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There is a large cohort of people who will complain about ads but also don't want to pay. My little microSaaS is monetised with ads but I offer option to pay if you don't like the ads. Still get plenty of complaints about the ads.

After adding UPI as a payment option to my little microSaaS, I'm finally starting to see sales in India. Was like trying to extract hen's teeth to get an Indian to sign up before that.

I bet if you pay the equivalent 60s/70s dollars to fly today you'll get much better service than back then! Modern first class cabins are a class above what was available back then.

OpenRouter falls in the acceptable use category. They targeting users that are misusing their Claude OAuth token on non-Anthropic products.

$7 per 1000 searches seems steep. Don't think I will sign up to something where I have no idea if I'll make money, considering I'll also be sharing the commission with you.

The Pro account is only $20/month and works with Claude Code.

Yeah, it's all client side. Which is why I was able to just leave and forget about it for so long. Was hosted on an S3 bucket. There's tons of libraries out there that does client side compression/decompression. Just search through github! :-)

Can relate. I built a little web utility back in 2009. Did practically nothing with it (occasional updates every 2/3 years) and it slowly accumulated inbound links and google ranking. Then finally in 2019 I decided to put a bit more effort into it. Now I make my living from it! :-)

You're thinking of Agilent. Also Accenture didn't change their name due to Enron. It happened before the scandal (so quite lucky for them!) Arthur Andersen and Andersen Consulting were involved in a legal tussle which required them to change their name... https://www.nytimes.com/2000/08/08/business/worldbusiness/IH...

I like that I can embed a bit of vue code into an existing web page. Bit like old school javascript. AngularJS 1.x was like that too and the inspiration for Vue. React/Angular require a whole build process with NPM/webpack etc etc to create a SPA.

Theres an interesting product over at kickstarter. Seems to be getting a quite a bit of traction. Beacon with a whole bunch of different sensors. All open source! https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/463050344/ruuvitag-open...

Thats a dumb argument. Boeing still makes 747s, which is the same age.

You're comparing apples with tuna

After you've watched The Room, read "The Disaster Artist: My Life Inside the Room, the Greatest Bad Movie Ever Made". It is a fascinating tale! (And is being turned into a movie of it's own starring James Franco)

Just the sort of tool I'm after! Been using Gimp to open PSDs but it's quite finicky and error prone. I can't justify myself a Photoshop license just for inspection purposes.

Netbeans 8 is great for HTML5/JS work as well. Been using the beta version for AngularJS development the past 2 months.

Awesome! Just what I needed this morning.

Need to create page rules if you want to cache HTML pages.

Also, cloudflare does support clearing of individual files. There is an API for it. Pretty sure their web client does too.

Direct deposit into account when both of us are in Australia. Requires bank account number of recipient. Doesn't incur fees like paypal does.

Sounds like communism (the ideal of it)

Tcl might've been elegant but StoryServer most certainly wasn't. Http variables automatically injected into the code was a particularly fun security risk. Then they provided helpful (to hackers) error messages that could be googled. Still came up with a result all these years later! :-) http://www.google.com/#q=intitle%3A"StoryServer+Error"

I had the same feeling when reading this post. It's one thing to spin a positive when acquired for the product and not the people.

When you're about to shutdown a service, this kind of self-congratulation is more like a middle finger to the users. A humbly apologetic post would've been a better goodwill gesture. High five each other in private.

It's only Nokia by name going forward. The name will likely be killed off once MS completes it's assimilation in to the collective.

This post comes off kind of douchey. Sympathies evaporated once you started mentioning slavery. Factory workers in South East Asia might have a slightly different opinion on what constitutes slavery.

You could've had some fun with the challenge. E.g. Write a piece of code that draws a massive middle finger on the screen. That would've been a cooler response!

Here's how I responded to a small company that was trying to make me jump through (unnecessary) hoops: http://www.andrewdyster.com/how-to-fill-out-selection-criter...

(These guys were a small 3-4 man operation, not a mega corp. My way of telling them to stop acting like dicks.)

Seconded. This is very confusing. Is it a way to collect feedback on my apps, some kind of life hack fitness app or something to do with technical interviews?

I've built a basic poker tracker with AngularJS/FileReader API called PokerStoker.com. Was just about expecting to see the same! :-) At the moment its sitting on HD waiting for me to polish it off. If theres any casual poker players out there that are looking for a simple tracker, msg me. I'll send you the beta link.

That statement in the article is quite disingenuous. 30 seconds is a comfortable win but not something to get excited about. The front runners routinely lap the poorer teams, so it's hardly "fractions of a second".

Aah, ok. Seems stupid to sue as the site promotes the songs (via iTunes, etc...) but the music industry aren't exactly known for rational decision making.

Has the site been put down? Why didn't you keep it as a fun little side project? I don't understand why the goal has to always be a $17 million exit. I've built things like facetache.com and openingthemes.tv cause I thought they were fun, not for some massive financial windfall.