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by holman 16y ago
> Acunote is still better. To be fair, I suspect Acunote may be just a little bit older than 48 hours old. ;) Splendid Bacon looks pretty awesome considering.
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by holman 16y ago
I disagree. For every startup that can easily and succinctly communicate their purpose and value, there's ten that stumble over vague, non-descriptive utterances. If you can say "We're like Facebook for pets", that has value and we can imme
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by holman 16y ago
I agree, for the most part. But there's some subtleties: 1. Yes, Twitter's real-time just like the phone, but it's not only real-time like the phone. You can revisit any tweet you like. They support viewing old tweets, they support listin
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Hey Twitter: Give us our Tweets(zachholman.com)
139 points by holman 16y ago|75 comments
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by holman 16y ago
What Diaspora really needs now is some startup, some well-known developers, or the Diaspora crew themselves to stand up and say "Okay, now we're going to use this framework to build a very real social network." Until then, it's just some pe
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by holman 16y ago
> 70% uptime. I really hate to be "that" dude, but... [CITATION NEEDED]
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How to Discover Your Music(zachholman.com)
2 points by holman 16y ago|0 comments
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by holman 16y ago
I'm continually amazed at the number of people who don't back up their most important data. I'm not shaming this particular guy- the majority of my non-techie friends make no real backups. Of those that do, very few of them make regular, in
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Conde Nast refuses to run Prop 19 ads on reddit(reddit.com)
140 points by holman 16y ago|99 comments
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by holman 16y ago
The numbers from when I've been on HN is similar to yours. Traffic itself isn't super important to me, though; mostly I'm just happy knowing the people coming in from Hacker News might end up following me on Twitter, following me on GitHub,
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by holman 16y ago
The article wasn't quite about rape. It was an opinion about existing copyright laws providing a barrier to broader society enjoying these culturally significant finds. No one is trying to get around existing copyright laws here; they're tr
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by holman 16y ago
The thing that's just so frustrating about this is that this is our culture. Jazz (and its precursors) formed the foundations of pop, of rock, of rap. It's easy to think of culture as abstract concepts like our "freedom" or "ambition", bu
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by holman 16y ago
But when the researchers applied that same processing power to 12-character passwords, they found it would take 17,134 years to make them snap. I love how they position this as some sort of strenuous discovery and not simple math.
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Dotfiles Are Meant to Be Forked(zachholman.com)
5 points by holman 16y ago|0 comments
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by holman 16y ago
The new site is really great. Notifo was one of those services that launched with such a terrible look and feel, but I still thought the core idea they had was pretty solid. I figured they could always go back later on, clean things up and
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by holman 16y ago
@blakeross: SF. You can ping me as @holman over Twitter if you want to take this offline and not clutter up HN as much. ;)
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by holman 16y ago
I'm just referring towards my experience: I ran it for about a week, saw that the majority of it was broken or the caching was completely insane, and then I was dropped from Questions. I figured it was a botched launch. No disrespect intend
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by holman 16y ago
I'd rather be making those mistakes and pushing the industry forward than being the one taking the scraps from someone else's blog. You may mention part of the solution in your post, but the solution that takes one sentence to detail actual
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by holman 16y ago
I despise posts like these. I hate being so negative about it, but it doesn't say anything. "Facebook has smart employees. Facebook wants you to learn new things. Facebook has impact." None of it is novel or interesting. I wish there were
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by holman 16y ago
Not much, apparently. It knows my Twitter network, of course, and that's helpful for search results (someone I follow on Twitter blogging about some arcane JRuby tidbit I'm searching for is great). If this is what Google's leaning on for th
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by holman 16y ago
There's a lot of things that can be said about job boards, finding talent, finding companies... in my mind the salient point is that the job marketplace sucks . It sucks to find a job, it sucks to find good people to hire. And it affects r
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by holman 16y ago
That's actually pretty similar to how we do it, too: we precompile models, controllers, and most other relevant private libraries, then we deliver it on a JRuby stack. It's actually quite slick and works pretty well, unless you have a ton o
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by holman 16y ago
To be fair, we've only advertised "repositories" on our front page — not "projects" — and gists are all full-fledged git repositories. TechCrunch added the "projects". "Project" is a pretty ambiguous term, of course; there's gists that are
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by holman 16y ago
I don't have a huge argument either way, but to back her up a little- I think what she's getting at is a primary split between blogger and journalist. Or, put another way, old media vs. new media. Formal education is by far the easiest wa
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"Is that the new iPhone with the antenna thing?"(zachholman.com)
3 points by holman 16y ago|0 comments
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by holman 16y ago
For what it's worth, Gruber thinks this is a controlled leak by Apple: Apple, adjusting expectations for tomorrow.
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by holman 16y ago
Bullet point feature charts are probably the biggest pile of bullshit ever foisted upon technology marketing.
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by holman 16y ago
Kind of a good thing, really. Pittsburgh was at what, half a million people in the mid-1900's? It's since been halved. It can't support the same population as during Steel boom era, and shedding so much population gave it a good base to rei
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by holman 16y ago
Who cares? Pittsburgh's done a great job in the last decade to work with startup-minded programs like Carnegie Mellon's ETC to build a good foundation to start these ventures. Add that to the great technical talent coming out of Pittsburgh
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by holman 16y ago
The story is interesting, but then my inner Gruber was channeled when I read this: "Yes, people could be getting burned out," said Rob Enderle, principal analyst at Enderle Group. and remembered that Enderle is a jackass. I don't necessar

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