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by thorax 18y ago
I use PayPal to send invoices to international customers, but only in low monthly $$ amounts. The costs aren't hurting me and it's a lot easier than worrying about the details myself. I suppose it depends on just how much you're using it--
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by thorax 18y ago
xlhost, some of the lowest prices on dedicated servers, no contracts, setup fees, etc.
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by thorax 18y ago
Looks pretty nice. Twitter clone with a cute name. How are you testing the scaling ability?
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by thorax 18y ago
Reminds me of me.dium, but I like this much better.
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by thorax 18y ago
If you have the sidebar up, also, the popups don't come up. I never noticed those until I closed the sidebar.
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by thorax 18y ago
I love 8aweek-- probably one of my top 3 Firefox extensions. Really helped remind me when I got sucked into sites when I should be working. Not sure if it works for everyone, but it works well for me. RescueTime on the other hand hasn't rea
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by thorax 18y ago
Well, our vision is pretty idealist. We do intend to have a real, tangible, positive net effect on society. We want to do it in different ways. Our first way is through http://bug.gd where we do everything in our power to be sure no one e
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by thorax 18y ago
Be careful-- the next thing you know, in FF4, the smartbar will be the "Google-as-you-type-suggestion-bar".
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by thorax 18y ago
Well, if they have an open mind and allow submissions from the community, it could get new features added to Reddit. A closed site like Digg wouldn't get the benefit. That being said, Slashcode being open doesn't feel like it made Slashdot
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by thorax 18y ago
Tell your son that, for what it's worth, he's convinced some computer programmers (some friends of mine and I) to call that number Quadrupillion. People he will never meet will forever refer to that number as Quadrupillion. He's already cha
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by thorax 18y ago
New again? http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=128627 I do like the site, though. Not a big fan of the name.
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by thorax 18y ago
As a counter-anecdote, I did a (full-day) software engineering interview in 1998 wearing an old Magic The Gathering t-shirt and jean shorts. I'm not sure what I was thinking except the HR person told me they were pretty casual there-- this
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by thorax 18y ago
Okay, here's some of the reasons that occur to me: It's not just blogs. It's also new web apps, aggregators, wikis, mashups, and documentation. Users also get to reuse their avatar/username across multiple sites which might encourage commen
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by thorax 18y ago
For sport over the years, my friends and I have worked through many of ITA's great programming puzzles. I've even used one of their old puzzles (Addagram) in (surely) 100+ interviews where I walk candidates through building up the different
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by thorax 18y ago
I can second this. I have two remote cofounders (~2 hours away), both are decade-long friends. So far working out well, but we've had instances where one of us needs to come up and stay with the other for a business week or two to get throu
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by thorax 18y ago
I've been experimenting with adroll.com a bit. Mind mentioning the two international networks you started favoring?
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by thorax 18y ago
Yeah, I've aimed at 800x600 for my general-focus sites. I feel sorry for the 5% of our audience that still uses it and it hasn't hurt us so much yet. For my gaming sites, less than 1% of our visitors use 800x600 or lower. We'd probably go w
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by thorax 18y ago
Looks fixed now. Very fast turnaround. Nice work, Google.
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by thorax 18y ago
Yeah, I did a little test above with another https site: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=214055
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by thorax 18y ago
I got a chance to try it out just to see if a simple URL fetch was blocked: http://helloworld-111.appspot.com/ Locally, this code reports 200 OK for all of those except the last reports a 302 redirect (to the https, I presume). As you can
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by thorax 18y ago
Anyone here independently confirm this yet? Not a good sign from a Google neutrality standpoint. I'll try it tonight if no one else gets a chance.
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by thorax 18y ago
You've really got a bad taste in your mouth regarding PHP. I'm sorry to hear that because it's just yet another tool. It only has to be as painful and slow as you make it when you use it. I hope you have a chance to revisit it sometime with
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by thorax 18y ago
You won't find any hackers who use sweeping generalizations. Oh, wait! I'm a hacker. I use PHP. I use Python. I use C++. I use Java. I use JavaScript. I use Prolog. I use C#. I use whatever language or tool is best for the job and I innovat
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by thorax 18y ago
Hilarious. That's why C programmers are down in the $60,000 range http://www.indeed.com/salary?q1=c&l1= http://www.indeed.com/jobs?q=c Because it's hitting things like A/C technicians. This blog article is nearly worthless for some
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by thorax 18y ago
I loooove Python. But if asked to "bet the farm" on a web app, I'd go with PHP because it's been successfully demonstrated again in again in every form of web app you can imagine. In a year, I'd recommend Python, but I still find Django and
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by thorax 18y ago
Yeah, it'd be moral to correct for mistakes like that, but very unfortunate for the employees. I have very close friends who work at Mozilla. I wouldn't wish that on them at all. Still, they came to Mozilla because of its integrity and ro
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by thorax 18y ago
Last I heard (a few months ago maybe?) there had only really been tried/injected into one fellow who did have that kind of result. Has their been some larger scale trials that make this promising case sound like a likely cure?
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by thorax 18y ago
Maybe it's a bit like asking a cook to write down step-by-step, the recipe and directions for a meal they've never cooked before. Without access to their learned abilities to improvise with given ingredients, smelling/tasting the mixture, c
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by thorax 18y ago
It makes me wish all of the AI courses I took that used generic pseudocode really just used Python. It would have felt more tangible to me and given us more examples to hack on.
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by thorax 18y ago
Work doesn't necessarily need to be stressful. If you're doing the right stuff, it's fun enough that you want to keep at it and you're productive in different ways throughout the day. It's rare when I feel like I'm "working all [my] waking

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