"The Coffee Shop Girl You Never Spoke To"

You've replayed it a hundred times. She stood three feet away, scrolling her phone. You had an opening. You composed the perfect line — after she was gone.

For all you know, she's married now. To some guy who said something. Anything.

Openers are cheap. Almost any sentence works when it's delivered within three seconds. The expensive part is the standing there, drafting and deleting, while the window quietly closes.

The "22 Rules" stripped out my hesitation. What to open with, how to keep it alive, and the one habit that costs guys more women than anything else: waiting for perfect.

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I'm looking into building an online social networking type business. The idea isn't even close to this, but to give you a reference, something like www.facebook.com or www.uspot.com. What kind of programming languages or knowlege would be needed?

Thanks
 

"You'll Never Feel READY to Walk Over"

Next Monday you'll feel more confident. After the gym you'll feel more confident. After one more drink you'll feel more confident. After you get a better haircut, a better jacket, a better job.

You've been "getting ready" for two years.

She's standing ten feet away right now. She'll be gone in four minutes. No amount of preparation will manufacture the courage that only comes from moving your feet.

Walk over. Stumble through the first sentence. Let it be clumsy. Let it be imperfect. You will feel more alive in those ten seconds than you have all month.

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I'm a web designer.

Something like facebook (never seen uspot) requires a server scripting language and a database. The norm is either PHP (ssl) and MySQL (db), / ASP (ssl) and...*crap...theres' a bunch of databases..*.., Perl (ssl), Javascript (ssl), crafty scripts writting to a file (db), etc...

Knowledge...you need to know how to program loops, and create, call and input variables into functions. Also, you need to know the stuff to talk to the database, creating, deleting, moving, changing entries, stuff like that.

Ie: Not a project for a newbie.

I may be able to help you, PM me.
 

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LAMP. Linux apache mysql and php.

unless your running something enterprise sized.

It's defiantly not something for a newbie, no :p

you can, however get some script off hotscripts or something and run it.
 

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Normally a decent host should have all that stuff already running ;)

it IS easier/faster to use localhost for debugging purposes :p

I've started to use my forums and my clients forums as a social networking site, sort of like a myspace for cars.

and doc, you in canada? :p Quebec here!
 

"She Made Her Decision Before You Finished Your Sentence"

Three seconds. That's how long it took. Your shoes. Your posture. The way you held your drink. Whether you looked at the floor or looked at her.

She already filed you away. Interesting. Boring. Safe. Bold. Before you even opened your mouth.

Everything you say after that is just her confirming what she already decided.

So stop rehearsing lines. Fix the first three seconds. Stand tall. Look up. Smile like you mean it. Walk like you belong wherever you're standing.

The words come later. The impression comes first.

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I'm Kingston, not that far! (out of town ATM though)

-Ohh, of course a decent host should have it all running....
-I love it when php scripts stall out on a host server when I forget to test locally, lol
 

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I coded my first website when i was 11. back in the days of archie, gopher etc. It was a text-only site. I got into it a bit more when windows95 and netscape 1 came out (my dad paid 1000$ for a netscape developers build, came on a 1.44 floppy) Used to run an ISP in montreal and ohio, then lost all interest to things like beer and cigarettes (15-16ish) and started coding again when i was 21-22. I'm 28 now, and not a day goes by that i don't regret sticking to it. I could have made so much money.
 

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LAMP is the way to go. The latest incarnation of PHP also has SQL-lite built into it, right? Does this remove the need for a MySQL entirely? I used to be a huge PHP nut but I've since been a JSP/Postgres kinda guy.. lol.
 

"She's Out of Your League"

You've said it a hundred times. Maybe a thousand. And every time you say it, you train your brain to freeze the next time she walks into the room.

Leagues are a myth invented by guys who are scared of women.

She's a person. She has bad breath in the morning. She picks songs she can't sing in the shower. She overthinks her own texts.

Walk over. Say something. The league dissolves the second you open your mouth.

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hehe seen the money myspace and youtube and stuff like that makes and gotten interested have we?

well if your doing it for the money , i would suggest a new idea , cuz makign the same kind og cumminity chat boards like myspace and such now is a waste of time and effort by the new year there will be atleast 10 new youtube copycat sites and 100 myspace sites trying to achieve what they have done, and they will fail misserably.....

but if your just doing it for another reason , then nvm..... =P
 

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If I did it, I'd use LAMP, because it's tested and proven for such things. MySQL is fast, that's the main thing of MySQL. I'd suggest using MySQL5 because it supports referential integrity. You'd certainly need a lot of knowledge, such a thing is not for a newbie, you'd need to know a lot about PHP, AJAX/JavaScript, MySQL, relational database design, XHTML and webpage design in general, server security etc. Especially when there are so many sites competing now in that category, facebook, myspace, wallop, uspot, opera community, and countless others.
 

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I have a idea that'll slide into the category of MySpace, LiveJournal, Deviant (and Sheezy)Art and YouTube.

Unfortunely, those are million dollar blueprint plans and I can't say ;)
 

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when youtube started up I wanted to create a video hosting site which was extremely similar, yet provided for webmasters. I did not have the capital to start it (I was under the assumption that I would easily need 10-15k to start it up, even though I would be doign a lot of designing and coding myself)

but then someone started it up exatly what I wanted, and it seemed like they stole some of my ideas hahaha :p (I know they didn't but its rediculous how much vidiac looks like the site i wanted to setup)
 

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Yeah I know, it was just for a reference point so people know what I'm talking about.....lol
oour revenue model is completely different.......
Morphiex said:
there will be atleast 10 new youtube copycat sites and 100 myspace sites trying to achieve what they have done, and they will fail misserably.....
 

"Nervous Around Beautiful Women? There's a Rule for That"

I could talk to any woman I wasn't attracted to. Charming, funny, relaxed. Then a gorgeous woman looked my way and I'd become a sweating, babbling mess.

The fix took me years to find and ten minutes to learn. Nervousness and excitement are the same physical state — pounding heart, adrenaline, flushed face. Your brain just picks the label. And you can pick a better one.

Rule 16 shows you how. You feel the nerves, relabel them as excitement, and let that energy pour out as enthusiasm. Women notice the guy radiating it. They always do.

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It's good to see that there are some web-designers on this board.

I need one! :) How much would you guys charge for design a professional looking real estate site?
 

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Centaurion said:
It's good to see that there are some web-designers on this board.

I need one! :) How much would you guys charge for design a professional looking real estate site?
I honestly don't know how much I'd charge!! :D (^_^)
 

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PM a suggestion if you are interested, cause I'm serious about this. I need to upgrade my real estate site and give it a more professional look.
 
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