what3fucks).
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    by eruci 8y ago

    I've built an open source alternative, 3geonames.org. The code is made up of 3 Geonames, with the first Geoname being the most prominent location name in relation to actual geography, for eg: https://3geonames.org/LOND
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    by eruci 8y ago

    I don't really think much about my competitors, although I must admit I flatter myself thinking they think about me.
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    by eruci 8y ago

    Just a hypothesis.
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    by eruci 8y ago

    People in the US are more likely to fall for these pitches. Maybe due to the lower average intelligence of the common dude. Just a hypothesis. This phenomenon deserves a deeper inquiry.
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    by eruci 8y ago

    Very sad. Indeed for all of those whose life ended in such circumstances. If we could only figure out a way to get extremists to only focus on killing other extremists, we'd all be much better off.
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    by eruci 8y ago

    Tumbling down
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    by eruci 8y ago

    Done!
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    by eruci 8y ago

    I need to say something important, but I'd rather stay silent.
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    by eruci 8y ago

    Perhaps he meant to say that "some women were less able at physics than some men. And vice versa."
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    by eruci 8y ago

    I tell everyone I'm using Perl.
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    by eruci 8y ago

    True. I recently got an email from someone claiming they had reason to believe I was infringing on... I wrote back "I believe you have no reason"
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    by eruci 8y ago

    Btw, to ascertain the competence for a given individual in a given field it is easy to check. Go to Google Scholar and look at the number of citations. For Edray Goins it is a relatively low number, that's why I used the word "med
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    by eruci 8y ago

    "surely you don't earnestly believe that affirmative action is intended to mitigate inherent racial inferiorities (or do you?)." Of course, I don't. That's not what I've been saying at all! No matter what it a
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    by eruci 8y ago

    I mean, real professionals focus on their work, not the color of their skin.