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by imsteve 19y ago
The poker bots out there mostly suck because they don't need to be great to win lots of money from the weak players. The real problem the bots face is getting around anti-bot security measures. But, although almost no effort has been put
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by imsteve 19y ago
you should really add GET parameters that will let you go straight to a channel with a url and be logged in with a random username.
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by imsteve 19y ago
look I just walked over the equator line painted on the ground! yeah, I thought this would have more significance.
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by imsteve 19y ago
I'm kind of glad that myspace is so ridiculously ugly. Design best practice snobs need an abrupt wakeup.
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by imsteve 19y ago
I can give you many examples of people not knowing what they want. Better to measure than to ask . Critical difference.
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by imsteve 19y ago
> If they don't remember giving you their permission, they'll mark your email as spam which makes changing domain names so hard.
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by imsteve 19y ago
> Unless you can be sure that your target market is Firefox/Safari Actually this is fantastically easy to measure. Are you kidding? And I think we were talking about opera.
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by imsteve 19y ago
Amount/whether you can charge correlates closely with value? Unfortunately, often no.
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by imsteve 19y ago
The question of price optimization is easily answered by basic supply/demand curves. If you're saying that they should charge less just because other photo sites are then you're doing it totally wrong.
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by imsteve 19y ago
Who cares. Startups ultimately exist to make money. How do we get the most of that?
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by imsteve 19y ago
Really great advice.
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by imsteve 19y ago
My limiting factor is RAM, but it looks like serveraxis is cheaper than slicehost for that.
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Serveraxis jacked up their prices today. Alternatives?
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by imsteve 19y ago
> give a reason to a thief to connect your laptop to the net. How exactly does your strategy do this?
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by imsteve 19y ago
Why would you ever get a laptop instead of getting a much better bang for the buck desktop if you're never going to move it?
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by imsteve 19y ago
Performance isn't the problem. If any of your drives ever corrupt a single bit then all of your data is trashed (with most setups) and that's a big problem.
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by imsteve 19y ago
The cron daemon should be launched at a runlevel preceding anything windowing related, this is the default in all linux distros. So you shouldn't have to log to anything for it to be running. Also, if you have sshd running, which decent OS
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by imsteve 19y ago
yeah I read that comment as the opposite.
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by imsteve 19y ago
I'll give you the vote because very often hard-set rules in programming are not good.
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by imsteve 19y ago
Google's big wave came and facebook's hasn't. What's your point?
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by imsteve 19y ago
> I have a difficult time seeing the value in an application that can be developed by a first-year computer science student in one weekend. I have trouble believing that billions of gallons of oil discovered in 5 minutes by a 5 year old
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by imsteve 19y ago
We're talking about CPC ads here and you know it.
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by imsteve 19y ago
Google doesn't do conversion tracking for you.
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by imsteve 19y ago
You should plan breaks into your lifestyle. Friday nights has always been a minimum for me.
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by imsteve 19y ago
> you can not reclaim the memory of an object in Java, C#, or any other garbage collected language. That's just not true. Python currently doesn't return memory from space allocated to primitive types but there's a branch that I'm using
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by imsteve 19y ago
That's a god damn memory leak. What the hell.
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by imsteve 19y ago
Not everyone has a stable day job before they get into a startup. It's not in everyone's best interest to suffer through one for a few years first either.
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by imsteve 19y ago
The misunderstanding here is that I eat ramen because I'm that broke! Or busy. Mostly broke.
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by imsteve 19y ago
usually I don't get such a laugh just from a title.
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by imsteve 19y ago
No, it's not about size. Of course not. I was referring to performance and ease of adapting the JVM's way of doing things internally to very different languages. This is quoting a number of parrot and jython developers. I have the links aro

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