Comments for Plaidbuttonup http://plaidbuttonup.com/blog I write like I'm in 4th grade. Also I make things Tue, 13 Sep 2011 06:20:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 Comment on I love the onion by Trent Filipi http://plaidbuttonup.com/blog/13/web/i-love-the-onion/comment-page-1/#comment-162 Trent Filipi Tue, 13 Sep 2011 06:20:08 +0000 http://plaidbuttonup.com/blog/?p=13#comment-162 I’ve read some good stuff here. Definitely worth bookmarking for revisiting. I surprise how much effort you put to create such a excellent informative web site. I’ve read some good stuff here. Definitely worth bookmarking for revisiting. I surprise how much effort you put to create such a excellent informative web site.

]]> Comment on Best Writing Advice for Engineers I’ve Ever Seen. Period. by Arquebusierx http://plaidbuttonup.com/blog/30/thoughts/best-writing-advice-for-engineers-ive-ever-seen-period/comment-page-1/#comment-146 Arquebusierx Sun, 02 Jan 2011 05:57:26 +0000 http://plaidbuttonup.com/blog/?p=30#comment-146 Thank you! This is going to make lab reports SO much easier. Thank you! This is going to make lab reports SO much easier.

]]> Comment on Starting my life over and gonna try to make it on the internet. by born2hula http://plaidbuttonup.com/blog/59/web/starting-my-life-over-and-gonna-try-to-make-it-on-the-internet/comment-page-1/#comment-142 born2hula Thu, 23 Dec 2010 04:09:54 +0000 http://plaidbuttonup.com/blog/?p=59#comment-142 what i want to know is why obama hasn't socialized pornography yet what i want to know is why obama hasn’t socialized pornography yet

]]> Comment on Starting my life over and gonna try to make it on the internet. by Raisins http://plaidbuttonup.com/blog/59/web/starting-my-life-over-and-gonna-try-to-make-it-on-the-internet/comment-page-1/#comment-139 Raisins Fri, 17 Dec 2010 04:21:18 +0000 http://plaidbuttonup.com/blog/?p=59#comment-139 Yeah i know. Fantasti.cc they seem to be doing ok, granted their ad's have gone down hill. I just don't think they are targeted enough. I do love what do they do with donations and the heart system. Motherless.com is another site that is feeding off of social and I know they are black for server bills. Although their content is pushing the line. Also Xhamster has a surprising community. Yeah i know. Fantasti.cc they seem to be doing ok, granted their ad’s have gone down hill. I just don’t think they are targeted enough. I do love what do they do with donations and the heart system. Motherless.com is another site that is feeding off of social and I know they are black for server bills. Although their content is pushing the line. Also Xhamster has a surprising community.

]]> Comment on Starting my life over and gonna try to make it on the internet. by born2hula http://plaidbuttonup.com/blog/59/web/starting-my-life-over-and-gonna-try-to-make-it-on-the-internet/comment-page-1/#comment-138 born2hula Fri, 17 Dec 2010 04:11:26 +0000 http://plaidbuttonup.com/blog/?p=59#comment-138 I also wanted to mention that fantasti.cc has already attempted to socialize pornography and they appear to be either failing or cashing in big time because the ads have gotten really bad lately. I also wanted to mention that fantasti.cc has already attempted to socialize pornography and they appear to be either failing or cashing in big time because the ads have gotten really bad lately.

]]> Comment on Starting my life over and gonna try to make it on the internet. by born2hula http://plaidbuttonup.com/blog/59/web/starting-my-life-over-and-gonna-try-to-make-it-on-the-internet/comment-page-1/#comment-137 born2hula Fri, 17 Dec 2010 03:57:20 +0000 http://plaidbuttonup.com/blog/?p=59#comment-137 Hey, so uh.. the porn site idea is easily the best one on there, because people really do like porn. But you might have to buckle on a couple points: First, you're practically guaranteed to have to steal content unless you can get people to approach you with content, but then you're operating on their terms from the beginning; i would avise against being dictated to so early in the game. People don't call it stolen anymore, it's called user-submitted. Like reddit and imgur. Also, it's going to be pretty difficult to get people to subscribe for porn, and if you're building your site for the kind of person who likes to avoid ads, you might end up with nothing but a gigantic server bill. The other idea I wanted to drop on you was that on most social sites, you attach identity to content. On a porn site, user identity is not important, it's about the porn. I would recommend that you play down the user's identity as much as possible, opting for a more anonymous kind of experience. You could still have comments and other user-generated metadata applied to submissions, but without showing too much about the user other than maybe just a small avatar along with a comment or a tag. Hey, so uh.. the porn site idea is easily the best one on there, because people really do like porn. But you might have to buckle on a couple points: First, you’re practically guaranteed to have to steal content unless you can get people to approach you with content, but then you’re operating on their terms from the beginning; i would avise against being dictated to so early in the game. People don’t call it stolen anymore, it’s called user-submitted. Like reddit and imgur. Also, it’s going to be pretty difficult to get people to subscribe for porn, and if you’re building your site for the kind of person who likes to avoid ads, you might end up with nothing but a gigantic server bill.

