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by blparker 12y ago
How do you protect against single point of failure and total data loss? Do you do frequent offsite backups?
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by blparker 13y ago
> So I'm curious... is there any kind of "open-source incubator" out there? Like, a site with 500 developers signed up, they all vote on new project ideas, start a new project each month, kind of like a great big collabora
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by blparker 13y ago
Do you find an incentive to read more as to ensure that you are getting your monthly money's worth?
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by blparker 13y ago
How does one "capture" data flowing over a private fiber channel? Does it require a physical tap?
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by blparker 13y ago
"Facebook's new ad service, launched earlier this month, gets around the traditional third-party advertising cookies by doing the tracking on its own. When a person visits a website selling shoes on a work PC, a piece of Facebook
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by blparker 13y ago
How do you market StaffSquared? You mentioned SEO and ads; is this your main source of customer acquisition?
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by blparker 13y ago
Yeah, it's gone through changes over the past year, and it's pretty much all but dead. There used to be a decent blend of development/designer articles, but it's completely dominated by design articles now.
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by blparker 13y ago
Interested in your opinion as to why you don't think this acquisition will help gain market share on AWS.
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by blparker 14y ago
I consider myself a proficient developer, however, in situations where I'm required to solve an obscure puzzle while someone is staring at me, generally makes me uncomfortable...no matter how easy the question. I interviewed for an internsh
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by blparker 14y ago
Agree with you, sir. I'm not the target market, but I'm not entirely sure how this application differentiates itself against the bigger names in the space (namely Carbonmade). I'd be interested to hear what the OP says.
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by blparker 14y ago
I was too lazy to refresh, so I built a script and dumped 220 of the ideas in a pastebin. Sorted with duplicates removed. Very likely that some are missing. Would've probably been just as easy to try all combinations of left and right terms
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by blparker 15y ago
@brockf - I'm putting together a list of Startup Success stories, and your story sounds like one people might be interested in. Would you be willing to write a quick summary of your experiences? You can reply here or email me at bryan.parke
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by blparker 15y ago
Pretty interesting story. Have you considered writing a blog post to document your story? That would be a nice read.
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by blparker 15y ago
Nice idea. I seen it initially on Forrst. I'm interested by the fact that you plan on being transparent about the numbers. Where do you plan on posting these figures?
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by blparker 15y ago
Yep, crashed on my iPad2 as well.
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by blparker 15y ago
(Not Mike, but I can relate) - I suffered from a similar problem some time ago, that I have since overcome. I'm not sure if I can offer any words of advice, but I can give you a recount of my experience that helped me overcome it. Like you,
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by blparker 15y ago
I have to agree with the commenters. You should ultimately build on whatever you're comfortable with in order to get your product out the door. If you have to worry about optimization and scalability later, then you will have to cross that
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Ask HN: How do you wrap your head around large, existing projects?
2 points by blparker 15y ago|1 comments
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Ask HN: Any HN Meetups or similar events in Chicago?
1 points by blparker 15y ago|0 comments
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by blparker 16y ago
Great work. Looks professional and polished.
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by blparker 16y ago
Love it. Thank you.
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by blparker 16y ago
Was this list derived from the Facebook page?
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by blparker 16y ago
That's a neat idea.
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by blparker 16y ago
So, I added all of the resources up to this point in the link: http://resourcey.com/site_details/2/news.ycombinator.com/ Feel free to add more to this list.
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by blparker 16y ago
This is pretty cool. Do you have any idea if this stuff is manually entered, or does he mine HN for it?
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Ask HN: Is there a list of Hacker News projects?
33 points by blparker 16y ago|18 comments
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by blparker 16y ago
I agree with this to a point. You should produce code in whatever language you are most proficient/comfortable with, pending that language is suitable for the domain in which you are producing code in. I wouldn't want to try to produce a we
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Google invests $1M in pedal-powered monorail pods(cnn.com)
3 points by blparker 16y ago|1 comments