billpatrianakos

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by billpatrianakos 14y ago
We get it, man. PHP sucks, you're cool/smarter/better because you use something else, and you need to remind us all about it by jumping in every time the letters P-H-P are seen in sequence to let us all know how it sucks by retreading the s
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by billpatrianakos 14y ago
The link sent me to Yahoo Finance which had a headline that didn't include about 99% of the words in the headline here. Oh well, my mistake.
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by billpatrianakos 14y ago
Hey, Tikhon, we know you're proud of Parse and you really should be because it's awesome but taking liberties with a headline like you did there might not be so cool. It can be taken one of two ways: 1. The founder of Parse is a total egoma
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by billpatrianakos 14y ago
Back in the old days your comment would've been in the top spot here (despite what my profile says, I lurked for far longer so I do remember). Now, as of this writing you're at 3. You are totally right and your position in these comments ca
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by billpatrianakos 14y ago
You politely ask people not to get pedantic then the majority of the discussion becomes pedantry. Instead of replying one by one I'll lump a lot of responses here. 1. The millimeters on my defensive gun were very off. I don't know about gun
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by billpatrianakos 14y ago
As you can tell, I don't know much about guns. You've got a point but I can honestly say I can trust a judge, prosecutor, or a 5 month old to tell the difference between MegaUpload and Dropbox. What MegaUpload was encouraging was too obviou
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by billpatrianakos 14y ago
That's very paranoid. Occam's razor, my friend. They were probably going to do this anyway with timing being a coincidence. People give the US government too much credit for planning devious things. Most of it is a lot of fuck-ups and polit
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by billpatrianakos 14y ago
That's too simplistic. Lets take the example of a gun. The gun industry makes a product that can be used for intentional harm or for protection. One company sells a 35mm handgun to the general public and another sells assault rifles to the
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by billpatrianakos 14y ago
I like to always make the point that users are spoiled and have an awful sense of entitlement when it comes to the web but in this case I can't say I blame the users. It's really important to think long term and definitely overprice your pr
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by billpatrianakos 14y ago
I'm really happy to see the, charging right from the get-go. I've seen a lot of my friends build a simple app that they want to make a little side income with but they usually make the tragic mistake of launching it as a free service and ch
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by billpatrianakos 14y ago
I get what you're saying and I'm on board but the way you put it left kind of a bad taste in my mouth. It came across just a little bit like you haven't considered that you can just stop reading when you come across bad writing. I'm a poste
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by billpatrianakos 14y ago
Way to read into it. That was totally beside the point. The point was just to specialize. The example pitch was exactly that; an example.
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by billpatrianakos 14y ago
I think we all knew this already. But now now does this article count as startup advice? If so, do we not take it seriously either? In all seriousness though, we should take startup advice with a grain of salt but at the same time realize t
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by billpatrianakos 14y ago
As a developer I too a, disappointed by Twitter's move to restrict API access as it has but again, still as a developer, I can understand Twitter's point of view and I'll actually say what they're doing is smart and other sites should follo
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by billpatrianakos 14y ago
"I prefer Python". Why did you say that? To me it feels like you said it do people would take you seriously as a "real" developer. Because surely a "real" developer wouldn't actually enjoy using PHP or use it unless they were forced, right?
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by billpatrianakos 14y ago
It looks great actually! What kills ,e about Microsoft though is that, especially recently, they've done a great job in making their sites, OS, and software quite pretty but they still after all this time have absolutely horrendous font r
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by billpatrianakos 14y ago
Maybe you should. The creator of Chocolat is in a position where he obviously has to charge to help him survive. Just because another piece of software that's equally or more powerful than Chocolat is free doesn't mean that Chocolat should
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by billpatrianakos 14y ago
The difference is that no one will stop you from creating and distributing your own code editor even if you advertise that it's meant for malicious or illegal development. But don't expect the same privilege when you base your app off of so
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by billpatrianakos 14y ago
You can't sue the Internet though. This line of argument begins with entitlement. Dropbox is a company with an ass to protect. Anyone using any service's API is never entitled to any guarantees regardless of whether they comply with their T
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by billpatrianakos 14y ago
At the end they ask people to ask their employers to stop using Microsoft software like the kind causing this problem. First, I really doubt all but a handful of companies would actually do this on account of the FSF site being blocked. It'
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by billpatrianakos 14y ago
Yes but domain names that are unclaimed all start at the same price. Now poetry.com is unattainable but before it was bought anyone who wanted it had an equal chance. TLDs are starting their life as unattainable unlike domains which only en
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by billpatrianakos 14y ago
It's simple, really. A domain name like poetry.com is as accessible to the average person as it is to a company. A TLD on the other hand is something you need to take out a mortgage to own. The difference is in the democracy of it all. Acqu
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by billpatrianakos 14y ago
This deserves to be the top comment. Your one liner nailed it. Twitter was down long enough for far more people not to notice than did notice. Shit goes down. It always will. Whining about how whoever needs backups or failover protectio
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by billpatrianakos 14y ago
There's a lot of truth in what you said but there is also the other side of that, which is disturbingly real, which is a bunch of yuppies looking at weird shit and playing along with the game because they were told it was classy and artisti
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by billpatrianakos 14y ago
Yes, Heroku is down. They have a status page that lets you know about that sort of thing. It seems like folks like to keep an eye on certain service status pages and post them here real quick for some easy karma or something. This is HN, no
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by billpatrianakos 14y ago
I was shocked that they threw in the part about developing an application to alert people that they may be depressed. This is the one amd only study on this and they have the nerve to pitch a software idea at the end? Honestly, at this poin
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by billpatrianakos 14y ago
I think we work very hard. You seem to be wrangling old browsers into submission for sport. And that's fine but time is money and we don't have time for all that work for so few users. Thank god for these big guys who are pushing users of o
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by billpatrianakos 14y ago
While you may be right about browser elitism your tone suggests coder elitism. Yeah, we can often allow sites to degrade gracefully but the old web is dying. The days of static sites are almost totally behind us. We're entering a new era in
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by billpatrianakos 14y ago
It is important to keep a cool head and consider things objectively. That's why I think it's manipulative to inject emotion into this like the post does. It's one thing to empathize with this poor mother and quite another to consider the fa
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by billpatrianakos 14y ago
I think presenting issues in this way is manipulative. Before I explain, I want to be clear that I truly do feel for this mother and her situation. I also think the patent system is irredeemably fucked to out it nicely. But if you're going

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