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by cubes 16y ago
I like BeautifulSoup, but these days I'd suggest using lxml ( http://codespeak.net/lxml/ ) instead. Unfortunately, BeautifulSoup is on the slow side, and development seems to have shifted into maintenance mode.
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by cubes 16y ago
Sigh. Mark Cuban, multi-billionaire doesn't care about your privacy. Film at eleven.
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by cubes 16y ago
How about all the people who pay for Wordpress and MovableType?
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by cubes 16y ago
Thanks for being a good spirit. I guess Haters gonna hate: http://teddziuba.com/images/step-1-load-the-gun-step-2-kill-...
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by cubes 16y ago
One quibble: Google's standard application form asks for GPA.
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by cubes 16y ago
Sure, but Diaspora, by virtue of the interest on Kickstarter has a priori traction. I'd rather see a bunch of people interested in this problem work together, and form Voltron as it were, than a bunch of different groups try and fail.
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by cubes 16y ago
Nope, but I imagine they read Hacker News, and would like to see them succeed. I think Y Combinator could potentially help with that.
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by cubes 16y ago
I'd be less interested in arguments than seeing hard data that analyzes the correlation between funding and successful outcomes. Money buys you time and resources. Yes, there are famous examples of startups that have burned through scads
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by cubes 16y ago
I agree that I would like to see some code, but don't underestimate the importance of funding when running a startup. Even if Diaspora is not, strictly speaking, a startup, it's worth talking to press while the story is hot because it like
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Ask HN: Should Diaspora apply to Y Combinator?
16 points by cubes 16y ago|29 comments
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by cubes 16y ago
There's lots of great coffee, food and nightlife in the Mission, but, as I said that's potentially a distraction from your startup. Check out Ritual Roasters and Four Barrel Coffee if you like coffee. For food, you have to try the crepes at
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by cubes 16y ago
Couch surf for a while, if you can, so you can decide where you want to live. I'm a big fan of the Mission in San Francisco, but that may prove to be a distraction for working on a startup.
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by cubes 16y ago
Come play with some of the technology I've been working on for my Burning Man project this year. We'll have some giant touch screens to play with, as well as many of the artists and engineers who are working on the project.
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Syzygryd Salon at GAFFTA in San Francisco Tonight(syzygryd.com)
6 points by cubes 16y ago|1 comments
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by cubes 16y ago
This is what doesn't add up. If you want to make money, why would you post anything and risk killing the golden goose? If you want to share your wisdom or experience, why do so in a vague, watered down fashion? Why not just wait, and pub
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by cubes 16y ago
If it's so obvious and trivial to duplicate, why don't you have scads of competitors already? You can't be operating in a vacuum.
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by cubes 16y ago
Why the secrecy then? Why the vague anecdotes? To what end?
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by cubes 16y ago
Alternatively, perhaps exit applied Occam's Razor and concluded that maxklein is either a fiction or a fraud, and calling him out in public seems like an apt way to expose the lie?
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by cubes 16y ago
It features three grid sequencers that participants interact with to create music based on Ableton Live sets submitted by artists.
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by cubes 16y ago
Note the disclaimer on the back of Burning Man tickets: http://www.erowid.org/culture/burningman/1998_burningman/ima...
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by cubes 16y ago
The software is actually available to play with now. At present it's intended primarily for musicians who will be writing sets using Ableton Live. Info on the software is here: http://music.syzygryd.com/help/Install_And_Setup_The_MDK The
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by cubes 16y ago
Posted here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1328169
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I'm writing software for a 2.5 ton fire breathing musical instrument(syzygryd.com)
45 points by cubes 16y ago|19 comments
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by cubes 16y ago
We have videos, photos, and cad of the ongoing development process. Per pg's suggestion we're going to link to the project web site, just waiting on an update to the blog that references the Kickstarter.
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by cubes 16y ago
I'm really glad the article includes a warning against trying not to overuse design patterns. I sometimes wonder if teaching design patterns causes people to rely on pattern matching as a crutch, and hampers the development of creative thi
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Ask HN: Okay to post a link to a kickstarter?
4 points by cubes 16y ago|6 comments
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by cubes 16y ago
Regulating free services would be insane. The cost to start a startup have been dropping, and this is a good thing since it facilitates more innovation with less risk. If free services had to follow cryptic regulations it would significan
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by cubes 16y ago
Either you trust an entity with your data or you don't. Whether that entity is an individual, a corporation with a bunch of grey-beards on the board, or a corporation run by someone who, presently, happens to be 25 isn't particularly relev
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by cubes 16y ago
Write the stories you can source. Sure you'd write less, but it would have more impact. As is your writing is frequently vague and anecdotal, and easy to dismiss. I might be more inclined to believe the anecdotal stories if you had other
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by cubes 16y ago
The twitpocalypse came and went, and developers updated there apps to use 64-bit ids for tweets. It was a necessary growing pain that the API had to go through. This is no different.

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