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by k7d 15y ago
I guess not everybody caught the irony
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by k7d 15y ago
I think you are missing the point.
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by k7d 15y ago
Fixed. Thanks for the tip.
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by k7d 15y ago
This was a quick 15 min hack last night based on the new API. It's different from the original bookmarklet in two ways: 1) If the URL is already added to HN, it will go straight to disucssion thread, without automatically voting 2) If the U
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Show HN: improved HN bookmarklet(kaspa.rs)
11 points by k7d 15y ago|5 comments
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by k7d 15y ago
For example what's the difference between "filter[queries][]" and "q" arguments for http://www.thriftdb.com/documentation/rest-api/search-api ? The way I understand, q does a simple keyword matching on all fields while "filter[queries][]"
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by k7d 15y ago
Original HN bookmarklet already works that way http://ycombinator.com/bookmarklet.html However - I don't always want to upvote a post just because I want to check the discussion. Published this with an assumption that I'm not the only one
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by k7d 15y ago
There is already JSONP support, see callback argument: http://www.thriftdb.com/documentation/rest-api
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by k7d 15y ago
So after some quick hacking I created a new HN bookmarklet based on the new API: http://kaspa.rs/hn-bookmarklet/ If the current URL is added, it will go straight to discussion thread (without voting). If not, it will ask if you want to su
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by k7d 15y ago
This is cool, but the API looks a bit cryptic. Is there a way to simply lookup an item by URL? Edit: Nevermind, figured it out: http://api.thriftdb.com/api.hnsearch.com/items/_search?prett...
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by k7d 15y ago
Thanks. Glad to see cool new services coming from Europe :) But you should think heavily about differentiating from Geckoboard. For one I would add some kind of Apple / Android appstore metrics. Geckoboard doesn't have those and I would be
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by k7d 15y ago
If I may ask, what were you considerations for having near 100% unit-test coverage even before private beta?
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by k7d 15y ago
Indeed, there's a corruption problem in Latvia, but nothing like this. And it looks like it's improving rapidly as oligarchs are loosing power.
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by k7d 15y ago
This reminds me "Shortchanging Your Business with User-Hostile Platforms" http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2108294 It's about drawbacks of using Adobe AIR as kind of a cross-platform shortcut for building apps. From such perspective HT
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by k7d 15y ago
Still practically none of (web) cloud apps have the level of usability available in desktop apps. Even though HTML has come a long way, I doubt it will ever catch up. Imho the next trend will be native apps with integrated interfaces to clo
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Engineers for Equity(mashable.com)
1 points by k7d 15y ago|0 comments
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by k7d 15y ago
So it took them 4 months to notice an unusual usage pattern? Or they did notice and intentionally let it slip? Either way, this should have been a really bad publicity for Telstra, but I guess they don't really care. ps. I know 100% that bo
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by k7d 15y ago
Anyone feeling socially awkward should read Dale Carnegie
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by k7d 15y ago
Indeed, I'm equally surprised. At my last startup we also had a voluntary group lunch. I think it was quite critical to maintain a good spirit during rapid ups and downs common to most startups. Imho absolute loners are dangerous to startup
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Ideas suck(hackfwd.tumblr.com)
73 points by k7d 15y ago|23 comments
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by k7d 15y ago
You can already do some of those things in a 3rd party app via API (except for in-app purchases and iTunes authentication). Of course there are downsides like the AppleScript API kind of sucks and you need iTunes app running for it to work.
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by k7d 15y ago
Having had worked on browser-based enterprise applications I can only say that there's deadlock situation. As a vendor you need to provide compatibility with old outdated browsers because enteprise doesn't want to upgrade because that would
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by k7d 15y ago
Two best decisions I've ever made 1) working for a bigco -> startup 2) single -> married with a kid It took me a while to come to these 2 points but I've never looked back.
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by k7d 15y ago
Imho they have lost to Scala before they even started. And from my experience with Hibernate, Gavin King used to be this arrogant "you are doing it wrong" type who never really listened to anybody (or at least he worked hard to maintain tha
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by k7d 15y ago
Regarding toddlers apps it looks like very few of them have done actual toddler usability testing. Also it would be very useful if iOS had a "toddler switch" which would allow to 1) Disable home screen updates. This is very annoying , ofte
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by k7d 16y ago
Indeed Pivotal Tracker and Github Issues focuses on two different things - Pivotal is about planning, Github Issues is more like a registry. They may actually complement each other although I haven't checked if Pivotal provides integration
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by k7d 16y ago
That's why we were using complexity estimates in points (say 1 to 5) instead of actual time estimates in my last startup. Once you have some worklog, it's easy to calculate how many points the team can get done in a week (or whatever your e
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by k7d 16y ago
I'm pretty sure this is also the current vision of the Dropbox team. They are making a lot of effort to become a platform not just a product.
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by k7d 16y ago
It's so in Latvia and I'm pretty sure in several other small European Union countries as well. For iTunes there's at least an unofficial way to get an US iTunes account, but it's not simple and convenient enough for an average user.
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by k7d 16y ago
Judging by the amount of "pirated" lossless downloads available I don't think that's entirely true.

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