Travis

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by Travis 15y ago
I disagree with your statement: "The evolutionary baggage is most definitely not one of cooperation, at least not beyond our immediate "monkeysphere"; millennia of wars and massacres bear witness to that." You are picking one aspect of huma
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by Travis 15y ago
Sounds like you should work with them. They know your industry, they know your product is good (yay for validation!). IMO, having a channel directly to users you would not otherwise reach outweighs any of the potential negatives. Plus, yo
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by Travis 15y ago
Well, you said, "Do you believe in eschewing certain foods...because of their health benefits?" Then went on to state how it wasn't a huge leap to go from that to health benefits. I was just pointing out the logical inconsistency (irrespe
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by Travis 15y ago
I think, traditionally, front-end has meant html/css/js. With the promise of node, however, and other blending of server and client side technologies, that may not necessarily be the case. Also, beware people who seek to clearly delineate
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by Travis 15y ago
I disagree. Outside of a few specific situations (folic acid for pregnant women, etc.), most first world people satisfy their nutritional requirements. Micronutrients aren't a "if a little is good, a lot is better" situation. Once you me
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by Travis 15y ago
I enjoyed Anathem, although I thought it was far from his best work. Obligatory xkcd critique of the book: http://xkcd.com/483/
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by Travis 15y ago
Any time any concept is reduced to a pithy sentence it will be appropriated by people to use as an agenda. Something about these types of clever sayings shortcuts our brains. People use that fact to take advantage.
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by Travis 15y ago
I had an old mac server, so I use Apple's gui. TBH, I don't even know if its sendmail or postfix under the hood. Never even got started using virtual domains. I just run emails for one domain, so it never sounded like I should setup the v
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by Travis 15y ago
For reference, I'm 28 now, so I can still somewhat remember college (or, at least, remember that much of my college time was hazy). Each summer, like a good CS student, I got an internship back home. I worked as a programmer -- what I thou
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by Travis 15y ago
There are definitely reasons to run your own mail server. However, I've found (in my 7 years as a linux sysadmin/dev) that email is one of the harder services to setup, compared to http, database, etc. It's the only service I use a GUI for
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by Travis 15y ago
This resonates with me. I don't think you could successfully put banner video ads on Facebook's main page without a serious backlash. It makes sense -- on facebook, the user is providing the content. Facebook just organizes and connects
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by Travis 15y ago
Honestly, I don't care too much about my website host. I keep copies of my data and code all over my various machines/VPS instances, so I can always recreate it (even if it would take a day or two). DNS is vital. If I lose that, I lose al
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by Travis 15y ago
Second the idea that my programming output has declined in terms of quality as I focus more on business related aspects. It forces you to look at everything in context -- better code quality gets you more maintainability, but at what cost?
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by Travis 15y ago
It may be a cliche, but it's really important to start small. One of our first goals was to make $1 in a single day from ad revenue. Then we set other goals that were similarly modest -- nothing that would take more than 1-2 weeks to reac
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by Travis 15y ago
Rather than trying to fight the urge, you should try to understand why you have the urge in the first place. What is it about coding that makes you prefer doing it? And then, how can you mimic those conditions for all the "other stuff"? I
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by Travis 15y ago
The graph of the two different revenue streams is interesting (taking the job for a lower cost gets you more jobs, but higher cost gets you more per job). At some point, I bet you can find an equilibrium where gross revenue is the same wit
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by Travis 15y ago
Fair enough. Again, I was just trying to analyze their landing page copy from the point of view of a potential customer. I am not a potential customer. But for people without any Ruby experience, you don't know that fact ahead of time. A
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by Travis 15y ago
Sure, and I didn't mean to appear like I was stating the service was useless. It obviously has use -- it is a cheap shortcut that will reduce a very obvious pain point. An excellent business idea. All I was saying is two-part: 1) the mark
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by Travis 15y ago
Ah, gotcha. So the product that is being sold is simplicity. Are you the creator? If so, I would suggest: - more contrast between text and background - explain who the intended user is (web dev w/o strong LAMP background. I would find it
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by Travis 15y ago
Text is hard to read. I'm still not exactly sure why I would use this over a VPS (maybe it's for devs who don't use VPS/EC2 as their dev machine?) Is this for live demos or for sharing documents? If the former, why wouldn't I just turn on
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by Travis 15y ago
I think you're going to find that many people here use virtual hosting, either in the cloud or somewhere like linode/slicehost what have you. I don't picture a lot of startups investing in blade servers.
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by Travis 15y ago
Good luck, and please keep us posted on your success! I don't have the time to invest. But I wanted to say this -- to a programmer, someone saying the MVP is "50-75% done" really sounds like, "you are going to do way more work than you thi
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by Travis 16y ago
Interesting -- I never paid much attention to the relative weights, because I figured that the piling on effect was always taking place. So I used karma to figure out which contents to start to read, by some sort of ad hoc guess at what ov
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by Travis 16y ago
How about this use case? You need to assign a password to a specific user account (they aren't registered, but are seeded into your system). I work on 3 different projects right now with this requirement. In this case, we create accounts
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by Travis 16y ago
You seem a lot more comfortable telling other people what they ought to do than I am.
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by Travis 16y ago
Seems to me like it would be much more reasonable to blame the poachers and the systems that allow poaching versus one man who legally killed an animal. An animal that was going to be destroyed anyways. In my opinion, Bob Parsons did nothi
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by Travis 16y ago
I think the King comparison might be the most apt yet. Most people view him as a Crichton/Tom Clancy level populist, but his Dark Tower series really is an impressive literary piece. WRT the sports thing: do you think some of that differen
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by Travis 16y ago
I think you may be overstating exactly how "low brow" Shakespeare was. At the time, high/low brow was pretty much determined by asking, "was this written by the Greeks or the Romans?" So their concept of quality was based on what we moder
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by Travis 16y ago
So what happens if they contact him and tell him to stop, and that he doesn't? In this case, they could cut him off from accessing their data. Out of date train schedules would mean his app wouldn't be worthwhile. But suppose the data was
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by Travis 16y ago
It would not. I would actually prefer that karma be de-emphasized. It causes a site where users are focused on beating each other or gaming the system, rather than sharing interesting content and ideas.

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