galistoca

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by galistoca 10y ago
It's a very good question. You have asked a genuine question but I think it can be a great rhetorical question. I feel like developers nowadays blindly learn these "new technologies" just for the sake of learning new technolo
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by galistoca 10y ago
You seem to think being disruptive means it has to be always super successful and always ethical. Being disruptive has nothing to do with how successful they are. There are tons of disruptive approaches that failed. Also being disruptive ha
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by galistoca 10y ago
Ok smart guy, then tell me how so.
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by galistoca 10y ago
Exactly, that's why the incumbents couldn't replicate them, because they had to stay legal. Let's not go into whether this is ethical or not. I'm simply pointing out what disruptive means.
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by galistoca 10y ago
There's a huge difference between "tackling the problem differently than their competitors" and "tackling the problem differently in a way that their competitors can't imitate easily without sacrificing their assets
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by galistoca 10y ago
There should be a blocker for sites with anti-adblock system.
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by galistoca 10y ago
I think you're underestimating most people. Everyone knows they have one life. If they were given a chance to really do whatever they want to do and were asked to think about it, they will always decide to go with the decision that ful
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by galistoca 10y ago
I normally do when I comment on HN. But honestly there's nothing to "counter" because like I said there's no substance to the article. I could criticize all the little details but that also doesn't feel right. It wo
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by galistoca 10y ago
This article is made up of 95% fluff and 4% content, and 1% the word "Keynesian". And even that 4% content has no logic, just trying to deceive readers using lots of confusing/dubious expressions. "Since then I’ve gotten
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by galistoca 10y ago
In my experience this is the most useless question ever for a consumer social app. I can easily say "Yeah of course I would, it sounds awesome!" and genuinely mean it when I say it, and then you'll get all excited and build i
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by galistoca 10y ago
The reason VocalIQ's success rate was "over 90%" is probably because they were constrained to a specific domain (car control). This is very common approach among NLP community. Of course you will perform better when your algo
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by galistoca 10y ago
A service that tells you something that doesn't exist that people will pay for.
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by galistoca 10y ago
What is the definition of "best" anyway? If you really just think about pure performance nothing can beat a binary code probably. When you say "best" it probably means most productive in the short/long term. In that
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by galistoca 10y ago
Maybe i'm missing something but isn't this just like Urban Airship? Basically you need to have an app already in production, and you push through Twilio instead of directly hitting APNS. I do understand the benefits of having a 3r
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by galistoca 10y ago
I wonder how this works. Currently there's only a landing page that asks you to request access so I have no idea. Do developers integrate Twilio SDK into their apps (similar to Fabric, etc.)? If so, sounds like a way different model th
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by galistoca 10y ago
The code is there for you to see, what harm can it possibly do? If you're cautious of this, you should be cautious about entering your username/password into web browsers to sign into websites I think...
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by galistoca 10y ago
Well you would be running it on your machine anyway so guess it doesn't really matter.
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by galistoca 10y ago
I knew someone would call me sexist. I know where you're coming from but I think people whenever they come across something that makes them uncomfortable just call it "sexist", "racist", etc. and call it a day. All
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by galistoca 10y ago
I see a lot of people on this thread who just say it's bullshit without understanding what's going on. You can live your life that way, or you can enlighten yourself on what really is going on and make the right decision. This &qu
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by galistoca 10y ago
I think this whole "you need a work life balance" propaganda can be as misleading as "eat, sleep, code, repeat", especially for younger programmers who have no idea and rely on more experienced idols (such as the guys at
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by galistoca 10y ago
What people are saying is nobody really cares about "leaving an odd impression on an outsider". You're acting too serious about something that's really not your business.
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by galistoca 10y ago
That totally unnecessary fade-in/fade-out effect for images is extremely annoying, especially on mobile devices. The entire website keeps flickering because of that.
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by galistoca 10y ago
Google Facebook
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by galistoca 10y ago
While I agree with some of the comments he makes, I think he's making some extreme assumptions. I didn't get into CS because I am anti-social. I got in because it's the awesomest thing ever. Why? If I trace back, I remember
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by galistoca 10y ago
Ctrl+P, NERDTree, ag.vim. Especially ag.vim. I don't know how I would have navigated around complex repositories without it.
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by galistoca 10y ago
Thanks for sharing your experience. Yeah for the first couple of times I was heartbroken (It still happens), but now I've learned to embrace it. Nowadays when I have an idea, instead of asking the same dumb question to people "Wou
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by galistoca 10y ago
It is true that it's not easy. But one's job as a founder is to find a way to "make it functional in the first week". They even have a whole startup jargon for it--"Lean startup/MVP". You can sit and just
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by galistoca 10y ago
You don't get to say what people like about something unless you let it out into the world. There are so many cases where people built and released something just to find out people love it for the reasons they never expected. This guy
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by galistoca 10y ago
Any competent developer I would like to hire would be spending time building stuff with their skills instead of playing games with it. No disrespect to the players, but just saying if you're good at something you should use your gift t
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by galistoca 10y ago
While I would say nothing is impossible, there are certain challenges that are very hard to overcome. You probably need to look into history to learn what happens. You don't even need to look that far back. There was a company called A

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