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by frabcus 14y ago
Yeah, sorry - that part was a bit brief, and is only a hunch. I genuinely think though that the command line is more popular now than, say, 10 years ago.
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Heroku’s early history: 4 home pages that made $212 million(flourish.org)
96 points by frabcus 14y ago|21 comments
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by frabcus 15y ago
The lists on Facebook aren't shared. They're just my lists, nobody else can see who they're shared with. Socially this makes them utterly useless, it doesn't form communities. (Facebook groups does this, but it isn't central to the experi
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Product == market(flourish.org)
2 points by frabcus 15y ago|0 comments
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From CMS to DMS: C is for Content, D is for Data(blog.okfn.org)
8 points by frabcus 15y ago|0 comments
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Part 2: Why I think PledgeBank failed, when GroupOn and Kickstarter flew(flourish.org)
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by frabcus 15y ago
Amazingly you've all missed the big problem with electronic books. One I worry about from time to time. There's a reasonable chance our civilisation will collapse in the near future (within 100 years). (Not going to go into detail of why -
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by frabcus 15y ago
My (minimal) criteria is it has to be packaged in Debian. A couple years ago I considered both MongoDB and CouchDB immature for that reason. The recent confusion of CouchDB/Couchbase etc. shows that was a reasonable view.
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by frabcus 15y ago
I don't get it, why are Twitter shutting it down? Makes little sense to me. I guess there are some cases (like Wordly ----> Google Docs) where that happened and was good in the end? Most seem to mean the product is completely dead.
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by frabcus 15y ago
My instinct is to agree... However, I don't think "news" means what it used to any more. Since there are so many sources of information it doesn't mean "new to the world" any more, it instead means "new to the reader". In that sense, that i
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by frabcus 15y ago
Fifteen years ago, I had an interview for this job. This was before the Internet was popular, and it was advertised in The Guardian. Worth applying just for the interview, to have tea and a personal chat with Stephen Hawking. One of the que
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Newsflash: Geeks now good at usability, everyone else crap(flourish.org)
48 points by frabcus 15y ago|5 comments
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by frabcus 15y ago
This doesn't feel aggressive enough. How about blocking any domain registered with GoDaddy from a certain date? Do it on DNS servers Hacker News techies control. Extreme I know, but less extreme than what SOPA will do!
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by frabcus 15y ago
Yes, well spotted - I had trouble dating that comment, as I assumed the reference to changing to RCS just after it was about 1972. You're right that it talks about floppies, so it can't have been. Enjoying the few more comments the article
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by frabcus 15y ago
Love that story! Thanks for linking to it. Just as hard with software, whatever version control system is used... Who is going to remember the culture of old-but-still-running Ruby on Rails apps in 30 years time, when even Node.js isn't fas
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History of version control - 10 astonishments(flourish.org)
228 points by frabcus 15y ago|73 comments
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All T&C changes should be posted as diffs like at ScraperWiki(scraperwiki.com)
3 points by frabcus 15y ago|0 comments
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by frabcus 15y ago
If anyone's interested in their growth curve, this scraper of their search engine using date ranges gives you figures for their number of users every month since they started. https://scraperwiki.com/scrapers/github_users_each_year/
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by frabcus 15y ago
Great to see this discussion - I think that most contracts in many areas of law could be standardised. The same way that open source and creative commons licenses standardise those areas. A few of us are working on starting a non-profit to
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by frabcus 15y ago
Maybe they don't show ads to anybody with the Developer app installed?