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by gommm 18y ago
But the problem of braintree is that it only works with us merchant accounts so for people like the parent who is in Australia or me whose company is in HK it doesn't work... I found that finding good payment gateways is very easy for a us
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by gommm 18y ago
But, of course, the problem is that even with an open wifi there are quite a few websites that are blocked by the great firewall... So using an open wifi doesn't solve the problem the way tor does. The other way is to have a server outside
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by gommm 18y ago
When using bcrypt to encrypt the password in the database and allowing the users to have very short (3-4 letters) passwords, how much easier is it to crack the password? And wouldn't increasing bcrypt's cost counter the problem?
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by gommm 18y ago
They talk about that and explain why it happens in the article....
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by gommm 18y ago
Yes but will techcrunch and the other blogger really cover your startup again just for the new windows version? I wonder if they shouldn't have had a soft launch on HN first and then a bit later once the webplayer is available launch on tec
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by gommm 18y ago
I love learning languages but I'm not convinced it's really helpful to learn if one wants to become a programmer. That said, I would recommend to the op to try and convince his parents to let him go to another country in a host family for a
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by gommm 18y ago
Let's see, if I remember well they invested about 80 000$ in reddit (there was a second investment from YC if I'm not mistaken). So from this, they maybe took 10-15%. Reddit sold for about 12 million dollars, so that would mean about 1.2-1.
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by gommm 18y ago
Oh that's interesting making a rails solution for that is on my todo list before I launch.... but if you get there first, I'd be happy to use it :-)
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by gommm 18y ago
Why not try again with a long sale copy but this time use adwords and have an affiliate programs... Having an affiliate program is good because it gives you a chance at seeing how someone who is used to do this kind of marketing works (at l
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by gommm 18y ago
well I'm closer to 26 than 25 (2 more months) but I'm in denial over it...
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by gommm 18y ago
And these kind of polls make me feel old at 25... I hate them :-)
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by gommm 18y ago
That would work well in Japan... There's already the restaurants/fast food where you choose the food on a vending machine get a ticket and give it to the kitchen staff... That would be a natural evolution of that...
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by gommm 18y ago
The games from naugty dog software (crash bandicoot and others) were programed in Lisp. Unfortunately they were purchased by Sony and had to stop using Lisp... I guess it's the same story as viaweb/yahoo store :-) See : http://www.franz.co
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by gommm 18y ago
Do you have prices for the high mem/cpu linode nodes? the article only lists until 2880mb mem for linode and says to contact them for the higher plans...
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by gommm 18y ago
I always have at least one instance running so it's good for saving money... At this price point it's actually cheaper than a vps at slicehost: 325/12 + 720*.03 = 49$ slicehost for an equivalent instance it's between 70$ and 130$ (but need
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by gommm 18y ago
No, it was a great read :-) I like what you're doing with http://github.com/raganwald/homoiconic
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by gommm 18y ago
"Imagine if you had to wait one second for your keyboard to respond to any key you type (and one second between keystrokes)" I've had this experience, while traveling I had a really slow internet connection and had to do some work via ssh t
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by gommm 18y ago
I think it's not so much a question of typing quickly as a question of wether you are able to type without thinking and looking at the keyboard... When you get to that point, typing is just like walking you don't think about it and think ab
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by gommm 18y ago
I have the F31d (almost usable at iso 800 and good enough until iso 400) which I bought when fuji was stopping it because the F41d that had just come out had more megapixels but higher noise... For good reviews see http://www.dpreview.com/
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by gommm 18y ago
I got the same vibe too... I don't know exactly if what he says is true (or if it's just exaggerations) but the way he says it doesn't make me want to meet him. Especially the passage on OMG made me cringe...
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by gommm 18y ago
In my 4th year university project we worked on an expert system for a card game in Prolog... For doing an expert system based AI, prolog is pretty good...
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by gommm 18y ago
I strongly believe that having a grading system where a number of people need to have A for the grading system to be considered fair is harmful. In the university I went to in France, exams are made so that the gaussian curve of results in
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by gommm 18y ago
When I was studying in the US, I always bought the previous edition of all textbooks second hand. I quickly figured that they was little difference between editions and they seemed more like a ploy to get us to buy new books... When studyin
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by gommm 18y ago
I used to with software called awaken but I stopped ever since my macbook's fan started to spin all the time... I love silence when sleeping and fan noises go against that
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by gommm 18y ago
Thanks for sharing this. I'm going to enjoy spending my evening reading it :-)
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by gommm 18y ago
The problem is that in our society, it's unavoidable that people engage in pre/extra marietal sex. This is why abstinence based sex education lead to higher teen pregnancy (since they still have sex just without condom) and why one should j
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by gommm 18y ago
I hadn't seen what raganwald was up to since he stopped writing at his blog... Turns out he's still hacking in Ruby and writing interesting articles :-)
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Interesting series of blog posts on combinators(github.com)
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by gommm 18y ago
Actually as much as I hate CSS, from trying to implement the same subsystem of an application using flash and then reimplementing it in javascript + CSS I came to appreciate the flexibility of CSS when you want to adapt your widget to both
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by gommm 18y ago
Just wanted to thank you chriseppstein for the all the work you've put into Compass and now into Sass

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