I've outsourced all load testing to blokblok. He's not gay though, just ask him.
Shemales/tranny tests get further outsourced to Jeffrey.
Programmer Pissing Contest 2015
- Thread starter acidie
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I've outsourced all load testing to blokblok. He's not gay though, just ask him.
Shemales/tranny tests get further outsourced to Jeffrey.
For projects why not something marketing/research/biz related?
Here's some I just thought of:
Here's some I just thought of:
- Blogging calendar
- Scheduling Reddit posts
- Desktop notification from RSS feed (plus recording notifications)
- Local citation finder/scraper/organizer
- Submit website to list of statistic/whois sites
^^ Sorry, spastic finger Shindig, didn't really mean to like yer post. Not that it was terrible or anything.
However, I think entering the realm of making likenesses of people here to abuse opens up the door to a bunch of potential problems. I'd much rather see something really useful come of this that could even turn into a lucrative opportunity (why should it be a complete waste of time if it can help in making us all money, or just be straight up monetized by its creator?).
I'm liking some of the ideas so far. The trend spotter idea is cool. I think that's been done, but that's not to say it can't be done better.
Needs to be something simple concept wise, yet complicated enough to pose a challenge to the participants. I saw the post about this guy earlier https://levels.io/product-hunt-hacker-news-number-one/ and the Nomad app is brilliant. I think we're looking for something along those lines.
However, I think entering the realm of making likenesses of people here to abuse opens up the door to a bunch of potential problems. I'd much rather see something really useful come of this that could even turn into a lucrative opportunity (why should it be a complete waste of time if it can help in making us all money, or just be straight up monetized by its creator?).
I'm liking some of the ideas so far. The trend spotter idea is cool. I think that's been done, but that's not to say it can't be done better.
Needs to be something simple concept wise, yet complicated enough to pose a challenge to the participants. I saw the post about this guy earlier https://levels.io/product-hunt-hacker-news-number-one/ and the Nomad app is brilliant. I think we're looking for something along those lines.
You better shut your cum dumpster, maggot.
"WF Hero" is a prestige reserved for saints like Suddenly Ass and sumitdhawan and I2E when he's out punking posers poolside.
If a WF hall of fame and shame app is not created, then I'm going to go masturbate somewhere else.
Lemme get dat bitbucket invite doe.
But seriously, create a Twitch stream curator and I'm sold.
I should clarify that wasn't my idea for this.
For this, something that scrapes data and presents it into actionable form would be sick.
Unrelated to IM but someone could think of something similar and relevant. I'm working on a fishing tool to scrape fishing creel reports from the wa state creel records db, sort them by location, sort number of fish to angler ratio and rank them, set up alerts for when the first x species is reported (6 species of salmon, all return from ocean at diff times).
Example, it's Feb and there have been 100's of chinook salmon caught and registered at dozens of boat ramps (where they check), but no coho yet, they start in another 30-60 days. I want an email alert the day the first one is caught with the location. Additionally if I want to go fishing for coho, sockeye, chum, pink, or chinook, I can see a chart with the top 10 places in the state for each type as of that day, based on the numbers.
Yeah, this was my only condition. Last time we did an RSS reader, which was pretty pointless. If we're going to waste our time swinging our e-penises around, might as well try to benefit some folks while we're at it.
So if any one has any suggestions, feel free. What do you need? Some type of crawler, a little desktop app to help streamline LP creation, mailing list management, a small CRM of some kind, lead management, what?
Again, I'll do this, but only if it's something useful that others can / will actually use. Otherwise, it's not worth it, as I could really care less about swinging my e-penis around just because acidie started a pissing match between us. Nothing bitcoin related though, as I already have that in the pipeline, and will be releasing on Github shortly.
Where do us non coders submit our 50$ odesk entries?
++ if you want the contest to be useful why limit yourself to one thing.
Make it a combo of idea, and submission. Then we get a bunch of fun little tools that are useful instead 10 copies of the same old thing.
If we do the above I'm in for a prize sponsorship.
++ if you want the contest to be useful why limit yourself to one thing.
Make it a combo of idea, and submission. Then we get a bunch of fun little tools that are useful instead 10 copies of the same old thing.
If we do the above I'm in for a prize sponsorship.
Yeah, I like that idea! We each do a different project, but all around the same size and complexity. I'm up for that, if everyone else is.
We need more developers then. Maybe we should go rustle some jimmies on Hacker News, or something.
Make a thread for it with some baseline rules, asking for entries and prize sponsorships and setting the date.
Winner will be the guy with the most likes in a special thread where everything's posted at the end + we wait a week or something. (throw out likes from people with under 100 posts or a red rep bar)
No pre existing projects or stuff that would take an extremely talented coder more then a weekend.
I'm in for 100$ and a lifetime Termexplorer Pro account for first.
Lifetime Basic account for second.
Winner will be the guy with the most likes in a special thread where everything's posted at the end + we wait a week or something. (throw out likes from people with under 100 posts or a red rep bar)
No pre existing projects or stuff that would take an extremely talented coder more then a weekend.
