Comment Am I the only one who doesn't have a desk? (Score 1) 628
I've used nothing but a laptop and a couch for the past 7 years, and it seems to work just fine. Why waste space with a desk?
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Comment Re:Rent our botnet! (Score 2, Interesting) 46
Outsourcing the reading part doesn't buy you much. If this just did a crawl, it would be of very limited value. That's not what it does.
Wrong. If I want to spider a single web site, many sites have rate-limiters that kick in and will block me after a while. This would allow me to hit it from multiple machines.
There are some security limits, which might even work. Supposedly, all the Java apps can do is look at crawled pages and phone results home. Right.
Why the sarcasm? This seems like a perfect use case for the JVM's security mechanism.
Comment Re:Err, so just like the Pre? (Score 1) 621
N900 supports Flash. Pre doesn't.
Comment Re:I thought this was the whole point? (Score 1) 652
There are more than 4 reasons.
5) You are lazy.
6) You are working a "day job" while pursuing your passion that you hope will one day pay the bills.
There are probably more than 6.
Comment Get a smaller house (Score 1) 199
I've never lived anywhere that I could be in the house but not within ear-shot of/easy walk to my cell phone. Maybe you should consider getting a smaller house. :)
Comment Re:Hrm, this reads like a "new" find (Score 2, Informative) 215
Lots more info here:
http://excavatrix.blogspot.com/
