Recent content by calyx239

The pros are likely to write their own custom bots and/or study the sites hard to learn their anti-spam techniques. Most major sites have a dedicated spam team working full time to stop you, hence the need for custom bots. They are all aware of the commercial bots and probably keep an eye on...

Reddit is not just a script; it is a complex web application consisting of dozens of scripts, config files, tests, hundreds of libraries, and multiple backend databases (SQL and NoSQL). However they do supply an install script in the repository:

Not bullshit. This person I refer to is on the core team of a popular open source web framework, and is well respected in the community. Since he lives in a poor country, imagine if he became wealthy (ie. earning market rate for his skill level). Do you think that would make his life better...

Money is not always related to skill. Did you consider that money is not the most important thing in life for everyone? One of the best developers I ever worked with lives in Portugal and lives happily making $1K a month. That is all he needs and he does not want or ask for more. Real coders...

Perl is the king of this field, and always will be. The language was designed for this sort of thing.

Edit to add: there is an exception but you need *very* specific niche.

There's no money in premium member vanilla porn anymore

I'd love to see too :)

Seconded. GFY is a good resource, also check out cozyfrog

Hi, Just wanted to say good luck. I'm a total noob at this but I'm watching your progess.

Depends what you want to do. I love Perl. But Javascript is popular now, both on the backend and frontend and seems like a good investment.

Awesome reading, thanks! ++

Nice one :) Doubt I'll try it but was fun reading.

Thanks for sharing. I'm totally new to this, so that's great info for me :)

Thanks a lot for this.