I'm in for 100$ and a lifetime Termexplorer Pro account for first.
Lifetime Basic account for second.
Well, if we're all doing different projects, mind if I do a bitcoin one? I'm planning to do it anyway, and open source it on Github. I just need a couple days to finish a large, 8 month long project, and this was the next thing on my list.
It's basically a little online CMS that you install on your server, and let's you easily get setup as your own payment processor ala BitPay / PayPal. No fees to receive funds, a 0.0001 BTC (~$0.03 USD) fee to send funds regardless of amount, all funds are 100% in your control, and are virtually 100% secure. There's no trusting 3rd parties like BitPay or Coinbase, and hackers can't get at the funds (unless you're unbelievably retarded and careless). It's basically meant to simply things for merchants, and also give the middle finger to guys like BitPay for charging the fees they do, as the whole point of bitcoin is there are no fees or intermediaries.
I'll admit, I'll be cheating a bit, as the offline signing portion is basically done. I have a couple hours left on it, before it's finalized. However, I haven't even started the online CMS portion of it yet though, so I'd be starting from a clean slate on that.
That would be preferable to me. I don't particularly care about this pissing contest, and this is something I want to do anyway, so killing two birds with one stone, type of thing. Does that work?
It's basically a little online CMS that you install on your server, and let's you easily get setup as your own payment processor ala BitPay / PayPal. No fees to receive funds, a 0.0001 BTC (~$0.03 USD) fee to send funds regardless of amount, all funds are 100% in your control, and are virtually 100% secure. There's no trusting 3rd parties like BitPay or Coinbase, and hackers can't get at the funds (unless you're unbelievably retarded and careless). It's basically meant to simply things for merchants, and also give the middle finger to guys like BitPay for charging the fees they do, as the whole point of bitcoin is there are no fees or intermediaries.
I'll admit, I'll be cheating a bit, as the offline signing portion is basically done. I have a couple hours left on it, before it's finalized. However, I haven't even started the online CMS portion of it yet though, so I'd be starting from a clean slate on that.
That would be preferable to me. I don't particularly care about this pissing contest, and this is something I want to do anyway, so killing two birds with one stone, type of thing. Does that work?
I think it should really be limited to a day or 2s work type things tops.
Otherwise its just a marketing platform.
I really like the idea of a thread full of useful little marketing toys that make random tasks we all have to deal with slightly easier.
Otherwise its just a marketing platform.
I really like the idea of a thread full of useful little marketing toys that make random tasks we all have to deal with slightly easier.
Well, if you guys want quality stuff you can actually use, we need more than a day or two. We need about a week, because these projects will be done in our spare time (or mine at least). I'm not about to tell my boss I'm unavailable for a couple days because I'm busy having a pissing contest with others on a gay webmaster forum full of dick pics. That probably wouldn't go over very well. 
I'm not accepting new clients myself, but who cares if someone uses it as a marketing platform? As long as you get quality, free shit you can actually use, it's all good. Just make one of the rules that it has to be open source, and uploaded to Github for everyone to download / use.
I'm not accepting new clients myself, but who cares if someone uses it as a marketing platform? As long as you get quality, free shit you can actually use, it's all good. Just make one of the rules that it has to be open source, and uploaded to Github for everyone to download / use.
I don't think its unreasonable to just set a few week long deadline. Logistics take time.
It's very easy to just disqualify things that were clearly more then a few days worth of effort. + I wanna see what random scripts gay webmasters have made their VA's throw together.
I'm sure its not just me, but I'm going to be using this contest to look for job candidates. If someone demonstrates exceptional technical ability given the time / resource constraints even if their idea is shit I'm going to be pming them asking about rates. It might not even be coding ability that's demonstrated. People that can define projects in a way that they can be accomplished with a few days of effort from some herp derp line coder are their own flavor of valuable talent.
It's very easy to just disqualify things that were clearly more then a few days worth of effort. + I wanna see what random scripts gay webmasters have made their VA's throw together.
I'm sure its not just me, but I'm going to be using this contest to look for job candidates. If someone demonstrates exceptional technical ability given the time / resource constraints even if their idea is shit I'm going to be pming them asking about rates. It might not even be coding ability that's demonstrated. People that can define projects in a way that they can be accomplished with a few days of effort from some herp derp line coder are their own flavor of valuable talent.
Alright, well, I'm happy to do a different project as well. Doesn't really matter to me, and the bitcoin one is getting done regardless. Let us know what you guys want to see. So far, we have a few suggestions from JTF:
- Blogging calendar
- Scheduling Reddit posts
- Desktop notification from RSS feed (plus recording notifications)
- Local citation finder/scraper/organizer
- Submit website to list of statistic/whois sites
Ok this what I'm thinking so far in terms of rules/guidelines:
As was mentioned in the other thread the comp was starting in 2 days, but I right now it's probably better to nail shit down.
