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by holman 16y ago
+1. It's all about how you perceive it. "Marketing" can involve things like documentation, steps for developers to contribute, stuff like that. The more we can focus on that, the less we have to focus on the sleazy glitz and glam of it. And
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by holman 16y ago
Yeah, that makes sense; good point. I'm speaking less about them, though, and more about the "unwashed masses", so to speak. "Top developers" tend to code their projects by default to be viral or usable or whatever you'd like to call it. Th
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by holman 16y ago
I really disagree. I think the "marketing" of an open source project is more critical for long-tail projects- the projects that few use, that don't appeal to a huge audience. Large projects are going to get "marketing" pushes just as a re
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Open Source Doesn't Just Market Itself(zachholman.com)
27 points by holman 16y ago|10 comments
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Why GitHub Hacks on Side Projects(zachholman.com)
74 points by holman 16y ago|12 comments
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by holman 16y ago
We've been tossing some ideas around about more statistics in general at GitHub, but I'd like to point out a lot of these things — number of forks, followers, issues, commits, and so on — are available through the API today. It sounds like
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by holman 16y ago
As I mentioned on Twitter: > Everyone bitches about the #dickbar because everyone uses the shit out of Twitter. No one complains about cloud sync in Things.app anymore. Everyone I've know has moved on from Things.app. Syncing is just an
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Things.app State of Sync, Part III(culturedcode.com)
1 points by holman 16y ago|1 comments
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by holman 16y ago
For those of you in a different country that doesn't use the Dollar: The New York Times just blew almost an entire Color on their paywall.
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by holman 16y ago
I really wish I could do this. As a developer who programs, I'm still pretty tied to a laptop or desktop to do the work I need to do. But I yearn for the freedom to get rid of all that complexity and live off of just an iPad. Maybe we'll ge
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by holman 16y ago
Absolutely. I run into that frequently with my own projects. It's such a bummer to have to tell someone to go through this whole process for such a small `gem install` command.
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by holman 16y ago
I define it as a casual user of my libraries. Designers are the best example: they're usually hooked into the development world and would be interested in a clever command line tool, but they normally don't have an entire build chain under
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by holman 16y ago
There's a scale of developers: from people who regularly do this sort of thing, to people who are more casual about it. That's the type of audience that I like to write for sometimes: they'll use my library (which may use compiled code), bu
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by holman 16y ago
I'll pay $100 for Xcode and not use it and not even care. We're not the point. It's the casual users that want to get into a library that I'm concerned about. That want to use a C library on their machine. That want to use ImageMagick in th
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by holman 16y ago
I was more reacting to the common argument that "$5 is not expensive". My apologies if that's not what they were addressing in this comment. That said, Xcode 3 doesn't satisfy the requirement of being easy or quick to install for a casual u
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by holman 16y ago
Xcode 3 doesn't solve the issue of it being a real pain in the butt to install. gcc by itself is much, much smaller and much less of an issue for a casual user to install.
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by holman 16y ago
The end-user needs to have build tools installed on their system if your library uses C. Same for if you want to install some standard system packages like ImageMagick.
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by holman 16y ago
I'm so down with an apt-get (or in this case, brew install) for build tools. That's really what I'm getting at. It'd be great if it were installed by default, but if it were just accessibile by any means it'd be a massive step up. Most pe
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by holman 16y ago
I wasn't arguing that Xcode is expensive. I'm arguing that the barriers to entry are pretty offensive if you need the capabilities of only gcc. An hour-long process involving credit cards isn't very nifty.
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OS X Isn't for Developers(zachholman.com)
187 points by holman 16y ago|240 comments
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by holman 16y ago
Names are important. Putting aside that "DuckDuckGo" itself is still an odd naming choice, this choice isn't much better, considering the blog post mistypes it too: > DuckDuckGo chat bot: im@ddg.gg > DuckDuckGo now has a c
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by holman 16y ago
The fact that you can jump on Caltrain in sunny 90 degree weather and jump out in SOMA in relative dreary weather continually amazes me.
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by holman 16y ago
Gin. Or beer. Or whiskey. Also there are no ladies in San Francisco.
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Winning San Francisco's Startup Scene(zachholman.com)
21 points by holman 16y ago|13 comments
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New Apple Patent Shows iPhone 6 Dispensing Ice Cream(zachholman.com)
4 points by holman 16y ago|2 comments
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by holman 16y ago
As a Rails developer I agree, although not as much as a Java developer agrees: com/ => company/ => moar_hierarchy/ => etc/ => even_more/ => files Clicking though all of those empty directories, even with new slide
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by holman 16y ago
There's actually a search box in private repositories in the upper right-hand corner that searches within the project. It was turned off for public repositories for performance reasons, I think. Tom's sort of spearheading revamping search i
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by holman 16y ago
I think there'd be enough buzz for it. Students chat about classes incessantly, and they gravitate towards classes they find meaningful. I think professors can pretty easily pick out who would be most suited, too, and give them a helpful nu
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by holman 16y ago
I wouldn't necessarily say "surprised" that this is the case; I think there's an opportunity to craft a solution that works for those that do want to explore the startup life. I feel like, in hindsight, there were a lot of students in our
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Graduated with a Major in Startups(zachholman.com)
43 points by holman 16y ago|22 comments

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