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901.
by thorax 19y ago
Very interesting to read the responses here. They aren't at all what I expected to see on this particular site. I personally know two very successful 'exited' entrepreneurs that would never have had their companies acquired if they didn't r
902.
by thorax 19y ago
Seems strange that you wouldn't have just looked when asking that question (less characters to type at least). Lots of things disallowed. http://google.com/robots.txt
903.
by thorax 19y ago
Well, the founders at least can't be blamed by the VCs if the company implodes. Please come back and update is on the story if you stick with it there. Might help some of us later.
904.
by thorax 19y ago
Great response. Can you add this info to the original post? (I don't recall if it times out or not.)
905.
by thorax 19y ago
Nothing's wrong with that. I think he's just commenting that it's uncommon (or slightly unfair) to think of designers in terms of what languages they might know. That being said, if you find someone with the technology background, more powe
906.
by thorax 19y ago
CentOS, SuSE, Fedora, Windows Server 2003. I've had the most enjoyment (surprisingly) with SuSE because of AppArmor's ability to cover holes in flaws for open-source PHP software we used early on. yast is also kind of handy for some of our
907.
by thorax 19y ago
Don't forget the Hacker News group on Chatterous: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=134464 Or the #startups channel on Freenode IRC
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Mozilla out-sourcing their website usage data capturing(blog.lizardwrangler.com)
3 points by thorax 19y ago|0 comments
909.
by thorax 19y ago
I guess I live without these all the time on my flavor of app framework, so I guess I find these as "nice-to-haves".
910.
by thorax 19y ago
I use BeautifulSoup when needed for simple scraping. My biggest frustrations, right now, are really around getting data from lots of different websites in subtly varied forms. This is a tough problem to automate. I certainly haven't found a
911.
by thorax 19y ago
Well, we run into a similar consideration with our feedback widget we recently released on featurelist.org: http://featurelist.org/info/features It won't always remain so, but at the moment, the average spambot isn't processing javascript
912.
by thorax 19y ago
This is the exciting bit-- there are five major players who are going to be competing in this space because it's very juicy. Google, MS, AWS, Sun, and Yahoo. I feel like we've hit some sort of 'event horizon' now in "Web 2.0", or are quickl
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by thorax 19y ago
I was expecting to read about real showstoppers. I'm sure there are some, right?
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by thorax 19y ago
An XSS is a tad different than being owned (IMHO), but certainly isn't an ideal thing to see right away. The cool part is that things like this will encourage them to put more security-by-default sorts of APIs into GAE.
915.
by thorax 19y ago
Yeah, it sounds like hosting companies are nervous. But of course I think there's somethings I want to host and now there are somethings I want to add to AppEngine. Sadly, I just rented a new server specifically for a light Python-based app
916.
by thorax 19y ago
AP Calculus. The epiphany was "I have a very bad teacher and this is really easy stuff. The rest of the class will fail because they didn't realize this earlier. :( :( " Linear Algebra. The epiphany is difficult to explain and remember. It
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TechCrunch Labs: Our Experience Building And Launching App On Google App Engine(techcrunch.com)
37 points by thorax 19y ago|9 comments
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by thorax 19y ago
Just so you know my position, I'm a major advocate for Python. I love it and not long ago talked about my "fun" integrating it with Counter-Strike: Source at PyCon, introducing Python to thousands of gaming enthusiasts who have never coded
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by thorax 19y ago
Got mine.
920.
by thorax 19y ago
I see some SDK and download links here: http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/ Looks like the SDK has been live there for 2 days. Wish Google would have an RSS feed for new things on code.google.com (if they do, let me know)
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Poll: Is your webapp running on an OS that is virtualized or bare metal?
1 points by thorax 19y ago|1 comments
922.
by thorax 19y ago
Virtualized (primarily)
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by thorax 19y ago
Bare metal (primarily)
924.
by thorax 19y ago
Don't know but probably should
925.
by thorax 19y ago
Don't know and don't care
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by thorax 19y ago
http://bug.gd - Global error search engine and database. Find an error? Search for it on bug.gd. If it's solved already, great, you're all set. If not, we email you in 48 hours and ask you to share your solution for the next lost soul. Lo
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by thorax 19y ago
Most phones these days can use the web. Theoretically they can bypass this all on a data plan and send text messages as large as you want via email/apps/etc. At a minimum this gets around sending costs assuming you can find a site service t
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by thorax 19y ago
If you're trying to track feature requests from the users, you can use something like: http://featurelist.org (our site) We also just launched the ability to have a feedback widget for capturing quick feedback from users and tracking the
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by thorax 19y ago
We developed featurelist.org to help us track feedback/feature requests from our sites and want to make the same sort of thing available to other startups. You can see another example of the widget on our site, http://bug.gd .
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Inspired by YC sites: Add a quick feedback button to your web app(featurelist.org)
3 points by thorax 19y ago|1 comments

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