chjohasbrouck

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by chjohasbrouck 11y ago
Advertisements are pure deception, and every time a consumer is exposed to one, the consumer loses and the advertiser gains. Having that opinion makes me a member of a tiny minority in America. I remember hearing on NPR about a study some m
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Ask HN: Are there any prominent examples of community-driven development online?
3 points by chjohasbrouck 11y ago|1 comments
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by chjohasbrouck 11y ago
I was working on a blog aggregator and decided to transition it into a simple link aggregator, since a lot of people seem to be looking for an alternative to Reddit these days. I wasn't sure what features I would add or subtract or do
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Show HN: PressRise, an alternative to Reddit that lets users vote on development(pressrise.com)
4 points by chjohasbrouck 11y ago|2 comments
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by chjohasbrouck 11y ago
The planet will always be able to sustain a larger human population, so long as that human population is willing to accept worse living conditions. How bad do those living conditions have to get before people will be comfortable taking step
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by chjohasbrouck 11y ago
I found it a little off-putting, because Apple does provide free iPhones to celebrities. They're included in gift bags and freebie tents at most of the events they attend, or often just mailed to them directly free of charge, or sent w
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by chjohasbrouck 11y ago
I choose Google because cntrl+t g o <enter> flows better than cntrl+t d u <enter>. Every time I've tried to switch to DuckDuckGo, this has been the primary stumbling point.
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by chjohasbrouck 11y ago
I haven't implemented Redis for this project, but I know it well and that's something that would probably happen if it came time to scale things.
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by chjohasbrouck 11y ago
I have plans to eventually write an open source competitor to WordPress that will do exactly what you're describing. Maybe even a WordPress plugin? I've written those before. It might be unfeasible to standardize the posting forma
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by chjohasbrouck 11y ago
It was originally written in Rails, but was rewritten in Laravel, a framework by Taylor Otwell who's a really smart guy ( http://laravel.com ). I wanted to go with PHP because I'm thinking I might want to do an open sour
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by chjohasbrouck 11y ago
I don't think it makes sense to start this endeavour by choosing a programming language. I think he should choose something he wants to develop, and then choose the programming language as a technology choice in the development of that
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by chjohasbrouck 11y ago
This is the prototype/MVP of an idea I had for a blogging platform. It was only made public a few hours ago so it's a ghost town, and it's very basic because I want to iterate based on user feedback, but here's the idea.
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Show HN: PressRise – A blogging platform with community voting and aggregation(pressrise.com)
33 points by chjohasbrouck 11y ago|14 comments
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by chjohasbrouck 11y ago
Wow, that /r/all. I really thought Reddit was better than that.
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by chjohasbrouck 11y ago
There's something really satisfying about seeing a visual representation of my git repositories, but my overall impression is that I'm not going to get any productivity gains here. If you know what you're doing, CLI is just f
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by chjohasbrouck 11y ago
It's nice to see someone else who likes Laravel. From a design perspective, I'd like it if the image wasn't flush with the header, and I'd like it if I didn't have to scroll to see the whole image. From a usability
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by chjohasbrouck 11y ago
I think the biggest threat to this site's success is that it lacks differentiation in a market that's already extremely saturated. One problem the current job search sites have that you might be interested in tackling, is that the
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by chjohasbrouck 11y ago
I think reading books is a waste of time, and I'm a little tired of people telling me I should read them. Books are archaic, and the idea that you aren't intelligent or informed or cultured unless you read them is just pure dogma
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by chjohasbrouck 12y ago
The problem with this whole argument is that the person purchasing the domain isn't the consumer. The end user is the consumer, and the .COM TLD isn't failing them in any perceptible way whatsoever. The higher prices actually se