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by akanet 11y ago
I find that position to be very hard to understand - devtools live or die by their adoption. A clear understanding of what a tool does is critical to its adoption. Look at, say, the homepage of Ruby: https://www.ruby-lang.org&#x2
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by akanet 11y ago
It really is striking how products like Docker, even while delivering incredible value, continuously fail to message themselves in an intelligible way. If you go to https://www.docker.com , you see: "Build, Ship and Run. Any
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by akanet 11y ago
I'm the CoderPad guy. Besides RI's obvious ripoffs, they really should change the name if for no other reason besides: http://codepad.org/
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by akanet 11y ago
As a technical founder / product person in this exact position, I think one of the biggest takeaways from this excellent article and the many others like it is the distinction between a customer and a partner . At enterprise-scale,
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by akanet 12y ago
MicroConf just concluded (patio11 spoke) and I spent the conference collecting businesses doing just this. My favorite two were 1. Software for people who sell and install granite countertops to help their customers preview what their count
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by akanet 12y ago
Your language is highly critical. There's some wiggle room for English not being your first language but you did not have kind words to say about pretty much anyone from YC, and you look really bad because of it.
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by akanet 12y ago
That's an odd response. If you think some of the arguments of the article were made poorly, point them out and say why. The source article seems pretty cogent to me; largely being an argument for not using REST for APIs, your comment a
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by akanet 12y ago
I basically built an entire product to help make the phone-coding situation better. It's called CoderPad ( https://coderpad.io ) and it basically tries to mimic a more natural coding environment inside the browser, for the pu
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by akanet 12y ago
This is such a great feel-good story. Scrappy entrepreneurship generates a win-win for humans AND bees! Not to take away from the larger problems facing the bee ecosystem, but I love that this project is getting attention. The careful, dili
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by akanet 12y ago
Yeah, I think my biggest turn off from Rocket is just how PR-oriented all their moves seem to be. I'd be cooler with what they were doing if they appeared to be more open with their motives, but they couch so much of the self-intereste
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by akanet 12y ago
Sure, but I think almost anything is better here than "Sandstorm is an open source platform for personal servers."
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by akanet 12y ago
Fascinating! One of Affirm's old job application puzzles was about a hexagonal grid. I did a write-up[1] of how I solved it, unaware that I was reinventing the wheel. The cube coordinates abstraction would have been killer for being
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by akanet 12y ago
Having done the corp-dev dance a bit, I can promise you that grabbing a million dollars with both hands realistically looks way more like "selling your product to people to make money" than it does "sell your company to corp-
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by akanet 12y ago
The article and cast was specifically about making the development flow for frontend javascript more robust. What are you complaining about? This article has nothing to do with advocating JS for "critical systems, frameworks and back
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by akanet 12y ago
God, he makes it look good. The demo does give me a few of the ol' "too much magic" heebie jeebies, but frontend JS development is so badly lacking in compelling packaage management stories that I'm going to give jspm a
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by akanet 12y ago
Why would you bother expending vast amounts of joules to get more atoms until after you've consumed all the ones surrounding you right now?
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by akanet 12y ago
As far as I can tell, you have two main objections to prioritizing worrying about Strong AI: 1) Strong AI is very far away, so no use worrying about it yet. 2) Strong AI if developed will not be likely to take over. to which I would counter
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by akanet 12y ago
The author is right to doubt his statements about accountants. I know 10x accountants. They exist mostly because the bar for "competence" at the big four accounting firms is extremely low. This results in incredible variation amon
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by akanet 12y ago
> It's like saying Star Wars is racist because the Siths represent the dark side. I would say that, if I were inclined to spare Star Wars serious critical thought. I understand that blackness is a Western cultural symbol. I also und
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by akanet 12y ago
I agree with your analysis. I think a lot of people in this thread have objected to my comments on the assumption that I am making a strong claim of racism against Tolkein. I really meant it when I said casual undertones. Would that Tolke
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by akanet 12y ago
Very much in agreement. The third novel, Empty Space, was a strong return to form, though.
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by akanet 12y ago
It's tricky in fantasy, because of how race-based a lot of the plot is. To put the argument for racist undertones in Tolkein succinctly - all the bad guys in LOTR are basically dark and ugly. There are no even slightly good orcs, and i
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by akanet 12y ago
You should expect people to try to prove what they believe! I also find the "I found X safe to ignore at Y point because of Z" to be a rather poisonous take on processing other viewpoints. I'm sure you mean well with it but y
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by akanet 12y ago
I think a lot of great work is very polarizing - in this case I think a lot of people who are used to a very different sort of hard sci-fi went into "Light" expecting it to be something that it's not. It is not a novel about
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by akanet 12y ago
In the same vein, an article[1] in The Telegraph entitled "The Hobbit: How the 'clomping foot of nerdism' destroyed Tolkien's dream - and the fantasy genre" makes a few similar points. I'm inclined to agree wit
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by akanet 12y ago
All of the questions around "What can you bring to #startup?" or "What do you want from #startup" or "What #startup founder do you want to connect with" fell extremely flat with me - I abandoned the form. I&#x2
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by akanet 12y ago
I think this article is a fantastic example of how you can blend prose with working interactive examples. The examples make you really trance out watching dungeons being carved out of nothing. I think an often-discounted aspect of JavaScrip
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by akanet 12y ago
I run such a company ( https://coderpad.io/ ). One of the things you start to realize very quickly is that the term "lifestyle business" is often just a matter of convenience. Put another way, a lifestyle business c
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by akanet 12y ago
The article embeds a great talk by the author: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDuxd1Enxj8 He talks about using HyperLogLog to store information about the IOPS a workload is causing. This lets them do (at 4kb granularity) a
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by akanet 12y ago
You're missing the point. The author talks about it a bit, but even within flash there are wildly different levels of performance vs cost.

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