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by lethain 18y ago
I imagine it's less than you're suggesting, because they're not serving the files themselves, so their bandwidth would be relatively low compared to a photo or video sharing site.
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by lethain 18y ago
I agree. People will read good content on a poorly designed blog. And if they like your content but hate your design, they--in my sad experience--make it very clear that they'd like you to improve your design. A great design for a blog is k
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by lethain 18y ago
I think he would include that indirect revenue as "a way to make money off of your blog."
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by lethain 18y ago
Although Python has been leaping down the slippery slope as well, I think calling Ruby's syntax simple is a bit of a stretch. Ruby has many--intentionally--more ways to do everything, and some of those more ways have small gotchas built i
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by lethain 18y ago
Although Google probably won't help you here, you can help yourself. If your campus traffic shares an ip or ip range, you can just tweak your site to not show the ads for those sites, which should be pretty straight forward.
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by lethain 18y ago
This is what we call optimism. Just as having both risk-loving and risk-averse people creates a more stable species, so does having optimists and pessimists. Its a perfectly reasonable thing to believe--just like its opposite--and depends s
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by lethain 18y ago
Although I'd agree with the second part (that PG and RTM were exceptionally more productive than the Joe Schmoe the programmer), I don't think the Trevor Blackwell example is a good one. I think it's routine for me, and most anyone, to writ
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by lethain 18y ago
Although it depends on individuals, I imagine most of the crowd here, myself included, doesn't have any hesitations about designing systems ground up from scratch. Some times you screw up and have to redesign later, but that's part of the p
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by lethain 18y ago
Could you be a bit more clear? Are you asking if an individual can come up with some idea, write a blog post about it, and have other people build it? Yes, that can definitely happen, but only if the original person has capital. Most develo
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by lethain 18y ago
This article buys into the idea that entrepreneurship is hard, and most people can't do it. Beyond being an exercise in self-love, this is the perspective that the 'big dumb companies' crave. Whether we say "damn, I'm not good enough to lea
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by lethain 18y ago
It's an interesting idea, although for me personally I much prefer using a general tool that can hold that data and connect it with other data, rather than a myriad of applications each with a separate reservoir of data. My only specific co
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by lethain 18y ago
Nginx.
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by lethain 18y ago
Look into Caja http://code.google.com/p/google-caja/ it lets you safely imbed third party JavaScript into your pages.
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by lethain 18y ago
It'll be slightly strange entering any field at 31 when many others are getting started at 21. Other people your age will have ten years of experience and you'll be still getting the hang of the ropes for the first time, but unless you have
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by lethain 18y ago
Good point. I think I'd considered that at some point but lost track of the idea somewhere before implementation. :)
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by lethain 18y ago
I put together a simple resume website experimenting with ways to add context to skills on resumes. I list a number of projects, and when you hover over each project then the corresponding skills in a word cloud change color and enlarge. In
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by lethain 18y ago
That's a pretty broad question. Rather than talk of switching from asp.net to Django, it's important to just run out and do a few quick and dirty projects to get your feet wet. From there you can make a personal decision about it. If you'
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by lethain 18y ago
The most effective way to drive traffic to a new blog is to write consistent, targeted and high quality content (keep your posts on-topic, especially early on), and to get to know the other people in the niche (they're not competition, but
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by lethain 18y ago
By the author's admission, this was apparently reposted without permission. As he doesn't mention any license permitting his posting, I get the uncomfortable vibe of content theft.
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by lethain 18y ago
It sounds like the non-technical founder wants to be an investor. Which would be fine if they are investing enough money to buy their stake, but if they aren't, then you need to make sure that they'll have a specific role in the company tha
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by lethain 18y ago
If you're willing to handle the stuff yourself, and it isn't that bad, SliceHost is a charm. I've hosted my django based blog (600-1000 uniques per day, ~6000 some peak days) on a 512 megabyte vps (Apache2 with mod_python, nginx for static
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by lethain 18y ago
0. Can't figure out what your added value is. 1. Buttons which do nothing ("expand to show further panels..."). 2. The question marks after "Change Location, etc" are really sized badly. 3. You are displaying escaped HTML in the right most
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by lethain 18y ago
I think the issue is that it has never been 'his own time and money', but instead the Florida taxpayers' money and the justice systems time.
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by lethain 18y ago
Well, I'm not sure if this a troll or not, but if it isn't, then it seems to hail back to the longstanding misunderstanding of what 'hacker' means. Hacker News is for people who want to a) build cool things, and b) make money. Not so much a
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by lethain 18y ago
Well, both Pownce and Twitter send these, and I pretty much ignore them. To the extent that they are expected, they are expected because we are used to being treated badly, not because they are a good thing. I'd try communicating via a blog
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by lethain 18y ago
I use PyObjC, and it's makes Cocoa development quicker and less painful, but it isn't a replacement for knowing Objective-C. Especially when you get into the CoreGraphics stuff and occasionally crash through the floor into OpenGL, Python is
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by lethain 18y ago
I think it will be interesting to watch how the web developer community responds to this. The negative sentiment against Microsoft seems to make it 'unacceptable' for Microsoft to deviate or innovate, because that will interfere with standa
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by lethain 18y ago
I wrote a similar tutorial a while back using Python and BeautifulSoup ( http://lethain.com/entry/2008/aug/10/an-introduction-to-comp... ). BeautifulSoup doesn't learn in any sense of the word, but it plays very nicely with malformed (even
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Startups and Assembly Lines, An Essay(lethain.com)
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by lethain 18y ago
Even if you don't reply, typically the spammer will receive an 'undeliverable notice' from invalid accounts, so silence ought to indicate where an addresses exist.

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