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j15eon The Epiphany Behind a Bootstrapped Startup

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j15eon Facebook publishes your friends' private messages as wall posts

Crazy, everyone has stop working at the office ;p

Very cool, but I am still amazed by how CSS animations are killing modern desktop CPU. I guess this is because my Chrome browser is not using GPU acceleration for CSS?

If I duplicate 10 times the watch, my CPU hits 100%.

j15eon The pros and cons of cloud hosting

I think most dedicated hosting often demands a setup fee of 50$+ or a 1 year commitment.

And even not taking in account the setup fee and the commitment, at 27$/month, you get a lot of power for your buck comparing to the cheapest dedicated server available at maybe something like 60$/month.

Cheapest dedicated box I could quickly find is at 59$/m, and even with a 2 years commitment you get "only" a 25% reduction which put you price at ~45$/m:

http://iweb.com/dedicated/clearance

j15eon The pros and cons of cloud hosting

Why do people always compare EC2 _On-Demand Instances_ cost to classic hosting cost?

The actual cost for a planned _Reserved Instance_ on EC2 is much lower and is a much more realistic scenario for hosting : it cost about 27$/month for a 3 years reserved small instance (425$/36 months + 14.64$), not 60$/month.

No one knowing it will use an instance 100% time should opt for On-Demand instance, because yeah, it costs a lot.

https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/#pricing http://calculator.s3.amazonaws.com/calc5.html

j15eon Amazon Unveils $199 Kindle Fire Tablet

They show a lot the device in kid's hands : because 7" is too small for grown up?

I have played with a RIM Playbook once and the size factor was the same concern. Seems like under 9-10" it can't be a replacement for my laptop in any situation and it feels more like a toy.

(Disclaimer : I own an iPad)

j15eon Mind-reading technology reconstructs videos from brain

Impressive!

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I might indeed tell him to use wordpress, the hosted/managed solution. Good easy website wizard. But I would also and tell him to never ask me to install or modify a theme or a plugin, and strongly advise not to try building cart or any stuff that dosen't fit the "good easy website wizard" description. Otherwise, this is a developpment disaster waiting to happen.

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to proper programaming

templating programming like that is not what I call beautiful :

if ( is_user_logged_in() ) { wp_nav_menu( array( 'theme_location' => 'logged-in-menu' ) ); } else { wp_nav_menu( array( 'theme_location' => 'logged-out-menu' ) ); }

edit : what I dislike about it is the over-usage of global functions and variables

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cuz its always getting messy

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/love

j15eon Pingdom is storing passwords in plaintext

Told you so a year ago : http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1118012

j15eon Why I've built an alternative to Github

I like repositoryhosting.com for 6$/month you get unlimited users/repositories and support for git, svn, hg

j15eon How Apple and Google will kill the password

MasterCard paypass does a great job so far for paying fast

j15eon The Toshiba Tablet

I am on my iPad and now that I clicked on that link and could not browse back because of the redirect I dislike toshiba even more. An on the ugly page is a ugly message.

Trying to get Apple users to like Toshiba products : fail

j15eon Save Google Wave

.... not

j15eon What the Hex? Guess the color.

I just love it

j15eon How to Combine GZip + CDN for Fastest Page Loads

/agree

"I won’t go into detail about how to actually accomplish this, because the truth is, this won’t work either. " => the truth is.. you fail ;)

But yeah, nice loading graph and +1 for the mathematical/logical alternative solution.

Good article

j15eon Replicating the Google Wave layout in 100 lines of js code with UkiJS

/agree

j15eon Twitter Hacked by "Iranian Cyber Army"

This feels like the 9/11 of internet

j15eon Twitter Hacked by "Iranian Cyber Army"

I found no website reporting any information... Anyone?

j15eon Twitter Hacked by "Iranian Cyber Army"

Could not find any information but pingdom does now report it has down. Here is a copy of the source code of the hacked page I first saw :

<html>

<head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Language" content="en-us"> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=windows-1252"> <title>..:: This Web Site Has Been Hacked By Iranian Cyber Army ::.. </title> </head>

<img border="0" src="index.3.jpg" width="43%" height="106%">    U.S.A Think They Controlling And Managing Internet By Their Access , But They Don't , We Control And Manage Internet By Our Power , So Do Not Try To Stimulation Iranian Peoples To .............. NOW WHICH COUNTRY IN EMBARGO LIST? IRAN?USA? WE PUSH THEM IN EMBARGO LIST ;) Take Care.

</body>

</html>

j15eon Getting things done by procrastinating

That is SO me. Many thanks for this excellent article, I will keep it in mind!

j15eon Ask YC Startups: Do you use Django, Rails, PHP or Other?

Here we are using PHP/CakePHP on almost all our projects.

Why? I have being using PHP for almost 10 years, so it was a lot easier to switch to a PHP framework when I switched to an open source framework about 3 years ago. PHP is also easier to get on a shared hosting (maybe not anymore, but at the time I made my switch, it was a major concern).

Like : API, doc, large community.

Dislike : php syntax (->), no active record, PHP4 support (no real visibility control), deployment on windows/ISS is no easy task.

But future looks good as they plan to drop PHP4 quite soon with 1.3.

Some website we created using cake: http://www.themetropolitain.ca http://www.gogarneau.com

I hate "->".