badmash69

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by badmash69 15y ago
My Favorite is thye Wicket framework. After having used JSF , which is a hellhole, I found wicket to be remarkably versatile and powerful. It integrates cleanly with Jquery. DOJO aw well as Spring. It is the only J2EE framework where de
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by badmash69 15y ago
I am considering consolidating my domains on amazon route 53. I have both NSI and GoDaddy as domain providers and I guess now is as good a time as any to plunge into amazon's Route 53. The process is so awfully painful and laborious that
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by badmash69 15y ago
I would speculate that Canadian Funds and Institutions that hold significant stake in RIM are loathe to see perhaps the most prestigious Canadian company be no longer Canadian. That sucks for me as a shareholder; RIM's management that was o
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by badmash69 15y ago
My experience with Clojure is that it forces me to think differently and I like it. I come from java /c background and Clojure drags me kicking and screaming out of my comfort zone. The purity is what I appreciate about Clojure. I am now
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by badmash69 15y ago
Thanks ! My goal at the moment is to be able to keep the lights on. I love this line '..just because it doesn't work on one street corner, doesn't mean it won't work on another - location, location, location! '
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by badmash69 15y ago
It is an experimental site --a community video news blog out of Toronto. Its not going to get a lot of traffic but as I add more cities ---- it might get better. The content format is video and not text.
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Ask HN: what are the sources of revenues for a Content Site?
1 points by badmash69 15y ago|4 comments
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by badmash69 15y ago
So if the minimum revenue expectation from a website is $10k ( with salary and other operating costs), how much traffic is needed to sustain that using the revenue source ? How many daily/monthly unique visitors would one need? do ad netw
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Ask HN: What revenue sources exist for content based sites?
1 points by badmash69 15y ago|1 comments
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by badmash69 15y ago
This is a great idea . However as a long time Spring user , could I ask that you spin this in to full blown tutorial . Heck I will pay for an ebook (<$15) which shows Client Side Coffeescript + client side MMVC+ some client side templ
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by badmash69 15y ago
Not sure why I was down voted, but the ppint I was making os that as I have grown older , I have come to appreciate laws including labour and immigration laws. With H1B visa, I could invest in USA, I could buy a home in USA, my kids could a
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by badmash69 15y ago
wow ! I always thought H1B was bad -- but this would be would be so much worse. With H1B, I was merely prevented from seeking employment elsewhere or walking away from the job but I was still protected by the laws and had some rights.
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by badmash69 15y ago
The sad reality for me living here is that you -- yes you even with all your PC'ness --- are going to take one look at any one with an Indian accent or a name and you will use a stereotype to estimate his or her technical capability. That
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by badmash69 15y ago
I do not have much experience in planning weddings : I have got married only once and I am still married. My primary contribution my wedding was to (a) show up sober (b) let the pros do their job (c) say yes. Having said that, your prima
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by badmash69 15y ago
There are already several stats sites , especially for economics. I recall using those sites when I was in B-School. Now, http://www.wolframalpha.com/ is my go to site for all my stats related searches. You should talk to B-School student
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by badmash69 15y ago
'Log4j for loggin' ? I would rethink that. Log4j , venerable as it may be, is getting long in the tooth .
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by badmash69 15y ago
Hi bigohms I totally agree with what you said ; I suck at getting my message across. I am doing exactly what you said I should be doing "Perhaps a subscribable video playlist based on topics (like good alerts) not channels (like YouTube)".
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by badmash69 15y ago
I want to make the user experience seamless " if a user is interested in 3 items -- I don't want him jump from clip to clip; instead I want a seamless newscast with just his/her items , while giving him or her the option of going deeper. T
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by badmash69 15y ago
Thanks , your feedback was encouraging. Quick question : when I talk to a news broadcaster e.g. NBC -- who are the right people e.g. should I approach marketing or web team or the producers ?
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Ask PG: Could you make HN gravity gentler for "Review My Start-up" posts?
29 points by badmash69 15y ago|7 comments
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by badmash69 15y ago
Thanks for liking it! I am building this as SaaS for TV stations ; the TV stations would continue to own the copyright of their content. My solution will just provide a value-add service for their content.
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by badmash69 15y ago
Clickable Link: http://www.newspvr.tv
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Ask HN: Please Review My Startup -- a SaaS for Local TV Stations
7 points by badmash69 15y ago|11 comments
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by badmash69 15y ago
If you are using Java to crawl the web , I would suggest using Jsoup for data extraction -- you can extract data with jquery like methods.
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by badmash69 15y ago
I am aware of that page and it is a great starting point but is not enough. Please take a look a this document from IBM http://public.dhe.ibm.com/software/dw/data/bestpractices/DB2... I was hoping for something along these lines .
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Ask HN: Best Practices For MongoDB with Amazon EC2+EBS?
3 points by badmash69 15y ago|2 comments
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by badmash69 15y ago
Congratulations! Your website design is incredibly well polished and the site is put together really well and you message is communicated really well. Did you design the site by yourself ? Please share your design tips/resources.
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by badmash69 15y ago
I signed up too; then I realized I had Facebook for family/friends, LinkedIn for career/jobs/contacts and Twitter for when I absolutely have to know what Ashton Kucher is thinking ;-). Then on top of all that, I have a family that demands
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by badmash69 15y ago
I apologize for this dumb question but why do I still see the "edit your application link" ? Shouldn't this link disappear after the application is submitted ? Or did I screw up my submission ?
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by badmash69 15y ago
That is good to hear. However, given the popularity of YC, I am assuming that most of the applicants are in advanced stages of development when they apply.

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