Building a .com in 24 hours
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On one hand, he's trying to make a buck. On the other, he figures it's okay to take advantage of someone else in the same situation.
I wonder if he even understands the contradiction of ethics?
"Actually, I am paying for TextMate, I guess I wanted to make a comment about trying to do things cheaply - bad joke. If one piece of software is worth buying it, it's TextMate!"
He also just deleted the part about resetting your clock from the post. Sounds like he was just trying to spice things up a little.
> Running things in the background X dubbed backgrounding X is > an important part of production ready web applications. It's > a relatively new concept, since web applications used to be > less complex.
That made me smile.
Oh.
Reminded me of the old Steven Wright joke when he went to the Quickie Mart and it was closed.
He said, "But the sign says 'Open 24 Hours'"
The owner replied, "Not in a row."
Proxy Error
The proxy server received an invalid response from an upstream server. The proxy server could not handle the request GET /.
Reason: Error reading from remote server
Anyone else sharing this affliction?
I had some issues with a sudden spike in load so I just added an extra machine. Hope that will get me going for a couple of days :-)
However, one thing that I've gotten used to with sites using textareas meant for copying and pasting is that when you click in the box it automatically selects all of the text for you, eliminating the need for any scrolling. For sites like yours whose success is based not only on its usefulness but also the small amount of time needed to get started, minor shortcuts like that can dramatically change the overall user experience if you can make your set up as painless as possible.