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Ask HN: Please review my app - Daily Todo
9 points by ptm 16y ago|14 comments
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by ptm 16y ago
"Hipmunk?" I don't get it. Why not tripmunk Derived from chipmunk, I presume. Tripmunk would've been better though.
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by ptm 16y ago
It also uses Bing API if I remember correctly. Which is still free and unlimited.
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Buxfer's (YC 07) founders work for Facebook. Who works for Buxfer?(techcrunch.com)
52 points by ptm 16y ago|20 comments
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by ptm 16y ago
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBmavNoChZc#t=6m15s
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by ptm 16y ago
Is this for UK customers only ? https://www.ovh.co.uk/order/mcloud.cgi
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by ptm 16y ago
Thanks, I'd forgotten to escape the search string in the title element.
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by ptm 16y ago
Thanks. About releasing, I'll clean the code up and share it when I have time.
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by ptm 16y ago
Thanks for the feedback :). I just noticed that I'm seeing a 30-40% failure while using the API - is there any reason that should be so ? I'm batching around 20-30 ids together (as recommended).
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by ptm 16y ago
Just a FYI - reddit allows me 1 request/2 seconds - so a lot of queries may only return Bing data (no score/comments etc)
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Show HN: I made this search engine for Reddit using Bing+Reddit API.(ftfysearch.com)
16 points by ptm 16y ago|12 comments
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by ptm 16y ago
I use ASmallOrange (shared), Prgmr (VPS) and App engine for hosting my sites. At 60K alexa, you should really be looking at a VPS.
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by ptm 17y ago
Surely that leaves a two-month window in which weird things can happen? They could mean twice a month.
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by ptm 17y ago
A lot of middle class Indians would agree with the sentiment that democracy causes chaos. In the brief period of time India was undemocratic (the Emergency), anecdotal evidence suggests that the middle class was happy with the way things we
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by ptm 18y ago
I couldn't find a Greasemonkey script which fixes this, so I just wrote one. http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/45619
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by ptm 18y ago
Toy project.
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by ptm 18y ago
Sorry, EveryDNS took the site down for a while - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=529445
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by ptm 18y ago
Yes, it is assuming he was alive :). It gets the date of birth via Yahoo BOSS and computes the age accordingly, the date of death (if any) is not accounted for.
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by ptm 18y ago
It doesn't. I just wanted to use Yahoo BOSS to extract some simple semantic data.
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by ptm 18y ago
I'm using Yahoo BOSS search thumbnail service with Safesearch turned on; not sure why it doesn't pick these up. Thanks for the feedback.
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Ask HN: Feedback on Age Directory based on Yahoo BOSS(agedir.com)
5 points by ptm 18y ago|11 comments
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by ptm 18y ago
> The first 10k requests a day are free. Previously it was 5k. The 5K limit you refer to is from the old Yahoo Search API, Yahoo Boss allowed "unlimited queries".
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by ptm 18y ago
Use this if you use Prototype - http://www.defusion.org.uk/code/javascript-image-cropper-ui-...
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by ptm 18y ago
I use Yahoo Boss as my site's search engine (by using the site:domain.com query), but since my site is new, the Yahoo crawler indexes pages very slowly. Assuming BOSS Custom has a way to feed results to the Yahoo crawler, this should become
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Google Appengine now supports HTTPS(googleappengine.blogspot.com)
24 points by ptm 18y ago|16 comments
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Uncov's Back (uncov.com)
3 points by ptm 18y ago|0 comments
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Amazon S3 introduces tiered pricing.(aws.typepad.com)
26 points by ptm 18y ago|7 comments
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Y Combinator’s SocialBrowse Launches To The Public(techcrunch.com)
45 points by ptm 18y ago|9 comments
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by ptm 18y ago
Not thought through, but an affiliate program (Amazon) might make sense.
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by ptm 18y ago
Yes, perhaps it is a bug in Safari. Thanks for the report. Edit - It might be the way Safari handles onload - https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13241

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