0nly1ife

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by 0nly1ife 16y ago
Does anyone have a link to a Newtonian Fluid for comparison?
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by 0nly1ife 16y ago
FarmVille players are real, ordinary, normal people. If you want to develop software that impacts real people, target the FarmVille audience and ignore readers of Hacker News, TechCrunch, etc.
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by 0nly1ife 16y ago
It sounds like you made 100k from contracting in six months. If that is the case, the fastest way to a million is to continue contracting.
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by 0nly1ife 16y ago
SvN, Getting Real, and Rework are an indirect marketing campaign for Basecamp. Sensationalized, aggressive, and confrontational articles attract more readers and more Basecamp signups. I love 37signals, but sometimes I wonder if they are
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by 0nly1ife 16y ago
> If it’s a mass market “trend” that’s all over the news, it’s too late If someone thinks it is a good idea, you are too late. - Yvon Chouinard
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by 0nly1ife 16y ago
It is MySQL running on Amazon. I like it because you can scale a hot database up or down.
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by 0nly1ife 16y ago
They are assumed to be spammy. My strategy for adopting the new api was to move the userbase from an existing app to a new one. Fb deleted the new app in the middle of the migration.
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by 0nly1ife 16y ago
If you have a rails app, use heroku and rds. How long has the app been growing? If you grow too fast FB will delete it without warning.
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by 0nly1ife 16y ago
> Have you had much experience finding quality developers who can see the BIG VISION... The ones I know have their own companies. You are going to have to compete with developers who also are good at business. Learning a bit of tech w
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by 0nly1ife 16y ago
Here is a possible low-budget, low-risk approach to executing: Crack open a ruby on rails book and learn enough tech to build the prototype. You will likely have questions along the way. Post said questions on message boards and IRC. Th
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by 0nly1ife 16y ago
You will only have legal problems if your product is successful. Until then Large Company won't notice you. I say finish the project and try and develop a business around it. You already designed the hardware and wrote the firmware, don'
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by 0nly1ife 16y ago
You are in an ideal position. A co-founder, business plan, or investor will distract you from finishing your project or will interfere with your vision. Finish the product and release it. Once you start making revenue look into building
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by 0nly1ife 16y ago
Cut them some slack. Managing user generated content is a difficult task. I hope they resolve these issues and bring us one step closer to using the internet to improve democracy.
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by 0nly1ife 16y ago
Does standing in one place for a long period of time have a negative impact on blood circulation in your feet and legs, not to mention stress your heart? I've heard surgeons have circulation problems when they get older from standing all t
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by 0nly1ife 16y ago
I realize I'm late posting this, but I'm a solid Rails hacker and would like to join / form a team for this hackathon. I just moved to the city and think this would be a good chance to meet other coders.
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by 0nly1ife 16y ago
Cool idea, but I think the data is skewed by population density, for example, the map shows Juarez as being more touristy than the Grand Canyon. A better approach might be to map the ratio of photos to population density.
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by 0nly1ife 16y ago
1. Idea 2. Sketch interfaces on paper 3. Code html/css interfaces in Rails 4. Extract DB schema from interface 5. Create models in Rails 6. Connect models to the interface with controllers edit: formatting
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by 0nly1ife 16y ago
I did something similar when naming my first company (davcro). I was inspired by Adidas, which was derived from the three letter prefixes of the founder's first and last name: Adolf "Adi" Dassler.
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by 0nly1ife 16y ago
> Really, it's the height of hubris to think that we can engineer something that works as well as what untold generations has evolved. At best photosynthesis have an efficiency of about 8% At best solar panels have an efficiency of 40%
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by 0nly1ife 16y ago
My hobbies are running for fitness and fishing for calm.
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by 0nly1ife 16y ago
I've been a Facebook developer since 2007. Facebook does not share private without your consent. At f8 FB released a new authentication flow that is more restrictive for developers and more informative for users. Then people started freak
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by 0nly1ife 16y ago
edit: double post
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by 0nly1ife 16y ago
Did those people grant your app permission to read their stream? This would be really messed up if they did.
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by 0nly1ife 16y ago
Running for fitness and fishing for calm.
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by 0nly1ife 16y ago
Bragging is the wrong word, but it is the first that came to mind. And I was excited to brag about the size of my app when I first read his article. I just think we spend too much time talking about scaling and not enough time discussing v
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by 0nly1ife 16y ago
Interesting. I'm an indie Facebook developer. My most popular app has over 8 million monthly uniques and 350 million pageviews. I didn't realize how substantial said traffic was until reading this article. I scaled my app to that size o
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by 0nly1ife 17y ago
Is this solution better than using RDS?