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by thorax 19y ago
I love to see this stuff, but, as far as I've read, Apple's not going to let you ever publish such things on iTunes.
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by thorax 19y ago
This site seems to automatically capitalize the first letter of the first word you submit.
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by thorax 19y ago
You win my wicked cool site of the week award. There is no such award, but nice work on the site! This is eerily close to a project we've been working on. But you deserve mad props for doing it so well. My biggest gripe are your fonts so th
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by thorax 19y ago
Biggest annoyance for me so far with Django is it not following the MVC model I would have expected from it going in. We'll see how it works out for one of our newer/silly sites, though. I forgot to check out Pylons for the project one of o
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by thorax 19y ago
Quick feedback: * I like the idea. Reminds me of Google's CSE tools, but with individual crawling control. * I think you need to proofread the text on the main page a bit. Some of it doesn't parse correctly for me, for example: "You decide
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by thorax 19y ago
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by thorax 19y ago
Interesting point. A lot of quirky creativity does get to show itself these days without needing to use easter eggs. For example in blog posts, cute little "About" pages, fun features like, etc. Do things like this count as easter eggs? Or
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by thorax 19y ago
The Python thing is more of an experiment as we flesh out our APIs for various languages: http://blog.bug.gd/2008/03/29/error_help-for-python-hackers/ The bug.gd site is more like a 'recycling bin' that reminds you to come back and share
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Ask YC: Easter eggs for web apps?
7 points by thorax 19y ago|18 comments
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by thorax 19y ago
I'm working on bug.gd, our error search engine. Specifically, we just announced/launched an experimental tool for (any) Python interactive interpreter. Whenever you run into an error, you can do a quick search for how other people got past
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The error_help() experiment: shared solutions in the Python interactive interpreter(blog.bug.gd)
2 points by thorax 19y ago|0 comments
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by thorax 19y ago
I didn't know this and I do like it. Especially if it caught on and became more standard. I'll see if I can get my crew to try it out.
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by thorax 19y ago
Consider making the sign-up a lightbox. I'm not the world's biggest fan of modal lightboxes, but when I first tried to rate/vote on Reddit and it let me login without taking away my entire screen to another page, it was a good feeling. Othe
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by thorax 19y ago
I'm one of the whiners on TechCrunch about exposure. Sorry! Basically, I think the community was excellent before you made a big deal of announcing it. It has continued to be excellent after, but the signal to noise ratio has worsened somew
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by thorax 19y ago
Random note: my hacking career really began writing/selling scripts to automate TradeWars turns.
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by thorax 19y ago
Now that I think about it, "having your own BBS" back in the day is a lot like "having your own domain/site" nowadays. Pretty much everyone wanted to do it, but there were a lot of lonely boards out there.
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Ask YC: How many people here were regional BBS users back in the day?
27 points by thorax 19y ago|59 comments
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Bug.gd error search (our startup) made PC World's fantastic freebies list(pcworld.com)
5 points by thorax 19y ago|0 comments
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by thorax 19y ago
Anyone use things like AppArmor? I see it routinely preventing attacks on some of the older software we run. I almost wouldn't think of running a server without something like it.
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Ask YC: Securing your servers?
24 points by thorax 19y ago|24 comments
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by thorax 19y ago
Of course they also use UPS to ship (I assume), so UPS gets a piece of theirs.
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by thorax 19y ago
You could try a cool method of random inspection. Have a daemon that listens for submissions to your tree. With a random chance (you determine probability) have it email the contextual diff (maybe even highlighted full diff) and the changel
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by thorax 19y ago
We use Code Igniter on all of our sites you see in my profile. Love it, love it. Has its issues, but I can't really put into words how useful it has turned out to be for our team. We may very well go with Django long-term, but I've never sp
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Rate the YC startups (trying out slinkset)(ycomb.slinkset.com)
2 points by thorax 19y ago|0 comments
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by thorax 19y ago
I actually think Beacon could have worked if participating companies gave you an at-checkout discount if you agreed to put it on your profile page. This is a big win for the company in question to get automated word-of-mouth for each purcha
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by thorax 19y ago
Actually, I have an interview story about one of the words you have in this particular text. By the way, the shirt wasn't a requirement for the job. It was just an added way to bypass the interviews a bit if they happened to decode it easil
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by thorax 19y ago
Heh, it's not required for them to solve it. Just they get a lucky shortcut if they happened to do so.
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by thorax 19y ago
I submitted it a while back, but it didn't get as good reception. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=122548 I think adjectives are necessary in the title to convey how cool it is, maybe.
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by thorax 19y ago
I'm a huge fan of this sort of game. If interested, you should also check out Phun: http://phun.cs.umu.se/wiki Not crayony or goal-oriented, but a lot of the same physics sandbox concepts. Oh, and you can download it right now.
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by thorax 19y ago
I'm skeptical, but as a non-drinker, I can't say I'd be sad if avoiding drinks has some upside.

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