jcrocholl

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by jcrocholl 16y ago
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App Engine performance tricks (prezi and 50 minutes video)(youtube.com)
4 points by jcrocholl 16y ago|0 comments
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by jcrocholl 17y ago
Clickable link: http://boardlite.com/ I like the look, it is clean and simple. One small glitch: it seems that on the page http://boardlite.com/category/computers/list/ some vertical gray border is missing on the left side of "1 post" a
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by jcrocholl 17y ago
Point taken. I have now integrated the display of taken (and parked and error) top level domains again, trying to make it useful but not too distracting.
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by jcrocholl 17y ago
Clickable link: http://www.nxdom.com/
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by jcrocholl 17y ago
Writing may help you more than reading, especially if you can find somebody to give feedback. Maybe start a blog or contribute to a magazine? I'm not a native English speaker, but here's some feedback for you: I would say "advice" (always s
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by jcrocholl 17y ago
I call myself "Founder" in the context of my current solo project, even if that project is not really a "startup" or "company". As the legal term I use "Sole Proprietor": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sole_proprietorship
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Ask HN: How do you like the new design on NXdom?
5 points by jcrocholl 17y ago|5 comments
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by jcrocholl 17y ago
Thank you, I see what you mean. The headline wraps because the font is too wide on Ubuntu (in Firefox too), hope to fix it soon.
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by jcrocholl 17y ago
My interactive search engine for short available domains: http://www.nxdom.com/ I'm working to bring the advanced weighted sort order back, but optional so that new users can play with the simple sort order until they understand what it d
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by jcrocholl 17y ago
Good question, so I wrote a blog post: http://nxdom.posterous.com/why-is-nxdom-open-source
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by jcrocholl 17y ago
Yes, that was the previous version that I announced here on January 1st. I figured that usability is more important than fine-grained control over the score weights, because the sort order is not terribly critical. Basically, the user shoul
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by jcrocholl 17y ago
Because it's a search engine for short names, using a large database of unused and expired domain names. Try searching for "hack" + "ne", or "hack" + "e" for even more results.
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by jcrocholl 17y ago
Actually, I have now enabled the search indexes for the following prefix+suffix combinations: 4+1, 3+2, 3+1, 2+1, 2+2, 1+1, 1+2, 1+3, 2+3, 1+4. I may add longer combinations later, but for now they will be shortened and filtered, e.g. 5+3 w
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by jcrocholl 17y ago
Yes, I know the combined prefix and suffix search doesn't work properly yet. The reason is that the App Engine datastore doesn't support fancy search, only sorting with custom indexes. All results for a GQL query must be adjacent in the ind
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Ask HN: Review my app again? Short domain name search(nxdom.com)
73 points by jcrocholl 17y ago|34 comments
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by jcrocholl 17y ago
Thank you all for the great feedback! 1) You're right, but the boxes (and columns of numbers) are probably going to disappear in the next version. Maybe we'll have sliders or radio buttons to adjust between "Important" and "Don't care" for
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by jcrocholl 17y ago
You're right. At some point I'm going to start using http://getsatisfaction.com/ or think about moderation/filtering. But for now I really like the direct feedback from users, so I'm going to delete bogus entries manually from time to tim
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by jcrocholl 17y ago
Congratulations to our first customer! Since my post on HN we had 612 hits on moniker.com, with 1 conversion for $0.31 commission. I also spent $1.60 today for 22.43 CPU hours on Google App Engine. Almost all of the 17k requests today were
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by jcrocholl 17y ago
Because we can't run DNS queries inside Google App Engine. Instead, I query the DNS results from my home computer and feed them into the datastore using remote_api.
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by jcrocholl 17y ago
Yes, that would be interesting because the startup time for loading the zipped Django 1.1 package is significant. Maybe app-engine-patch can be tweaked to use_library()?
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by jcrocholl 17y ago
I understand that's annoying, and hope to improve it. The system reports digit.com free because it doesn't have an A record, but I will fix this by checking SOA records in the future. I'm not sure why 6af.com is reported free, maybe there w
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by jcrocholl 17y ago
My list is a fairly random sampling of the huge search space of available domain names. I'm planning to keep adding more names in the future, trying to strike a balance between good names (short but readable) and more names (requiring more
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by jcrocholl 17y ago
Because app-engine-patch includes more than just a zipped package of Django 1.1. It comes with jQuery, the Blueprint CSS framework, a media generator to join and minify your CSS and JavaScript, automatic URLs for each app (using urlsauto.py
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by jcrocholl 17y ago
Google now supports both Python and Java on App Engine, but you're right it's Python.
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by jcrocholl 17y ago
It's written in about 2500 lines of Python, using Django 1.1 (app-engine-patch) on Google App Engine. Full source code is here: http://github.com/jcrocholl/scoretool
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by jcrocholl 17y ago
That sounds good, I'll look into it.
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by jcrocholl 17y ago
Yes, you can enter very negative weights in the input boxes for digits (numbers) and dashes (hyphens). Then these domains will be sorted down to the end of the list (below the end of the page).
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by jcrocholl 17y ago
Some of the names are made up (combinations of letters or short dictionary words). The expired names are from http://namejet.com/Pages/Downloads.aspx and I'm planning to keep adding more names in the future.
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by jcrocholl 17y ago
Because magic.com doesn't have an A record. If you click on the "free" link, the registrar (moniker.com for now) will tell you that it's taken. I know this is disappointing, but I haven't found a good way to do bulk whois for millions of na

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