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by famfam 16y ago
Thought: do data urls work in .css files? e.g. background: url(data:....); ? Because then you could have one cacheable file (everything.css) that sits along side your pages (use background images instead of plain old imgs), so you would onl
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by famfam 16y ago
I thought the favicon could be a data url? Isn't that how they implemented Defender Of The Favicon?
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by famfam 16y ago
Kudos for a great idea. I had my head in the menu space several years ago (pre rich-mobile), and I can't believe this idea never occurred to me. Looks to be executed very well. Good luck. "WDITOT?"
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by famfam 16y ago
My takeaway: it's easier to get money than to get traction. A powerful and sobering thought. I've never been present at the attainment of traction. I've either worked for big companies who already established traction long ago, or startups
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by famfam 16y ago
Yeah, but people don't say "search engine", they say "google".
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by famfam 16y ago
Okay, I'll bite. One of my webapps ( http://todoneapp.com ) has 100 active users a week. How do I monetize it?
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by famfam 16y ago
I don't think #1's easy at all. I think identifying real problems is actually incredibly hard. Sure it's easy to dream problems up ("you know, I think my pet needs a microblogging service...) But to identify real problems requires a reasona
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by famfam 16y ago
This is so spot on. A lot of people seem to have the mental model of: "hey! i love programming!" dot dot dot (several miles of dots) "hey! i want to be rich!" - "i can program my way to being rich!" No, you can't. You need to design, progra
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by famfam 16y ago
Bringing up Hemmingway to a suicidal person seems kind of cruel, no?
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by famfam 16y ago
Doing it via javascript but without allowing the system to be gameable is a challenge. Maybe impossible.
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by famfam 16y ago
"Nitro is the Participation Engine. It's also Patent Pending." (from the footer at http://www.bunchball.com/ ) Hmm.
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by famfam 16y ago
FYI, the average longshoreman in the US makes $50k-$100k annually. It's an incredibly hazardous job.
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by famfam 16y ago
A fixed number of flags to kill seems silly when the total number of users on the site keeps growing. At the limit everything will get flagged/pulled.
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by famfam 16y ago
Well, the author stated that he did not pull the post himself. On what other grounds do you think the post deserved to be pulled if it was for non-nefarious reasons? How often do you see other posts get pulled on HN?
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by famfam 16y ago
HN is going to lose a lot of credibility if these kinds of questions don't get answered. For some reason it always seems like Posterous threads get yanked. It sure is incriminating.
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by famfam 16y ago
Congrats on launching. I just watched a Mixergy interview with the founder of http://ranker.com . How do you differentiate yourself? They have quite a bit of traction now it seems.
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by famfam 16y ago
Compete does not work via Spyware alone. They're using a lot of ISP data as well.
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by famfam 16y ago
I love it. Posterous' attack stance has left a really bad taste in my mouth. Sorry guys, the service is not "all that." I mean, I start little random blogs for things all the time and I still use Tumblr more often than not. Posterous might
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by famfam 16y ago
Clickable: http://www.whollhelpme.com
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by famfam 16y ago
You mean she wasn't shitcanned after the whole san upgrade failure thing?
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"A Game By Its Cover" Competition on TIGSource(forums.tigsource.com)
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by famfam 16y ago
You don't even submit the source code. So it would be hard for them to have people reading it.
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by famfam 16y ago
I agree. This article is just a gigantic headache that tries to sound authoritative but actually offers no sound technical arguments on anything. I mean what a mess. It's so incoherent you almost can't respond to it.
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by famfam 16y ago
Wow. I think their prices are really good. How's the stability and support?
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by famfam 16y ago
Not arguing about the dubiousness of Mahalo. I agree with the assessment. But I don't see why we're lowering the bar for the quality of comments when it's re: a maligned entity. Sorry, it's still HN, when I read a thread about Mahalo I'm no
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by famfam 16y ago
I love how snarky comments are downvoted on HN UNLESS they're about Mahalo. 30 more karma to go, then I'm going to come back and downvote you and everyone else making the same comment on this thread.
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by famfam 16y ago
That's cool. I agree there are a lot of junky ones, and absurdly expensive ones, but I did find quit a few "modern" ones like what you've implemented, basically at the same price point, same features etc. I wish I had kept the list, because
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by famfam 16y ago
Just curious, why did you decide to do this? I raised a similar idea a little back on HN and I would say overall the response was negative. ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1401914 ) The space is in fact, very very very crowded, and th
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by famfam 16y ago
Downvote me all you want... If you're living on some planet where you don't read about WP exploits 3, 4, 5, times a week, please send me its coordinates so I can beam over there.
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by famfam 16y ago
All you need to know is that they were running an unpatched Wordpress instance.

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