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Thumbs up aaron, was well smelly and good that you get something for your contribution.

the irc group on freenode has some groupies there who help. I have it installed, dont bother with debian, use a clean install of ubuntu

here are some notes to get started from a clean install (replace your own vars)

install Ubuntu 810 apt-get update apt-get install subversion adduser --home /home/bleu bleu su bleu svn co http://svn.scrapy.org/scrapy mv scrapy-trunk scrapy ls scrapy branches tags trunk sudo root as root apt-get install python-twisted apt-get install nano su bleu source ~/.bashrc pico ~/.bashrc #add this to end of file: export PYTHONPATH=/home/bleu/scrapy/trunk

python >>> import scrapy quit() scrapy/trunk/scrapy/bin/scrapy-admin.py startproject myproject

every pc I have owned has failed!

is anyone from scrapy here, i have some tech questions? is there an irc group?

I want to ask people here thoughts on frameworks, this looks well suited to a project I have, but it is built on Twisted and the preferred option of frameworks seems to be Django, now I'm a PHP coder, who is just about to step up to the python challenge so I am thinking it would be better to start with a more established framework? Thoughts would be most welcome.

best advice i have seen for a while

Ah just what I needed and on the day I needed it! Thanks HN for posting it and the creators for making it.

GF is addicted and she has hardly any visitors, i stopped looking after the traffic went v high and it was all just boring then.

You're all a little young I suspect to know about the infamous "Limits To Growth reports" conducted by MIT CS grads in the late sixties commissioned by the Club of Rome.

They constructed computer models of population growth expectations against energy resources, waste, production etc. They concluded that unless society changed its ways DRAMATICALLY then a collapse would occur which would be unavoidable and would wipe out a large percentage of the worlds population.

The reports were widely dismissed at the time by the main stream media and other 'experts' however, many of their predictions are manifesting before our eyes as we speak, if not a little latter than originally expected.

Those that decry that technology will save us (and it may well do but we do have to create it first) the main unavoidable problem is capitalism = exploitation = waste / population which is increasing because of the high level of fossil fuel energy available / ( which is rapidly diminishing).

If any bright sparks here have a solution to this mathematical problem then I will be impressed. The reason I personally got into programming was to try and make some impact on this problem. Yet all I see here (which I don't blame you for) is naive youngsters who are deluded and indoctranated into believing that success is starting a startup and exiting with 1M+ cash in the bank. To me this = FAIL.

Those that were really smart would have an understanding of the unavoidable mathematical problems really facing us (which are not written about in our favorite math books) and would have a broader knowledge than that spouted by your ivy league universities.

Those bright sparks would be able to demonstrate 1) an understanding of the problem, 2) a deep understanding of the math involved, 3) an interest in solving the problem, 4) the capacity to think outside of the box and not follow the herd, 5) ultimately a working theoretical alternative which would be more robust than the current math which is the algorithm behind current capitalism (or what ever you want to call it, democracy etc.).

For those that think capitalism and democracy is the best system we have, do not bother replying! Your comments will be as limited as your 'intellectual' capacity and you would be better served spending your time on your fab new startup!

what ever happened to Nerd tv. Shut down after 1 series? crazy...

this is all just like blar blar blar to me sorry.

I use virtualmin instead

btw I like it!

but hang on, before you get all up in arms about privacy and rights, this is a possible google adsense / adwords killer and there is going to blood shed before privacy gets in the way of profits.

looks like a good scam:)

I had not heard of John Robb. Many thanks for the suggestion.

I would agree with this completely but extend it to monolithic intuitions such as governments, legal systems, policing, armies, councils, schools, etc. I envision that the networking changes we are witnessing are much more profound than just for business, which will apply themselves just the same to the very structures that currently control nations.

Pownce had a better chance than many to make it work, what with the industry players backing it, such as Kevin and the press Leah garnered was amazing. I think the bigger story here is that despite all the advantages that they had, in this climate it failed.

Interestingly however DropBox has seemingly been a success which I believe offers a more targeted solution to the problem (file transfer), rather than trying to be all things to all people. If there is a lesson to be learned here I would have thought it was that. Like 37signals often says, try to do one thing really well. Don't try to offer too many features etc. and dilute your product into yet another (I got that feature too). That seems to be the mistake of Pownce.

Im a linoder and the linode was the best decision I have ever made when it comes to servers!

He's estimate that only 2% are bastards is wrong. It is actually closer to 20% are 'bastards'!

and everything to do with the 'wizards of money'!

diamonds are common but the monopoly (De Beers) control the supply and nobble the compertition.

recessions are a great time to start up startups

how do companies like django make money?

In his prescient 1972 speech "The Android and the Human"

You get -100 "awkward writing in article" was because the machine wrote it. Did you not read the post?

"Opinions seem to be wide-ranging, and of course your day wouldn’t be complete unless you heard mine. "

HAHAHA

better link http://hubpages.com/hub/Antibiotics-for-Parkinsons

there is some evidence to suggest parkinson's is caused by bacteria: http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2001/12/1...

This is a post I made which also goes into general some of the range of tactics used by rogue 'competitors'.

http://thenextweb.org/2008/05/24/david-vs-goliath-the-underh...