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sil3ntmac··on Ask HN: Review my web app, CraigUpdate.com
You can sign up for as many cities as you want, I couldn't think of an easy way to combine multiple cities/search terms without creating an account, which defeats the simple/quick signup aspect I was aiming for.
sil3ntmac··on Ask HN: Review my web app, CraigUpdate.com
To be honest, it was just a little web app I wrote last night. No marketing or business model, although I can see how one could make money off of ads in the emails?

I'm not really looking to develop this into a business, just thought it would be useful and some people would get some use out of it. :)

sil3ntmac··on Ask HN: Review my web app, CraigUpdate.com
The privacy statement is a good point, I will add one in later for sure.
sil3ntmac··on Ask HN: Review my web app, CraigUpdate.com
I used to do that, but I'm not always at my computer. This way I can have results emailed to my iPhone and instantly be notified. SMS isn't a bad idea either now that I think about it...
sil3ntmac··on Ask HN: What are you working on?
news.ycombinator.com, hah. that was most of what i read anyways so i just switched over one day
sil3ntmac··on Ask HN: What are you working on?
I've used it, it rules. jimmyr.com is pretty cool too, used to be my homepage.
sil3ntmac··on Vector Magic - Convert bitmap to vector
I've used this for a while - it used to be free, I think it was hosted by some university. I would upload logos and stuff on there and then download the svg and scale them to my likings. It does work very very well.

Edit: it used to run only on a cluster of servers, the client-side program is new I think.

sil3ntmac··on To all who Think Themselves a Programmer

  $ cat /usr/share/dict/words | egrep -o "(^world$)|(^hello$)"
sil3ntmac··on EFF: Help Protesters in Iran: Run a Tor Bridge or a Tor Relay
I was looking for that exact article, I read it a few months back. I'm a bit hesitant to run TOR on my home connection because of it. Would there be an alternative that only allowed twitter or social news/image/blogging sites (I know this may be defeating the purpose of running a filter-less proxy, but it seems a bit safer)?
sil3ntmac··on Yahoo Mail Is The Worst
About a year ago I worked in support at a large webhosting company. 99% of the blacklisted email issues we ever had came from Yahoo. Some of the cases were legitimate (or is it illegitemate?) spam being sent out from our servers, but we would always find and eliminate these accounts. Unfortunately, Yahoo would blacklist the entire server IP, so none of the other users on the shared server could send email to yahoo either. This caused obvious problems, and we would spend days contacting support at yahoo to explain and get us un-blacklisted.

I also remember this happening with emailing addresses on the entire AT&T ISP. That effected about 40 shared servers (around 16000 hosting accounts, each with unlimited email). So yeah. Bad news.

sil3ntmac··on Sniff Your iPhone's Network Traffic
Just turn on network sharing over wifi and run a packet sniffer (in osx). then connect to the new network from iphone over wifi.

SystemPreferences->Sharing->InternetSharing

Cocoa Packet Analyzer http://www.tastycocoabytes.com/cpa/index.php

sil3ntmac··on Ask HN: what unwanted domain names are you sitting on?
I've had good luck with godaddy's auctions. They have a good, powerful search (you can specify tld's and set a max length and blacklist characters), and their buy-it-now feature allows you to instantly separate inexpensive domains from domains owned by, er, less rational holders.

For example, the auction for eventjunky.com is ending in 10 minutes, and the price is $10. not bad. I also saw asdense.com on there the other day for $5 buy it now... I thought that would be a domain squatter's dream, but decided to pass it up :P

https://auctions.godaddy.com/trpHome.aspx?t=16

sil3ntmac··on Ask HN: what unwanted domain names are you sitting on?
haha nice. i have isronpaulpresident.com.
sil3ntmac··on PHP introduces "goto"
Sweet! Hope they implement COMEFROM next.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COMEFROM

sil3ntmac··on Ask YC: Anyone at WWDC this year?
Hopefully Erica Sadun liveblogs it; I think she did it last year, I may be wrong though
sil3ntmac··on "Auction Site" Swoopo got $44800 for a $2500 computer. See comments for explanation
Looks like the system is guaranteed to make money on at least some items... for example:

http://www.swoopo.com/auction.html?cm_re=Homepage-_-Grid-_-1...

See the "15" image next to the countdown? Mouseover that, and it tells you that the 10 second countdown for this item will not trigger until the bid has gotten up to $64.70. Doesn't take a genius to figure out that the house will win this one (if not all of them).

sil3ntmac··on Poll: Do you smoke?
Smoking cigarettes gives you a buzz...
sil3ntmac··on All I ever needed to know in business, I learned in a strip club.
It's a bit of a stretch, but it was well-written. Very Freakonomics-y.
sil3ntmac··on Ask HN: Review my web app, a cli script repository
It's pretty different; commandlinefu looks like shell scripting only, while mine is more geared towards python, php, c, etc
sil3ntmac··on Ask HN: hn for biz students?
Is HN open source? I never thought about that...
sil3ntmac··on MailALetter.com - Mail a letter online...are there other services like this?
Yes, and free* too...

http://www.esnailer.com/

*Except it works by making you complete terribly spammy advertisement surveys: http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-9739899-2.html

sil3ntmac··on Student's startup promises fast Internet speeds even with dial-up connections
http://powerbandinternet.com/howitswork.php

"Dedicated virtual desktop" hmmmm....

sil3ntmac··on Jsregex
regular expressions still confuse me sometimes. i'll think i've got em down, then i'll see a new one and go wtf?
sil3ntmac··on Snipt - Like Pastie, but for your own commands you frequently forget
That's pretty awesome. i added the command that grabs your wireless router's MAC address, adds it into a skyhook URL, and returns your gps coords.
sil3ntmac··on Ask HN: What do you think of Objective-C?
I've been using obj-c for around a year now, and it's growin' on me :)

I didn't like it too much at first (funky syntax, different naming conventions, generally crappy string manipulation), but once I started using it, especially in conjunction with cocoa and ib, I really started liking it.

It has some cool perks, like using '+' (I forget the technical term) to add functionality to an existing class (i.e. adding a method to the NSString class by creating an NSString+Additions.m file, and all classes in your project can call that method on any NSString object). Much easier than having to create an NSString subclass just to add one method, and then having to remember to name all your NSString's something like MyString* str;

I also like that I can just throw a chunk of c or c++ code in there, and call it as a method. Kinda like having native JNI (department of redundancy department). Alright that was a really bad analogy...

Xcode is a decent SDK as well.

sil3ntmac··on Ask HN: What do you think of Objective-C?
Yes. It is used in Mac development all the time.
sil3ntmac··on Goldman Sachs cracks
Everytime I see ft.com I think of momentum
sil3ntmac··on Ask HN: what do you use for mailing list software?
phplist is what we recommend at work, since it's often easily installed through fantastico
sil3ntmac··on Ask HN: How do I choose my startup's name?
http://cronmower.com

performs quick domain name lookups, and doesn't error out after a few minutes like instantdomainsearch

sil3ntmac··on 5 Reasons Why I Want Digg for Girls
http://kirsty.com (used to be called something else, I forget). They talked about that site when I took a tour of the Houston Technology Center.
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