cuppster
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13 years ago
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on: Web Scraping 101 with Python
cuppster
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13 years ago
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on: Multicolor image search
Do you mean that the algo sorts on decreasing color frequency? i.e. you choose "blue" then the top results are images that are literally all "blue".
Usually when I want an image with a specific color, I don't want the entire image to be that color...
cuppster
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14 years ago
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on: The uncanny valley of web scraping
Anyone scraping in Perl? I've found pQuery very useful. (I tried it in node.js to stay cool, but async scraping is an anti-pattern) You can use jQuery selectors, etc... Just posted something related to it on by blog: scrape with pQuery, dump into Redis, reformat into CSV then into mysql...
http://cuppster.com/2012/02/28/utf-8-round-trip-for-perl-mys...
cuppster
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14 years ago
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on: Domainer Buys and Returns Domain Name to Amazon.com's Jeff Bezos
I did the same thing with my local pizza shop. They were =really= happy to get the domain... and in return they gave me a $100 credit, and I threw a party for my friends... good times!
http://jerseyspizza.com/
cuppster
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15 years ago
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on: Normalize.css: An alternative to CSS resets
CSS gets re-written anyway along the way. Resets gives you a leg up in the beginning for a consistent look across browsers so you can focus on other pieces of a project -- at least that's how I use it.
cuppster
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15 years ago
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on: DIY node.js server on Amazon EC2
if you're using an ubuntu image, it's going to be the ubuntu user: ssh -i path/to/key.pem
[email protected]Spent too much time figuring that out the hardway...
cuppster
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15 years ago
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on: DIY node.js server on Amazon EC2
cuppster
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15 years ago
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on: DIY node.js server on Amazon EC2
Yes it does, but I'm having so much fun deploying these things, I've created more than one... =)
cuppster
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15 years ago
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on: DIY node.js server on Amazon EC2
I've used this recipe for a couple sites of mine, including the blog itself. The ups and downs of beta features of other node.js hosting providers was becoming a hindrance so I decided to roll my own.
cuppster
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15 years ago
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on: Creator of "Dirty Jobs" Mike Rowe testifies to Congress
I loved that podcast... also, you can find his QVC work on youtube. Gold.
cuppster
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15 years ago
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on: Why is it so hard to be a good domain registrar?
I've been moving my domains from godaddy to moniker as well... for some time now b/c of the better control panel. Plus, domains bought in the snapnames aftermarket can be moved to (and sold from) from your moniker account.
cuppster
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15 years ago
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on: ... Artfinder, the LastFM of art
Just last weekend at the startup weekend in San Diego I joined a team working on this kind of idea. Having a facepalm moment right now upon hearing this news...
cuppster
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15 years ago
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on: Rate My Startup (Weekend Project): LaunchRock
I've made one of those for practice at
http://redlandsbuzz.com (my home town). It's backed by MailChimp. What I should do is place a unique cookie, then on the confirmation page, use it to provide referral links. Mine's running on WordPress...
MailChimp takes forever to redirect after submitting the form. They're API is faster...
cuppster
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15 years ago
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on: Fannie Mae Unix Engineer Gets 41 Months for Planting Logic Bomb
I'll take a mortgage-reduction bomb any day...
cuppster
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15 years ago
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on: Poll: How old were you when you started programming?
Around 9, started with the VIC-20 and a stack of BASIC programming games books - still love those crossword generator programs!
cuppster
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15 years ago
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on: FCC Adopts Net Neutrality Lite
I see the fight now moving to the "managed services" space. As Netflix warned earlier, this is where ISP start to really cash in and squash competition, and there's nothing in these new rules that watchdog that.
cuppster
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15 years ago
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on: Yahoo is Shutting Down Del.icio.us
Today I put together a WordPress plugin/theme to import delicious bookmarks and make them browsable at
http://b.cuppster.com/ and a little write up at
http://goo.gl/7lus7Anyone interested in me posting this code? turning it into a collab. project?
cuppster
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15 years ago
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on: Yahoo is Shutting Down Del.icio.us
I like the idea of us taking our own bookmarks and re-importing them into a new system, then getting it to work (optionally) in a network (maybe syncing based on friend/follow relationships) on any domain we like...
cuppster
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15 years ago
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on: Yahoo is Shutting Down Del.icio.us
I'm writing a Wordpress plugin right now to import del. bookmarks. Stop gap, but could be fun. Will do a theme to go with it...
cuppster
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15 years ago
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on: Don't shoot the messenger for telling the truth
Surprised Visa and Mastercard didn't do something more evil... like raise their APR to 19.99%
