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Automate Downloading of Amazon Associates Reports with Olivaw

Dan — Fri, 18 Jan 2013 06:47:26 +0000

At camelcamelcamel, we use Olivaw to download our affiliate reports every morning, which we then import into our database. This seemed useful to all affiliates, so I’ve open-sourced the code.

Grab it at GitHub!

Ego Stroking: 100,000 Camel Users

Dan — Thu, 13 Dec 2012 18:48:40 +0000

Thanks to a few 1k+ days, we managed to pull this off well before the self-imposed deadline on 2012-12-31. Congrats, team Camel!

Ego Stroking: 80,000 Camel Users

Dan — Fri, 26 Oct 2012 20:01:43 +0000

Ego Stroking: 70,000 Camel Users

Dan — Tue, 14 Aug 2012 16:44:38 +0000

30,000 miles on my motorcycle

Dan — Sun, 01 Jul 2012 17:08:10 +0000

10,000 miles in about a year, not bad.

(It was at 32k by the end of the trip.)

Ego Stroking: 60,000 Camel Users

Dan — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 17:11:08 +0000

Ego Stroking: 50,000 Camel Users

Dan — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 19:01:19 +0000

Not even two months since we hit 40k and already we’re up to 50k! This is the result of an average ~180 signups/day over the last 50 days, and bodes well for 2012.

Congratulations Ben, ****, and Nithya! Our efforts are paying off.

Ego Stroking: 40,000 Camel Users!

Dan — Sun, 13 Nov 2011 18:03:16 +0000

Things Siri Won’t Do

Dan — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 09:28:48 +0000

Here’s a list of stuff it seems like Siri, the voice interface on Apple’s iOS 5, should be able to do but can’t as of 2011-10-24.

“Reboot my phone” — Fails to do anything; perhaps rebooting isn’t as common here as it is with Android.
“Call X on Skype” — Tries to call using the phone app, not Skype.

I’m sure I’ll have some more things to add here eventually.

Hmmm…

Dan — Tue, 16 Aug 2011 03:46:16 +0000

It’s interesting that, after Paul Graham rejected camelcamelcamel’s Y Combinator application based on our desire to keep our day jobs (which we later quit), YC funded shopobot (a site that provides the same functionality as C3.) Even more interesting is that, just over a year after we pitched to Google Ventures, shopobot received funding from them.

*Tries not to be a sore loser.*

Update: It turns out that YC didn’t fund shopobot, but actually chose not to invest after their in-person pitch. My mistake!

30,000 Registered Camel Users

Dan — Wed, 15 Jun 2011 18:33:31 +0000

Today camelcamelcamel and co. reached the 30,000 registered users milestone. It’s been a long, fun ride (over 3 years) and things show no sign of slowing down. Hooray for camels!

Here’s a link to my old post on this topic.

20,000 miles on my motorcycle

Dan — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 03:02:44 +0000

I bought it new and have been adding miles whenever possible, with the majority being highway / long distance and the rest ridden around town.

Pearl Jam – Untitled

Dan — Mon, 25 Apr 2011 22:59:41 +0000

Pearl Jam has a ton of untitled songs, usually improvs that Ed works in before MFC or at the end of Daughter. This one was nestled between Not for You and Corduroy at their show at The Gorge in 2005, and is easily one of my favorite unofficial PJ songs.

http://antimac.org/etc/pearljam-untitled.flac

Enjoy!

Fixing “Starting MySQL…Manager of pid-file quit without updating file.[FAILED] “

Dan — Thu, 21 Apr 2011 22:15:05 +0000

Trying to get MySQL running under CentOS and SELinux? Try disabling the latter, or doing the following to allow MySQL to startup with access to precious system files:

1) install selinux-policy-targeted-sources from your OS vendor
2) add the following two lines to /etc/selinux/targeted/src/policy/domains/program/mysqld.te:
allow mysqld_t random_device_t:chr_file read;
allow mysqld_t urandom_device_t:chr_file read;
3) cd to /etc/selinux/targeted/src/policy and issue the following command:
make load

Worked for me!

Fixing “error C2220: warning treated as error – no ‘object’ file generated”

Dan — Thu, 14 Apr 2011 21:59:33 +0000

Ever work with Airplay SDK or just your own bit of code and run into this error message? If so, you probably have a casting error (of omission) on the line given by MSVC’s error log. Try explicitly casting everything and recompile!

Edit: Basically, warnings are treated as errors (duh), so make sure you are abiding by the strictness of your compiler regarding casting and other problems.

More shelves, office cleanup

Dan — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 23:57:27 +0000

New shelves for my records

Dan — Wed, 23 Feb 2011 00:43:51 +0000

Explosivo – physics-based 2-D art for Windows

Dan — Sat, 22 Jan 2011 03:32:00 +0000

Check it out!

http://antimac.org/explosivo

Nerdpron – new Camel db server drives

Dan — Sun, 25 Apr 2010 07:45:29 +0000

I think it’s neat, anyway…

Cosmic Shovel is all official now

Dan — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 02:59:32 +0000

It took CA over a month to process our paperwork, but we are glad it is finally done. Cosmic Shovel, Inc. is now a thing.