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Users of my iOS Game Teach Me a Lesson MIT Didn’t(blog.aaroniba.net)
186 points by aaroniba 15y ago|77 comments
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by aaroniba 16y ago
Cofounder and former CEO of EtherPad here. I appreciate your kind words about our product. Allow me to clarify some aspects of the story. First, we knew etherpad was more than a toy. We knew people were using it for real work. We had pa
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by aaroniba 16y ago
Ah, I see. Thanks!
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by aaroniba 16y ago
The math on increasing the pixel density for iOS touchscreen devices is such that it only works out perfectly if the resolution doubles, like when the iPhone and iPod Touch went from 480 × 320 to 960 × 640. Trust me, it’s double or nothing
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by aaroniba 16y ago
Are startups necessarily stressful or freedom limiting? That's an interesting question. In my model of human psychology, when a person is passionately driven to achieve an ambitious goal, he gets stressed out about obstacles that stand in
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by aaroniba 16y ago
I love GitHub but this post doesn't provide much coherent advice. "Optimizing for happiness" seems like a hard idea to argue against. The author defines happiness as: "I'm a hacker; I'm happy when I'm building things of value, not when I'
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by aaroniba 16y ago
If megacorp buys a promising startup and thwarts it, then does this also create a new opportunity to fill the space left by the startup?
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by aaroniba 16y ago
Etherpad had 3 modes of transport between client and server: short-polling, long-polling, and streaming, each with varying support for different browser/OS/proxy settings. The client starts the connection with the most widely supported met
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by aaroniba 16y ago
This is exactly what I was getting at in paragraph 5 of "The Cure" section ("If you find the idea..."). The problem with stress as the root cause is that after I resolved my RSI pain, I have been through tremendously stressful situations du
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by aaroniba 17y ago
When I was an intern at Microsoft in 2003, I brought my PowerBook into work. Sometimes coworkers would give me shit, and I would offer to start using a windows laptop once they used MSN Search instead of Google for all their web searches.
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by aaroniba 17y ago
Looks like the cp failed. What operating system is this on?
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EtherPad Open Source Release(etherpad.com)
275 points by aaroniba 17y ago|73 comments
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EtherPad Back Online Until Open Sourced(etherpad.com)
276 points by aaroniba 17y ago|68 comments
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EtherPad now supports embedding in other web pages(etherpad.com)
3 points by aaroniba 17y ago|0 comments
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by aaroniba 17y ago
The EtherPad team has been working in Dog Patch Labs SF for the past 3 months, and we love it. Great community of hackers and entrepreneurs, and the Polaris guys are awesome.
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by aaroniba 17y ago
Thanks for the feedback, will keep that in mind for next time!
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by aaroniba 17y ago
We thought seriously about turning AppJet into this, before we decided EtherPad was a better business. We even built version 1 of a virtualized php-hosting backend. In the end, we just couldn't get our hearts into it because we liked prog
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TokBox & EtherPad: Video Chat Gets Real-Time Document Editing(readwriteweb.com)
28 points by aaroniba 17y ago|1 comments
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by aaroniba 17y ago
AppJet!
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by aaroniba 17y ago
Conspicuously absent from this apology is the explicit promise that they won't do it again.
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by aaroniba 18y ago
We're currently doing this for EtherPad. We added a "pricing" tab to our homepage, but we don't have any prices yet, just a sign up form. So far (2 weeks in), about 100 companies have signed up to hear more about our for-sale version.
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by aaroniba 18y ago
We send emails too, but it's also nice to get a TXT on your phone for really urgent information such as a problem with the server.
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by aaroniba 18y ago
We're thinking of charging for having accounts.
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by aaroniba 18y ago
Yes, exactly.
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by aaroniba 18y ago
This probably means there's an incompatibility with your browser/ISP/firewall combination. If you click the "reconnect" button, it will submit diagnostic info to help us debug, or you can mail support @ etherpad.com for help.
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Joyent Buys Reasonably Smart to Create Open-source Cloud(gigaom.com)
4 points by aaroniba 18y ago|0 comments
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by aaroniba 18y ago
I created more pads just for news.yc users here: http://etherpad.com/ep/newsyc
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by aaroniba 18y ago
Undo works, just type control-Z (on windows) or command-Z (on a mac). It will undo only your own edits. We haven't figured out a way to let people undo other users' edits. (We can perform the manipulation on the document, we just haven't
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by aaroniba 18y ago
People have asked us for a way to try it out with other people, so here's a set of pads for news.yc readers to play with: http://etherpad.com/ep/newsyc For the curious, I added this URL to our running web server in 5 minutes with 12 lines
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by aaroniba 18y ago
I actually agree with your assessment that AppJet seems limited as compared to renting your own server or part of a server, for general development. The original idea of AppJet was for it to be a place for simple 1-page apps -- apps where

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