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by ashleyw 17y ago
"…to push out a significantly better implementation of News…" HN? If so, will that be a purely back-end improvement, or front-end as well?
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by ashleyw 17y ago
Doubt it, but does it really matter that Egg-co took inspiration from 37signals designs? Of course I'm not saying people should blatantly copy another companies designs, but that I don't see why people should ignore perfectly good concepts
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by ashleyw 17y ago
It isn't that bad, I definitely wouldn't call it a "poor product". The radio feature is next to useless, yes, and in terms of finding new stuff, it's not great; however the pros (high quality music, practically zero buffering, and everythin
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by ashleyw 17y ago
I forgot to mention, I use it on OSX, where the anti-aliasing makes a big difference; when I tried it on Windows, it didn't look that great!
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by ashleyw 17y ago
No we don't, 1,000,000 is how we group. India, however, does group by two digits, with the exception of the first hundred: 10,00,000
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by ashleyw 17y ago
I love 'Bitstream Vera Sans Mono'. I've tried tons of fonts, but always fall back on that. I use Ruby a lot, and it complements the language nicely…
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by ashleyw 17y ago
Am I the only one who's a little scared that a company who relies so heavily on another companies' service, has got funding? I wish them luck with their ongoing success of course, it's just worrying, that's all...
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by ashleyw 17y ago
It's easy to price too high though. Would you rather sell 10 at £4.99, or 100 at 99p? Though of course I'm not saying you should price at 99p just because everyone else does, just remember that generally, the higher price your app, the less
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by ashleyw 17y ago
For anyone interested, this is the code which "parses" the page: http://lab.arc90.com/experiments/readability/js/readability.js
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by ashleyw 17y ago
I totally disagree — the iPhone isn't that great of a phone without 3rd party apps. I mean, it has an awesome browser and such, but I cant imagine owning a phone which didn't have a big 3rd party ecosystem behind it.
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by ashleyw 17y ago
Twitter is like the HN story titles, not the comments. It'll never be better than true communication. But as a quick exercise, I tried to get your message down to 140 characters: I have an account that I set up to use the API, but I refuse
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by ashleyw 17y ago
Ideally should be using short methods, so what's wrong with using generic names?
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by ashleyw 17y ago
Wonder if he got the job?
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by ashleyw 17y ago
Nope you've got it spot on. Facebook is like Google: it rocks and is extremely popular, but at its roots it doesn't really have much of a story to tell — it's not that revolutionary, if Facebook didn't become popular, another social network
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by ashleyw 17y ago
Unless you did remember 2 months ago, but forgot that you did, and you feel like a dick because thought you forgot to do it today (and it's 8pm, when your mum is likely asleep already…)
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by ashleyw 17y ago
That's fine as long as you spend the time and actually read the whole message first. I've emailed so many companies which send me a fully canned response copied from their help section, but even worse they base that response on the first li
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by ashleyw 17y ago
Uhhh…?
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by ashleyw 17y ago
I know we've become generally smarter over the years, but people weren't dumb back then, surely people noticed : and ; look like eyes, and ) looks like a smile from the very beginning of standardized punctuation...
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by ashleyw 17y ago
Also forgot to mention, you can do the opposite with: "2n9c".to_i(36) #=> 123456
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by ashleyw 17y ago
1.to_s(36) #=> "1" 10.to_s(36) #=> "a" 100.to_s(36) #=> "2s" 123456.to_s(36) #=> "2n9c" Ruby. Where the number is the id of the record in the database or something.
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by ashleyw 17y ago
I have never lived in SF, nor have any plans to — but what are your reasons to be there? Surely it'd be easier (or should I say cheaper) to work out of Seattle?
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by ashleyw 17y ago
Code less. Or a better way of putting it — just DO less. Start out with a plan, and spend as little time as you can in the prototype/experiment stage. Write down what you need to do to create a "minimum viable product". A minimum
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by ashleyw 17y ago
1) Webkit (Safari) 2) Ruby 3) Terminal 4) Textmate 5) Photoshop 6) VMware (Windows Vista image running on 256MB RAM) 7) Spotify (used to be iTunes, but who needs that when you have practically every song you may want for free?)
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by ashleyw 17y ago
I envy US residents — I really hope Hulu is actually working on getting it opened up to the rest of the world (especially the UK!)
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by ashleyw 17y ago
It can, not easily though, I think you've been watching too much CSI... :P
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by ashleyw 17y ago
"Any way, don't stress over it. You're in a fucking America, you won't die of hunger :) And you'll die anyway, so don't worry." Awesome rule to live by!
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by ashleyw 18y ago
Good points, it does seem a little outrageous people can go to jail for not paying their TV tax , however I guess it has to have some punishment for not paying it, else who would? :D
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by ashleyw 18y ago
I love the BBC just because it's publicly funded — they don't even need to grab your attention to make a profit from you! It's a tax I can honestly say I don't mind paying!
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by ashleyw 18y ago
Why is it a bad thing? It's better to have tons of shortening services, than a few big ones. Just to spread the risk incase one goes down. If tinyurl.com or bit.ly went down right now, half of the links on Twitter would go dead...
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by ashleyw 18y ago
The pricing could soon get out of hand — a 20 question survey by 500 people would cost $200; who'd pay that?

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