Finally, a way to get rid of my old, hazardous, household chemicals and get paid at the same time!

Haha, no one said it would be risk-free :))

YAPC::NA (the North American "Yet Another Perl Conference") is my favorite tech conference to attend, probably because it seems to be rather "by perl developers, for perl developers".

The YAPC conferences seem to have come about after the original perl conferences became OSCON. The perl community developed something specific to perl again, and something that was more intimate, casual, and affordable. There are YAPC conferences all over the world, like YAPC::EU and YAPC::Asia and others.

My experience is only with the North American one, and it's typically 3 days of technical sessions with one or more optional days of more formal classes before or after it.

A conference ticket is cheap, say $100, and you can get a dorm room for cheaper than a hotel room if you like. That's part of the effort to make the conference affordable and open to anyone.

Another, more recent part of that effort seems to be adopting a more formal code of conduct. I think that's popular with a lot of technical conferences these days. Recently, Schwern, one of the prominent members of the perl community withdrew from the conference and described why here: http://blog.schwern.net/2013/05/15/yapcna-2013-withdrawal/ The article linked from this HN post seems to be a reaction to that.

Anyway, YAPC::NA is in Austin this year, and should be a great conference. Check out http://www.yapcna.org/yn2013/ if you want to read more about it.

- Double your rate

- get a written contract

- get paid in regular intervals

- document everything

It certainly sounds at least like export to me. Are they therefore illegally exporting munitions and crypto?

I strongly suspect that the US munition export law will have a section saying "This doesn't apply to the US military" or some such.

I'm picturing somewhere in the DoD there is an ordnance disposal form with a checkbox saying - "dropped on enemy"

Auction ends in a couple of hours. No bids. I wonder if they'll really shut it down.

turd sandwich.

flippa is a cesspool of worthless sites, scams, and con-men.

But, there are some occasional transactions that are worth looking at, if only to get ideas of things to build.

Here's a recent sale of thecupcakeblog.com: https://flippa.com/2736282-over-1000-ad-rev-199k-visits-475k...

Those come along about once or twice a month.

I'm obviously biased but this sold list shows that we regularly sell awesome websites: http://bit.ly/JDV1hg

Try out our advanced search and you can very easily drill into sites that meet your quality definition: https://flippa.com/search

super! I may make use of that tool to find a few names. Thanks!

Did you consider attempting to sell your business? What prevented you from doing that?

Yeah, indeed. I'd have thought the provisioning code and tools could be useful (IIRC was there some custom thing which ran pip installs in parallel)?. I'd certainly donate some money and dev time to help encourage an open source version of the provisioning and build tools which would run any VPS.

You may be on to something there. Sometimes I see sites for sale on Flippa, but from the comments I can tell that some potential buyers have discovered something negative in their research that I would have overlooked. I'd pay for an extended, honest, third-party analysis of some current flippa offerings. Help me value sites I'd consider buying, and I'd see value in that.