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by rob 19y ago
Not sure if this has been asked before, but I'd like to see a feature that alerts us whenever someone either 1) posts a reply to a submission we made (should be optional) and 2) posts a reply to a comment we made on any submission (again, o
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by rob 19y ago
The default installation is pretty bare just like Debian. I've had no issues with it, and it does offer more up-to-date software compared to Debian (as well as Python 2.5 being the default unlike Debian, if you're using that).
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Ask YC: Which OS are you using on your app's server(s)?
10 points by rob 19y ago|51 comments
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by rob 19y ago
I don't like them. I had one.
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Ask YC: Which notebook/laptop do you use (+ suggestions)?
6 points by rob 19y ago|29 comments
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Zed Shaw: "rails-core ripped off the idea for Campfire from NextApp Echo2 ChatClient Demo"(zedshaw.com)
67 points by rob 19y ago|34 comments
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by rob 19y ago
This post and Joyent's last post ( http://tinyurl.com/6p49xk ) certainly make it seem as if they're scared of App Engine and what Google is doing.
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by rob 19y ago
I found PHP to be easier to deploy. It might (because I'm not sure how much memory Python apps with mod_python or mod_wsgi really take) also be a better choice if you're making multiple sites and don't have a lot of memory on your server (e
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by rob 19y ago
Thanks for the detailed information! I liked Ruby, but one of the things that turned me off from it for web development is deployment: not only do you need a server in front (such as Apache or nginx), but then you need to also monitor the c
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Ask YC: What is the best way to learn Perl?
14 points by rob 19y ago|36 comments
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by rob 19y ago
httperf
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by rob 19y ago
But a generic domain such as 'chocolate.com' probably receives tons of targeted, type-in traffic every day that can result in $$$ if they know how to convert their visitors.
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by rob 19y ago
Proper SEO can mean the difference between making $10/day and $100/day.
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by rob 19y ago
No.
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Ask YC: Who are you using for DNS?
9 points by rob 19y ago|18 comments
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by rob 19y ago
Looks cool. Did you use a PHP framework for the admin backend, or did you write everything from scratch?
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by rob 19y ago
What language did you make it in?
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by rob 19y ago
Carson Systems/Carsonified
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by rob 19y ago
Ouch.. I guess Lisp is out as far as being able to scale is concerned.
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Gravatar.com rewritten from Ruby to PHP(blog.gravatar.com)
2 points by rob 19y ago|0 comments
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Testing Hacker News/Scribd iPaper integration(scribd.com)
23 points by rob 19y ago|12 comments
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by rob 19y ago
NFS was exactly who I was going to say. They're awesome. Plus you can run Haskell, Lisp, Scheme, OCaml, etc via CGI to play around with :)
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by rob 19y ago
If you want to be adventurous, you can also look at Werkzeug (a collection of WSGI utilities) and choose whatever ORM (SQLAlchemy, SQLObject, etc) and template system (Jinja, Mako, etc) you want.
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by rob 19y ago
What?
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by rob 19y ago
I use EveryDNS. Never had any problems, and even donated.
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by rob 19y ago
Not free, but http://webfaction.com is a shared hosting provider I've used in the past that has a one-click setup for Django, Rails, etc. Plus they offer PostgreSQL (which not a lot of shared providers do). I don't use them anymore, but I
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Ask YC: Is your blog self-hosted or are you using (Blogger.com|WordPress.com|etc)?
9 points by rob 19y ago|22 comments
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by rob 19y ago
Wow, this is pretty slick. Never thought I'd use an online-based photo editing tool, but I can see myself using this when I don't want to open up Photoshop on my other computer just to make a quick crop/edit to something.
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by rob 19y ago
It would be better if all of the categories/sections weren't stuffed down in the footer.
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From $0 to $65 million in five years: Bear Naked's Story(money.cnn.com)
1 points by rob 19y ago|0 comments

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