bherms

24 ms·

211.
by bherms 14y ago
Facebook doesn't owe you anything. It's a free service you use and they have any and all rights to change their model at any time. Stop whining.
212.
by bherms 14y ago
It can be modified pretty easily to work on news.ycombinator.*... I'm sure ges will update it.
213.
by bherms 14y ago
Definitely... I love it. Thanks!
214.
by bherms 14y ago
Agree 100%. Also take into account the context and intent. I jokingly make statements like this all the time and it has literally ZERO effect on my ability to do any job or manage anything in my life.
215.
by bherms 14y ago
I love the Startup School talk DHH did a few years ago where he talks about having a product and charging money for it... Pretty hilarious delivery.
216.
by bherms 14y ago
Midwest startup meetups started to be flooded with business guys with an app idea looking for a tech guy to build it for 5% equity and no cash... I hate to use stupid teenage acronyms, but "smh" is appropriate here.
217.
by bherms 14y ago
I think people tend to get caught up in the hype and fluff of the Bay Area startup scene and worry more about vanity metrics, raising money for "big ideas", and all the bullshit that surrounds our industry. I think ultimately those will be
218.
by bherms 14y ago
I've been speaking with the author for the last year as he worked on the book and have reviewed it. Lot's of good material and a great read for anyone interested in building revenue generating side projects. I've got a few of my own side
219.
by bherms 14y ago
Just emailed... Will begin reporting bugs to feedback.coll. Thanks for the hard work.. Look forward to seeing this mature.
220.
by bherms 14y ago
I enjoy Collections as an idea, but despite the pretty interface, everything they've done so far has been buggy or half-assed. First beta launch and not only could no one connect, but they exposed information that would allow anyone to acc
221.
by bherms 14y ago
Yeah, god forbid any of us actually have fun while working. GASP
222.
by bherms 14y ago
I'm a big fan of the reimagining of how people interact with the site.. I think that's a major step forward, but I was very displeased with the redesign. I definitely agree a redesign is in order, but I wasn't a fan of nearly any of the de
223.
by bherms 14y ago
I'm not sure I like the direction a lot of these applications seem to be going where the point of living becomes to distill all of our experiences and adventures through a 3" screen. It drives me nuts to no end when I am hiking or at a con
224.
by bherms 14y ago
How does this compare to human beings in general (and then for men vs women)... I would imagine if you looked at data outside of developers, you'd see pretty much the same results, especially when taking into account the male bias in develo
225.
by bherms 14y ago
Once again though, I don't think it's problematic. I often feel that a lot of times, people don't want to pay the entry fee or wait in line to get in (figurative analogy here) and then feel left out. We're in the tech space... If I designe
226.
by bherms 14y ago
Then you don't sign up... Startups aren't obligated to give us everything we want and they certainly don't owe us anything. I personally don't like signing up for services using my email and I don't like signing up using Facebook... Howeve
227.
by bherms 14y ago
1) They only get access to the information you authorize them. 2) If this isn't enough control, there are chrome & firefox extensions to give you more granular control over the authorizations you allow, though disallowing certain things
228.
by bherms 14y ago
Once again I say "don't bet the farm on the generosity of someone else." People frequently cry when these services pull support, "steal" ideas (I use steal loosely), or block access... Would you build your kids playhouse on your neighbors
229.
by bherms 14y ago
I do agree they are becoming ridiculous.. I often have a hard time figuring them out. The real question is what the next step will be. Where do we go from here? What experiments are out there for new captchas? And, slightly related, one
230.
by bherms 14y ago
Ahh cool, did not know that. Thanks for clarifying!
231.
by bherms 14y ago
"Without client side javascript"... "using Backbone.js" ?
232.
by bherms 14y ago
That's a good question and I'd be very interested in reading about why so many popped up out here. I posed a question about this on Quora so hopefully I can report back soon with some good answers.
233.
by bherms 14y ago
Understandable... One other thing to keep in mind also is that you're using free software when it comes to Firefox. If someone wants to give me something for free with the requirement that it automatically updates to both keep me secure an
234.
by bherms 14y ago
Back then it was likely easier to lay the groundwork than in more populated cities. In addition there were great institutes of higher learning focusing on technology. Note this is just a small theory and in no way has any evidence to back
235.
by bherms 14y ago
While many people may be bemoaning the choice of Mozilla to update without consent, I suggest looking at it from a different perspective... Many browser updates are largely brought about due to a few things, but security is generally a larg
236.
by bherms 14y ago
Excited to see what kind of cool projects people come up with using this data. I'm trying to think something up right now myself.
237.
by bherms 14y ago
My comment was a bit sensationalist... I agree with you 100%, I just stated it a little more black and white than I should have.
238.
by bherms 14y ago
The original critical piece was written by someone with a vested interest in defaming Khan, as he runs a company that is (in a way) a direct competitor. That alone should be enough to dismiss his critique.
239.
by bherms 14y ago
I mentioned this on the last Collections thread, but I'll mention it again. Getting an email with the word "collections" in it causes a quick jump when I glance through my emails. Not sure how to get around that since it's the name of you
240.
by bherms 14y ago
I hope this doesn't further impact the quality of discussion on hacker news. It seems that every day I notice more and more people posting completely non-contributing crap in the comments that you'd expect from Reddit or something (one-lin

More ›