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by aparsons 5y ago
Comments like these are generally not constructive to discussions. You are on the internet, on Hacker News, so I assume you’re probably living in a first-world country and completed secondary school or college. Which number do you think i
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by aparsons 5y ago
Law of conservation of complexity
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by aparsons 5y ago
Would it not be correct for those callers to keep calling the old (shared) implementation?
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by aparsons 5y ago
I am NOT envious of Zenhub right now!
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by aparsons 5y ago
I wrote this months ago, but worth repeating- from a Microsoft perspective, as Java was seen as the Microsoft platform killer by many: “Java was a token threat. Bill knew it would not be performant enough on clients for Applets to succeed.
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by aparsons 5y ago
Everyone knew the internet was going to change things massively. It’s just that nobody with any sort of power in the industry knew how exactly things were going to change. A lot of people overshot by trying to work on video streaming, video
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by aparsons 5y ago
This is very neat. I love that this is an on-device product, not a recurring bill service. There was a YC company that was doing the same thing, but with ridiculously expensive monthly pricing, that had a Launch HN thread here recently. To
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by aparsons 5y ago
Also my first thought. If these folk can share metrics to prove otherwise, I’ll be pleasantly surprised.
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by aparsons 5y ago
I think this is neat. You may need to make this customizable for users. As a tech lead / manager, I used to have 5-15 in-flight PRs at a time. Some of them took a week to review. I can see having them all in slack possibly becoming tir
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by aparsons 5y ago
BillG was a huge believer in visual computing and digitized personal assistants for the masses in the early 90s. This was before the internet went mainstream, so making a single machine smarter through presentable data repositories seemed t
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by aparsons 5y ago
In my experience, great abstractions without a good data migration blueprint is as about as useful as no abstraction at all. In this example - great, you have a “queue” abstraction. When you switch to RabbitMQ or Postgres, how do you move y
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by aparsons 5y ago
Cat and mouse games lead to very surprising innovations. During the Sri Lankan civil war about 10 years ago, the Tiger rebels had acquired Zlin Z 43s, modified them to carry several bombs [1], and were bombing targets left and right, includ
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by aparsons 5y ago
The classic “I’m sorry you were offended”
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by aparsons 5y ago
He deletes tweets that don’t fit his narrative (that he’s a genius building a product nobody else is capable of building) on the regular, so don’t be surprised if those tweets magically never existed by morning
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by aparsons 5y ago
Could you explain the text at the bottom? Translation of the above text?
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by aparsons 5y ago
PG will say what he needs to say for his investments to pan out. He’s even written a desperate essay on Mighty’s behalf when their reception was less than stellar. I wouldn’t read into his opinions that much.
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by aparsons 5y ago
Happy to contribute as well, if a GoFundMe / some other crowd fund is set up. OP, if you choose to bring the project back up, please reach out. I know some college professors who may be interested to be your first customers.
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by aparsons 5y ago
Right? REPL.it is - unironically - a weekend project, that the founder loves to pretend is a marvel of engineering
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by aparsons 5y ago
Mentioned in my other comment, but just all the more evidence of a megalomaniac, insecure CEO trying to build a company out of shallow moats and little value creation
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by aparsons 5y ago
Amjad comes off as super insecure in this- and it’s not all that surprising considering REPL.it really has little or no competitive moat
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by aparsons 5y ago
YouTube does this notorious thing where the ad above the first search result appears after the results, so you accidentally click the ad.
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by aparsons 5y ago
Initially, I misunderstood the title as referring to pupil (as in student) and went, “Weirdly, that makes sense”.
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by aparsons 5y ago
The problem with statements like this is - what’s obvious to us may not be obvious to them.
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by aparsons 5y ago
The thing is, even when they were big evil, they had the best developer tooling by a mile. Visual Studio, MSDN, etc were novel and leagues ahead of other platform providers’ equivalents
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by aparsons 5y ago
Microsoft has always had the best developer tools. This is an exciting step forward for low-code
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by aparsons 5y ago
I didn’t realize they gave the devices away for free
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by aparsons 5y ago
Not sure why you’re downvoted
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by aparsons 5y ago
+1 for Khan Academy. I watch their videos for fun at times
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by aparsons 5y ago
Thanks for the response. Very impressive, and best of luck!
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by aparsons 5y ago
Simple, beautiful app solving a real pain point. Kudos to OP and team! I have some general questions, not directly related to the product, but rather, the company: - How long has it been since you released the product? I’ve always been curi

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