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   by akanet 9y ago

   I had the very unfortunate pleasure of being neighbors with HiQ when we shared a coworking space in downtown SF. They were aggressively selling and marketing HR software that alerted employers when their employees updated their LinkedIn pro
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   by akanet 9y ago

   Thanks for sharing this. Reading Dave's post the first time, all I could think was "this seems like the most bland, cop-out, vague apology I've ever seen." He didn't list the specifics of what he felt bad about, and
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   by akanet 9y ago

   The author's recommendations are certainly apt, though I wonder if he realizes how much of a political nightmare trying to get cities like Berkeley to build more housing is. Berkeley is probably the staunchest NIMBY city of the major B
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   by akanet 9y ago

   I, and many other bootstrappers entirely disagree. The only risk you run is missing one year of income, typically. You can uh, usually just get another job.
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   by akanet 9y ago

   He took it pretty badly at the time, though I'm glad to see he's come around.
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   by akanet 9y ago

   Do you plan to add presence to GUN? One of the key features that we require from Firebase is the ability to tell the server to delete a key in the event the client disconnects. https://firebase.google.com/docs/reference
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   by akanet 9y ago

   I help maintain the unofficial Ruby client for interfacing with the Firebase Database REST API: https://github.com/oscardelben/firebase-ruby I use it on my fairly high-traffic Firebase site and it works well.
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   by akanet 9y ago

   Yeah, implementing a new terminal emulator (and a custom shell!) is pretty rough going. I've heard the idea expressed that it's hard to get programmers to use a new code editor, even if you have a killer feature, because they need
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   by akanet 9y ago

   I'm not suggesting that at all. I'm saying this project would likely not exist in any form without Electron. If the ideas expressed within are successful enough, realistically speaking people would either: 1. continue using it
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    by akanet 9y ago

    I think there is a stunning amount of "resource cynicism" in this thread. Yes, this application uses much more RAM and CPU than a "normal" terminal emulator. The project author is clearly trying to explore other ways tha
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    by akanet 9y ago

    I looked through the comments, but I don't think many commentators here are actually saying "I am 100% sure this is wrong". I am mostly hearing "there are a lot of reasons to remain skeptical". NASA certainly is an
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    by akanet 9y ago

    I think it's tempting to assume that sentiment expressed here is reflective of the majority - everyone whose use case is served well is happy and likely doesn't comment. As for the "hackers" comment - HN might have &quot
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    by akanet 9y ago

    I don't think I would be so quick to dismiss this sentiment. I run a profitable SaaS business, and every opportunity to give up responsibility results in highly profitable refocusing of effort on the things we do that actually matter
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    by akanet 10y ago

    I completely agree, so much so that I claim that "boring" is a positive and necessary attribute for any small solo business started by a software entrepreneur. I gave a talk at Dropbox about the necessities of being boring if you
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    by akanet 10y ago

    I've recently talked with Wolfram about this, but currently I use Firebase mostly with the Firepad library, Deepstream is missing: * a better presence story * a better story around adding data to a list and subscribing to changes to sp
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    by akanet 10y ago

    I gave a talk at Dropbox literally about how to start a small business without quitting your day job. A lot of people have told me it was helpful. You can watch it here: https://youtu.be/J8UwcyYT3z0 . A lot of my focus was b
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    by akanet 10y ago

    Does anyone know where the new Linux binaries are? The release announcement links to https://swift.org/download , but I can't actually find the 3.1 binaries anywhere.
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    by akanet 10y ago

    I don't think this is a good HN comment. If you disagree that these are useful attributes for a platform to provide, please explain so that we can reason about your position. Condescending to people's earnest work isn't a vir
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    by akanet 10y ago

    Customer acquisition should absolutely only be done by the founder in the beginning. This is the most important part of your fledgling business and one you cannot afford to outsource.
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    by akanet 10y ago

    While your criticisms about what the author's explanation lacks or does not consider are appreciated, I think this is a wonderful opportunity for you to put forth your own understanding! I know very little about the topic and thus foun
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    by akanet 10y ago

    I (and others) are upset at Ruby's normally great messaging being totally absent here. As a lay user of Ruby, I have no idea what changed in this release.
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    by akanet 10y ago

    While possible, it doesn't seem advisable. If you could bootstrap a successful SaaS as a solo nonprogrammer, you probably didn't need to.
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    by akanet 10y ago

    Hi. I'm the guy that made CoderPad. I bootstrapped the product out of nothing because of terrible candidate experiences older purely textual collaborative environments provided. I sincerely believe CoderPad gives you much more room
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    by akanet 10y ago

    I can't tell from the docs - are server functions able to to modify or reject writes to refs in the realtime DB before they happen?
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    by akanet 10y ago

    This was a great little writeup, and I appreciate you taking the time to make it.
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    by akanet 10y ago

    I think the comparison to Firebase is a bit disingenuous. Their core offering is real-time synchronization of large, arbitrary data structures. From perusing Baqend briefly, it seems like your architecture is much more poll-based.
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    by akanet 10y ago

    This looks amazing. One of the biggest pains of using docker is that the storage driver inevitably explodes the system. Is anyone using LCFS in production? Why did you get started building it?
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    by akanet 10y ago

    I completely disagree. I was a software engineer, and I started a business alone, with no capital. It was pretty easy and I can't imagine how a business or HR person could have anywhere near the leverage I had by just knowing how to au
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    by akanet 10y ago

    Hi there! This is exactly the problem we work on daily at the local SF YIMBY coalition (sfyimby.org). If you're interested in making a difference in local SF politics, especially around improving the housing situation, come to one of o
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    by akanet 10y ago

    There ARE services right now for handling invoicing and dunning. I use churnbuster for the latter currently and it is money well spent.