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by ashleyw 18y ago
I've been thinking about your comment for 20 minutes now, and still don't understand what you mean — what do google/apple, and 37signals/twitter, have in common (business model wise)? And with the "mom & pop" stuff, I was just referring
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by ashleyw 18y ago
Charging for stuff is the "mom 'n' pop" way of doing things; if you want to get big, that's going to be extraordinary hard. Youtube, Digg, Facebook, Myspace, etc, none of those would be as big as they are today if they charged users. Howeve
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by ashleyw 18y ago
I prefer it on my own server, but also a "status" blog at wordpress/blogger/etc. Then you get both the benefits — full control over your blog, and a way to communicate with your users when the main site goes down! :)
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by ashleyw 18y ago
Is it just me, or does Cappuccino over-complicate things a bit? I'm sure if I fluently knew Objective-C better it'd look easier, but it still looks like a ton of code...
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by ashleyw 18y ago
The only problem I see with this kind of thing is it uses the same CPU as flash (FF3.1b3 and Safari4b1), and Flash is pretty slow on OSX anyway!
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by ashleyw 18y ago
Twitter has a massive future...I just hope they continue to open up their API (public XMPP, etc.) so developers can tap into the ever growing resource! I'm not a big fan of the billion webapps created everyday which uses Twitter in some way
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by ashleyw 18y ago
The right to violate copyright is part of our human rights? Now I'm an occasional pirate (mainly TV, since I'm not in the US), but these guys are bonkers; I know pirating is wrong, however these guys seem to think that nobody should have th
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by ashleyw 18y ago
Awesome, very awesome! I'm not to keen on the colours (feels a bit dull), but love the idea!
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by ashleyw 18y ago
By the way, I was chatting to Jason the other day about the tipping/bounty feature: "So far the tipping results in 2-10x the amount of response... so clearly it works. Give it time! :-)" Maybe it was worth re-creating Yahoo's servi
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by ashleyw 18y ago
Copying bigger companies? http://www.mahalo.com/answers Don't get me wrong, sometimes 'copying' is great when somebody truly believes they can solve a problem better, but that doesn't seem the case here — the only new feature I see is tha
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by ashleyw 18y ago
ruby -e "loop{tn=Time.now.to_i;puts\"#{tn} (T-minus #{1234567890-tn})\";sleep(1)}" I nearly forgot, and literally finished writing that ~10 seconds before 1234567890!
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by ashleyw 18y ago
Yep but a single page is a cool place to add everyone! It'd be awesome if Twitter had group support like FriendFeed though....a HN group would rock! http://twitter.com/ashleyw
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by ashleyw 18y ago
I think the multiple versions are daft, there should be two versions — Home, and Pro. You're not giving people who can afford it the choice of a more feature filled (or in this case, less limited) OS, you're just giving the people who can't
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by ashleyw 18y ago
Match.com started a free site to get plentyoffish's traffic, so plentyoffish starts a paid site to go after some match.com traffic, it's a pretty smart move in my opinion. From what I can tell, while free and paid dating sites are largely t
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by ashleyw 18y ago
Flash sucks on OSX; For me, World of Warcraft uses the same amount of CPU as an average flash game… This thing rocks, just wish I could choose the panels on the OSX dashboard version...
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by ashleyw 18y ago
It'd be interesting to know what type of music people around the world were listening to after the inauguration in comparison to before.
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by ashleyw 18y ago
Mines 100358785 I really suck at this game, I'm level 7 but I keep running out of money, and I loose most fights! Very addictive though, checking it every 5 mins now, hopefully I can break away else I'm not going to get anything done!!
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by ashleyw 18y ago
Not a single mention of "tipjoy.com"?! That strikes me as a missed opportunity; the main place this is going to get shared is on twitter…which is obviously your market, full stop, for Tipjoy. If only a single person learnt about Tipjoy from
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by ashleyw 18y ago
Fundamental programming skills are the same in any language may it be Ruby, PHP, or C, so if I were you I'd learn Ruby (or maybe Python; I prefer Ruby though) in those 8 months and then take a good programming class in collage to advance to
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by ashleyw 18y ago
• Silverlight could be an issue, the adoption rate isn't that great so the majority of visitors would have to install a plugin to be able to do anything — people get turned away from sites because of a slow loading page, so being prompted t
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by ashleyw 18y ago
Always; in fact I often skip articles entirely and just read HN comments, if I already know the gist of what the article is about.
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by ashleyw 18y ago
Constructive criticism at the ready; FIRE AT WILL! I never had a problem with Vista, in fact I used it for nearly 3 years (or there abouts...from the early builds till earlier in the year), until I got a Mac in June. I dislike Windows now,
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by ashleyw 18y ago
They're already dealing with the majority of your traffic for free , whats wrong with a few hours between refreshes? Theres a quick fix if you want it instant — host your own feeds!
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by ashleyw 18y ago
The only problem for me is its so complicated; if I found obvious vandalism which hadn't got caught by any of the active members, it'd take me 10 mins to work out how to revert it correctly — it'd not be much harder to use it from the comma
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by ashleyw 18y ago
Sure, but that bandwidth is very flexible also; you GET 800GB bandwidth mentioned in the above plan, but what if you just need 400GB...or 1600GB? AWS will scale from your launch day till the day you go IPO, or at least are at the stage when
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by ashleyw 18y ago
Yeh, but if that $243 was your "base" price, it'd only cost $72 or what ever to add a new server, or of course you could just use it for a few hours when needed. Elasticity REALLY is the strong point of EC2, with the ability to create your
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by ashleyw 18y ago
RSS is just one of those things where no media person thinking in a pre-internet world will ever understand; giving your content away, with few ways of monetizing the readers?! Preposterous!
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by ashleyw 18y ago
Oh yeah, forgot one: — Get dressed most days; when working from home, its so easy not to get dressed until the late afternoon or even not at all, but doing so limits my productivity substantially!
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by ashleyw 18y ago
Mine are really similar: - Get Healthier (not just losing weight, but eating better and drinking less soda/sugar drinks) - Read the piles of books on my desk - Start blogging - Learn a new programming language (C/C++/Ob
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by ashleyw 18y ago
Yep, they definably did in my town — cause they had massive speakers attached, and the people monitoring the cameras could (and did on many occasions which I witnessed) shout at people for littering and causing trouble.

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