The other idea I wanted to drop on you was that on most social sites, you attach identity to content. On a porn site, user identity is not important, it’s about the porn. I would recommend that you play down the user’s identity as much as possible, opting for a more anonymous kind of experience. You could still have comments and other user-generated metadata applied to submissions, but without showing too much about the user other than maybe just a small avatar along with a comment or a tag.

]]> Comment on Starting my life over and gonna try to make it on the internet. by Apes http://plaidbuttonup.com/blog/59/web/starting-my-life-over-and-gonna-try-to-make-it-on-the-internet/comment-page-1/#comment-136 Apes Thu, 16 Dec 2010 20:41:00 +0000 http://plaidbuttonup.com/blog/?p=59#comment-136 I really dig the Haiku site, the Madlib book idea (fucking LOVE madlibs! - i definitely know people who would love to participate in and buy a book of something like that) and i reeeally dig the Porn site idea. THAT could be super fun and has a lot of potential, i think. Don't ask me how to make it all work. Good luck and congratulations on your new life direction, or at the very least, letting the compass needle spin for a while. Blowing the lid off of all your expectations can be terrifying. and exhilarating. best. Apes. I really dig the Haiku site, the Madlib book idea (fucking LOVE madlibs! – i definitely know people who would love to participate in and buy a book of something like that) and i reeeally dig the Porn site idea. THAT could be super fun and has a lot of potential, i think.

Don’t ask me how to make it all work.

Good luck and congratulations on your new life direction, or at the very least, letting the compass needle spin for a while. Blowing the lid off of all your expectations can be terrifying. and exhilarating.

best.

Apes.

]]> Comment on Starting my life over and gonna try to make it on the internet. by Brad F. http://plaidbuttonup.com/blog/59/web/starting-my-life-over-and-gonna-try-to-make-it-on-the-internet/comment-page-1/#comment-132 Brad F. Thu, 16 Dec 2010 05:34:55 +0000 http://plaidbuttonup.com/blog/?p=59#comment-132 In regards to your porn idea, sex sells. Problem with that is, unless you're looking for user submissions anonymously a la 4chan camwhore style, you're probably not going to find too many models that will let you put nudes of them on the Internet for free. The "Haiku at work" thing might work, but it would probably be better if you expanded it into a user submission site, offering individual feeds for each user, but rather than just focusing on haikus in specific, allow for all poetry and short stories. Work on creating a usable post editor, a pretty UI, and don't require logins to comment (FB Connect / Twitter OAuth / etc.) and also keep in mind that the demographic that you're going to be targeting with that is likely high schoolers and college students who are still bemoaning the harshness of life and still have time to sit around writing as a hobby. The biggest thing would be like you said, to make people feel that they own the content they're putting up there. So, maybe you could have a main pipe that shows user submissions, but have individual pages that show particular user's posts, which is where you could pick up that user's feed. You know, kinda like going from your Twitter home page to a particular person's profile. As for iPhone apps, you could create an app that shows a video of a donkey taking a crap if you hit a squirrel on the head with a hammer and make money from it. iPhone app junkies will buy damn near anything, as long as it's priced right. Regardless, I wish you the best of luck. For a while I thought I was going to make a career out of being in the military. Then I realized I hated that shit and decided to start taking more chances so I can get where I want to be, rather than where people were telling me I should be. I have a great wife now, and I'm about to go back to college on a full scholarship. It hasn't been easy the whole time, but things are working out for me now. I think if you really put your mind to it and don't slack off, you can make it work for you too. You have tech skills, which are valuable these days. Best of luck, and I'll be following your updates here. In regards to your porn idea, sex sells. Problem with that is, unless you’re looking for user submissions anonymously a la 4chan camwhore style, you’re probably not going to find too many models that will let you put nudes of them on the Internet for free.

