johnthedebs

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by johnthedebs 16y ago
My guess is that they're disappointed about losing a fellow entrepreneur rather than disappointed in you or your choice. That's how I'd probably feel if I were in their shoes.
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by johnthedebs 17y ago
Ah, I see.
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by johnthedebs 17y ago
The idea behind the short URLs is probably to encourage sharing (like via Twitter). Why would you prefer longer URLs?
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by johnthedebs 17y ago
Agreed, I think the best part of it is how well it stays out of the way! History, download counts, and web access to uploaded files sweeten the deal.
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by johnthedebs 17y ago
Not sure if they had a part in this, but I found it through MetLab Design's founder/CEO: http://twitter.com/awilkinson/status/11446214489 MetLab: http://www.metalabdesign.com/
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CloudApp is live(getcloudapp.com)
20 points by johnthedebs 17y ago|26 comments
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by johnthedebs 17y ago
As a Django developer myself, I totally agree with some of his frustrations. For example one very common problem I run into with Django is that a typo in a urls.py file will manifest itself as a URL reversal problem with the first attempt
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by johnthedebs 17y ago
This post is great; right on, in my opinion. Remember webmail before Gmail came along? My free Hotmail account stored something like 2 MB - it was a joke. Google gets into lots of different domains to scare companies into action, but I'm pr
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by johnthedebs 17y ago
For one of the (few) stories I've submitted, I asked friends to take a look and upvote the story if they found it interesting - not all of them did. I felt that approach was okay because I routinely recommend my friends to stuff I find inte
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by johnthedebs 17y ago
I took a shot at answering this but I'm interested to see what other ideas are suggested since I don't know how it actually works.
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Implementing HN's Popularity Algorithm in Django(stackoverflow.com)
4 points by johnthedebs 17y ago|1 comments
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by johnthedebs 17y ago
And the link for those who haven't already seen this: http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0020/
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by johnthedebs 17y ago
The comments seem to address his concerns, but I just had to call this out: "As you don't see this hardly anywhere in Python because Pythonistas feel that namespaces are a bad idea..." From The Zen of Python: "Namespaces are one honking gre
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by johnthedebs 17y ago
"Month and Moon are nearly the same word–why don’t they mean the same thing? The answer, of course, is that they once did." I'm no etymologist, but this didn't seem so obvious.
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by johnthedebs 17y ago
"Interesting to note is that the computer language they use to teach it (scheme) has its roots in Lisp (which is over 40 years old) and will probably never change." It should be noted that MIT switched the language they teach their undergra
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A way to easily set up your own web apps & infrastructure(bitnami.org)
1 points by johnthedebs 17y ago|0 comments
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by johnthedebs 17y ago
I've been looking for something like this for a while now - it's difficult to convince people that Git is worthwhile when there isn't a complete GUI for it. This is cross-platform too! This looks like a serious contender to GitX, which I've
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A Look Into User Representation(endsandodds.net)
2 points by johnthedebs 17y ago|0 comments
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by johnthedebs 17y ago
I'm asking myself that question, and I really don't know what to expect from Google. It's interesting to see what happens when namespaces clash in real life.
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by johnthedebs 17y ago
Amen. I recently dove into Python/Django (for a startup) and the whole experience really has been a blast, in no small part due to Django (I have a strong penchant for good tools). Now that I've got a bit of experience under my belt I'm loo
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by johnthedebs 17y ago
I understand the frustration, but the purpose is competition (typeWAR). You'll get there.