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Code Shame: Sharing your embarrassing code(brendonbody.com)
40 points by bbody 7y ago|33 comments
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by bbody 7y ago
Oh I see. I think your self-awareness about the fact that other products will influence you is probably a good sign. None of us build products in a vacuum, I think most companies (big & small) keep tabs on their competitors to get ideas
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by bbody 7y ago
The first paragraph was a little confusing to me as to what you were trying to say but the second one made a lot more sense. Although I can see this as an interesting idea, I think it would end up being essentially paid marketing. Those who
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by bbody 7y ago
A lot of large companies have ripped off or been accused of ripping off other companies and made millions if not billions e.g. Xero and Apple UI, Microsoft & Apple UI, Facebook & MySpace, MySpace & Friendster, etc. It is common
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by bbody 7y ago
I am amazed that it is still up, it is a real living time capsule to the web in 1996. If you wanna make sure it stays alive, follow https://twitter.com/SpaceJamCheck for updates.
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by bbody 7y ago
I use 402 in one of my web applications at the payment step, but it is kind of just arbitrary as I use the accompanying error message on the frontend.
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Quake 3's Fast Inverse Square Root(h14s.p5r.org)
4 points by bbody 7y ago|0 comments
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by bbody 7y ago
For those who want to listen here is a reading by Sir. Ian McKellen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1raSUYAr0s0
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by bbody 7y ago
Wow this design is amazing! Have you thought about allowed uploading of JSON Resume ( https://jsonresume.org/ ) format?
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by bbody 7y ago
For me it is getting distracted with other cool things I would like to learn.
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Great Impractical Ideas in Computer Science: PowerPoint Programming (Video)(youtube.com)
1 points by bbody 7y ago|0 comments
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by bbody 7y ago
I created a similar (non-free) service for sending emojis via postcards https://www.emojimailer.com/ What service do you use for sending postcards?
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by bbody 7y ago
I have tried to use Gitmoji and other standards before on a few projects but I have since stopped. The motivation behind it makes a lot of sense but I can count the number of instances where I have used the emojis as a cue to find problemat
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Knowing when to stop a personal project(brendonbody.com)
2 points by bbody 7y ago|0 comments
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by bbody 7y ago
I have been doing something similar with a friend. I think consistency is the biggest factor in making it work.
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by bbody 7y ago
I don't agree with those statements, I just hear it a fair bit and it irritates me.
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by bbody 7y ago
Definitely agree. None-the-less very interesting Twitter thread with Jeff Atwood, DHH and the Shopify Engineers.
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by bbody 7y ago
I am not sure I would consider #2 and #3 as "unusual changes". That being said I didn't realize you could do #1, definitely will give it a try.
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by bbody 7y ago
Eating too much sugar and not exercising enough.
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by bbody 7y ago
I hear a lot from people say "all the low hanging fruit have been taken" or "all the big ideas are already done" with regards to tech businesses. Definitely lacks both foresight and hindsight.
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Shopify's Black Friday Sale shows that Ruby can scale(twitter.com)
4 points by bbody 7y ago|2 comments
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by bbody 7y ago
I came to say the exact same thing. I say fuck in my life a lot but I feel that here it is not really adding anything, I don't feel shocked when I see it I just feel irritated. A recent blog post that was posted here recently with fuck
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by bbody 7y ago
Cost to print, no. I don’t see much benefit in charging more for that either.
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by bbody 7y ago
Had a few chuckles, a little disappointing when you see one where it got it right.
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Who is a software architect? What is software architecture?(scalibq.wordpress.com)
8 points by bbody 7y ago|2 comments
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by bbody 7y ago
Thanks for the feedback! I originally had one there but had to take it out cause of printing problems. Will definitely increase the importance of the ticket.
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by bbody 7y ago
Out of curiosity, have you thought of putting an affiliate link there to monetize? Are there plans for extensions for other browsers?
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by bbody 7y ago
Neat idea, I like how your ad-space makes a lot of sense.
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by bbody 7y ago
OP here, EmojiMailer is something I built for a bit of fun, it is an emoji-only postcard service. It was inspired by a friends want to send people violin emojis in the mail and emojli ( http://emoj.li/ ) an emoji only IM mess
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Show HN: Send emoji-only postcards(emojimailer.com)
3 points by bbody 7y ago|5 comments

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