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by scumola 17y ago
Yea, the typical programming 101 method to initialize a random number generator is to seed it with the current unixtime, so if both of these machines were using the same random number generator (the clocks didn't even have to be in-sync wit
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Collage of 5000+ images taken from Amazon's iPhone app via mechanical turk(badcheese.com)
2 points by scumola 17y ago|0 comments
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by scumola 17y ago
0spy.com american-idol-online.com ( has gone through multiple ideas, but none have taken ) cheaptightwad.com ( was a product sales site based on the pronto.com api ) everythingmicrosoft.com gconq.com ( was going to be an online game ) hddvd
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by scumola 17y ago
I agree. Apple fanboys are like Porsche aficionados. They buy it because it's sexy and elitist, therefore, the consumer is also sexy and elite by association. It doesn't mean that Apple's products are better than any other, just more sty
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by scumola 17y ago
Stick with LAMP - PHP, Mysql, Linux - you've got the tools. Don't fall for the Ruby/Erlang/Lisp croud. Don't struggle with the language. Get it done and worry about the details, not the language.
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by scumola 17y ago
It's dirty, crappy, no dual-screens, no mac prettiness, no butcher-block table, no glass, no stainless steel, but it's awesome and it's very productive. :) http://www.flickr.com/photos/scumola/3508980363/
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by scumola 17y ago
Here's a good comparison of key/value database alternatives: http://www.metabrew.com/article/anti-rdbms-a-list-of-distrib...
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by scumola 17y ago
That's approximately 200TB of data. I suggest sharding the data across multiple machines because a single SAN doing BDB lookups of a single file of that size is still going to be a tad slow. Most large databases nowadays are divided by sh
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by scumola 18y ago
pine is the best and has been so forever. Supports ldap, ssl, imap and nntp and much more. http://www.washington.edu/pine/
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by scumola 18y ago
Yea, they're the first ones that we found when researching the idea. They're now quiet and own something like shoppingads.com and did a similar thing, but only with ebay items through their partner/affiliate system. We're doing our own sy
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Got rejected by TechStars again, but we're getting better at it(badcheese.com)
15 points by scumola 18y ago|6 comments
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by scumola 18y ago
Sell stuff. Get people to sell their stuff on your site and take a small bite of the sale price. Don't rely on ads and seo - too competitive. Then, go out and pound the pavement and get people to sign up to sell stuff. Would be good if
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by scumola 18y ago
Make a realistic (some what conservative) estimate and triple it. Same rule goes for cost estimates. Doubling is never enough. Better to under-promise and over-deliver than the other way around.
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by scumola 18y ago
Hacker: Woz was the 'original' hacker. News: He's on TV doing something that no other 'hacker' has done and survived.
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Woz Survives round one of Dancing with the Stars(abc.go.com)
20 points by scumola 18y ago|6 comments
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by scumola 18y ago
I'm not able to follow that discussion very closely (lots of technical ISP jargon in there that I don't understand), but I guess the concern is the ISP caching copyrighted content, right? Isn't the caching of copyrighted images in an http
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ISPs should embrace and cache bittorrent packets, not throttle it(badcheese.com)
10 points by scumola 18y ago|6 comments
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by scumola 18y ago
That's actually a great idea. We're working on a way to have users request a certain category of ads on their ads that they post on their site, but having them post their own products is a great idea.
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by scumola 18y ago
We have bought some other domains that we've mapped to the site, but of all of the ones we bought, bidboxr.com seems to be the most popular by informal surveys. others that map to the site are: powrads.com, compelature.com, bidboxr.net, b
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by scumola 18y ago
Yea, I'm a co-founder for the site. It's an "auction ads" site that is self-contained (doesn't use ebay auctions or other auction data). We've got multiple sizes for ads (like adsense) and we're using a highly-cached architecture to serve
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by scumola 18y ago
To be my own boss and hopefully move away from my current position working on someone else's dream.
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by scumola 18y ago
I've used wxWidgets for 7+ years now and loved it even in the early days when the GUI tools sucked and the OpenGL support was poor, but now it's very well polished and my choice for GUI development under linux. If my app needs to be ported
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by scumola 18y ago
I've worked in both and I prefer the startup. In a startup, you're a fast-moving cutting-edge company with people who really believe in your product or idea. Every meeting is energetic and your input matters. In a research-heavy instituti
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by scumola 18y ago
Yet another way to run unsigned code, er viruses in your browser. :)
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by scumola 18y ago
There are some pirate half-assed ports of OSX for the PC that I've heard about floating around on the net somewhere. I heard that you can get OSX marginally working on a stock PC, so I'm guessing that if you can get that far, the SDK proba
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by scumola 18y ago
That's because most of the TV shows suck nowadays. It's not that unhappy people watch TV, TV makes people unhappy because of the crappy programming!
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by scumola 18y ago
It all depends on how "lean and mean" your app and the data is. If you do everything in javascript up-front and use AJAX to move data back and forth, then you reduce the pure bandwidth except for the initial javascript load (which you coul
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by scumola 18y ago
Guild Wars does this.
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by scumola 18y ago
If I'm at a computer, I add ideas and TODO's to a ticketing system (RT) and if I'm in the car and brainstorming, I use the iPhone app voicenote to make a quick voice recording of my idea before I forget it, then I dump them into the ticketi
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by scumola 18y ago
I go through http://serverpronto.com for my hosted machine. It's a real machine (not virtual or shared) and I've got real root access to it. It comes with Fedora 3 or 4 and I upgraded it to Fedora 6 remotely, but I'm a little intimidate

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