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by akbar501 13y ago
> venture capital will cease to exist There is a general consensus that venture capital as we know it will not continue indefinitely. 1.) AWS and it's ilk virtually eliminated the high cost of hardware/hosting from the previous
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The reason is that $340k is not worth their time.
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This is absolutely amazing information. Thank you so much for sharing.
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@Touche True. It's perfectly reasonable to add a model/data layer to React as a final/complete solution. In such a situation a heavy weight controller can be skipped.
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by akbar501 13y ago
Backbone + Marionette ( http://marionettejs.com ) reduces the amount of boilerplate.
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by akbar501 13y ago
React is a view + template, not a framework. From the React site: "React as the V in MVC". It's perfectly normal to combine react with something like Backbone as more complete solution.
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Congrats to the CentOS team. You filled a much needed gap when the Fedora / RHEL split happened. As someone who used Red Hat Linux in the 90's / early 2000's, you had to be there to know how large of a gap the CentOS tea
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by akbar501 13y ago
I dislike the trend of putting number pads on laptop keyboards. It moves the entire keyboard to the side.
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No, you're not too old. You will be hired, or not, based on skill.
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> There's never an excuse for chmod'ing something 777 Agreed. Biblical implications aside, chmod 666 and chmod 777 are rarely a good idea. ( http://www.gotothings.com/linux/permissions-with-the-chmod-c... )
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For the curious, I did some digging and found the following: Blacktie.co was created by Carlos Alvares ( http://www.alvarez.is/ ). He's a designer who has a number of paid themes on https://wrapbootstrap.com&#
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by akbar501 13y ago
>So how can you guys roll out a product in 3 months? How can you quickly pivot? Tooling. To elaborate, if you're hand writing code to call an API, then you're doing to much. This is a 15 minute task at most, and that includes p
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EASY is almost an understatement. The Meteor team nailed it on this point. IMO, everyone should take a look at Meteor if for no reason other than to see what's possible. In terms of value, they pretty much eliminated all of the low val
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@krebby, you can create a DDP client that works outside of Meteor, which would allow you to run a Meteor server + Mongo with your own front end. The other option is to use Racer from DerbyJS. If you're interested in adding a real-time
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1.) Build a working prototype before you raise the $20k. There is no reason with today's tools that a working prototype not be created before investment (with a few exceptions for moon shots). Also, you do not yet have external pre
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AirBnB's Rendr library is not a JavaScript, and only JavaScript solution. It is however a library that allows you to mostly unite your web rendering layers on the web client and application server. Look at the first diagram in the arti
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I just started hacking on Rendr last night, so I don't know if it shares state between Express on the server and the client-side app. My guess would be that Rendr does not have this built in as it's stated design goal is to stay s
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The other way to look at the YC application is that it provides a good structure to write down why your business. Regardless of acceptance/rejection, the application is something you can use going forward as a discussion point for you
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Ask HN: What tools are you using for customer development experiments?
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> a simplified and streamlined web experience, reduced feature bloat, with online collaborative tools, and made available free or cheap could steal a lot of market share. Microsoft has this solution: https://skydrive.live.com
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Community developed Meteor packages are on https://atmosphere.meteor.com/ .
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Business terminology: Startup vs. Company; Founder vs. Entrepreneur(tech.exponential.io)
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You submitted an application to Y Combinator. What next?(tech.exponential.io)
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The author's key assertion is that there should be separate terms for the different types of startups: those that fit with the venture capital model, and those that don't. While separate terms may make the differences clearer, the
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Moving is a good idea. I'm from the US, but I spent a substantial amount of time in India when I started by first company. Initially, we were outside of Bangalore (not by much), but enough that the company and I were disconnected from
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If you're developing software that needs to be installed, then please read the parent post. Too many software install guides are pointers (such as install x, or install y), but fail to provide step-by-step instructions. And this result
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This is startup management 101. As a startup, you don't have a large HR team, so you need to engage in practices with strong selection bias. In other words, "we run 100 day dev cycles with 20 days of an intense crunch" will c
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First, kudos on your dedication to learning the process. I still remember the first time someone showed me a mature development process. 1. When someone creates an account how do I keep track of all of that information? Obviously it goes i
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Joe, thanks for providing details...it's very helpful. Would you be willing to share a sample of the document schema that was causing problems when syncing 10k documents? I'm very curious to know if these were large or small docs,
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While Meteor and Derby deliver similar functionality, the approach used by each is so different that people will likely choose one vs. the other based on the style of programming they are used to. Meteor: Meteor is a tightly integrated full

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