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xulescu

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xulescu··on Meteor 0.5.7 released: major scaling update, new DDP version, EJSON
If Meteorite is the Package Manager for Meteor, why are the two not in sync? E.g. like npm for node?
xulescu··on $50K bounty for practical robocall-killing technology.
And why isn't this a problem in Europe? E.g. Germany? I'm not getting any unsolicited phone calls anymore - robot or not (this used to be a problem 15 years ago, but not isn't anymore).
xulescu··on Gallery of free HTML snippets for Twitter Bootstrap
> ... my own interface builder ... Nice, but you have a "Try it now" button on the first page, that suggests (at least to me) that I can try it right away. When click-ing however, on get's a "Login with..." page.

Would be much better if users could try it without login, and only if they really like it and want to save their work than would be a login required, or when they start to use it professionally.

I think for demo/show purposes, lowering the "entry" is always better, as it will get more people to really try it.

xulescu··on Search 100 million UPC, EAN, ISBN, ASIN and MPN identifiers
It doesn't seem to contain recent information: I checked the ISBNs from the latest books of a few publishing houses and none of them seems to be recognized :(.
xulescu··on Implementing a partial serial number verification system
Best comment of the day :D.
xulescu··on Web based Vector editing
It is cool, but it's pretty useless as it's missing important features to subtract, add, intersect, etc. shapes, and other very important functionality required to do something useful beyond the typical "finger painting" :).
xulescu··on Review my startup: Presence
Nice concept, but I see the you restrict it only to mobile devices. I think it would be practical for "traditional" web based clients too.
xulescu··on Heroku clone for Django?
> http://www.stax.net/

I used Stax during beta, and it's nice, but it's no near the Heroku ease of use (puls it's little helper Nezumi http://nezumiapp.com/ when on the way). With very small restrictions, one can install anything on Stax, so it's very flexible, but just not that easy to use as Heroku'.

> another, https://www.playapps.net/ for play apps.

Unfortunately Play framework is not based on a servlet container (something that 99% of java webapps are using).

xulescu··on Heroku clone for Django?
Would be nice if there were something like this (like Heroku) for Java. I know that there are several "cloud" solutions for Java, but I haven't found something as simple to manage/extend/deploy like Heroku so far :(.
xulescu··on How to Write an Operating System
Interesting project, but it's name sounds too much like Xenu: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenu .
xulescu··on Ask HN: What do you listen to when coding?
I'm listening to the rain. I code better when it rains outside.
xulescu··on How I Made Money Spamming Twitter with Contextual Book Suggestions
Interesting idea (to suggest based on already written content). Maybe it would be considered less "spammy" if it would be just semi-automated, i.e. more like an "expert system". Also, it it would work for popular forums like PHP BB or others, would greatly extend it's usage (so not just on Twitter).