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by sheraz 14y ago
Real hackers are on both sides of the spam game. There is too much money for smart people to not do it. For a short time I worked for a company who was very spammy and outright sketchy. They had a team of dev and ops people who cranked out
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by sheraz 14y ago
cool. count me in. I think I might have some time to begin the Postgres interface
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by sheraz 14y ago
Looks like a nicely done tool. A cursory view makes me wonder if it handles stored procedures, custom types, triggers, etc. I ask because I've been using apgdiff [1] with a makefile for my migrations, and it works really well. There is no w
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by sheraz 14y ago
In the famous words of Ben Affleck's character in Good Will Hunting, "RETAIIIINER!" (for levity) - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hWIr9_noRo Just as with other professional services (Law, Advertising, Accounting), I use a retainer model.
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by sheraz 14y ago
Yes, we can and will judge, for it is our nature (and there is nothing wrong with that). The fault lies in our stubbornness to accept another point of view or to change our minds in the face of overwhelming evidence to the contrary. But in
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by sheraz 14y ago
I've mentioned this before in previous posts: * http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4646710 (How to beat comment spam) in short: https://www.projecthoneypot.org/
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by sheraz 14y ago
My setup is like iron.io, and supervisord manages all of the PHP daemons. * video encoding and thumb-nailing * image conversion * content upload to ftp, s3, rs cloud, etc * address geocoding * email notifications * web scrapin
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by sheraz 14y ago
To each their own, but I would never want to work with someone who could not engage in small talk. We are a gregarious species, and there is so much more communicated between the stories, stupid jokes, and general banter (non-verbal) This p
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by sheraz 14y ago
i'm running beanstalkd workers in PHP using supervisord. Seems to work for me, at least for now...
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by sheraz 14y ago
I remember using opera mini on my blackberry and 2G tmobile connection in NYC a few years ago. It was definitely the best thing on BB, and I remember it worked amazingly well. And for those wondering about Opera's business model, see here [
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by sheraz 14y ago
Should have used mailchimp...
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by sheraz 14y ago
I've been using PHP Minify [1], a simple script to concatenate, minify, and send out my backbonejs project. Works well. [1] - https://github.com/mrclay/minify
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by sheraz 14y ago
This reminds me of codiqa [1], a web app for creating skeleton mobile web apps. I use it all the time to mockup basic workflows like this. disclaimer - I am a customer of codiqa. [1] - http://codiqa.com
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by sheraz 14y ago
Why not just switch your payment provider? You should be able to do a simple paypal IPN integration in less than a day. * Paypal IPN * Stripe * 2Checkout * Dwolla and a host of others.
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by sheraz 14y ago
Someone is way ahead of us on this. Claims 35MM+ profiles http://thepiratebay.se/torrent/7031839/35_Million_Google_Pro...
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by sheraz 14y ago
Posted here in 2009: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=511908 Also relevant: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3626694
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by sheraz 14y ago
I would invite Mr. Kraus and all here on HN to look up Maggie Jackson's "Distracted: The Erosion of Attention and the Coming Dark Age", a great read on this very issue. Se was talking about this years ago and has since built on her previous
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by sheraz 14y ago
Me thinks SXSW is suffering from overreach. * SXSW music * SXSW film * SXSW interactive * SXSW Eco (just a couple of weeks ago in Austin) * SXSW V2V (sounds like a shampoo) How long before they launch a Vodka, a water, and
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by sheraz 14y ago
bars bars bars bars bars and more bars. I hope you like drinking, because there are a lot of bars. Rainey street seems to be interesting for out-of-towners. It is a bunch of converted houses into bars bars bars and bars. Get a pedi-cab to t
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by sheraz 14y ago
50 words of youthful arrogance. Seniority is not so one dimensional. In addition to the hard skills (algorithms, patterns, best practices, etc) there are also soft skills: 1. Managing people 2. Managing time 3. Office politics 4.
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by sheraz 14y ago
are you scraping results into your database from their site? Also, are you familiar with sportsML and sportsdb[1] ? I ask because I am also working on a sports product for release in November. Nice work! [1] - http://www.sportsdb.org/sd
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by sheraz 14y ago
You might want to look at project honeypot ( https://www.projecthoneypot.org/ ) They are an open and distributed service that uses various signatures (ip, tar pits, etc) to block spammers and bots on your site. I put it up on one of my site
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by sheraz 14y ago
Looks like SO thinks this question has been deleted, but I would enjoy reading this. Any other links?
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by sheraz 14y ago
Anyone interested in relative ratings should look at Dan Areily's[1] Predictably Irrational. He is an economist who writes about behavioral economics and decision making. I've often thought about some start-up ideas around relative ratings,
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by sheraz 14y ago
I think dogs are the best security / deterrent systems. However, I also understand that having a dog on premises in a strip mall is probably not feasible.
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by sheraz 14y ago
I thought it was interesting to learn about the different ways we get data back from mars. Excerpt from [1]: The data rate direct-to-Earth varies from about 500 bits per second to 32,000 bits per second (roughly half as fast as a standard h
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by sheraz 14y ago
Those reasons were the exact things I thought I would use. But it never turned out that way. I feel like so many of these use cases are romanticized. Mapping on the phone is painful, especially if you have no signal. I tried it in LA and fo
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by sheraz 14y ago
read again with sarcasm tag on :-)
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by sheraz 14y ago
I recently switched from contract to prepaid. Last year I took the plunge with an Android smart phone. I was curious to know what internet in my pocket really meant. My plan was a 5GB 4G plan with t-mobile. I downloaded and compiled 1 year
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by sheraz 14y ago
Kudos to Forbes for calling them out in such a humorous way. Techcrunch could learn a thing or two about decorum attempt real journalism. I wish the crowd at AOL could find a voice other than the lowest-common-demoninator from which to writ

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