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by IsaacL 14y ago
Interesting... so is this going to be "a better PHPBB / IP.Board / Forumcircle" or something much more customisable? It sounds like the latter, but it would be interesting to hear how that would work. A good plugin architecture, and ecosyst
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Indeed, I have heard from a few friends who worked in consulting that hourly productivity held steady up to around 60 hours/week. Over 80/hours per week, it dropped off rapidly. Between those two figures was an ambiguous zone.
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Is genius born, or made? Clearly, it's a combination of both, but which factor is more important? Are geniuses the genetic elite, the 0.00001% of humanity? They appear only rarely, but their genius shines through wherever they appear? Or ar
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"What should one do about this as a startup and as an investor in startups?" Surely this only matters if you're in an area where people are spending lots of money. There are plenty of areas where they aren't. Even in such an area, the boots
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This is Roissy's new blog, correct? I don't know, the guy's writing just creates a strong, visceral negative reaction in me. Complete 'ugh' reaction. Like the worst parts of 4chan, it's disgusting, horrifying, and strangely compelling. I th
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by IsaacL 14y ago
Out of interest, are you familiar with Venkatesh Rao's "Be Slightly Evil" mailing list? He has a similar worldview to you (cynical realpolitick as an amoral tool, usable for good or evil).
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by IsaacL 14y ago
No, I'm the same way. Or at least I've started to become that way. Conversations about all the cool technologies someone has used in their stack bore me. Or hearing about the wonders of automated testing. Etc, etc. I find it quite useful, t
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You're not alone. Guess which famous tech website uses flat files as a database? Hint: orange header, heirarchical comments...
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My question as well. Though I think you can scale service businesses, they scale differently to product businesses. (E-myth revisited provides a roadmap). But yes, cleaning is already a crowded market, and if someone could make the "Starb
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I did a university project in Clojure that fed Final Fantasy midi tracks into a Markov chain. https://github.com/IsaacLewis/MidiMarkov The crystal theme worked the best (it's basically some scales on the piano that go up and down). With a
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In China I heard that many older Chinese people can't drink milk, but the younger generation (who've drank it all their lives) can. Apparently there were lots of parents who couldn't drink milk themselves who would go to the "milk shop" eve
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Yes, I'd much prefer if journalists would switch from using "X is dead" to "X is dying". Dying is a much better analogy than dead. Dead things don't do anything. Dying things might die quickly (cassettes) or they might die slowly (typewrite
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I think they were being flippant.
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Yes, you're right. There's some terrible Ruby and Python coders, and some of the best programmers in the world use PHP. However, this post was aimed at non-technical people. If you don't know much about tech, and try to hire PHP programmers
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The HN crowd might not be the target audience - this is targeted at non-technical people - but next time a friend of a friend tells you "so I have this website idea..." you can send them here.
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Show HN: a flowchart to help non-technical founders choose their tech stack(thectonetwork.com)
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I know people who are building 21st century versions of pets.com and doing quite well out of it ;)
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The best resource for this I've found is: http://www.thenameinspector.com/10-tips-for-naming-your-comp... And the rest of that guy's blog.
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by IsaacL 14y ago
Looks like a classic example of a huge market that young techies think isn't important. I don't know anyone my age who has an account on ancestry.com or who cares about their family tree, but I have lots of older (and richer) relatives who
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People buy hosting based on (RAM / CPU / bandwidth) for your buck. They don't buy based on customer service. I think this is OK for the middle of the market - VPS customers, for whom a Linux shell is an adequate interface. (I don't know abo
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I'm guessing people here are familiar with Borges' "Library of Babel". (If not, it's a short story about a library that contains every possible book). I read an interesting thought experiment about the concept: 1. There's lots of different
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"Hiring a slapper off Craigslist" has quite a different meaning in British English...
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Larry Ellison: What the hell is cloud computing [2008](youtube.com)
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I wanted to here more detail about how they want from a curated marketplace to the free-for-all it is today. TopTal and Matchist have launched in the last few years, and are aiming to be curated jobs marketplaces (TopTal vets coders, Matchi
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http://i.saac.me/post/what-if-bittorrent-was-invented-before... I wrote an article discussing similar themes on my blog a while back, and I too think the Kickstarter model is the future of the creative industries. (I might do a follow up
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A while back I had two friends, one an architecture student, one a civil engineering student. They had some interesting banter: Architecture student: if civil engineers had their way, all buildings would be square concrete blocks Civil engi
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A few things to note about the old Facebook: - Wall posts didn’t have comments in those days (nor did they have a “like” button. Can you believe it?) Conversations were all about the “wall-to-wall”. - Chat didn’t exist, and messaging was us
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Your FB messages weren't leaked, and your old timeline is a foreign country(i.saac.me)
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Yeah, it seems a lot of social sites don't grasp some of the underlying dynamics of how social networks actually work in the real world. If you can work out those dynamics, you'll have a hit. Despite people thinking he's an awkward nerd who
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by IsaacL 14y ago
I do like the idea. I travelled a lot in the past but never made an effort to reach out to interesting people, so when planning future trips, I'm gonna make an effort to connect with local startup scenes. I think for this to work you have t

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