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by feifan 13y ago
I'm in the same situation you are. In my (albeit limited) experience I've found that coders "get" the business stuff more than business people "get" the code. Maybe coders are better at learning the business st
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by feifan 13y ago
React is defined by its declarative nature (for ease of coding) and virtual DOM (for performance). Not sure if SpacePen does the same, but at a first glance of the documentation I'm not seeing anything along those lines…
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by feifan 13y ago
I've noticed a lot of 'modern' sites now have a long-tail loading period as all the JS, resources, and real content show up. The nav bar and structure of the FB news feed shows up < 1s for me right now, but the actual cont
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by feifan 13y ago
Indeed, Facebook uses this 'optimistic' posting model for at least comments as well. http://facebook.github.io/react/docs/tutorial.html
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by feifan 13y ago
Ah, gotcha. Unified app on mobile would be awesome — looks like iMessages is the main obstacle. But some work has been done to try to reverse-engineer the protocol
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by feifan 13y ago
It's a shame YC doesn't provide feedback on applications…I'm sure they make notes as they go through the apps (at least for the ones they're not sure about) — would be great for them to have a system to include those not
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by feifan 13y ago
IMHO, well deserved. A focus on doing right by the users.
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by feifan 13y ago
Re some of your points in the last paragraph: * I feel like the concept of "being online" is a bit redundant. For iMessages/Hangouts when it works, messages are sent to mobile devices, which may be "available" even
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by feifan 13y ago
As a founder of a prospective startup, I know that so much can change in a matter of days or weeks — not just about the people/market/concept, but also with the founders themselves as we "grow up". I wonder how many foun
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Hello Real World — You don't know what a computer scientist is(medium.com)
5 points by feifan 13y ago|2 comments
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by feifan 13y ago
Along with the idea of creating demand, I'm a proponent of bootstrapping until you get investors wanting to invest in you. Leads to a much better outcome for the company.
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by feifan 13y ago
I got started with React on a project last week. It's magic when it works, but initially it takes some thinking to figure out how all the components should fit together, and where the interactions should take place. It took me a while
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Raising Entrepreneurs — Career Pathing(medium.com)
2 points by feifan 13y ago|0 comments
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by feifan 13y ago
Goes without saying that the system is broken. But I'd imagine it's easier/cheaper to just hand over the data than challenge the request and get lawyers involved…
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by feifan 13y ago
It's not really about being in the charts, or even downloads, unless developers can make money from them. Unfortunately, there is more piracy on Android; ads can only bring in so much and break the experience of a game. Also, given the
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Education: Think inside the box(feifanzhou.tumblr.com)
1 points by feifan 14y ago|0 comments