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by ericflo 15y ago
Since people don't typically act irrationally, why not assume that if they're still doing it, it's because it's working by some metric that they're measuring? I guess I just don't understand the default-hostile attitude.
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by ericflo 15y ago
What makes you assume that blog posts are all they're doing? Wouldn't it be better to assume that these blog posts are just a small fraction of their marketing strategy?
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by ericflo 15y ago
He updated it to say that after I made my comment: https://github.com/joehewitt/scrollability/commit/a7eac85ad3...
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by ericflo 15y ago
Looks promising! It doesn't work properly yet on the Droid Incredible, but I'm sure he'll work out the kinks.
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by ericflo 15y ago
Steven Levy put a ridiculous amount of time and effort into researching this article, and I think it shows. He really immersed himself into the whole experience--for months! In some ways, it felt like he was a part of the class, working
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by ericflo 15y ago
I find this discussion of filtering out bitcoin-related stories particularly interesting because just a few days ago this video hit the front page: http://www.ted.com/talks/eli_pariser_beware_online_filter_bu... I'm still not really sure
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by ericflo 15y ago
http://lanyrd.com/ and in fact it was a YC Winter 11 company to boot :)
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by ericflo 15y ago
The author claims that he doesn't want to test an overly-simple "hello world" benchmark, and then he does exactly that.
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by ericflo 15y ago
Not just Mongo though, there are a lot of NoSQL companies out there right now whose marketing claims the impossible.
430.
by ericflo 15y ago
This post is fantastic! I couldn't agree more with its contents. Sorry that this comment is vapid, but I wanted to do something more than just click the upvote button.
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by ericflo 15y ago
Reddit.
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by ericflo 15y ago
Yeah, whenever people say threads don't work, point them to Varnish. It uses threads intelligently and everyone agrees it's fast and awesome.
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by ericflo 15y ago
Push notifications mean native apps win.
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by ericflo 15y ago
This list is missing the excellent ep.io.
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Sony’s Precarious PlayStation 3(extendedsubset.com)
49 points by ericflo 15y ago|20 comments
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by ericflo 15y ago
Hmm, it's showing up as a blank playlist for me.
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by ericflo 15y ago
What really impresses me about this app is how fast it is. Everything you do in it is snappy--I love it!
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by ericflo 16y ago
Impressive idea, clear messaging, and a nice solid design.
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by ericflo 16y ago
Does step three involve copy-pasting by design, or can that experience be improved?
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by ericflo 16y ago
What is the worst case scenario? Your startup fails and you get a job again? If the worst case scenario is that you're back where you are right now, then it's not a big leap to make.
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by ericflo 16y ago
Very, very cool.
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by ericflo 16y ago
I could not agree more with this comment.
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by ericflo 16y ago
The Convore team also just set this up https://convore.com/yc-s11-apps/
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by ericflo 16y ago
Reddit solved this problem by splintering into different communities, and let them self-select.
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by ericflo 16y ago
Holy crap, the loading bar on top of the tabs is genius! File upload indicator will be similarly awesome.
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by ericflo 16y ago
This is really, really interesting to me. I like the syntax so much better than standard Java syntax, and it apparently compiles down to JVM bytecode just as efficient as Java would produce. Hard to go wrong with that combination!
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by ericflo 16y ago
My understanding is that cjson is not recommended or maintained.
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by ericflo 16y ago
We were just talking about this a few weeks back, with a few more libraries compared with interesting results: https://convore.com/python/faster-json-library/
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by ericflo 16y ago
Hmm, "indiscriminate SQL injection attack" seems like a paradoxical concept to me.
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by ericflo 16y ago
I'm surprised this isn't getting more play. This is huge .

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