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by axod 16y ago
Just because Justin Bieber has 6m followers, doesn't mean any of them tweet. Twitter has always been more of a 'broadcast to followers' than a conversational tool.
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by axod 16y ago
I'm slightly biased, but this is what I aim to solve with Mibbit - make it a little more friendly and clean looking. Hopefully I'm headed in the right direction so far.
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by axod 16y ago
Click on the link twice. Google docs has some weird bug at the moment afaik which causes this. (Worked for me the second click, probably some cookie set the first time).
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by axod 16y ago
The alternative is to go on a different IRC network more friendly and less rules based... Freenode ironically isn't very free.
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by axod 16y ago
Sure. I was just explaining for those who prefer to write things like this themselves.
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by axod 16y ago
Fair enough. It definitely depends on your websites profile etc. I worked out a while back what it'd cost to run Mibbit on EC2 (Let alone any intermediary), and it was crazy money. But we use a fair bit of bandwidth and not too much CPU so
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by axod 16y ago
Image how much more profitable you could be if you got a dedicated server or 10.
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by axod 16y ago
Whilst Amazon cloud, Heroku etc may be hot for startups who don't really mind about throwing money away, I don't think that will last. Both are significantly, prohibitively expensive for companies interested in turning a profit or having a
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by axod 16y ago
Closure compiles it down to 5000 or 5E3 or whatever is smallest in my build process, so all the browser sees is '5e3'. I find 5*1000 most readable in my source code though.
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by axod 16y ago
Relying on feature detection alone for WebSocket is a big mistake though. Websocket can fail for a number of reasons - proxies, stupid ISPs that interfere with HTTP traffic etc. In Mibbit, the code is something like this: if(WebSocket i
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by axod 16y ago
Yes it is: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hbadbkkklnhamjjeag... (Mibbit Chrome app, free version, ad supported)
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by axod 16y ago
> "but please let's not turn it into a marketing buzz-word when it's not really necessary." I think it's about a year late for that.
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by axod 16y ago
The number of people who want to pay directly for something is far smaller than the number of people willing to view an advert. With advertising, you get more visitors, you get more revenue. And the number of visitors available is billions.
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by axod 16y ago
Nice to see some success with advertising revenue. It always seems like HN and several other places are heavily skewed towards charging end users directly. But that's only one option open (And IMHO, it's not quite as scalable and fun as adv
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by axod 16y ago
I still use 'n' and 'f' every so often. Reason being, on the ZX Spectrum, it had all the BASIC keywords on each key, and pressing the key would input the keyword itself (depending on where you were etc). The 'N' key had 'NEXT', and the 'F'
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by axod 16y ago
Agree. Anyone can write a webserver in a day. It's all the extra crap that takes a while to get just right. The hero worship really puts me off checking HN.
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by axod 16y ago
I assume you're being ironic? I think the jury's out on both of those things being real problems.
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by axod 16y ago
why 5 years? js isn't exactly new. I remember writing my first browser games in js (tetris and minesweeper) in 1999.
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by axod 16y ago
Also make sure you learn js. Don't end up learning something like jquery.
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by axod 16y ago
The worst thing for my wife I think, is when I'm away from the house with little connectivity, and I need to call her up and ask her to fix something. "Open up my macbook, now open up this document, now open a terminal, type in ./deploy.sh"
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by axod 16y ago
It's just the latest buzzword to mean 'New!'. Couple of years ago everything was 'ajax'.
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by axod 16y ago
I'm not the one charging $1000 per seat for my wisdom ;)
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by axod 16y ago
If you asked someone to draw the screen of say http://godaddy.com from memory, they'd likely mainly remember the lovely lady wearing a 'godaddy' t-shirt. Is that the most important thing? What we remember is different to what we want if w
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by axod 16y ago
I think TBH that's my main problem with these. They're all out of context, and so fairly useless without the back story.
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by axod 16y ago
I speak my mind shrug . I think it's better to say what you think than say nothing at all. Either you love 'nuggets' of "wisdom" like this, or you hate them. It might have also been the [tweet] spam buttons that got on my nerves (Makes you
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by axod 16y ago
For example: "Never go with your first instincts." Google "Always go with your first instincts" = About 50,800 results. Google "Never go with your first instincts" = About 7 results. Both of those are clearly stupid advice to give.
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by axod 16y ago
Half of these are just wrong. The other half are just irritating.
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by axod 16y ago
"If you’re wondering how Apple’s web browser is so high on the list, remember that it’s the browser used on every iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch now. These devices boost Safari’s numbers by well over 10 percentage points. And if mobile traffi
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by axod 16y ago
UK (South east) Mibbit, we're looking for an intern, PHP/sql/js/java/etc No remote work available. axod@mibbit.com
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by axod 16y ago
"We take 27%" Ouch.

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