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541.
by thorax 18y ago
The sad truth is that there's often a lot of suckers at the table. Spotting the sucker doesn't mean you're not one.
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by thorax 18y ago
Check out this list of mobsters for lots of invites: http://ri.ms/mob
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by thorax 18y ago
It depends on your queryset, but the incremental (and even the full) indexing is very fast. There are some benchmarks against lucene out there (e.g. http://ri.ms/pts ), but none that I've found against tsearch2.
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by thorax 18y ago
I'm a huge fan of Sphinx search-- we use a custom version of that to power http://bug.gd and it's quite robust. One of the greatest things going for it is the performance of reindexing-- it's really solid.
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by thorax 18y ago
I typed it a number of times here, not sure if that's the right screen: http://pics.posterous.com/untitled-17116 Let's team up (anyone who wants): 100239599
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by thorax 18y ago
I don't think this worked? Maybe they have a bug or I entered it into the wrong spot.
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by thorax 18y ago
They're liberal with the invites, just try to get on their beta invite list. A week or so ago I got mine right away. http://www.twilio.com/request-invite
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by thorax 18y ago
I've personally had a lot of fun playing with Twilio. Hint, though: don't decide to pay until you're done using up your demo minutes because those go away when you have a balance. Getting to pick my phone numbers, etc, and have someone else
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by thorax 18y ago
Very cool-- though griefers make the world much less fun for anyone but themselves.
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by thorax 18y ago
Are you saying you also want to give away pseudoactuality.com and questionablyvalid.com? (Not that I'm going to want them, just clarifying.)
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by thorax 18y ago
Best ideas I have here: * Support Seadragon-like zooming into cells which expand into full spreadsheets of their own. You can go to infinite distance deep into the spreadsheets and each spreadsheet chooses a "cell" value to represent it to
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by thorax 18y ago
? Are we seeing the same UI? I'm not the world's biggest fan of the UI, but I've worked with much worse. It's a very deep web app, so it'd be a shame if startups dismiss a free tool because of a comment like that. Maybe I've just been using
553.
by thorax 18y ago
If you like this, you probably want to check out Rightscale's free package: http://www.rightscale.com/ It's not as ajaxy, but RightScale's stuff can do a good bit more than Amazon's EC2 dashboard. Honestly, I was hoping Amazon would creat
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by thorax 18y ago
I just use extensions.checkCompatibility=False in about:config and most extensions work just fine. Also, they've changed addons.mozilla.org where most addon authors just have to flip a dropdown box to move support to a new version-- no new
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by thorax 18y ago
There's also Firephp for getting the server to send additional trace data: http://www.firephp.org/ EDIT: Also, this article has a good overview of multiple Firebug extensions: http://www.softwareishard.com/blog/firebug/list-of-firebug-e.
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Bank of America has a small business forum. Long URL, but not half bad.(smallbusinessonlinecommunity.bankofamerica.com)
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by thorax 18y ago
One of the reasons is.gd is fast is because it uses sequential URLs for each request, so it doesn't have to do multiple collision tests. tinyurl used to do this eons ago, but stopped because of abuses (actually somewhat NSFW): http://en.wi
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by thorax 18y ago
http://ri.ms but we didn't optimize the server as much as the algorithm for creating a url. Depending on algorithm, some of these will sites vary their performance based on database size. So it might be that is.gd is just not as large as
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by thorax 18y ago
Don't forget psyco's JIT which gives some impressive performance gains for a lot of different code. We use it while embedding Python in Counter-Strike Source and it performs admirably.
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by thorax 18y ago
The last time I saw something like this was way back as a LiveJournal meme. It reappeared two months later as "Pay $5 to see all the people who wanted to hook up with you". That's when they made all their money. Sinister.
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by thorax 18y ago
Well, that's the other side of the coin. Sometimes the troll will spur a change in the tools/app itself to support the scenario.
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by thorax 18y ago
"Frequent Troll Statements" might work better than FAQs for some projects. jQuery is hard to use for remote AJAX requests django doesn't even support memcached PERL has the worst support for SOAP of any language out there
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by thorax 18y ago
No joke: take a look at the LOLpython source for an example of creating a variant language that can compile to Python bytecode. It's one of many methods to create a DSL, though you often don't need access to all of Python in the DSL itself.
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by thorax 18y ago
From here: http://codeigniter.com/user_guide/overview/at_a_glance.html "CodeIgniter is written to be compatible with PHP 4. Although we would have loved to take advantage of the better object handling in PHP 5 since it would have simplifi
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by thorax 18y ago
I'll have to say I disagree as well-- PHP with a good framework is a better language, hands-down. I don't enjoy coding raw PHP. Almost all of the frameworks are open source, and none of them forbid you from using raw PHP when you need to do
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by thorax 18y ago
Wow, I have the exact same feedback. I should have read this first, but consider his two recommendations as seconded (even with the cost of nusphere).
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by thorax 18y ago
a) Probably start trying to write a site you want and learning from there-- with a background in other languages it's more about "I know the language can do X-- let me search for something like it". When using PHP you can often just google
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by thorax 18y ago
I got one for my stepson (7) last year. He's had a lot of fun making random Weewar maps and looking up Zelda online, but the programming interest hasn't grown. Though he keeps wanting to "do a deal with Lucas and Nintendo" to write a Zelda
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by thorax 18y ago
I'm really impressed with Seadragon on the iPhone. It's quite slick and feels a bit like the right kind of platform for Seadragon.
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by thorax 18y ago
I have to second how well frameworks like CodeIgniter can help developers progress into cleaner code. Those modern tools discourage tightly coupled PHP code and they feel almost like an entirely different language. If you find that you can'

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