The “Haiku at work” thing might work, but it would probably be better if you expanded it into a user submission site, offering individual feeds for each user, but rather than just focusing on haikus in specific, allow for all poetry and short stories. Work on creating a usable post editor, a pretty UI, and don’t require logins to comment (FB Connect / Twitter OAuth / etc.) and also keep in mind that the demographic that you’re going to be targeting with that is likely high schoolers and college students who are still bemoaning the harshness of life and still have time to sit around writing as a hobby. The biggest thing would be like you said, to make people feel that they own the content they’re putting up there. So, maybe you could have a main pipe that shows user submissions, but have individual pages that show particular user’s posts, which is where you could pick up that user’s feed. You know, kinda like going from your Twitter home page to a particular person’s profile.

As for iPhone apps, you could create an app that shows a video of a donkey taking a crap if you hit a squirrel on the head with a hammer and make money from it. iPhone app junkies will buy damn near anything, as long as it’s priced right.

Regardless, I wish you the best of luck. For a while I thought I was going to make a career out of being in the military. Then I realized I hated that shit and decided to start taking more chances so I can get where I want to be, rather than where people were telling me I should be. I have a great wife now, and I’m about to go back to college on a full scholarship. It hasn’t been easy the whole time, but things are working out for me now. I think if you really put your mind to it and don’t slack off, you can make it work for you too. You have tech skills, which are valuable these days. Best of luck, and I’ll be following your updates here.

]]> Comment on Getting Psyco to work on Mac OSX snow leopard 10.6.2 by pixtur http://plaidbuttonup.com/blog/23/tech/getting-psyco-to-work-on-mac-osx-snow-leopard-10-6-2/comment-page-1/#comment-36 pixtur Tue, 20 Jul 2010 07:43:54 +0000 http://plaidbuttonup.com/blog/?p=23#comment-36 Same problem here: I set the defaults, but... svn co http://codespeak.net/svn/psyco/dist/ psyco-dist cd psyco-dist python setup.py install ...still fails with /codegen.h:15:3: error: #error "-----------------------------------------------------" c/codegen.h:16:3: error: #error "Sorry, non-32-bit platforms are not supported at all." c/codegen.h:17:3: error: #error "You may try with a Python compiled in 32-bit " c/codegen.h:18:3: error: #error "compatibility mode. Note that Psyco will probably " c/codegen.h:19:3: error: #error "never support non-32-bit platforms, as it is no " c/codegen.h:20:3: error: #error "longer actively developed. Instead, the PyPy group " c/codegen.h:21:3: error: #error "plans to replace it with a more flexible and easily " c/codegen.h:22:3: error: #error "retargettable Psyco-for-PyPy during the year 2006. " c/codegen.h:23:3: error: #error "See http://codespeak.net/pypy/ " c/codegen.h:24:3: error: #error "-----------------------------------------------------" In file included from c/i386/idispatcher.c:4, Any help appreciated. Same problem here: I set the defaults, but…

svn co http://codespeak.net/svn/psyco/dist/ psyco-dist
cd psyco-dist
python setup.py install

…still fails with

/codegen.h:15:3: error: #error “—————————————————–”
c/codegen.h:16:3: error: #error “Sorry, non-32-bit platforms are not supported at all.”
c/codegen.h:17:3: error: #error “You may try with a Python compiled in 32-bit ”
c/codegen.h:18:3: error: #error “compatibility mode. Note that Psyco will probably ”
c/codegen.h:19:3: error: #error “never support non-32-bit platforms, as it is no ”
c/codegen.h:20:3: error: #error “longer actively developed. Instead, the PyPy group ”
c/codegen.h:21:3: error: #error “plans to replace it with a more flexible and easily ”
c/codegen.h:22:3: error: #error “retargettable Psyco-for-PyPy during the year 2006. ”
c/codegen.h:23:3: error: #error “See http://codespeak.net/pypy/ ”
c/codegen.h:24:3: error: #error “—————————————————–”
In file included from c/i386/idispatcher.c:4,

Any help appreciated.

]]> Comment on Getting Psyco to work on Mac OSX snow leopard 10.6.2 by Tomas http://plaidbuttonup.com/blog/23/tech/getting-psyco-to-work-on-mac-osx-snow-leopard-10-6-2/comment-page-1/#comment-14 Tomas Fri, 26 Mar 2010 23:05:36 +0000 http://plaidbuttonup.com/blog/?p=23#comment-14 How did you install psyco itself? It fails when I install it using pip in virtualenv. Cheers, Tomas How did you install psyco itself? It fails when I install it using pip in virtualenv.

Cheers,

Tomas

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