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by benwerd 11y ago
I strongly agree with you on a personal level, but I also think there's something to be said for a non-ideological brass tacks bottom line approach (particularly in a community like HN). I genuinely wish that the ideological reason pla
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by benwerd 12y ago
I think that's more than fair, and I don't understand why anyone would have any problem with building better organizations. The response to "women are having a shitty time in the tech industry" should be "let's
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by benwerd 12y ago
I think this is really important. It would be very wrong to dismiss it with tone policing or other superficial commentary. The underlying point is that there are a lot of women in the technology industry who believe - rightly - that they ar
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by benwerd 12y ago
This is awesome: exactly the kind of simplicity the personal server market needs. I dropped you an email; really interested in making Known work with the platform.
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by benwerd 12y ago
They shouldn't. But right now, YouTube is a huge part of being discoverable as an artist online. There should be more of an ecosystem; more competition would result in more favorable terms. And seeing as this is the web, an ecosystem s
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by benwerd 12y ago
This seems kind of predatory from YouTube's perspective. This is the web: why can't Zoe publish her music on her own terms? The real reason people use YouTube is discovery. I can easily find new stuff to watch, and just hit play;
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by benwerd 12y ago
At this point, I don't believe it's possible to be in favor of civil liberties and work with contextual advertising.
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by benwerd 12y ago
I really love the "users first" stipulation. We're deliberately building a business that builds what we call respectful software . I wrote something about those principles last year: http://benwerd.com/2013&#
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by benwerd 12y ago
It's funny - now that I'm building http://withknown.com/ at http://matter.vc/ , I don't know how I'd answer this question. Previously, I would have said that. I'd love to spend six m
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by benwerd 12y ago
Oh wow. Remember those "submit your link to these search engines" sites back in the late nineties / early 00s? Or "site of the day" sites? What is old is new again. Genuine question: how many of these sites (except
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by benwerd 12y ago
I get this. Yes, you could use the GitHub issues board; no problem. But the issues there are not inviting, and it's non-obvious to newcomers if they should pick up a task. Here you're inviting people - literally, "please, com
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by benwerd 13y ago
They're demoing this at NAB this week; it's a pretty stale show, filled with legacy tech, so this was one of the more interesting highlights (actual exchange with a sales engineer : "what kind of APIs do you have?" &quo
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by benwerd 13y ago
I call it the "fog of war", and it's a signal that you need to get the hell out. Not all companies have it.
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by benwerd 13y ago
You absolutely should attend college. (But there's nothing wrong with taking a gap year first.) The difference is between thinking about the now and the rest of your life . It's true that you'll probably draw a good salary
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by benwerd 13y ago
There goes the Internet.
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by benwerd 13y ago
This should absolutely not be necessary in a civilized society. I don't know Richard or his work, but I donated. I'm proud to do so, and ashamed that the nation I call my home does not provide adequate support.
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by benwerd 13y ago
Wait. A feed is an API now?
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by benwerd 13y ago
Stripe is probably my favorite infrastructure startup of the past few years, and I'm delighted to see them do so well. Looking forward to seeing what happens in the _next_ two and a half years!
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by benwerd 13y ago
And thanks to whomever downvoted me for that. Guess we prefer free tools.
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by benwerd 13y ago
Points to a whole new way of making movies. I'd love to see some behind the scenes video or stories about making it - do you have anything like that?
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by benwerd 13y ago
Maybe charge for team / project use?
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by benwerd 13y ago
Do other large tech companies not realize what Google's up to, are they unable to try to compete, or do they just not care?
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by benwerd 13y ago
That was the least obvious thing ever, and you've just measurably improved my development experience. Thank you.
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by benwerd 13y ago
For sure. WordPress has a lot of legacy backwards compatibility on its shoulders. If they could shrug it off and start again, I'm sure it would be a lot cleaner. The project I'm working on ( https://github.com/idno&
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by benwerd 13y ago
PHP doesn't insist on the array() keyword, currently. The mixing of associative and sequential arrays is ambiguous, although you can think of them all as being associative; it's just, PHP will supply some keys if you don't pr
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by benwerd 13y ago
Confirming that the UK does not do either, although there are some schools that are co-funded with the Church of England. NB: I went to CoE schools for 7 years of my K12 education, and came out an atheist. I think part of it is to do with t
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by benwerd 13y ago
This is a great response. Like the article says, it's not that the original author was both sexist and sloppy with language, although they were. The problem is that the sexism was actively reinforced in a public forum, first by a dismi
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by benwerd 13y ago
I'd actually kill (almost) for the schedule on the T-shirt. Which isn't to say that I disagree with the post, but the author had it pretty good!
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by benwerd 13y ago
Looks neat. My favorite app in this genre is Poetica, which is in private beta but a real joy to use: https://poetica.com/
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by benwerd 13y ago
latakoo - http://latakoo.com/ - Austin / San Antonio, TX We're building an enterprise video platform that's used by national broadcasters, non-profits and Fortune 500 companies. The majority of our customers

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