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Finally, a way to get rid of my old, hazardous, household chemicals and get paid at the same time!

YAPC::NA (the North American "Yet Another Perl Conference") is my favorite tech conference to attend, probably because it seems to be rather "by perl developers, for perl developers".

The YAPC conferences seem to have come about after the original perl conferences became OSCON. The perl community developed something specific to perl again, and something that was more intimate, casual, and affordable. There are YAPC conferences all over the world, like YAPC::EU and YAPC::Asia and others.

My experience is only with the North American one, and it's typically 3 days of technical sessions with one or more optional days of more formal classes before or after it.

A conference ticket is cheap, say $100, and you can get a dorm room for cheaper than a hotel room if you like. That's part of the effort to make the conference affordable and open to anyone.

Another, more recent part of that effort seems to be adopting a more formal code of conduct. I think that's popular with a lot of technical conferences these days. Recently, Schwern, one of the prominent members of the perl community withdrew from the conference and described why here: http://blog.schwern.net/2013/05/15/yapcna-2013-withdrawal/ The article linked from this HN post seems to be a reaction to that.

Anyway, YAPC::NA is in Austin this year, and should be a great conference. Check out http://www.yapcna.org/yn2013/ if you want to read more about it.

- Double your rate

- get a written contract

- get paid in regular intervals

- document everything

It certainly sounds at least like export to me. Are they therefore illegally exporting munitions and crypto?

Auction ends in a couple of hours. No bids. I wonder if they'll really shut it down.

turd sandwich.

flippa is a cesspool of worthless sites, scams, and con-men.

But, there are some occasional transactions that are worth looking at, if only to get ideas of things to build.

Here's a recent sale of thecupcakeblog.com: https://flippa.com/2736282-over-1000-ad-rev-199k-visits-475k...

Those come along about once or twice a month.

super! I may make use of that tool to find a few names. Thanks!

Did you consider attempting to sell your business? What prevented you from doing that?

You may be on to something there. Sometimes I see sites for sale on Flippa, but from the comments I can tell that some potential buyers have discovered something negative in their research that I would have overlooked. I'd pay for an extended, honest, third-party analysis of some current flippa offerings. Help me value sites I'd consider buying, and I'd see value in that.

Great article. I love to see what sites do well on flippa, but some of them boggle my mind. Perhaps it's because not all buyers or sellers are rational, but I have to also think that there are schemes and scams that I'm not aware of at work there. I'd love to hear explanations for some of the sales I see there.

Flippa is a marvelous wasteland of make-money-fast sites being marketed as make-money-fast schemes themselves. Although there are diamonds in that rough, surely there is another place where people go to buy or sell more established, traditional web-based businesses. Where is that place?

your twitter profile lists sendicate.com, which appears to be unrelated to your venture at sendicate.net.

brilliant! I may "embrace and extend" this idea for my workplace. I'd build a browser extension that notices when I load a new trouble ticket and makes an entry in my timecard for it. If I used paydirt, I'd love the thing you just built.

Don't forget that you may have to spring for some things yourself. If you worked with physical tools, like hammers, hard-hats, or calculators, you may have to provide some or all of them yourself. So, don't be afraid to bite the bullet and buy a license for a piece of software that will help you do your job better.

Maybe it sounds like there's more to the story because the link goes to page 2 of the article.

I wish I had a better recommendation than flippa since it's completely full of worthless things for sale. I am constantly looking for projects to buy and would love to have a better place to look than what I've found so far.

Anyway, drop me an email with any information you can provide and I may make an offer. If you're hesitant to reveal the actual site, that makes it really tough, but with some traffic and income numbers and information about the niche, I can tell you if I'm interested enough to learn more or not.

You may find Bob Gourley's book Make Money for Bob to be a bit helpful here. It has a few good chapters on how he has bought and sold businesses, and he handles each one with honesty and integrity.

http://www.amazon.com/Make-Money-Bob-Bottom-Entrepreneurship...

I tend to not subscribe to these things unless I can read a sample newsletter to confirm it's reasonably useful to me. Consider providing a sample, and it doesn't have to be the most recent.

Good luck!

Congratulations!

I'm waiting for sendwrite 2.0 in which I can email you a photo and a message and you print a postcard with my message on the back and drop it in the mail for me.

Also, I dig the workflow of sending and email to signup. It seems to work well for tripit.com. If you commonly interact with your users through email, I don't see any reason against it.

Good luck!

We launched http://ElectronicMedicalRecords.com in an effort to store and manage medical records for small medical practices.

That's a great idea. I haven't seen a similar service. Also, good execution. I'm impressed by how well it seems to work and that's a pretty good site you have there.

I'm curious how paypal is working out for you. I always feel it's a bit hokey or something. Do you have plans to use a "real" credit card processor?

I've tried a lot. My top three favorites are:

  * freshbooks
  * letsfreckle.com
  * emacs org-mode or planner-mode

1. No, it's not a good deal. You should get a salary from the first day and a reasonable vesting schedule that results in you actually having equity ownership. And, 1% isn't that great for a first employee, especially if they're deferring your compensation. IF they get funded, bully for them. 2. Yes, there are things you should know or ask. There are simply too many to list here, but for starters: How do they intend to pay you before they have funding or revenue? Are they cash flow positive now?

Whatever they tell you, get it in writing. If it's not written down, then for all intents and purposes it didn't happen.

Your captcha thing is broken, and your website is now non-responsive.

see also: http://refactormycode.com/

similar idea.

I'd identify them and then deny them.

To identify them, I'd use a few tricks. One would be to place invisible links on some of your pages. These could be empty anchor tags, or hidden by javascript so that normal users don't click on them. If someone clicks on them, they're probably a bot or something odd. Give them a particular cookie, or mark their IP address as problematic. Another way to identify them is to look at browsing behavior such as requests per minute, browser name, not fetching images, and the "other patterns in their requests" that you mention.

Denying them is probably easier. Put in an entry for their IP in iptables, or your routing table, or use an apache module to serve them something that doesn't require a lot of computing power. Deny them for some period of time, like a few minutes or hours.

You're right that you can offer to trade data with them directly. Build an API and ask them to use it. If it's easier for them, they'll do it. I'm not sure if this undermines your business or not without knowing more details.

If you don't know who the competitor is, put some bogus items on your site. Let them crawl them and put them on their site. Then, you can search Google for those oddly named items. Anyone who has them on their site has been gathering data from you.

This is an arms race. You can't really stop it, but you can make the desired behavior easier for them.

What a device! I think the network here may be affected because I've noticed ~NOTHING UNUSUAL WHATSOEVER~ when reading the news here.

Thanks for organizing, mathgladiator. I'll see you all there!

It's my understanding that if you specify the URL of javascript with "//" at the beginning instead of "http:// or "https:// that the browser will choose whichever it used to fetch the original page. I'm not sure if it's supported by most browsers or not. Searching google for this kind of information has proven most difficult because I don't know any reasonable keywords to use. Anyone have good experience using this method?