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by jd 15y ago
I read the original post. $40.000 is roughly 1/3rd of the original cost of purchase. So it's completely reasonable. If you can't afford that you have no business buying a first-generation $100.000 toy. As far as I know Tesla strongly recomm
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by jd 15y ago
I'm not going to point out how Tesla car batteries have to follow the laws of physics. Other people did that already. Tesla cars aren't mass market products (yet). They're for early adopters who can afford what is essentially a $100.000+ to
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by jd 15y ago
When you have a persistent page (that you update with HTML5 push-state) you suddenly have to worry about issues like memory fragmentation. If you do lots of small updates to build a page from a template + JSON every time the user navigates
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by jd 15y ago
> Var is broken in js because it does not obey sensible semantics Scoping is broken in pretty much all modern dynamic languages. Take Ruby for example: i = 10 [1, 2, 3].map{|i| i * 3} [1, 2, 3].map{|j| j * 3} puts i #
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by jd 15y ago
I'm guessing that the "early spike" can't reach more than 20% of their total audience. So if they don't smash the Kickstarter record and reach 5 million I'll be amazed. Even 10 million is completely reasonable.
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by jd 15y ago
That's clever. You can then even improve the algorithm by only sending the hash of A:B for every phone number, where A < B (numerically). Then you don't have to worry about whether it's Friend:Local or Local:Friend.
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by jd 15y ago
Not that small. It's comparable to a weak password. There are about 5 billion active phone numbers in the world [1]. Besides, a small search space can only be searched quickly if it takes little time to a hash a phone number. Doing a few
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by jd 15y ago
What I really like about the old style bind/live/delegate is that it's so grep-able. The new on()-based API makes it much harder to search through a codebase. In addition, when you see something like: $('.table a').click(function() {
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by jd 15y ago
As far I know the only thing that works reliably is to get multiple IPs and multiple (wildcard) SSL certificates. You can try to save a little money by getting startssl certificates (free) or by using SSL host headers (multiple SSL on one I
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by jd 16y ago
- Google Docs + Wiki is a pretty good description. The wiki part speaks for itself, but there are also many cases where people (ab)use excel as ad hoc database. We want to get Papyrs to the point where it can be used for that kind of inform
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by jd 16y ago
Thanks for the feedback! The guys at 37signals make great products, but they tend to be on the minimalistic side. We have features such as permissions (it turns out people really care about that), a widget system, and with Papyrs you can cr
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Show HN: We've just announced our 2nd product (Papyrs) of our small SaaS startup
3 points by jd 16y ago|4 comments
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by jd 16y ago
When I was nine I was playing with BASIC and wrote a simple program that would enumerate all colors of all pixels on the screen. I wanted to see all possible images "fly by" so to speak. First I got frustrated because it was running so slow
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by jd 17y ago
We've been using a similar approach for Thymer since the beginning and we've always had a really good conversion rate (conversion between visitors and signups): http://thymer.com/try/ Using a little creativity in the design, even for form
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by jd 17y ago
I'm guessing it's actually a free plan, despite the "30 day trial" text. I'm guessing it's a humongous typo. When you sign up for the priced plans the sign up form asks for credit card info and promises 30 days free. The "Free" link goes to
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by jd 17y ago
Diederik from Stunf here. Back when we started on Thymer we considered the market. In fact, we asked ourselves: "do we want to enter a saturated market?". But then we realized that we just assumed the market was saturated, but we think th
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by jd 17y ago
Haha. The use of 3d pie charts was deliberate, and I know they convey almost no information (and often give a skewed impression). We would never use a pie chart for real decisions, but in this case we only cover 7 days worth of sales, which
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by jd 17y ago
It was a bit of a dilemma for us. On the one hand, we realize the importance of the TOS and Privacy policy, on the other hand, we don't like the "Hi there, thanks for visiting. Please sign our TOS" kind of welcome; it's so cold. EDIT: added
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by jd 17y ago
We're happy with the numbers, but I think they can be partially explained by our long beta period. People have been asking us "when can we start paying?" since the beginning of the summer. We are entering a crowded market, but it's not as b
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by jd 17y ago
We thought about that, but often pressing Esc, or clicking away is associated with "undo, oops, I didn't want that". We figured when Thymer would save/overwrite user data without explicit permission it would result needless frustration for
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by jd 17y ago
We had roughly 10k beta testers, many of which found eachother (we have team features and you can create accounts/invites for other people in your team), we used beta keys, invite codes, all kind of things. Twitter and blogs also played a b
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by jd 17y ago
Ack, good catch. Fixed it. In fact, rewrote the sentence altogether. Thanks!
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Tell HN: We just launched Thymer - Task and Project management service
43 points by jd 17y ago|22 comments
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by jd 17y ago
Observe how many great designs are thrown out by the designer before he finally settles on the theme. Even great designers need to iterate. Their first sketch will be immeasurably better than our first sketch, but the concept stays the same
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by jd 17y ago
The uninstall and disable buttons work on my FF install, for the framework assistant 1.1
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by jd 17y ago
> You can argue all you want about how order-of-operations makes things unnecessarily complicated That's not what I'm arguing. It's okay for that complexity to exist, I just don't think that exposing it to the end programmer is by defin
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by jd 17y ago
The problem with operators is that they have a binding strength. If you want the expression 7 + x * 4 to evaluate correctly operator * must be stronger than operator +. If programmers can define their own operators they'll either have to su
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by jd 17y ago
In the Netherlands it's not a matter of population -- shops are not allowed to be open outside the regulated hours. I believe the law was introduced a few decades ago in order to protect the mom and pop stores (a misguided attempt to put mo
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by jd 17y ago
This is a great series. The guy can write (he's also funny) and he writes the series in a really accessible way. Definitely worth reading. Also check out his "terrain" series, it's terrific. http://www.shamusyoung.com/twentysidedtale/?p=14
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by jd 17y ago
Does your service work for European cell phones?

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