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by webtechgal 10y ago
> Anyone who has been a freelancer has dealt with the random, uncalled for threats from clients to give you a bad review or try to suspend your account. This. Totally. Several times, at 3/3 platforms where I've been working (fo
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by webtechgal 10y ago
As another freelancer who has been there, done that (not quite at Upwork, but at three other platforms namely Freelancer.com, PeoplePerHour and Fiverr [yes, Fiverr - and unlikely as it may sound, I found individual clients who placed thousa
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by webtechgal 10y ago
Edit: A bit later, I was all the more convinced about the Nat Geo episode, so I dug up the series url[1] and looked through all the episodes of all the seasons but couldn't find it. But interestingly, the whole season 6 is somehow miss
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by webtechgal 10y ago
Speaking for myself, I found the article to be a very interesting; almost compelling read. (Didn't quite time it, but I think it took me about 25 - 30 minutes.) I also recall: didn't Nat Geo do an episode on this on their Air Cras
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by webtechgal 10y ago
https://www.producthunt.com/ (I guess).
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by webtechgal 10y ago
I just registered, authenticated my email, logged in, and now I can't do anything. My Services -> Place a new order Could not load any product groups. Open Ticket No support departments found. Please try again later. Wonder what giv
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by webtechgal 10y ago
> Just look over recent ShowHN entries... That's a great idea indeed... I'm sure it'll turn out to be a good starting point. Thanks.
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by webtechgal 10y ago
Thanks for the useful input and suggestion. I'll try and incorporate tagging (although I'm not sure if it would be a good idea to do away with categorization altogether - any other thoughts on this?).
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Ask HN: Category structure for a directory of side projects
6 points by webtechgal 10y ago|5 comments
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by webtechgal 10y ago
Something definitely smells out of place here. I believe the AdWords policies vary from country to country (and from time to time) but the last I checked (2015), here in India, you had to have at least one verifiable payment method (card&#x
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by webtechgal 10y ago
And these dedi boxes (also from OVH) are priced almost unbelievably low: https://www.kimsufi.com/us/en/servers.xml
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by webtechgal 10y ago
My ex-boss used to sell Tandy computers (offered under collaboration with a domestic computer company here in India, called DCM Data Products) in the 1980s and I think he still has a few TRS-80 Model IV (running CP/M) and Tandy 1000 (
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by webtechgal 10y ago
Non-compete agreements are signed in (many) deals but they would be for a fixed term (typically 1 to 3 years?) after which, the inventors/innovators would be free to carry on further.
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by webtechgal 10y ago
Considering how (pathetically) they have failed at previous social networking products (own + acquired ones), I won't be surprised if they're not ready (at least yet) for another attempt (and a fairly expensive one at that).
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by webtechgal 10y ago
The node app had stalled. It is up now.
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by webtechgal 10y ago
Clickable: http://monitup.tk:8082/dashboard/checks
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Show HN: Weekend Project - Website Uptime Monitoring Service
6 points by webtechgal 10y ago|4 comments
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by webtechgal 10y ago
Now this DOES bring on the nostalgia... :-) I recall there used to be a veronica too (Very Easy Rodent Oriented Network something or the other....), then a jughead too ...
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by webtechgal 10y ago
I think this whole article is a click-bait or over sensationalism. The culture that the author alludes to, authoritatively declaring it to have 'vanished', has not vanished by a long shot. If one were to take ten random train trip
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by webtechgal 10y ago
> In fact I'd wager that's why the "rich food culture" of the trains has "vanished." Not by a long shot. Reduced? Certainly. Vanished? Certainly not. I think the author of the OP is writing based on her limi
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by webtechgal 10y ago
> ...and found this funny story... No offense, but if you were at the receiving end of things, you probably won't find it funny. This (the 'biscuit bandit' thing - though I'm reading it described thus for the first ti
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by webtechgal 10y ago
Looks like they were rebooting or something. All working fine now, got the $5 credit using the promo code LAUNCH (without cc)... Can't wait to spin up an instance and try things out!!
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by webtechgal 10y ago
Trying to register but keep getting a 502 Bad Gateway error. Is it just me? Edit: Even the home page throwing up 502 now.
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by webtechgal 10y ago
> it should not add more than $1 or so to your monthly fee. Quite true. Most hosting companies charge around $1/mo. for a dedicated IPv4. (Naturally, not for shared plans but for VPS/dedicated boxes etc.)
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by webtechgal 10y ago
> Run your own DNS server and even cache the hostname/IP pairs yourself. This[1] might be a useful resource to get started: [1] https://scans.io/ (Register and download the IPv4 Address Space data file to use as an
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by webtechgal 10y ago
Good idea. However, I'll need to really exercise the gray cells to put together the list so it might take me a couple of days. Once done, I'll post it here.
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by webtechgal 10y ago
We had also (obviously) built a (proprietary) ranking algo that took into account some 60+ individual factors. If it can be of any help, I'll create a list and send it to you.
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by webtechgal 10y ago
It would be great if you can share (at least) some information about the kind of hosting setup you're using, how much of bandwidth and how long it took to crawl and index the 2B pages.
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by webtechgal 10y ago
Great work, congrats. :-) Here is some input based on my experience building a similar project at my former company. (We did not quite get to 2B pages, but were close to ~300M): For creating a really viable (alternative) search engine, the
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by webtechgal 10y ago
From Part 5 (Doing a demo): > The stories should roll off your tongue since you’ve done it hundreds of times... If I were a VC (not that it is likely to ever happen), and if your stories rolled off your tongue, it would set off some alar

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