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by babs474 13y ago
We need devs who will not only speak up but who can communicate I spent a few years dealing with the asshole charlatan CTO, who I shit you not, was "discovered" while working at computer renaissance. The major differentiator bet
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by babs474 13y ago
I've seen a few demos of this. The developer story is great. Easy to integrate, no need to worry about screwing up storing passwords and you are not abdicating authentication to some evil or possibly evil in the future, company.
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Show HN: Reddit Comment Search(commentfindder.com)
1 points by babs474 13y ago|1 comments
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by babs474 13y ago
Thanks for the thoughts. I think the monitoring use case is a very natural next step. Basically "saved" searches. On commentfindder you can exclude specific subreddits with "-subreddit:askreddit" syntax or target subredd
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by babs474 13y ago
You should give http://www.commentfindder.com a try. I believe it has a more extensive index than metareddit which I'm pretty sure is based on google search. I'd love any feedback.
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by babs474 13y ago
I've got an experimental, realtime comment search engine over at commentfindder.com. Perhaps some useful visualizations could be created off of it. Do you have any ideas for what kind of actionable chart would be interesting?
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by babs474 13y ago
At www.optimine.com we are doing some interesting stuff to address the abysmal CTR of display ads. The key is to measure the effect that your display ads are having on your paid search ads, ie measure the "brand effect" impact on
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by babs474 13y ago
Worked for me. I found one of the best companies I've ever been at from HN, and I'm in Minnesota.
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by babs474 13y ago
It's interesting because I had trouble reading lisp until somebody told me that you don't read lisp by worrying about parentheses, but by reading it as an indentation level aware language. Just like Python. Here is a more in depth link: h
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by babs474 13y ago
This is a killer feature of emacs and M-x shell for me. Now my command history is searchable, just like any other file or buffer I have open. I use the same idea for any repl, R,python,ruby,node,clojure. Bash is just another repl. The major
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by babs474 13y ago
I brought this up in the previous twitter api thread, but it is interesting to get more thoughts. Perhaps the answer is to stop using apis. I developed a reddit extension, and when reddit cut off my api access I was able to crowdsource a da
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by babs474 14y ago
Yeah. First I used the reddit api, when reddit cut that off I was able to crowdsource a data feed from users through a browser extension. Then reddit convinced google to have unedditreddit removed from the app store. I switched to a firefox
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by babs474 14y ago
You are right. I'm going through this exact same thing with the reddit api and chrome app store. A lot of api providers seem to have a few limited (mostly lame) use cases in mind. Developers by their nature are creative boundry pushers. Con
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by babs474 14y ago
A long time ago I did some proof of concept work to do GPGPU operations in the browser with regular webGL, it kind of worked: http://learningwebgl.com/blog/?p=1828#comments I did look into using the same technique to implement bitcoin min
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by babs474 14y ago
You might have a point here. This really started out as a social experiment, and then it took off, so I started charging so it could be sustainable. Looking at unedditreddit through the harsh prism of business, it probably isn't that great
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by babs474 14y ago
Thanks for your thoughts martey. The reddit comment thread you are linking is indeed a bit old. Here is a more recent, really good discussion: http://www.reddit.com/r/TheoryOfReddit/comments/1ao3zf/shoul... (as an aside: I didn't mean to
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by babs474 14y ago
Here is my question though. I've solved the appstore issue. I've got a small amount of customers who are still being served and satisfied. I've got a forward path with firefox extension. I can continue business as things stand. Am I just go
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by babs474 14y ago
Yes, that was a painful lesson that was reinforced when my app was unceremoniously dumped. I've since moved to a firefox app hosted by me, not an appstore. The chrome extension is still available but google has made it really difficult for
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Ask HN: A social media company is hostile to my side project. Do I fight or not?
4 points by babs474 14y ago|13 comments
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by babs474 14y ago
Optimine (St. Paul, MN) - Software Engineer -- Full Time We use the jvm and related technology stack, but we are impressed by experience with a variety of technologies. Optimine optimizes your paid search bidding strategy. Think of it like
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by babs474 14y ago
I'm not sure about the stats, but I can contribute my anecdotal experience of the detrimental effects of gobs of vc money on a startup. In this case, there was so much runway that they decided they had time to invent their own proprietary c
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by babs474 14y ago
Ugh, this is exactly the 'asperger pride' mentality I mention in a thread below. You are trying to make it politically incorrect to talk about the problem of aspergers in the dev community. The parent is a bully? really? A bully? come on. M
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by babs474 14y ago
Thanks for the correction, I got lazy there. I think the problem with 'Asperger pride' is it tends to focus on how neuro-typical people have wronged people on the spectrum. A lot of times the painful truth is that person with aspergers is a
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by babs474 14y ago
Neuro-typical people can be assholes, but they tend to understand that they are being an asshole when they act asshole-ish. I think a big problem in the dev community is a lot of asshole behavior out there from people who don't intend to, o
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by babs474 14y ago
I think the important difference between virtualenv and lein is not the implementation detail of whether it is a zipped file or whatever, but in how you use them. If you run a python program with virtualenv who decides weather to use python
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by babs474 14y ago
True clojure assumes the existence of the JVM. However no other jvm language has gone with the language as library system which is a shame. Also, I don't think anything would preclude non jvm hosted languages from doing something similar. I
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by babs474 14y ago
This is something that clojure got right before any other language I'm familiar with did. You do not "install" clojure. You depend on clojure just like you might log4j or joda-time
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by babs474 14y ago
Couldn't agree more about the enterprise sentiment. That is why I like things like Grails, that try and drag the enterprise java world, kicking and screaming into the modern era of ruby on rails style mvc and such. I think Grails mostly suc
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by babs474 14y ago
Grails is decent in my experience but I have two major gripes after working on a large Grails project 1. code reloading (ie change code, see results) doesn't work reliably and server restarts are slow 2. The ORM is still based on hibernate
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by babs474 14y ago
I think what rada is saying, and definitely what I have seen, is that people already in minneapolis are not very apt to move to another job within the minneapolis area.

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