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by btucker 16y ago
Well all power to you! But should you be put in such a position some day, I suggest being open to learning from some of the great leaders in history. Not to say you want to hire an army of groupie lightweights, but passion is not a qualit
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by btucker 16y ago
The use case may be relatable, but it's not a pain point use case, so why should I care? Has anyone really had trouble doing what they show in the video? Compare and contrast to 1000memories. In the same amount of time it shows 1000mem's
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by btucker 16y ago
Their intro video ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxF7F5T-_Z8 ) is beautifully produced, but man does it make me uninterested in trying out Flow. The video presents a use case (planning a simple party) that already has multiple "free" sol
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by btucker 16y ago
World-wide you might be right. But in the US for about the last 30 years you can borrow any book you want 100% free straight from your computer (albeit usually with a 2-3 day wait) thanks to the magic of inter-library loan.
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by btucker 16y ago
Amazon must be counting their blessings there wasn't a way for people to borrow & lend physical books or else there's no way they could have built a business around selling them!
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by btucker 16y ago
If anyone from wufoo's around: Beautiful work guys! One tiny typo: The <input type=tel> link on the index page is incorrectly going to: http://wufoo.com/html5/types/1-tel.html When it should be going to: http://wufoo.com/htm
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by btucker 16y ago
http://techcrunch.com/2011/03/19/rip-digg/
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by btucker 16y ago
It's a little weird, isn't it? At least in public, Leo has always been exceptionally kind to Kevin & I think he was a very influential in Kevin's development. Yet Kevin has never seemed interested in teaming up and I always wondered i
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by btucker 16y ago
Yeah, totally. Though I think I remember reading that it was her editors who really controlled that story (and the title/cover). In any case, I've been pleased to see her appear to grow tremendously as a journalist over the past few years
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by btucker 16y ago
Digg showed a lot of people that crowd-sourced editorial curation could work. While Digg certainly wasn't the first to do this, I think it was the first to reach a certain level of critical mass to make it an incredibly compelling news por
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by btucker 16y ago
Anything more you could share about it? We got scared off (at least for now) by the inability to replicate in from a self-hosted MySQL instance (for migration purposes), but would still love to hear more about your experiences.
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by btucker 16y ago
> I find that having a single point of failure with a backup > that can be manually brought in to place (such as an > asynchronously replicated database) is quite often more > reliable than fancy home-made SAN sol
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by btucker 16y ago
Just passed through there for the first time a few weeks ago. Beautiful town you got there!
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by btucker 16y ago
Yeah, definitely! Had no idea there were so many of us! P.S. Any Ruby folks in Southern VT (or S/W NH or N/W MA)? We'd love to hear from you! :) http://greenriver.org/people/jobs
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by btucker 16y ago
I think a big part of it is we've had it drilled into us that fears of nuclear meltdowns are irrational. That people are just misinformed & scared of something they can't see or possibly understand. And we like to think we're smarter
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by btucker 16y ago
When are companies going to figure out that whenever 'social' gets bolted on to an app there's a backlash? Why do we all keep trying this over & over? Do we actually see this increasing sales? Or is it just a general feeling that since
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by btucker 16y ago
Franklin's autobiography (where this comes from) is a fantastic quick read with lots of thought provoking ideas relavant to the HN crowd. Definitely recommended!
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by btucker 16y ago
It's funny, whenever an Internet2 headline surfaces it always brings to mind memories of i2hub. I wonder what percentage of Internet2 usages that accounted for while it was alive.
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by btucker 16y ago
I agree that's what happened. But I'm still trying to think of whether there are any other cases of this in the last decade. There certainly have been other paradigm shifts. Yet i'm having a hard time thinking of anything which both gain
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by btucker 16y ago
As someone who got started in this field about 10 years ago, I find the mass-adoption of and then mass-exodus from subversion fascinating. I remember sitting in the audience for a talk by Greg Stein introducing subversion at ApacheCon ('02
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by btucker 16y ago
Is Fabric basically capistrano implemented in python?
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by btucker 16y ago
Seems they may be having some issues at the moment. Getting a lot of nginx 500 errors & can't get anything to show up in gmail after installing the extension. I'll try again later.
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by btucker 16y ago
It's certainly a good point-- It's not like competitors that also work together is a new concept. Except I'd say this is a bit different. We're not talking about Netflix relying on Amazon to produce a hardware component, we're talking abo
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by btucker 16y ago
If Amazon & Netflix start becoming full-on competitors, it would seem to make Netflix's use of AWS a little awkward. I wonder if Netflix will regret the decision to move more and more of their infrastructure into Amazon's hands.
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by btucker 16y ago
Make a config file: ~/.config/pianobar/config that looks like this: user = me@example.com password = mypassword
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by btucker 16y ago
I'm a very happy Charter customer in Massachusetts. I pay $30/mo for a 10Mbit connection
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by btucker 16y ago
D'oh! Thanks :)
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by btucker 16y ago
Perhaps it's what you're going for, but accenting the "t" in the wordmark the way you do, is little too "jesus-y" for my tastes. This is especially true of the favicon. Then again, I know for a lot of folks this isn't necessarily a turn-of
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by btucker 16y ago
I think with tools like this, that's a very common reaction. My suggestion to the founders would be to work to leverage that sentiment to get RentPost in front of landlords. A couple ideas: * Allow roommates to collectively pay their rent
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by btucker 16y ago
Would someone be willing to break this down and explain it?

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