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by axod 16y ago
Comparing with facebook isn't a good idea IMHO. Facebook also have way too many servers. But they have a business model - they can afford it. 10 pageviews per second is pretty lame IMHO. Crazy crazy server costs. Amazon is crazy expensive!
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by axod 16y ago
This whole submission and all of the comments belong on Reddit. Just because the title says "I know this isn't Reddit but...", doesn't make it OK. Flagged. (BTTF does rock though)
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by axod 16y ago
But would you also: * Come back regularly to play it? * Pay to play it?!! :/ * Click on ads? (If the creator were evil, they'd confuse the users into clicking on ads, making them think it's part of the game). Still a fun
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by axod 16y ago
This was a startup idea I had when I started Mibbit (I decided on balance webchat had more potential than multiplayer web games). The idea was 'mouse games'. I had a similar setup where you could see everyones mouse cursor. I planned a whol
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by axod 16y ago
You can just get the SV VC's to pay for all that. They'll invest in anything.
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by axod 16y ago
This is over 2 years old, and prompts more questions than it answers. Do your own tests.
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by axod 16y ago
There's a lot of us about ;) That syntax you quote is not something I like, and isn't something that will run fast on browsers either. $('<code>') is quite ugly. Any typos inside that string won't be caught. Also I don't find chaini
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by axod 16y ago
The line I quoted. Maybe I'm just insane. But adding a pointless layer of abstraction to manipulating the DOM is.... pointless.
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by axod 16y ago
why are some people so lazy and short sighted. "time to make trivial webapp" is NOT a good reason to choose anything.
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by axod 16y ago
The 'b' still stands for "beginners" whatever you call it.
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by axod 16y ago
>> "Any sane person will tell you to just use jQuery -- plain javascript requires a lot of boiler-plate non-business-logic code to replicate the above example" BS. Also I'd suggest a book is far better than anything like w3schools.
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by axod 16y ago
You're missing the point here. Twitter are NOT worth investing from if you take them in isolation. If you're investing in companies because you believe they will become big profitable companies then Twitter as an investment is quite absur
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by axod 16y ago
>> "It's the good old British "tall poppy syndrome"" That's absolutely wrong. It's nothing of the sort. We could argue about this all day though. The biggest motivator for me is to be told something sucks. People telling me somethin
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by axod 16y ago
You're right - I'd rather play a much longer term game - build a business that sustains itself rather than saddle myself with investment. >> "but some people want to build billion dollar companies" How many of the big SV startups ac
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by axod 16y ago
We're realists. Yes totally - UK investors wouldn't plough millions into twitter but IMHO that's a very good thing. I really don't see any negativity in the UK. Whenever I spend time in the US it just gets a bit much for me. The hype and en
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by axod 16y ago
They probably need $10m investment to hype them up, fuel the koolaid so that someone else will invest more or buy them. Agreed though. There is no way on earth you need $10m to build a simple app these days.
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by axod 16y ago
BS. There are tons of European startups. But the have 'revenue' and 'profits'. Which means no one bothers reporting on them. Don't you think $10M for some strange social news reader app seems a little over the top? or $200M for twitter? The
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by axod 16y ago
There is so much bubble hype in SV though. iPad? Yeah most people don't have one, won't get one. Flipboard? what? why would anyone use that? They won't. But investors will invest in it, journalists will lap it up, and some silly media compa
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by axod 16y ago
I disagree. It's the same with teaching. Why become a teacher of X and get paid Y, when you can just become a professional X and get paid 2Y? I'm in no way saying the private model always makes sense. What I'm saying is that the reason we p
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by axod 16y ago
I didn't say it was small. It's certainly small for what an MP/PM entails. Even a middle manager in some average company would expect to be on £65k. So there is a massive disconnect between what members of parliament get paid, and what they
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by axod 16y ago
>> "Former prime ministers can earn a fortune, however, just look at Tony Blair. Retired MPs can also cash in, to a lesser extent, on their time in office. " Right. Which IMHO is a bad idea. PM's are paid a bad salary, but know that
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by axod 16y ago
The pay is a large issue. In the UK, being a Member of Parliament, you get around £65k. That doesn't compare well to business jobs of similar responsibility etc. Even the prime minister is on less pay than several civil servants which is ri
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by axod 16y ago
The thing is, IMHO Programming to most people is boring. It's like telling them you're a builder. Yeah you lay some bricks and cement and build stuff. (Well actually, they ask you to fix their PC, since you must know about such things if
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by axod 16y ago
I upvoted on the assumption it was sarcasm. If it wasn't, I want my upvote back!
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by axod 16y ago
large market? or vocal market? Tech journalists like to make out that everyone is sitting in their home tweeting. It's just not the reality though.
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by axod 16y ago
I have absolutely no idea why anyone would want this. I can already do all of those things...
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by axod 16y ago
Please. They took a photo, the monitors looked wrong/boring/washed out, so they added some interesting stuff on the monitors.
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by axod 16y ago
It's not Java the language that is the issue here, it's just the way it's used in corporate land.
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by axod 16y ago
They seem to be opening lots of Apple stores here (UK, South East).
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by axod 16y ago
personally, $3/month is the same to me as $30/month. The actual amount isn't that important at that level. But it's something else to keep track of. Something else to manage. Another hassle. So the actual cost in terms of time/worry/hassl

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