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I did this as part of my wedding proposal.

I wrote up a simple web app that accepted two different secrets to "login" (one for each person). Once logged in, you were presented with a photo and asked for a comment (first thing that comes to mind or a reaction).

If only one comment was submitted, it would tell you to remind your partner to leave a comment. Once both parties submitted a comment, the photo displayed with both comments and a countdown to the next photo. The countdown varied from 12-48 hours randomly - to give me time to figure out when to actually propose. This ran for several weeks total.

It was fun to see our comments - sometimes they would nearly match. Or reveal something we didn't remember about a historical date/event we shared.

I eventually used the site to pop the question, and then made the whole thing into a photo book, including a word cloud built from each of our comments. Was really fun to see each of our most common words.

It was an incredibly simple, fun project using flask/sqlite on an ec2 instance.



Looks like Akamai Technologies just posted for a number of intern positions: http://www.akamai.com/html/careers/index.html


What is the differentiator from other image sharing sites like imgur?


Well, actually, I would have to say simplicity and convenience. imgip.com was intended for quicker image sharing,

It only takes two steps for you to complete your upload process and be on your way to share you image.

There are actually a lot more advantages currently and a lot more to come.

Thanks for asking.


I took a contest at my school to make a gps-waypoint-driven (rc)car.

Was really interesting interfacing the arduino with an h-bridge for motor control, GPS module, and servo.

These are powerful little devices.

The small bit of documentation I attempted is here: http://arduino-car.blogspot.com/


Do you have to throttle back to 1 api request per second per ip? Any worries about hitting the daily request limit with Amazon?


I subscribe to adexchanger's news letter which covers industry trends and what-not.

There is a lot of noise, but good coverage of the big players / industry level news.

www.adexchanger.com


Likely much faster ways of going through this but to expand on your thought:

#!/bin/bash

     for (( i=1; $i < 1250646; i++))

     do

                curl -s http://www.crunchbase.com/search/advanced/people/$i | grep advanced_search_query | cut -d\" -f12 >> people.txt

     done


Something similar to check-out. Based in javascript and lets you visually verify basic patterns on text-blocks: http://regexpal.com/


This seems great - the only thing stopping me from buying is knowing how annoyed my room mate would get after the first week or two.

Is there any plan to make "Monday / Friday" plans or something less frequent?


Why not buy your room mate their own reminders as a gift?


>Is there any plan to make "Monday / Friday" plans or something less frequent?

We can call whenever you want - just indicate the days you want us to call (or not call) on the new form.


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