ddemchuk

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by ddemchuk 15y ago
WHEN IS TWITTER GOING TO TURN A PROFIT??? NO ONE CARES ANYMORE UNTIL THEY ACTUALLY BECOME A BIG BOY BUSINESS AND TURN A PROFIT
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by ddemchuk 15y ago
twitter is inherently a spammer's heaven. It's really easy to make 140 characters seem legitimate. An hour of writing spun content and a really easy to build signup bot and you can have full conversations, retweets, everything. There's a re
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by ddemchuk 15y ago
Why does loading TechCrunch take me 9 seconds? What exactly are they doing to cause such a slow load? Why does a page load for them require 330 requests?
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by ddemchuk 15y ago
How do we submit our own startups?
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by ddemchuk 15y ago
Sure, but with a system that is active (like HN), there would be enough votes coming in frequently enough to handle the ranking updates and account for time increases without needing to hit the system every 5 minutes.
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by ddemchuk 15y ago
I'm a coder, entrepreneur, and huge philosophy fan. I think many people similar to me (IE people here) also love philosophy as well all enjoy thinking, logic, and problem solving, the epitome of philosophy.
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by ddemchuk 15y ago
Thanks for that!
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by ddemchuk 15y ago
There's a difference between being honest and being a self-absorbed jackass though. The original email sent by the student was harmless and sincere and the response from the blogger was pretentious and whiney. Quite frankly, I wouldn't have
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by ddemchuk 15y ago
Can't you do it every time someone votes? The scores aren't dependent on any other items other than their own votes, so each time it gets a new vote, you rescore it and it will drop or go up on the front page accordingly.
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by ddemchuk 15y ago
sure, I admit the emailer went on to judge, but his initial email was: > Hello, I'm citing your work for a debate article I'm using > about space colonization and how it is improbable. I do > need credentials however, and I've y
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by ddemchuk 15y ago
Regardless of whether or not credential requirements are founded, those are some pretty dickhead email responses. Why cuss at someone asking a genuine question? Internet tough guys are so cool.
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by ddemchuk 15y ago
What a godawful name. Impossible to pronounce correctly without sounding like you have a speech impediment. Good example of quirkiness gone too far in the world of branding.
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by ddemchuk 15y ago
It baffles me how, with the number of investors involved and the huge amount of money on the line, Twitter is making any strategic move other than "how do we get profitable"
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by ddemchuk 15y ago
and yet no profit has been had...good job twitter, good job
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by ddemchuk 15y ago
I did this about a day after they officially launched +1 with Ruby for my own app. I scrape probably 2-4000 urls a day, it works fine. Most badges or like buttons can be reverse engineered like this, it's not too hard.
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by ddemchuk 15y ago
"Cash – As of December 31, 2010, cash, cash equivalents, and marketable securities were $35.0 billion." http://investor.google.com/earnings/2010/Q4_google_earnings....
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by ddemchuk 15y ago
Because they mine the everliving shit out of the data for improving ranking algos and getting people to buy more ads
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by ddemchuk 15y ago
you can easily scrape google without having to use something as bulky as htmlunit. When I teach people how to scrape, exercise #1 is scraping Google with Ruby Mechanize and Nokogiri. xPath is your friend
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by ddemchuk 15y ago
thanks. I just set it up last weekend so I'm still working on getting things revved up, so we'll see what happens. I'll take a look at your thread and jump in with some thoughts today. EDIT: replied to ya
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by ddemchuk 15y ago
I actually setup a forum for SaaS developers with a section specifically for that purpose. You can check out the section here: http://saasaholics.com/forum-pitch-your-saas
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by ddemchuk 15y ago
I explained this exact point to a friend today at lunch. He vehemently disagreed with me. No matter what the niche, or the market, there is always room for the simplest solution. Always.
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by ddemchuk 15y ago
perfect use case for celerity http://celerity.rubyforge.org/
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by ddemchuk 15y ago
Even after learning how to properly deploy rails apps in production, it still sucks. I want to be able to install the heroku deployment process on my own servers.
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by ddemchuk 15y ago
my main machine is a 4gb 13" MBA, I do heavy web development with music playing and photoshop open all day long, along with skype, and the thing never skips a beat. 6 hours of battery even after 9 months, weighs less than 3 pounds. It's the
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by ddemchuk 15y ago
How is that a flaw? They have SIX HUNDRED MILLION USERS. People want junk food. That's why everyone is fat and dumb. They watch junk on TV, read junk online, say junk to people on facebook, and eat junk at home. 0.000001% of people care abo
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by ddemchuk 15y ago
join and participate in some forums that are niche related and have users interested in what you built. You can easily bootstrap a SaaS if you have a presence and some authority on a few forums.
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by ddemchuk 15y ago
The reason Google (and Bing and Yahoo and Yandex and and and) is in the position they are in is because they have the bandwidth and computational power to crawl and index the web with the speed and reach necessary for it to be useful. They
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by ddemchuk 15y ago
45% of his total monthly bandwidth used. So say he's getting 50 gigs of traffic a month, the bots make up 22.5 gigs of that
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by ddemchuk 15y ago
that's like saying it's in a doctor's best interest to make people sick...there's always enough natural problems with sites and servers to warrant uptime monitoring
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by ddemchuk 15y ago
Ummmmm...there are 86400 seconds in a day, so that's just under TWO THOUSAND requests a second...significantly more than what you mentioned.

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