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L1quid

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About L1quid

im a coder who develop[s|ed] camelcamelcamel.com and some other sites.

Recent public activity

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    Comment #30316828

    For our browser extension, The Camelizer, I wrote Spader: https://github.com/cosmic-shovel/spader It lets me use Ruby in my html/css/js files, and also sass in the css, letting us …

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    Comment #24789026

    I think Amazon is adding the language parameter. We do not force a language on outgoing links. Worth stripping on our end, though. Thanks for the feedback.

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    Comment #24785005

    Thank you. We currently have no expansion plans.

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    Comment #24784996

    Amazon's policies changed in both China and Japan. This cut us off from the product data in those countries.

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    Comment #24784923

    An awful lot of my decision making in the last ~13 years has included the question: what if the Camels don't exist tomorrow? Which isn't particularly unusual for a business, but it…

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    Comment #24784681

    Thank you to everyone who uses our website. We are fortunate to have been able to run it for so long. Edit: Camel+YC fact: we pitched to YC early on, but weren't ready to give up o…

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    Comment #22799213

    Thanks for your support.

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    Comment #22796675

    Camel creator here. This is, for now, only in the EU. We are still tracking prices in US/CA/AU. The return of EU tracking is currently uncertain. After the crisis is over, we don't…

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    Comment #19128386

    Years ago, when Google kicked our browser extension out of their store, we were in a similar situation. Fortunately, I knew more than one person who worked there and begged them to…

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    Comment #19041431

    We bought 14 of them, plus a RAID card.

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    Comment #19039196

    All of the drives in the RAID were the same age, so it didn't make a lot of sense to replace only three of them. That reduces the price per drive to a mere $1,000! What a steal.

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    Comment #17547208

    I would much rather deal with Amazon for returns and replacements though. Their customer service is streets ahead of Newegg's.

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    Comment #17543027

    Thanks for the recommendation!

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    Comment #13884915

    Should be working now, sorry about that.

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    Comment #13817760

    We applied to YC in 2008, I think, but weren't ready to commit to it fulltime. Then we did just that in 2009.

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    Comment #11513687

    We did indeed live tweet it. Just wanted to keep our users aware of our movements, and avoid the "camel has died forever" fears.

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    Comment #11513685

    Last I checked, just one AWS database instance would cost us $20k+/year if we pre-paid for a reserved instance, and that doesn't include all the usage-based fees (storage, iops). A…

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    Comment #2527661

    I'll look into this, maybe I can fix it.

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    Comment #2527660

    That'll last as your product list grows...

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    Comment #2211705

    Glad you like it (I'm the author.)

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    Comment #1883905

    We're about to launch a new design that I hope solves this problem: New product page: http://s3.amazonaws.com/scrnshots.com/screenshots/262877/new... http://s3.amazonaws.com/scrnsh…

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    Comment #826408

    My laptop has 8 pounds worth of pirated movies in it.

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    Comment #500501

    I am hoping to get some feedback about my site from all you Hackers. There was some good discussion about price trackers in a previous thread, but I think many comments and/or site…

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