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by jaddison 12y ago
Agreed, but this is true in any of their countries. Content licensing really gets in their way.
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Anyone use slack.com for personal use (ie. replace WhatsApp)?
1 points by jaddison 12y ago|0 comments
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by jaddison 12y ago
Quick note: there's a spelling mistake on https://gitgo.io/get-started under issue tracking. Mange should be Manage.
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Loading images in email clients by default: Stats manipulation?(jamesaddison.ca)
1 points by jaddison 12y ago|0 comments
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by jaddison 12y ago
I know so many people in this situation, there should be a support group for them. It's incredible how many poorly managed (top down) organizations there are.
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by jaddison 12y ago
I'm admittedly naïve in this, but wouldn't it make financial sense to buy OPEC based oil stock in the coming few months? Based on whether this is true, of course - so... In theory naturally.
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by jaddison 12y ago
You should check out Google's Doubleclick service: http://www.google.ca/doubleclick/publishers/small-business/ Instead of just serving Adsense ads, you can set up various kinds of bidding (or manually cr
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by jaddison 12y ago
Good question - django-simple-elasticsearch is definitely focused on generating a document from a single instance of a specific model. Of course, you can add supplementary data from associated models via M2M or FK models as you see fit (nes
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by jaddison 12y ago
Speaking of syncing strategies, I use Django with PostgreSQL as the main datastore and Elasticsearch as a secondary data store. PostgreSQL receives all admin and staff related updates and Elasticsearch is updated automatically using signals
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by jaddison 12y ago
clicky-link: https://github.com/s3tools/s3cmd/issues/408
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S3cmd S3 sync memory usage solution?
1 points by jaddison 12y ago|1 comments
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by jaddison 12y ago
Hi - looks like a great workflow. I tweeted you guys on this, but I thought I'd add it here: would be really neat to see the ability to integrate externally via webhooks. (if this makes sense to do at all)
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Startup Failure, 20 Lessons Learned(jamesaddison.ca)
1 points by jaddison 12y ago|0 comments
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Ask HN: I've forgotten which social signup I used
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by jaddison 14y ago
Agreed.
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by jaddison 14y ago
Along with gevent, it would be good to throw in psycogreen to improve DB (well, postgresql) evented connections.
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by jaddison 14y ago
If I can ask, what's the general monthly run rate of those services you use combined?
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by jaddison 14y ago
We've been using Cloudsponge for quite a while now - I'll be looking into this. Out of curiosity, do the providers change their login/api mechanisms regularly, or are they pretty static? I'm just wondering how quick something like this woul
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by jaddison 14y ago
How did people sign up if you didn't tell them the product name? Did you not direct them to the product site?
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by jaddison 14y ago
Perhaps this is obvious, but this affiliate marketing in a nutshell - that is, the heavy usage of "dark patterns".
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by jaddison 14y ago
For higher level sys admin you might look at saltstack, chef or puppet - and there are more options. These let you orchestrate rollout, updates etc. libcloud is also something you might be interested in.
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by jaddison 14y ago
If I were to take a guess based on what I believe to be common in immigration history: they have the drive of wanting (or needing) to succeed coupled with the lack of complacency. Citizens of a country naturally are more comfortable and don
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by jaddison 14y ago
Spend a few days reading to discover what boils your passion in tech - congratulations, you've found a good starting point... now focus on it until you have a good grasp. eg. Like the idea of a framework for web dev? Then read up on Rails a
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by jaddison 14y ago
Not sure how you're doing your 'booking' to photo matching, but you've got a great pic of Toronto, Ontario matched with a booking to Ontario, California. I noticed this after switching to the Seattle section. Nice simple presentation.
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by jaddison 14y ago
http://www.chatterblock.com/ - family focused activity discovery and discussion. Get in touch with me via the email listed in my HN profile, and I'll put you in touch with the right person.
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by jaddison 14y ago
Macbook Air 13", two 24" external displays (one is via a USB display adapter). I have VirtualBox set up with an image of Windows XP for IE testing. Other than that, I run all my webdev projects on my MBA, rather than in a Linux VM in Virtu
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by jaddison 14y ago
I'd hazard that opening the source makes it easier to game the algorithm; so with that in mind, keeping it closed means one less vector for people to play. I'm certainly not against open source - just trying to provide a possible answer.
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Django-simple-templates 0.6 released(pypi.python.org)
2 points by jaddison 14y ago|0 comments
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Designer-friendly templates + A/B testing for Django(github.com)
3 points by jaddison 14y ago|0 comments
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by jaddison 14y ago
On a similar vein: http://www.scottisheyes.com/walled-gardens I wish authors would produce for various platforms, rather than targeting just one, even if it is the de facto market leader. Edit: of course after I posted this, I see that it

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