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by akrymski 15y ago
While at it, lets eliminate "online business" cause what does that mean anyway? Having no offline store? And how can you "be a website" anyway? There are just "businesses with websites". Which is most businesses these days. Like Gap. G
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by akrymski 15y ago
but you must still store the emails in your own database correct? or do you never store them at all?
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by akrymski 15y ago
yep, being able to jump to a date in the timeline is a good thing, but the weird collapsing and 2-pane layout is much too cumbersome. its actually a lot more usable on the iphone when you just have a single stream of posts.
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by akrymski 15y ago
its a new email platform to rival gmail, but we're stealth still so i cant disclose much. we'll be starting a beta pretty soon and issue an official press release at that stage - make sure you request an invite in the meantime.
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by akrymski 15y ago
Obviously email doesn't support seeing someone type, but SMTP is almost as fast as XMPP - sub 1 second doesn't really make a difference, it's usually IMAP that's the slow bit. Of course it's just as fast as XMPP if both sender and recipien
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by akrymski 15y ago
Email is a collection of protocols stacked on top of each other, so when we're talking about replacing email you have to be specific about which part you'd like replaced. DNS? SMTP layer? IMAP layer? application / email client layer? spam
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by akrymski 15y ago
It is real-time, it's just that current email clients aren't designed to be efficient, it's purely UI's fault. Again this is something we've fixed at post.fm, cant wait to show you guys.
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by akrymski 15y ago
That is exactly what post.fm is all about. Check it out - we'd love for you to become a beta tester and perhaps pick your brain a bit ;)
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by akrymski 15y ago
yes that should be the way to go, not providing a library in lots of parts (i've yet to try it - how well does it work in practice?). compilers should handle this for you (linking in only the required functions) instead of distributing a l
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by akrymski 15y ago
In general I do agree with you, but there's also some truth to the argument that statically linking only the required dependencies is better than embedding a VM. In a way, this is the difference between CoffeeScript and Dart for client sid
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by akrymski 15y ago
Interesting demo video. We've actually built something along those lines: www.post.fm
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Post.fm - Email Reinvented(post.fm)
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by akrymski 16y ago
python interpreter can be embedded inside an objective C app quite easily, like lua. embedding a java VM is a lot harder.
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by akrymski 16y ago
An open / distributed alternative. Facebook today is like some initial proprietary version of email. Sooner or later, an open standard protocol for "sharing" and "social networking" (EMAIL + FOAF?) will take over. (And it has to be distr
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by akrymski 17y ago
I've got a collection of some decent domain names in case anyone's looking. Also interested to hear from anyone else who's got some premium domains in exchange for cash/equity. Here goes: - techlayer.com - marketglue.com - mailcake.com -
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by akrymski 17y ago
I also see ads that say "mom working from home earns $500 a day online!". If it was so easy to make "instant $50/month" then I'd just sit there and set up a new site every day for a year, and then retire. Truth is - there's no get-rick-qu
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by akrymski 17y ago
that's exactly right. it's social because there's a link to twitter. and it's a CRM because you can leave a note. awesome, at least they know how to get PR.
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by akrymski 17y ago
I'm not saying it's impossible, it's just a lot harder than a desktop-app, because there isn't a GUI toolkit with standard look & feel, functionality, and API. Web designers ultimately write one from scratch every time they need to cre
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by akrymski 17y ago
true, but if you compare the same simple crud app to a desktop equivalent - which is easier? to get even the simple web app to the stage that it runs consistently on all the different browsers out there is a bigger task. say you want to l
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by akrymski 17y ago
I completely agree. Of course stuff like Active Record can save a lot of typing for back-end code. But: 1) a large system often requires hand-crafted SQL anyway. 2) hand-crafted SQL performs MUCH better for anything but the trivial stuf
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by akrymski 17y ago
I'm Russian and have experience raising money both in Russia and UK, so hopefully can add a useful perspective. Whilst the above is true in general, it's not fair to pick on Russia. It's fairly natural that a vast concentration of wealth in
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by akrymski 17y ago
I'm probably missing something, but what's the point of using something like Tornado to handle loads of concurrent connections when your database can only handle a small number anyway? All those epolls will slow the app down, waiting on a
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by akrymski 17y ago
me too. it's been a long time coming. it's live in Australia and UK. They even have landing pages though they still link to the original on them. Google Base has been quietly doing its job. Google is going to eat up all advertising rev
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by akrymski 17y ago
you do both. don't ever bet on a quick exit. if it happens, and you get an offer you can't refuse, great. but you have to have your own course of action: turn it into an iphone app, sell the data via an API for others to embed in their a
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by akrymski 17y ago
If this is for real, then why can't the same thing be done for music? Drum a beat, whistle a tune, sing a few notes - and let the software extract best-matching samples from a library of millions of songs.
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by akrymski 17y ago
It's effectively group chat. I believe 37 signals themselves use it. Scales well to most situations, where you have groups of under 20 people working on any one project at a time.
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by akrymski 17y ago
I think CampFire solves most of these problems much more elegantly.
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by akrymski 17y ago
In theory, why can't it read the for-loop for you? Why not summarize the above as eg: List<String> userNames = users[@name] Just showing the line in a different colour could mean it's "summarized". Clicking on it could reveal the
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by akrymski 17y ago
Def agree that Java is less readable, and there will always be shorter ways of expressing things (such as a for-loop). But I do think an IDE does, and could do a lot more to help: hide the generated boiler-plate code from me, show me a vis
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by akrymski 17y ago
What I find quite unfair is how everyone compares "lines-of-code" for a Java app vs PHP/Python/Ruby. IMO there's a big difference: A Java IDE like Eclipse probably writes half of the lines of source code for me - the tedious bits that are s

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