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by crabasa 14y ago
You misunderstand the question posed: who has more power? For instance, all entrepreneurs need customers, but not all customers need entrepreneurs. So, customers have more power to change the world? Of course not.
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by crabasa 14y ago
My goodness, a VC has never, not once, changed the world. Unless they were an entrepreneur first.
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by crabasa 14y ago
Glad you're excited! I moved to Seattle almost exactly 3 years ago to work at Microsoft and was always mystified why I had to go somewhere else (DC, Portland, Scottsdale, the list goes on) to attend an awesome JS conference. That sense of "
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by crabasa 14y ago
This is a not-for-profit event and every penny will be spent on flying in the best speakers and providing a really amazing experience for the attendees, many of which are coming in from out of town. In fact, we'd have to charge much more if
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by crabasa 14y ago
Good question. Topics will run the gamut of applications of JS (browser, Node.js, Windows 8, etc). We used GitHub to post a public call-for-speakers. Prospective speakers were asked to fork the repo, add their proposal and submit a pull re
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CascadiaJS - a JSConf for the Pacific Northwest(cascadiajs.com)
23 points by crabasa 14y ago|9 comments
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by crabasa 14y ago
I'm not sure I'm a badass, but I think it's hard for many developers to subject their code to public scrutiny, especially when it's with a language that's outside of their wheelhouse. I wrote this app to teach myself Node.js, CouchDB, Socke
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by crabasa 14y ago
<<I really wish I could edit my comments>> Scratch my comment above, the caching and flushing is introduced in a future blog post. In this iteration of the code base, an attempt is made to save a vote to the DB. If it fails
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by crabasa 14y ago
Good question. Incoming votes get added to an in-memory array, which is then periodically flushed to the DB. During the flush, incoming votes are queued-up and aren't processed until the flush to the DB is complete.
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Building a Real-time SMS Voting App Part 1: Node.js and CouchDB(twilio.com)
44 points by crabasa 14y ago|9 comments
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by crabasa 14y ago
So, I don't see the that link on the new page for /r/sports: http://www.reddit.com/r/sports/new/ Does Reddit filter things out?
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by crabasa 14y ago
This may or may not be useful for your users, but my company (Twilio) is providing free conference calls for FF drafts up until the NFL season starts. Just an FYI: http://fantasyfootball.twilio.ly
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by crabasa 14y ago
At best this was always going to be a companion app, since almost all fantasy football leagues (ESPN, NFL, Yahoo) have online draft tools. I wish that kind of data was exposed via a real-time API, let's hope someone from the Yahoo API te
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by crabasa 14y ago
Yes, it's essentially an app that creates online conference calls. I would have liked to ship some more features (list of participants, chatting, etc) but didn't have time. This app also showcases two early versions of NPM modules for Twil
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Code For Twilio's Free Fantasy Football Draft Room App (Node.js + Redis)(github.com)
21 points by crabasa 14y ago|4 comments
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by crabasa 14y ago
This is kind of an odd topic for a SXSW panel, but I'd like to see what HN think of it. The premise is that event-driven programming is a radically new and powerful paradigm for developers and is more clearly manifested by the popularity of
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The Reactor Pattern and Doing Amazing Marketing(panelpicker.sxsw.com)
2 points by crabasa 14y ago|1 comments
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How to Balance Hustling and Family(carter.rabasa.com)
4 points by crabasa 14y ago|2 comments
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by crabasa 14y ago
San Francisco, Full-time Twilio has several openings on the core engineering team. Our platform is built on a polyglot of technologies, so we're looking for well-rounded developers who are interested in helping to build the next, great glob
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by crabasa 14y ago
Saying "it's all bits" is too simplistic a view of file formats vs. APIs. I'm thrilled that MP3 files have ID3 tags, unfortunately that's an unacceptably small subset of the meta-data that I care about. File formats evolve at a glacial pac
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by crabasa 14y ago
If files could package and pass around metadata in the same way they pass around data, I might agree with Dare's conclusion. However, for me, metadata is becoming too important and has destroyed the utility of files (and pure data) being t
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by crabasa 14y ago
No middlemen? I just bought tickets, and the purchase was powered by etix.com. I'm assuming they used a payment processing gateway for my credit card, there's another middleman. Don't you imagine the money owed to these entities is just b
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by crabasa 14y ago
I think there's a good lesson for startups building platforms: don't underestimate the importance of hustle. I met James and his team at a hackathon this past March. Twilio (the company I work for) was a sponsor, along with Firebase and sev
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How To Process Incoming SMS Messages In Your Web App [video](twilio.com)
43 points by crabasa 15y ago|7 comments
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How WebHooks Will Make Us All Programmers (2010)(slideshare.net)
1 points by crabasa 15y ago|0 comments
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by crabasa 15y ago
[Disclaimer: I used to work on the Windows team] I use both a Windows 8 slate (Samsung series 7) and a Macbook Air on a daily basis. Windows 8 recently released their Consumer Preview [1] and I'm finding that I'm using it more and more as m
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Tako: a functional web framework for Node.js(github.com)
19 points by crabasa 15y ago|3 comments
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by crabasa 15y ago
If you're curious about some of the developer issues they ran into porting to HTML5, check-out http://cuttherope.ie/dev .
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by crabasa 15y ago
"And I'm dead serious about making it the easiest, fastest and most reliable NoSQL database. Easy for developers to use, easy to deploy, reliable on single machines or large clusters, and fast as hell. We are building something you can put
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by crabasa 15y ago
I'll +1 everyone who is recommending Jekyll. I've rolled my own blog engines (first one was Java/Struts 10 years ago) but I'm loving the zen of blogging via creating and pushing Markdown files to GitHub. It's simple, provides me with a ver

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