kngspook

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by kngspook 17y ago
Can you post that 's' tool? Sounds like it'd be really useful...
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by kngspook 17y ago
Can someone outline for me the pros/cons of a mailing list vs. a forum? Except for the registering-over-and-over-again issue, it seems like forums would be preferable generally... (Especially given that most will send you emails with new po
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by kngspook 17y ago
Well, Google's own Postini does spam-filtering. I could imagine a setup where you have people send mail to an alias on your domain, route it into Postini, and then into Google Groups. The big problem would be getting users _not_ to send dir
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by kngspook 17y ago
That's true for 99% of jobs/people. On the jobs front, there are some jobs that (I suspect) have a much higher "cold intro-ing" success rate. "CEO", "Senator", even "Board of Directors" are all probably going to get people interested in you
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by kngspook 17y ago
I'd still like to see more competition than Google vs. Bing... But Google's brand-power is really a strong asset at this point. At this point, I almost like Bing more for wearing away at Google's mind-share than Google's market share. (Of c
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by kngspook 17y ago
I think he was burned a bit by what happened in the Ruby/Rails/Mongrel/etc. situation, and it's even worse when it affects your livelihood, and he lashed out as a result. Outside of that situation, I've heard nothing of good things about hi
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by kngspook 17y ago
Capture the "niche users" and the "common user" will follow... Niche users are usually the early adopters, the experts, and the evangelists to everyone else.
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by kngspook 17y ago
I'm seeing the same pics over and over; any idea what that's from?
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by kngspook 17y ago
It shows up for me. (OS X 10.5.7, FF 3.5)
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by kngspook 17y ago
What language did you write it in?
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by kngspook 17y ago
Yeah, I had someone alter the HTML on a static webpage at some point to make it link out to some sites in China. It was a simple site, so I just scanned all the pages to ensure the rest weren't tampered with (it was just index.html). Then I
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by kngspook 17y ago
I'm not sure I'd call C++ verbose...at least, not in the same way Java is. Java takes a lot of characters to express an idea. C++ (usually) requires you to take a big idea and break into smaller parts than Java might (because Java has large
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by kngspook 17y ago
I'm really surprised that this hasn't been posted before...
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by kngspook 17y ago
How did you find a startup to join in LA?
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by kngspook 17y ago
Is this one still available? If so, toss me a mail at my username at gmail?
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by kngspook 17y ago
I agree re:scribd. For Windows users, it's trading one bloated reader for another. For OS X and Linux users, it's trading a reasonable decent reader (Preview.app and Evince/etc. respectively) for a bloated reader... If scribd had a download
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by kngspook 17y ago
High. Definitely a high point. ;)
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by kngspook 17y ago
In addition to all the scp comments here, if I'm doing a constant <edit files locally, update remote copy of directory, test on remote> cycle; I'll usually use rsync instead of scp.
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by kngspook 17y ago
Yeah, but the API doesn't give you access to those users' gender (since Twitter doesn't ask/store that info), which means you have no way to tell the classifier "Here are 500 males' tweets, here are 500 females' tweets." I suppose you could
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by kngspook 17y ago
Gandi.net should probably be on the list, with their recently-out-of-beta hosting offering. I hear good things, though I can't claim to have tried it myself.
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by kngspook 18y ago
I use nearlyfreespeech.net; but I recently started looking at gandi.net...
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Ask YC: Gandi.net experiences?
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by kngspook 18y ago
I can't speak much for Constant Contact's control panels and what not. But what I can tell you is that they're on a mailing list that a lot of postmasters are on, and whenever someone has a problem with one of their clients[1], they're very
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by kngspook 18y ago
Linode, currently, thinking about switching or augmenting it with WebFaction. I've used WebFaction before, and they're really good. But they're geared a little more towards frameworks like Django and Rails (but naturally, they do PHP too).
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by kngspook 18y ago
(NB. I'm not much of a twitter user.) I don't know about stop updating...just maybe don't update it right away. What's the latency on twitter posts?
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by kngspook 18y ago
Seconded. They're really, really good at what they do. They recently migrated their email-forwarding system, and it was one of the smoothest migrations I've ever seen...
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by kngspook 18y ago
To just answer the headline question, my preferred IDE for Python is TextMate. But it sounds like that's not really going to suit your needs in this case...I'm not familiar with OLPC, but vim (or maybe emacs? it's larger) might be easily u
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by kngspook 18y ago
With great difficulty, to be honest. A lot of the modules I looked at did not have great documentation. Even the docs for built-in/standard libraries was not very accessible to me, as a newcomer. I think there's a bit of an over-reliance
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by kngspook 18y ago
Also from Why_. It's a bit of a shame that all his work is so spread out, I think; though I suppose http://code.whytheluckystiff.net/ helps.
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by kngspook 18y ago
What's the time-frame between initial learning of Python and starting of learning Django to qualify as "one of those bastards"? 'cause I might be "one of those bastards", but I'm not sure. =\

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