alnayyir

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   by alnayyir 16y ago

   >I wonder if I should start building Heroku 2 now... Yes, but make it good
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   by alnayyir 16y ago

   >Congratulations to the Heroku team though. Is it DropBox's turn next? Shut up before you jinx us all.
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   by alnayyir 16y ago

   >Have they restored the account yet? Are you kidding me? That Machiavellian sanity-grinder gave Notch, a legitimate indie developer selling a game about digging through dirt, Hell on Earth just to get his money. PayPal doing the right t
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   by alnayyir 16y ago

   Good enough for me.
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   by alnayyir 16y ago

   Did you at least have consent from them to rehash their idea? http://hackerne.ws/item?id=1981552 Boom-shaka. You're in good shape chief.
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   by alnayyir 16y ago

   Why'd you rip off the original Wiki Game website wholesale and turn it into an iPhone app? http://thewikigame.com/ http://wikipediagame.posterous.com/ I don't see your name anywhere on either of those pages. Do you plan to keep ripping
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   by alnayyir 16y ago

   Very nice, but I wish they would cut the animation.
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   by alnayyir 16y ago

   Is there a way I can use this to replace Unison, which I lean heavily on but am unhappy with? http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/
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   by alnayyir 16y ago

   >But is this an appropriate strategy for a startup? No. A startup should just use whatever the tech co-founder is going to work fastest in. Hiring strategies shouldn't even be a consideration for a startup.
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    by alnayyir 16y ago

    Manager-types are more risk-averse than they are opportunity seeking. Grokking that goes a long way towards understanding this kind of blind decision making.
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    by alnayyir 16y ago

    Congrats, I hope this proves to be an excellent source of growth for your business. I look forward to a post from you about how it went. :)
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    by alnayyir 16y ago

    Look forward to hearing about this. I switched away from using shampoo and only washing with soap bars recently and that helped a great deal. I think I would be better served by getting plainer/more natural soap bars than not using soap at
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    by alnayyir 16y ago

    Feedback executed.
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    by alnayyir 16y ago

    Thanks for sharing this, it's extremely rare you see people willing to share the nitty-gritty of their efforts in going independent as a programmer. Cheers and good fortune!
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    by alnayyir 16y ago

    Simplicity and risk exposure. He's clearly doing quite alright with ad-driven applications. I doubt he'd get higher profit with paid apps.
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    by alnayyir 16y ago

    >so you might want to signup for my newsletter at www.jasonnation.com I bet we should totally buy your book too. Speak for yourself here or submit the link. That's how this place works. This isn't a blogroll subscribe-fest between a bun
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    by alnayyir 16y ago

    Ev has it. It was a low-point for the discourse here.
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    by alnayyir 16y ago

    Here's a real holy grail of software engineering that might actually be attainable without getting Strong AI. Significant code reuse without using a lot of hacks. I think Lisp and Ruby made great strides towards this, but I don't think we'r
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    by alnayyir 16y ago

    Contribute much? If you're going to take issue with what I said, explain your stance or don't respond. Also, how do you like HN Office Hours? Any ideas/suggestions?
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    by alnayyir 16y ago

    > I have only experienced being tired a couple of times in my life I would love to impart my congenitally low blood sugar to him so that he can know what it's like to have to battle chronic fatigue 24/7 with diet and exercise just so yo
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    by alnayyir 16y ago

    Oh man, don't get me started on that job-hoppers fiasco from a couple/few months ago. That thread put people into hysterics. You had people rallying behind the opposing flags of "work like damn dirty apes and love us for it!" and "we want o
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    by alnayyir 16y ago

    Rational self-interest is a right afforded only to the C-level executives, landlords, and entrepreneurs of the world apparently.
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    by alnayyir 16y ago

    It's an extra filtering mechanism for people who think they can afford to be picky. I don't think it's meant to be universally applicable. I'm only situationally in favor of this kind of thing, and I'd rather be a footnote/tilt factor than
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    by alnayyir 16y ago

    Hype du jour. Great way to get front-paged. It goes in cycles on here.
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    by alnayyir 16y ago

    Thank you very much for sharing those :)
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    by alnayyir 16y ago

    Take it easy, I'm not demanding anything of you, I was just curious as to the scope of the ideas and was wondering if anyone else mistook the intent like I did. You don't have to invest so much of your ego into it. As for Reddit, they're go
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    by alnayyir 16y ago

    These ideas are intended to be fun little weekend hacks and not serious businesses right? Figured I'd ask because I clicked hoping for something else and wondered if I was the only one that did so.
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    by alnayyir 16y ago

    I disagree. It was an example designed under pretty specific constraints that preclude the suggestions he was making.
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    by alnayyir 16y ago

    Good critique but harsh, could you have at least spared some positive notes at the end of this blazer? He made something and shared it with us. That's more than 99% of programmers can say.
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    by alnayyir 16y ago

    I'd rather see that kind of oversight facility independent of the United Nations. Interesting is a pretty shallow rationale for what's being done. They have an agenda and I'm not going to pretend Wikileaks is some kind of openness nerd savi