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by ammmir 14y ago
sure, here are a few: http://dialog.gs/?invite=yiFjRtwO72T http://dialog.gs/?invite=5r5Zh4hsvcU http://dialog.gs/?invite=uw7Hd3UPj6F http://dialog.gs/?invite=s0SqxEDdmwH http://dialog.gs/?invite=nLymyp7MqAK if you have any questio
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by ammmir 14y ago
I feel like I always need more than one project on my plate, so I'm working on two main apps right now: CloudPlay ( http://cloudplay.fm ), my first Mac app, is a music player that searches for music locally (iTunes) and online (YouTube, Sou
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by ammmir 14y ago
we're planning to migrate Pictos Server [1] away from S3 and onto Cloud Files for this exact reason. IE9 refuses to use webfonts loaded from a different origin unless CORS allows it, something we can't easily do without adding EC2 to our de
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by ammmir 14y ago
We launched http://dialog.gs/ into private beta a week ago. Dialoggs is a social conversation network that can be used in a number of ways. See my explanation at http://amirmalik.net/2012/04/27/introducing-dialoggs if you're interested.
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by ammmir 15y ago
mostly trance podcasts or live streams. ~130 bpm seems like a good work groove for me during the day. solarstone's solaris international podcast is more chilled, perfect for late-night coding, so i try to save them up. i actually enjoy a li
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by ammmir 15y ago
for simplicity and reducing time to market, outsource it to S3 or an S3 API-compatible storage provider. you can always buy disk boxes down the road and slap an S3-like API in front of them. in addition, you could use WebRTC to build a BitT
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by ammmir 15y ago
base64 encoding binary files is just wrong when you could as well "push" the files' URLs over a websocket connection. that way you can take advantage of gzip compression and caching on the client. it also looks like the server-side code use
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by ammmir 15y ago
when i started learning node.js i went straight to Connect since i felt Express was too bloated. best decision ever considering i was building APIs mostly at the time. i've found Connect to be pleasant to work with. but if you're considerin
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by ammmir 15y ago
lua (the language and core libraries) is stable and small. many developers are attracted to node.js or rails due to the community ("look, everyone else is doing it!"), ecosystem (abundance of modules/gems to choose from), and rapid release
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by ammmir 15y ago
production and distribution costs are negligible nowadays. record labels are marketing powerhouses that can push their product (music and the artists) through traditional channels like radio, concert tours, and other partnerships. independe
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by ammmir 15y ago
in your list of groups, you'll see all of your own repos and all repos where you're listed as a collaborator (On GitHub, go to repo -> Admin -> Collaborators). so people that are just watching or have forked the repo don't get added
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by ammmir 15y ago
great tips! auto reloading css is perhaps my most favorite timesaver. i add this snippet to a page when in development: <script> if(location.href.indexOf('file://') == 0 || location.href.indexOf('http://localhost') == 0) {
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by ammmir 15y ago
so it's like dropbox's "copy public link" feature but applied to directories and automatically generating file listings? i signed up, but i'm kinda confused about the end goal... i can already get a public link for a file in my dropbox, so
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by ammmir 15y ago
i'm not into deal sites, but here's some general feedback: * page seems cluttered with a ton of boxes, maybe you could tweak the signup box to not waste as much space * "Discuss this deal" box is really just a link it seems, i'd put it in t
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by ammmir 15y ago
i used to have a draft message in gmail, but it grew too unwieldy. now i use a private github repo and have all ideas in one markdown file that's easily editable via github's web editor. i already spend a good amount of time in github for o
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by ammmir 15y ago
got in on the second try. sadly, i didn't save any of my answers, so i don't know what i did better this time. maybe following everyone's yc application advice of being interestingly concise helped!
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by ammmir 15y ago
this is a good step in the right direction for getting a quick glance. also, it would be nice if they added attachment support (if just images) to issue comments, too. on a related note, my team is working on http://inboxissues.com/ - a b
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by ammmir 15y ago
a lot of cgi scripts (perl 5, php 3). when the perl code was clean enough, we used mod_perl. i remember discovering fastcgi (which i still use) and being blown away by easy persistent db connections and just general performance wins. on mor
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by ammmir 15y ago
if i'm not mistaken, as long as you don't open the folder in Finder, they shouldn't be created. obviously not an ideal solution, so maybe periodic housekeeping is in order: find ~/Dropbox -name .DS_Store -exec rm {} \;
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by ammmir 15y ago
why is there an agewall?
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by ammmir 15y ago
another useful one to avoid creating .DS_Store files on network volumes: defaults write com.apple.desktopservices DSDontWriteNetworkStores true
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by ammmir 15y ago
sometimes you have to lose money to make money. maybe they're trying to capture the long tail of ad/apps revenue? it's a very risky move nonetheless.
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by ammmir 15y ago
essentially, they would be MITMing the connection and presenting an SSL cert issued by DigiNotar (instead of the actual CA that issued the cert to *.google.com). because the compromised CA is in the browser's trusted CAs list, it probably p
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by ammmir 15y ago
i applied as a solo founder for S11, and didn't get a single hit to my app's demo. since then, i've been lucky enough to join a team (we met through a yc reject hacker dating event at the hacker dojo!) and we're pumped to apply with a new i
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RESTalytics — our Node Knockout entry(amir.unoc.net)
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by ammmir 15y ago
google plus has been known to terminate pseudonym accounts, so unless someone hacked into it, it seems to be genuine. a guy like vic is probably well connected, too, so it's quite plausible imho.
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by ammmir 15y ago
thanks, feel free to email support@messagify.com if you want us to let you know when we're closer to beta :)
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by ammmir 15y ago
hi, one of the guys behind Messagify here. we're trying to make it easier to to build messaging apps, starting with commenting. much like what Disqus did for blog comments, we want to do for web apps in general. i'll be happy to answer any
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by ammmir 15y ago
IMAP can be used to download the raw message bodies. hierarchical structure (aka threading) comes from the parsing of Message-ID, References, In-Reply-To MIME headers contained in the bodies.
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by ammmir 15y ago
the dropbox api has oauth for this exact purpose. they also have an endpoint (a la xAuth) that returns a token in exchange for credentials, but afaik, it's reserved for mobile apps that don't want to deal with the oauth dance.

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