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by aneth 16y ago
I know McClure somewhat personally, and while Arrington's speculation was fun, and I'm sure many investors are trying to counteract YC's strength, I think he is an upstanding guy, and one of the most honest, cut to the shit people in the va
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by aneth 16y ago
I've encountered a few documents that were 1 page application forms for community resources, and all were shocked when those were suddenly behind a rather expensive paywall. I also was really annoyed the first time I noticed some obscure d
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by aneth 16y ago
Not every application needs a back button. Virtual interfaces allow the interface to tailor to the need of the application, instead of the other way around. I agree sometimes a back button seems like it would help, but after using iOS prod
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by aneth 16y ago
No, it's __FUN__.
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by aneth 16y ago
Did I miss how Python fits in here? Seems to be a rather large cognitive gap between the premise and the supporting argument. The commentary about the "true entrepreneur" has some interesting insights, although it seems a bit religious. W
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Gamification won't make your site fun - it's a fun way train and engage users.(elfs.livejournal.com)
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by aneth 16y ago
If Apple tested a version of the iPhone that had four buttons on the front, it probably would have tested better because one button was unfamiliar to users and would have seemed inadequate. The point here is that sometimes good design requ
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by aneth 16y ago
That is pretty much standard in dynamic languages, including Ruby and Python. It's what I miss most about strongly typed languages, like Java and Scala.
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by aneth 16y ago
Yehuda really did an amazing job with Rails 3.0, both in improving the architecture and explaining the decision made. I don't know much about SproutCore yet, but I'm definitely going to take a closer look now. I also don't know much about
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by aneth 16y ago
Classmates.com is rated higher than Tudou or Netflix. I didn't realize they are still a force. Didn't facebook solve this problem?
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by aneth 16y ago
I think it's a great idea. Makes Google docs much easier to access from other applications. It could really help in the corporate world where a company wants to migrate to Google Docs and legacy services need to be supported or to reduce
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by aneth 16y ago
I'm glad that some people assert rights that are a pain to assert most of the time, because it reminds everyone that they exist. However, this guy seem like kind of a jerk as well. It sounds like they largely treated him respectfully, and
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Pentagon trying to bury Afghan war book(foxnews.com)
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by aneth 16y ago
I think the point is that just because there is an dominant player in an industry, doesn't mean they will remain dominant. How easy it is to disrupt a market varies, but they all will change over time. Facebook's open graph actually makes
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by aneth 16y ago
My sentiments exactly. While your at it, stop making operating systems, Microsoft won.
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Rackspace Cloud Servers outperform Amazon EC2(thebitsource.com)
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by aneth 16y ago
I'm an AWS user, and I also use Rackspace some, so interesting to find this article indicating you're better off with a small Rackspace instance than a medium AWS instance. http://www.thebitsource.com/featured-posts/rackspace-cloud-s...
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by aneth 16y ago
No doubt, the Rails community has issues, although on the whole, it seems to me larger, more dynamic, and open. I saw the django issues as coming from the fact that it was tightly held for a specific purpose for a specific company for a lo
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by aneth 16y ago
I dumped django for rails after a brief foray, and even participated in the Pinax group at Pycon in Atlanta. This presentation hits all the major issues, and is particularly strong regarding community. Incetuous communities support perso
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by aneth 16y ago
My greatest pet pieve on HN: The comment field is unusable on iOS, and the rating targets are too small with no undo. I find myself composing in a notes app and pasting. (Only a problem because I like HN and spend a lot of time here recent
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by aneth 16y ago
Personally, this is where I come to find out what people obsessed with tech and start-ups are thinking about. I find most of the articles that are not directly related (that I click on anyway,) have some abstract tie-in to startup-land. Th
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by aneth 16y ago
If they put a target, it would drive me crazy, particularly on my iPad. Without a target, you decide, just like you do on every other web page.
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by aneth 16y ago
A related issue that I don't see addressed in the comments is the trade off between salary, opportunity cost, and equity. If there are two founders, one who could earn $150k, and the other who could earn $50k, should the former always get
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by aneth 16y ago
Hold apple or alt when clicking on a link to open in a new frame.
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by aneth 16y ago
Meant to up vote but downvoted. Boy does hn suck on apple devices. Hostile to developer reasoning like this is why most devs I know stick to iPhone. Yeah, apple ain't perfect, but at least their reasons make some sense.
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by aneth 16y ago
Anyone have an idea how big this market is? Seems like the market for unused gift cards for which the owner cares enough to transfer the credit, and cares about waiting a few days, would be pretty small.
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by aneth 16y ago
Interesting to see the present backlash against agile and TDD. As an independent developer, I can pick and choose what works. I can say honestly they are both really useful concepts filled with great tools, but I am not an expert on either
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by aneth 16y ago
I have pretty broad personal experience in the USA and globally. I also have the experience of talking about this with tons of other transplants to Seattle, as well as disgruntled locals, and reading a lot about it. Not much disagreement
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by aneth 16y ago
I'm not sure how you can be biased toward something without being biased against everything else, but the spirit of your meaning seems true. YC companies and submitters have an institutional advantage, but I am not with a YC company and do
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by aneth 16y ago
Otherinbox is on this track. They can create calendar entries automatically from emails. I stopped using them because I didn't like the opt-out style of filtering, but the technology is cool.

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