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by japherwocky 16y ago
This is absolutely driving me nuts.. they have 2 million users, steady growth, and not only can they not figure out how to make any money- they have never, in the history of the company, tried _anything_ that would bring money in the door.
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by japherwocky 16y ago
I wish people would explain their downvotes more (I just bumped you from 0). Is it too short? Or not insightful enough? Or.. do you disagree with his opinion?
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by japherwocky 16y ago
Just to play Devil's Advocate for a moment, from the perspective of the development process, and the conversion funnel, granular permissions are a total pain in the ass: First off, if you've got a user who is trying to install the app, it's
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by japherwocky 16y ago
Mostly, python v. ruby; they're different flavors of a pretty similar Kool-Aid.
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by japherwocky 16y ago
I work on fun/speculative stuff in the mornings too! It really helps motivate me to skip that extra hour of sleep when my eyes first crack open, if I've got something interesting to go work or play with. And slowly but surely, stuff actual
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by japherwocky 16y ago
It would help to know what your widget actually did, but here's a freemium pitch: make your widget free for the first X views / mo., and then show ads, unless your user subscribes for $Y / mo. By show ads, I mean, after some domain has gott
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by japherwocky 16y ago
Seriously: NEWS FLASH ZUCKERBERG IS KIND OF A DOUCHE I mean.. maybe if you didn't know that, this will alert you to it, and welcome to the internet. They're Facebook, we don't need to go easy on him.
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by japherwocky 16y ago
this happened to me on ec2 this summer- dozen idle instances running for two months because of a bug in a script. I didn't get any sort of break though. :( June was a lot of hotdogs and Budweiser till I could dig out of that hole.
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by japherwocky 16y ago
"Skew-Lite" was common at previous jobs, for me.
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by japherwocky 16y ago
I'd add, if you're morally OK with not telling them, it's to your personal advantage not to. But I wouldn't call it honest.
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by japherwocky 16y ago
I look for the language stack I'm prefer (because I chose it for a reason), and a business model that seems sane and interesting. Phone interviews are pretty cheap, and a quicker way to see if cultures / values / etc. line up, imho.
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by japherwocky 16y ago
Pretty much the worst that can happen is you won't get paid, and those clients will tell all their friends not to hire you. Which is.. not that awful. But if you try at all, you might find that in the real world the bar is actually pretty
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by japherwocky 16y ago
Fair enough! He really is a remarkable guy.
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by japherwocky 16y ago
OK, I'll bite: He has singlehandedly built a lot of incredibly useful software. He's awesome. Why are we linking to his wikipedia article? Am I missing some timely piece of info?
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by japherwocky 16y ago
Yep. :\
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Poll HN: to Python 2 or 3 (or even to build at all?)(japherwocky.pearachute.com)
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by japherwocky 16y ago
Also known as how to spot a dysfunctional work environment! Lots of good advice in there, especially if you've never experienced cube-land first hand. I wonder how many people are filing this under "useful but morally grey", versus "i need
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by japherwocky 16y ago
it's kind of split, but a lot of HNers think that telecommuting isn't optimal. (Personally, I disagree ;)
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by japherwocky 16y ago
From the perspective of someone who's been telecommuting for the past year-ish: if they admit that their performance problems are personal, and it's just a lack of discipline on their part, maybe they're not cut out for it. You've got to be
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by japherwocky 16y ago
I think there are about 666 parentheses in those code examples.. I don't get the appeal of Clojure?
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by japherwocky 16y ago
Yeah, I'm with you.. the article is dramatic Disney fluff with no real wisdom or insight.
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by japherwocky 16y ago
I think what he's saying is that the odds look worse for single founders, but this is a little misleading because disproportionately more bad ideas come from single applicants. The applications that get funded probably have a good backgroun
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by japherwocky 16y ago
call me a unicorn then. I wrote/built a startup this spring and needed a biz dev / marketing co-founder. Maybe the author isn't going after very technically interesting projects!
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by japherwocky 16y ago
hoop saw similar things with his affiliate links; a lot of the sales didn't come from the books he recommended, but once people were on amazon they'd end up buying something.
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by japherwocky 16y ago
I worked for a "startup" in LA that did something like this. They had big funding, and big names, but were kind of incompetently run. I'll just say this: the government / military was verrry interested in the honeypot angle.
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by japherwocky 16y ago
TODO lists, or blogs are good for newbies, imo. You need to touch all the parts of an MVC framework, but everything can be pretty basic.
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by japherwocky 16y ago
Heroku actually published a really good blog post about this today.. it was on the frontpage earlier: http://blog.heroku.com/archives/2010/7/20/nosql/ Riak's nice for redundancy and high availability stuff, and scales dynamically by addin
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by japherwocky 16y ago
Curious what you're using httplib for? 80% chance you're reinventing a wheel.
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by japherwocky 16y ago
If you have to ask, I would highly recommend 2.x ! Nobody of note is using 3.x in production. It's nice, but not backwards compatible with the huge pool of existing code / docs; which is one of python's strongest suits, especially if you'
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by japherwocky 16y ago
Hire an intern, teach them how to do the tech support, collect a check. I think you'd be foolish to get rid of it. I'd happily support it for you and pass on a cut of the earnings. ;)

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