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by eaurouge 14y ago
Facebook has more users than Microsoft was able to sell copies of Windows 7 to. Not commenting on any other points raised in this thread except to say: you can't compare Facebook users to Microsoft customers, there's a big difference. Edi
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by eaurouge 14y ago
I agree that software solutions can be leveraged for more financial success than (say) hardware solutions. I also decided to switch focus (at least temporarily) from what would have been a medical devices startup to software for that reaso
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by eaurouge 14y ago
No, the reason many entrepreneurs are building social networks is because many of those entrepreneurs don't have the technical chops to cure cancer or to solve more difficult problems. Solving difficult problems often requires either deep
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AT&T's Watson APIs Let Apps Recognize Speech(technewsworld.com)
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by eaurouge 14y ago
Much of the business knowledge required to launch a successful startup can be acquired in a few months of dedicated studying. So it's no surprise teams of engineers have launched successful businesses, and do so routinely.
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by eaurouge 14y ago
Not particularly impressed with the Dart comparisons to JavaScript on http://synonym.dartlang.org/ . I'd rather use CoffeeScript. Besides I'm not about to embark on yet another experiment, as a guinea pig, with Google.
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by eaurouge 14y ago
Neat! I was just researching SVG and Canvas for a drawing application. Apparently SVG performance degrades as you increase the number of objects but it can handle changes in scale (zooming in for instance) much better than Canvas can. It
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by eaurouge 14y ago
A lot of comments here from people that have never used Evernote and don't really understand it's value proposition to its users. I pay $45 a year for the service. It was a no brainer when I converted from free to paying about 18 months a
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by eaurouge 14y ago
Out of curiosity ... if you love implicit returns in principle, then why would you dislike them in this context? I'll guess it's because speed is less of a concern when programming in Ruby. if you don't want to return any value, then jus
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by eaurouge 15y ago
Node.js is not a language.
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by eaurouge 15y ago
Just in case you didn't know, and for others that don't, nide[1] is a web-based IDE for Node.js. And no, I'm not comparing it to Light Table. [1] http://github.com/coreh/nide
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by eaurouge 15y ago
I don't think it's right to lump Meteor and Firebase together as you've done here. They are similar and the sets of problems they aim to solve may overlap. But Firebase is a "scalable backend for your web app" and Meteor "is a set of tech
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by eaurouge 15y ago
Congrats! I've been told Zimbabwe has a pretty good education system despite its economic woes. Have to wonder how much talent is being wasted while Bob is in power.
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by eaurouge 15y ago
You're missing that the pitch with these things is there is no server code as such. For Firebase, yes that is part of the pitch. Personally the use case for Firebase doesn't really appeal to me. For Meteor, it's the opposite. The fact t
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by eaurouge 15y ago
Am I missing something here? Just because you can request data and functionality from the client doesn't mean you'll get said data or functionality. On Meteor the database API is the same on client and server, but that's just an API. A M
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by eaurouge 15y ago
Nokia faced a similar problem after they bought Trolltech (creator of Qt). How to increase adoption and encourage community contributions. They opted for LGPL which, as mentioned elsewhere in the comments, allows proprietary software to
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by eaurouge 15y ago
They may only need one customer. Ask the folks who sold MySQL to Oracle The folks who sold MySQL, sold MySQL to Sun before Sun was bought by Oracle. They were able to sell to Sun because they had a LOT more than one customer using MySQL
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Shift workers 'risking' Type 2 diabetes and obesity(bbc.co.uk)
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by eaurouge 15y ago
Why only 20 stories? I usually scan the first three pages once a day, a snapshot of the top 90 articles. Only about 10% are relevant so I'd rather have more summaries to sift thru to find the ~10 relevant articles for the day.
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by eaurouge 15y ago
This should not be on Hacker News. Why did you post it?
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National Database Planned to Combat Cellphone Theft(nytimes.com)
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by eaurouge 15y ago
What's missing in the other comments is that you can't call private methods with an explicit receiver, for example my_object.private_meth or even self.private_meth . On the other hand, public and protected methods can be called on self
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Fisker Debuts Atlantic Electric Car After Securing $392 Million in Funding(wired.com)
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by eaurouge 15y ago
It's missing the PeepCode Node.js screencasts, first of which was released recently.
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NSF program at Stanford aims to tap into Silicon Valley know-how(mercurynews.com)
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by eaurouge 15y ago
Just chiming in to say that Yehuda Katz has given away so many work hours to Ruby, Rails and JavaScript projects - Thor being one of my favorites. If he decides to raise $25K to work on some open source project, he's more than earned the r
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Amazon, Eucalyptus Team on Hybrid Cloud(wired.com)
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by eaurouge 15y ago
"Corporations are (made up of) people, my friend! ;-)" That's funny because for the past few months, my mind has replayed Romney's quote every time I've heard someone say 'corporation'. I don't know why, it just happens. You make some good
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by eaurouge 15y ago
That's not an argument for it's continued use. I agree with rhizome, you should consider using a different word or phrase.
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by eaurouge 15y ago
"A lingua franca is important" Exactly! And that lingua franca already exists. This is only useful if you would like a new syntax for personal use and you're too lazy to or don't want to use 'git alias'.

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