thomaspaine

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by thomaspaine 17y ago
I think Redis is one of the easier NoSQL databases to pickup, because it's easy to install and is mainly just a key-value database with some bonus features. Your entire DB is stored in memory and persistence is done by asynchronous writes t
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by thomaspaine 17y ago
Like he says though, you have to be careful with this. I once had a client who would constantly email me with support questions, many of which I answered multiple times but I guess it was easier for him to just email me instead of searching
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by thomaspaine 17y ago
If you actually want to make your startup work, avoid freelancing. It's way too easy to get sucked into spending all of your time consulting, and it's pretty difficult to be fully mentally engaged in multiple projects. Also, the hardest par
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by thomaspaine 17y ago
From my own personal experience of having a degree from a prestigious university, my main source of risk aversion when it comes to startups is opportunity cost. Job offers of +100k a year for a 25 year old are really tempting when you've ju
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by thomaspaine 17y ago
You think google wave has good UI? My reasonably technology literate girlfriend couldn't figure out how to do anything, or the actions she did discover were too complicated or unintuitive (why does pressing enter not send a message?). She g
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by thomaspaine 17y ago
Yogurt Park on Durant and Telegraph is the best frozen yogurt I've ever had. Plus the cafe next door has free donuts and wifi.
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by thomaspaine 17y ago
User statuses should never touch hard disk? What happens when your server restarts and everything you were storing in memory disappears?
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by thomaspaine 17y ago
I did this with Blockbuster a few years back. I believe it was a free $5 gift card for each $50 gift card you purchased. Most stores I've seen now have a policy of not letting you buy gift cards with gift cards.
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Learn more about scalablity(code.google.com)
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by thomaspaine 17y ago
dupe http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=763124
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by thomaspaine 17y ago
I found myself doing several of these things over and over when creating a new Django project, so I made a script that wraps the django-admin.py startproject command. Some of these tips I don't quite understand, like creating a custom authe
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by thomaspaine 17y ago
For simple classification tasks, naive bayes performs surprisingly well, is very easy to setup and run, and is relatively computationally inexpensive. It's excellent for getting a good baseline performance approximation because it's just so
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by thomaspaine 17y ago
Go to local programming and tech meetups and talk to people. Where do you live? In some places this may be harder to do than others. In general, if I was at school and some guy walked up to me and said "Hello. Are you interested in opportun
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by thomaspaine 17y ago
I generally agree with all of the tips except for using Pinax. I like the idea of Pinax, and I think it makes a great sample app if you want to see what good Django code looks like. It's maintained by top notch developers and showcases a lo
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by thomaspaine 17y ago
Dupe: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=792920 As a side note, it looks like the duplication detector won't detect http://something.com and http://www.something.com as being the same thing. I don't know if this is a good or a bad th
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by thomaspaine 17y ago
I see a lot of naysayers here, but I think this is a good idea. I was actually considering doing this myself a while ago. One of the best things about Matlab is the community of plugins and algorithms, and having a somewhat central reposito
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by thomaspaine 17y ago
The hashtag isn't necessary, ie https://post.craigslist.org/manage/1340717167/tkrju works too. Actually, I think craigslist probably views this more as a feature than an exploit. Since you don't need an account to post on craigslist, they
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by thomaspaine 17y ago
Austrian economics is the antithesis of mathematical economics. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austrian_School#Analytical_fram... Many libertarians latch on to austrian economics because they already agree with the conclusions austrian econ
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by thomaspaine 17y ago
I had an experience like this in college. A friend of mine worked as an administrative assistant and his job was to take a PDF that was several hundred pages long, and go through page by page and save it into several hundred individual pdfs
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by thomaspaine 17y ago
Are you doing anything like transforming the links into affiliate links? If that doesn't violate Amazon or whoever's TOS, it would be a good way to monetize.
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It looks like the results are being loaded with independent ajax requests to each product database. If this was just all done server side, you'd have to wait until all of these requests finished loading instead of having them appear on the
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by thomaspaine 17y ago
My friend Kim Nguyen did the design: http://twitter.com/3am_studio She's pretty awesome.
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by thomaspaine 17y ago
It's all custom Django, good guess on that one. I do use my fair share of external Django apps though. Ignoring the built in Django apps, My INSTALLED_APPS list has 10 unmodified external reusable apps, and 11 internal apps, which include o
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by thomaspaine 17y ago
I just finished building this for a client: http://sftheaterbuzz.org/ It's a little sad because there are no reviews yet...but I don't think he's had time to promote it yet.
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by thomaspaine 17y ago
It wasn't the hardware the convinced me to buy a mac, it was OS X. A company I interned at lent me a powerbook, and after about a week of using it I had basically stopped using my thinkpad altogether. The user experience of windows XP alway
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I recently upgraded to 1.1 because we needed the new aggregation/annotation features. For instance, this is a query we were doing before: articles = Article.objects.filter(share__sharedOn__range=date_range).distinct() articles = s
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by thomaspaine 17y ago
This sounds pretty awesome. Would you mind posting some of the code? I'd be curious to know how you're formatting the input data. If you're just using the title, all of the text parsed through BeautifulSoup, some parsing algorithm to obtain
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by thomaspaine 17y ago
I guess I could say the same thing about Tumblr. I use Tumblr as a regular blogging platform, and I know tons of other people who do this too. I considered Posterous, but not being able to customize the theme was a deal breaker for me.
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by thomaspaine 17y ago
Selection bias doesn't explain the inter-state difference, which is what the visualizations are attempting to display. For that to be an issue here, you'd have to argue that there's something about living in Nevada as opposed to New York, i
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by thomaspaine 17y ago
Health care is ridiculously cheap in Thailand compared to the US. A hospital visit a little outside of Bangkok cost me about 1500 baht ($40), including medication. It was a simple out-patient procedure, but I'm sure it would have been sever

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