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by andymboyle 15y ago
How often does this actually happen? I'm not altogether that knowledgeable in this area, as I am neither a biographer nor a historian. But I don't know where the "professional obligation to history" comes from. He's making a commercial prod
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by andymboyle 15y ago
And under what obligation is Isaacson or his publisher supposed to give the raw transcripts of any interviews he did with anyone for the book?
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by andymboyle 15y ago
I'd like to know how Dave Winer expects a new biographer to get the same amount of access to Steve Jobs as Walter Isaacson did. It's hard to interview someone 40 times if, you know, you can't.
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Armstrong, the Django-based and open-source news CMS, is now released(marketwatch.com)
2 points by andymboyle 15y ago|0 comments
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Anonymous hacks dozen of U.S. police websites(boston.com)
2 points by andymboyle 15y ago|0 comments
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by andymboyle 15y ago
Perhaps it's this: https://github.com/ofa
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by andymboyle 15y ago
The point I'm trying to make is that most of the products we create for the web aren't necessarily ever "finished." You're always attempting to add new features or create new value, right? So I feel like projects are never truly finished.
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What we don't know about elections(blog.thescoop.org)
54 points by andymboyle 15y ago|14 comments
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by andymboyle 15y ago
I'm really looking for counterpoints to my argument. So please, I welcome them.
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We should stop calling live projects beta(andymboyle.com)
4 points by andymboyle 15y ago|4 comments
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Ask HN: How many folks use Jersey for agile development?
4 points by andymboyle 15y ago|1 comments
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by andymboyle 15y ago
Looks like it's back to running quite slow and not taking some of the commands I enter.
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by andymboyle 15y ago
Thanks for posting this link. I'm kind of wondering why my post from hours earlier didn't pop up. Did I just write a crappy headline? http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2987246
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by andymboyle 15y ago
And here's a video that discusses the decisions made behind going full-responsive design on the site: http://bo.st/bglvideo
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BostonGlobe.com: The largest newspaper website made with responsive design (bostonglobe.com)
10 points by andymboyle 15y ago|4 comments
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by andymboyle 15y ago
Never said it wouldn't be a challenge. And I don't agree about the work not being appreciated. Sometimes it isn't understood, yes, but tell me how many insurance salespeople understand how the complex web forms they're filling out work? And
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Use your awesome tech powers to help save journalism(andymboyle.com)
21 points by andymboyle 15y ago|9 comments
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by andymboyle 15y ago
The Boston Globe's got an article written on this that they're updating: http://www.boston.com/Boston/metrodesk/2011/07/cambridge-man...
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by andymboyle 15y ago
If you read my comment down below, I already address most of this. I know they exist. I just haven't used them, and thus wouldn't be that proficient. And thus to use them for this project would've been silly, as I'm not skilled at them. Don
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by andymboyle 15y ago
Drupal's coded in Erlang, right?
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by andymboyle 15y ago
Nah, I know PHP frameworks exist. I've just never used them. The last time I tried to use CodeIgniter it made me want to cry. I'm not smart enough for that stuff stuff. Plus I've been using Django for about two years. It only made sense, do