So I'm thinking push it back slightly so we can get some good ideas for projects that WF wants and give people time to think about and vote on what they want and it also gives other devs who want to swing their cock time to prepare.
As Kiopa_Matt said don't be scared to think big, I'm down for developing crazy complicated shit that makes me want to cry in frustration.
So I ask the good people of WF, what web app do you need but currently don't have?
- One week development time. I was originally thinking from date X to date Y but now I'm leaning towards having just a rough start date (on or around date X for example) and having 168 hours to complete it from the time you start.
- The project needs to be useful to WF. I personally don't care what (I'm in this for the glory holes that cum with winning) but I don't want to make shit that has been done a million times before like a rank tracker (social signals is cool though).
- WF decides what gets built. Having 3 or 4 different choices voted on by WF and letting the dev choose which one they want to build is a good idea.
- Code should be open source unless the dev is going to monetize. Even though this started as a pissing contest it's become more than that and I like the idea of using the comp to give something useful back to WF.
As was mentioned in the other thread the comp was starting in 2 days, but I right now it's probably better to nail shit down.
So I'm thinking push it back slightly so we can get some good ideas for projects that WF wants and give people time to think about and vote on what they want and it also gives other devs who want to swing their cock time to prepare.
As Kiopa_Matt said don't be scared to think big, I'm down for developing crazy complicated shit that makes me want to cry in frustration.
So I ask the good people of WF, what web app do you need but currently don't have?
Stop asking what people want and just pick something + make it. Most people need to see it to believe in it.
++ anyone can enter. Contests are good for activity around here. I'm sure we can come up with enough prizes to make it worthwhile. Lots of bst sellers and people who would get value from having useful little things made.
++ anyone can enter. Contests are good for activity around here. I'm sure we can come up with enough prizes to make it worthwhile. Lots of bst sellers and people who would get value from having useful little things made.
Some kind of G Trends monitor would be useful. Like keyword explorer combo. User sets a seed like "insurance" or "homo", the app brings a shitload of keywords, checks them in GT and gives out all upgoing ones. Then builds the whole list from scratch daily and sends alerts.
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A lead gen system that allows you to stick javascript on a page and dynamically builds a lead gen form based on what data you want to capture (first name, last name, address, email, etc). Admin section that show charts, performance, etc.
A snip.ly clone. Granted this is pretty simple to build, but it's also pretty fucking useful.
Could probably merge the two together now that I think about it.
A snip.ly clone. Granted this is pretty simple to build, but it's also pretty fucking useful.
Could probably merge the two together now that I think about it.
Here ya go
(This concept was posted on blindape, but my DNS is fucky right now)
The idea is to take advatage of the free proxies provided all over the net.
Get proxies
Gather a few text files with a simple google query like this:
+”:8080″ +”:3128″ +”:80″ filetype:txt
Dump all of them from the textfiles into a database, consisting simply of
URL, last_date, schedule
URL is the url for the proxy, last_date is the date of the last check, schedule is the time in days to pass before it gets checked again.
For a new proxy, we set schedule to 0, which will be a special case.
Check proxies
Your “check_proxies” function simply queries the database to grab all URLS that should be checked today, as well as those with that 0 entry in “schedule”.
It then proceeds to perform a simple function check (get the code from a website, for example)
Rate and schedule proxies
The logic now is simple.
If the proxy works, we time it and rate it.
It also gets bumped up to 1 day schedule, regardless of where it was before.
If it does not work, bump it down.
That is it in a nutshell.
Let it run one time per day, fill in a few new proxies every now and then and enjoy.
Room for improvements
Of course!
Keep track of how often a proxy was used by your scripts (to rotate), Make it easy to dump new proxies into the DB, check if a proxy supports what you need (SSL,HTTPS, etc…), check if the proxy is passing only what you want, etc…
Knock yourself out.
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(This concept was posted on blindape, but my DNS is fucky right now)
The idea is to take advatage of the free proxies provided all over the net.
Get proxies
Gather a few text files with a simple google query like this:
+”:8080″ +”:3128″ +”:80″ filetype:txt
Dump all of them from the textfiles into a database, consisting simply of
URL, last_date, schedule
URL is the url for the proxy, last_date is the date of the last check, schedule is the time in days to pass before it gets checked again.
For a new proxy, we set schedule to 0, which will be a special case.
Check proxies
Your “check_proxies” function simply queries the database to grab all URLS that should be checked today, as well as those with that 0 entry in “schedule”.
It then proceeds to perform a simple function check (get the code from a website, for example)
Rate and schedule proxies
The logic now is simple.
If the proxy works, we time it and rate it.
It also gets bumped up to 1 day schedule, regardless of where it was before.
If it does not work, bump it down.
That is it in a nutshell.
Let it run one time per day, fill in a few new proxies every now and then and enjoy.
Room for improvements
Of course!
Keep track of how often a proxy was used by your scripts (to rotate), Make it easy to dump new proxies into the DB, check if a proxy supports what you need (SSL,HTTPS, etc…), check if the proxy is passing only what you want, etc…
Knock yourself out.
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