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by kennystone 15y ago
Chris Dixon talked a lot about "going big", growing big companies, etc. He talked a lot about a new "data tier" for the web and how Hunch would be an intelligent filter for all the data. I wonder what changed?
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by kennystone 15y ago
Yeah, but I don't think it would be difficult to match experience and projects to a person, especially if the company is small. I love the idea, though.
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by kennystone 15y ago
The book is very gossipy and does a decent job with Jobs messy personal life, but he completely failed to capture Jobs' and Apple's impact on the industry.
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by kennystone 15y ago
Right, no coincidence a year's backlog of updates comes out on the same day Amazon ships their tablet. Good luck to Amazon with merge.
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by kennystone 15y ago
Parse is different from Heroku is a very big way - vendor lock-in. You are using the Parse libraries, DB, push notifications, etc, and replacing that will be quite difficult. Heroku, on the other hand, is usually just a generic Rails stac
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by kennystone 15y ago
This should go on the home page.
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by kennystone 15y ago
Apple needed DRM at the beginning to get label deals. Now they don't.
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by kennystone 15y ago
Redis seems like a poor choice if you want the comments and stories to stick around for a while. It's designed to be an in-memory database...
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by kennystone 15y ago
I like paying for github. They are an important service to me - for open source and private projects, and I want a profitable business to be based on it. I like that they have skin in the game.
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by kennystone 15y ago
You would never seen something like "Labs" from Apple, and everyone applauds them for "focus".
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by kennystone 15y ago
1.9 is way faster than 1.8. I think you are confusing Ruby's speed versus Rails speed.
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by kennystone 15y ago
Cool logo... what I really need is android/ios device testing.
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by kennystone 15y ago
What's more important is applying some important concepts in haskell - functional programming and dividing your program into tiny self-contained parts. You can write this way in most languages - Ruby, Python, Scala, etc. The fancier parts
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by kennystone 15y ago
Markdown is wonderful for simple documents often read in plain text.
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by kennystone 15y ago
Ultimately it is a eventually consistent key-value store. They have map-reduce and a new meta-data thing that lets you query documents, but you really only want to use it if your data maps well to key/value (and lots of data does!). The r
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by kennystone 15y ago
I didn't mean it as an "end goal", just as languages which promote different paradigms versus Ruby (actors, functional programming, lisp-ness, etc). They also have different performance characteristics, if you need that sort of thing.
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by kennystone 15y ago
Ruby is a great language and ecosystem to be a Pro at. Get good at Ruby, then learn something like Scala/Erlang/Clojure. Scala and Ruby complement each other quite well, especially if you're using JRuby.
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by kennystone 15y ago
Learning curve for vim/emacs will always be too steep for most users, regardless of their merits. Big Market for TextMate, and it's pretty darn good at being pretty good.
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by kennystone 15y ago
Yes and we can also use common sense to know an 80 year old dude flying a highly modified racing plane right above spectators is spectacularly stupid.
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by kennystone 15y ago
Router is integral for doing RESTful right.
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by kennystone 15y ago
Nah, you just need to learn some languages without C-style syntax.
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by kennystone 15y ago
Looks like a really well done and practical intro to sed - nice examples, nicely explained, and good depth. The PDF looks nice, too.
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by kennystone 15y ago
Disagree. It's targeted at professionals. Why sell it cheap? He won't sell that many.
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by kennystone 15y ago
You mean tumblr?
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by kennystone 15y ago
"It’s the Jobs side of the equation that Apple’s rivals — phone, tablet, laptop, whatever — are able to copy. Thus the patents and the lawsuits. Design is copyable. But the Cook side of things — Apple’s economy of scale advantage — cannot b
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by kennystone 15y ago
Two excellent books (O'Reilly, PragProg) and this site are great for beginners. The standard docs are very good once you are comfortable with the language. Great mailing list. I don't agree with your comment.
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by kennystone 15y ago
His app generated no revenue, so any price other than trivial would have him jumping ship. Why does Google want apps like his?
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by kennystone 15y ago
I wonder why they used Node instead of EventMachine, given all the ruby code they already had.
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by kennystone 15y ago
ZeroMQ is pretty good at making them parallel. Erlang nifs can get the job done too if you want a more exotic solution. Ship has sailed for putting something directly in the language.
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by kennystone 15y ago
https://github.com/archiloque/rest-client

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