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by antirez 19y ago
Opera mini, probably the best j2me application ever written, is actually what I run in my N70 when I need to get a bit of fresh air :) Here in Italy there is an option to have mostly flat connection (some gigabyte of data for month, it's ve
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Why phone software sucks and how to fix it(antirez.com)
6 points by antirez 19y ago|5 comments
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by antirez 19y ago
Because during a recession very few people will do startups and when the economic situation will be better you will be among the few that developed value that can be turned into money, advantage over competitors, ...
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by antirez 19y ago
I do it for every new application, you may think that you can do the same with a computer but it is not true, in the process of drawing the feeling is very different, there is no zoom, it's not trivial to erase, so you are forced to think i
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by antirez 19y ago
My guess is that everybody will switch to Postgress or a fork of MySQL itself in no time if Sun will ruin MySQL. Still it is not impossible that management style people at companies like Oracle and Sun are so stupid to don't realize this, o
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by antirez 19y ago
It's somewhat funny that all the great hackers I know in person tend to suck at chess. Did you noticed the same?
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by antirez 19y ago
Yeah this question is very complex, but actually to be perfectionist in the design stage is sign of lameness, but in a particular way: good design is the fruit of sacrifice of given things in favor of other things, some kind of engineer-ali
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by antirez 19y ago
An alternative I develop in my spare time: http://tudulist.com Tudulist stresses the "tool to work together" point btw.
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by antirez 19y ago
Most web stars from the codinghorror guy to joel are not actually better than many others in the field technically, it's more a matter of ability to write things with a strong style and the ability to analyze facts to express an original po
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by antirez 19y ago
> but you can still be very successful without YC Sure, but let's face it, to be "under YC" makes you much more able to hit success, all the other things being the same. This is not exactly fair, but it's how things work.
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by antirez 19y ago
I and my cofounder used the same idea of users as nodes of a graph for http://oknotizie.alice.it (a system similar to reddit for italian speaking users) in order to indentify groups of spammers and users with very strange behaviour. This
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by antirez 19y ago
Another work in progress tool to work together: a shared todo list + calendar application at http://tudulist.com It is not really a startup or something like this, some week ago I finished to write the Ruby framework we are using in our c
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by antirez 19y ago
AFAIK the idea was introduced by the Humanized Reader, or at least the HR was one of the first good implementations.
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by antirez 19y ago
I agree 100% with the article. Many applications are not designed at all to be useful, because in the last months the market didn't rewarded just useful applications, but a lot of fashionable ones. Sometimes to build something of really
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by antirez 19y ago
The fact that it isn't obvious for somebody is strange. After all this is how old software works in 99% of the times: you have to write something of useful for individuals alone. Web applications are now much more collaborative, and things
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by antirez 19y ago
> With web apps, the code base is relatively small and simple Well said, this is having enormous impacts in the economy of web 2.0 too. Not just small, but also simple as you said. This means that almost every decent programmer can
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by antirez 19y ago
For a founder reading programming.reddit.com or ycnews IS to work. It's just a matter to manage to read a bit to relax and earn interesting information and then back to work instead to burn the whole day in news sites.
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by antirez 19y ago
I failed: A: Ada, B: B, C: C, D: D, E: Erlang, F: Forth, G: Gwbasic, H: Haskell, I: Io, L: Lisp, M: Miranda, N: Newtop Script, O: OCaml, P: Perl, Q: Qbasic, R: Ruby, S: Scheme, T: Tcl, U: ?, V: Visualbasic, Z: ?, X: ?, Y: Yacc, W: ?, K: ?
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by antirez 19y ago
Sure, get insurance! But also make sure to eat good food , and do sport.
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by antirez 19y ago
Plus Google is probably the most hacker-compatible of all big cos. Maybe N years ago when google was a little startup. In every big company there is the rule that you need to do a specific stuff, and this is the worst thing that an hacker
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by antirez 19y ago
Yeah, also it is not particularly cool after you sold that you need to go at Google to work on this stuff. I mean... ok... after some year the vesting period expires and you are rich and goodbye, but in some way after the acquisition you be
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by antirez 19y ago
Btw oknotizie ( http://oknotizie.alice.it ), a reddit alike system my startup developed for the Italian market, already has the ability for users called "power users" (having enough total rank and enough rank accumulated in the last month
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by antirez 19y ago
This can sound stupid maybe, but what about to design for not having the problem in the first stage? (i.e. no corners nor shadows). Also make sure it's a matter of transfer time and not a rendering speed issue. Btw some day ago I released t
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by antirez 19y ago
I wrote it in the free time of the last few days, still a bit primitive but I'll try to improve it, please feel free to post feature requests (and bug reports as the only beta tester for now was valgrind ( http://valgrind.org/ )
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WBox - HTTP testing tool(hping.org)
1 points by antirez 19y ago|1 comments
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by antirez 19y ago
They analyze fecal excrements with a stick. After few mixes the more it looks like the Google logo the better the employer is. Image matching is performed via a cluster of slaves voting from 0 to 9. Well... apart from joke, it is a very bad
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by antirez 19y ago
It's strange to meter the base cost spending $1k for domain name registration... and more than $4k in legal stuff. The base cost is mostly zero in the real world as the founders should be able to write code instead to buy it, create a basic
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by antirez 19y ago
No, just focus on the users, solve real problems, have a working business model, be profitable ASAP, avoid to get VC funds.
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by antirez 19y ago
Hello Ivan, many info about me at http://invece.org , recent news at http://antirez.com but only if you read italian... btw antirez [at] gmail d o t com
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by antirez 19y ago
You can use mod_ruby + eruby. This is the setup I'm using currently to develop our next application.

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