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amccloud··on Windows 8 Pro Upgrade to cost $39.99
Spotlight?
amccloud··on Show HN: A better way to track fitness goals (my nights and weekend project)
I'm so sorry. The music prevented me from getting far enough in the video to understand what this was.
amccloud··on Why Django Sucks
http://djangopony.com/
amccloud··on Just Landed for iPhone helps you pick someone up from the airport.
It's just few images sliding. The iphone is a video.
amccloud··on CoffeeScript CSS
Pretty much all the reasons I don't use coffeescript for js.
amccloud··on Building Backbone.js/Python based tech stack
Yup! and i've packaged those little configurations into a plugin. https://github.com/amccloud/backbone-tastypie
amccloud··on Building Backbone.js/Python based tech stack
backbone.modelbinding is abandoned. Alternatives:

https://github.com/theironcook/Backbone.ModelBinder

and https://github.com/amccloud/backbone-bindings (my library)

amccloud··on Judge.me - A Private Small Claims Internet Court
Design appears to be inspired by stripe.com
amccloud··on Now That's What I Call Social Proof
Something similar happen to me with http://pixelcloud.com/

I was out in SF for the first time having a meeting with some interesting folks about Pixelcloud and after the meeting they decided to show me around SF and we ended up eating at a restaurant they picked. To my surprise the guy sitting right behind me had a Pixelcloud shirt on. We laughed and pretended the whole thing was staged even though there was no way possible.

amccloud··on I put my family business on Facebook. Here’s what happened.
Sounds like he doesn't know anything about online advertising.

  "The template tells me I have targeted 178,000 people who within my interest range and selected demographics."
This is much too large of an targeted audience. Finely tuning interests is a must. His first mistake.

  "Two! €160 quid for two clicks, each of whom looked at two site pages."
Either he's bidding in a extremely competitive niche (unlikely) or he's paying CPM and not CPC. This was his second mistake. On CPC that would have likely only costed him €1.60.

Facebook handed him the gun and he shot himself in the foot.

amccloud··on Ask HN: Would you use this app?
Checkout pastebot http://tapbots.com/software/pastebot/
amccloud··on New clean Google SERP design?
I was using google Chrome. I don't have an iPad so I don't know what that looks like
amccloud··on New clean Google SERP design?
Future design. Likely an experiment.
amccloud··on New clean Google SERP design?
Clickable:

http://cl.ly/1T2g1V451s3x0L2T182M

http://cl.ly/1Q1c0L0h0J2k3l071P2M

http://cl.ly/461E1x1A3e3g1f0K2J0Y

amccloud··on Introducing Facing.me
How do you avoid the chatroulette problem?
amccloud··on Tupac brought back to life with holograms at Coachella
A better video http://duckandroll.tumblr.com/post/21202051257/hologram-cg-t...
amccloud··on Join our hacker house for new YC companies
Where is that Zencoder house? (http://yfrog.com/09x7fsj)
amccloud··on Photo check deposits
PayPal will have this same photo check deposits soon. Also fun fact, your PayPal account is actually a Chase bank account. Read the back of your PayPal card. I frequently go to Chase to withdraw money from PayPal with no fee and no wait time.
amccloud··on Show HN: Our video series teaches anyone how to build & deploy a web app
I hope you teach people not to deploy Django projects with DEBUG = True ;)

https://twifbook.com/should404

Otherwise it looks great! My GF bought a copy as she was interested in learning how to build "application" websites and not just wordpress blogs.

amccloud··on Finally a unified Python solution for OAuth 1.0/a, 2.0 (oh and Ofly) consumers
I just found https://github.com/gorakhargosh/pyoauth haven't had time to look into it much but it seems to be well maintained. I had a quick oauth2 demo going up in minutes.
amccloud··on Django 1.4 final released
Bulk updating already exists.

https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/topics/db/queries/#upd...

amccloud··on Django 1.4 final released
I made a template that I mentioned above that is a bit simpler and is self documenting.

    django-admin.py startproject --template  https://github.com/amccloud/django-project-skel/zipball/master --extension py,md yourprojectname
amccloud··on Django 1.4 final released
I've created a project template that I consider - and hope - is an improved project template for most.

http://amccloud.com/post/14689947527/django-1-4-custom-proje...

amccloud··on Ask HN: 423,430 views in 1 day on YouTube, any ideas how he does it?
They are buying views.
amccloud··on Show HN: Seddit.com, a chat site based around Reddit
For you to makeup a password. Not your Reddit password.
amccloud··on Show HN: Seddit.com, a chat site based around Reddit
I ANAL but Registration Information is defined as username, password, and/or other profile information collectively. Seddit only ask for username. The same system is in place for Redditgifts.
amccloud··on Great Captcha IDEA
What stops me from submitting the form with curl?
amccloud··on Stop whining and start hiring remote workers
Contact me; email is in profile. My co-founder runs a pretty well known designer meetup in the bay.
amccloud··on Ruby lesson: Scraping a jail's website
http://phantomjs.org/ and http://nrabinowitz.github.com/pjscrape/ would be more fit for this.
amccloud··on Ask HN: How to bill clients in an hourly job, when you use your pre-built code.
You can charge more when you expect fewer hours. Maybe not as much you would normally make. In the end your client would, or should, appreciate the price and how fast things got delivered.
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