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by lux 18y ago
Just like Eric Raymond said that you become a hacker when someone else who is considered a true hacker calls you one. I think with most arts the entry into "greatness" is this way.
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by lux 18y ago
Mistake 15 makes me think of a quote that always struck me from Machiavelli's Prince: "Since men for the most part follow in the footsteps and imitate the actions of others, the wise man should always follow the roads that have been travell
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by lux 18y ago
Money-wise, you could make some via an affiliate program for buying songs. I like the idea of an FB app as well to link it in, people seem to dig those although I don't install many myself. That helps as well since you don't have your fri
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by lux 18y ago
Ouch, that sucks for those users... Jason sneered at the idea of social networking based around storage, but that's actually not a bad idea. Storage itself is boring, but it's the basis of any service really. So if you add more than stori
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by lux 18y ago
What a great quote: "If lost opportunity is a risk when you try, it’s a guarantee if you don’t." Nice!
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by lux 18y ago
Agreed! It's amazing how many applicants you get that have only ever written code for school assignments or other jobs. Contribute to OS, start a project, just do something visible! It also shows you actually like what you do, which st
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by lux 18y ago
Definitely depends on the audience. If you know your site/app will be used on older machines or by less tech savvy folks, it's often safer to stick with 800x600 in those cases. Otherwise, do some assessment and decide based on that. If th
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by lux 18y ago
We do have a number of companies that depend on our software for some pretty core processes within their businesses. Still, because our software is stable, over time the value of an under-used support contract goes down in their eyes. In
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by lux 18y ago
I've also done a fair bit with Prototype/Scriptaculous, but it just seems clunky and excessive in comparison to jQuery now.
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by lux 18y ago
jQuery has been a huge time saver for me, highly recommended. I did look at pretty much all of these before settling on it, and haven't regretted it at all. jQuery is amazingly easy to get started with, very concise, but also amazingly ex
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by lux 18y ago
To be honest, open source doesn't really benefit the company doing it nearly as much as it benefits the users. Most of them essentially get something for nothing. And nowadays, it's no news story to be open source, so the extra marketing
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by lux 18y ago
It's tough. I started my first company on my own, had a sales guy for several years and a few coders on contracts as well, but as a mainly solo gig it's been tough to balance all the tasks you need to do. The tasks that tend to suffer the
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by lux 18y ago
While we had a lab full of computers in high school comp sci, we did all our main work on paper and on the chalk board, and all tests were on paper too. We had to learn to think things through in our heads. At the end of each year was a 3
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by lux 18y ago
I tend to cycle through different patterns, often depending on workload, season changes, etc. I'm currently up pretty much all night and sleeping in until noonish, and since I set my own hours I often just get done communication stuff duri
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by lux 18y ago
Use Cake to build an app that you can sell online as a service. If the service takes off, there's all kinds of opportunity for learning as it grows and technical requirements change (scalability, security, etc). I've been doing client work
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by lux 18y ago
Not that it's an actual autobiography, but "Journey to the End of the Night" by Louis Ferdinand Celine was based closely on his own life and was really something to read, albeit a tough something to get through at times. I was warned that i
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by lux 18y ago
This is pretty awesome! Very usable, not too many features but the ones you really need and they work really well. I can totally see this maximized on a virtual whiteboard too. It would be pretty cool to have access to apps like this for
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by lux 18y ago
I use Debian or Ubuntu (which is based on Debian anyway) since I prefer apt-get over the rpm tools for managing the system. But really, that's more preference than anything else. I've used Fedora and Red Hat before that for a long time. T
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by lux 18y ago
Absolutely! Just uploading the latest changes to our "stealth mode" startup site right now :) We'll be in invite-only mode by the end of the weekend, and completely public sometime next month. Stoked! Thinking about these kinds of things
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by lux 18y ago
"Ask HN" as its own section for giving discussion/connection between members a place with more focus :)
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by lux 18y ago
Very nice looking site, and a really good idea for news delivery in general. Digg/reddit-style ratings for official news sources and for individual journalists could help restore some faith in them. I tend to not have much time for general
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by lux 18y ago
Indeed, the first thing I thought was "hey that's PHP! Oh, did he just use rand()?" It ought to be common knowledge in the PHP world that you always use mt_rand(). On OSX, the results aren't very noticeable, probably because the underlying
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by lux 18y ago
That page seems to only be talking about the switch from their old to their new javascript include, which is still hosted by them... But without email notices, hosting it yourself isn't really a viable or stable option unfortunately.
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by lux 18y ago
Sweet, and a nice API to boot! For your site limits, how is that counted? We're launching a new service with lots of aliases to essentially the same site (sub domains for different users), but on our server it's just one physical site hand
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by lux 18y ago
You know, I would love an official API and several other features mentioned. But what I really want to see is faster serving of the Javascript included in my pages. Several times recently, I've gone to my sites and it seems to never finish
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by lux 18y ago
That's true, but most of those I found I didn't need anyway and spent more time trying to remember where which snippet was and what binding I put to it than just getting real work done. My memory doesn't work well with lots of key bindings
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by lux 18y ago
Software and physical goods are not the same thing, the loss of a "copy" of software doesn't make the original disappear too like stealing a physical item does. Also, personal and company goods are different as well, since one uses them fo
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by lux 18y ago
How is BBEdit a dead editor exactly? I've used BBEdit for about 8 years now, since it was pretty much one of the only kids on the Mac block for a long time. But I never felt limited by that choice, I felt quite good about it compared to wh
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by lux 18y ago
We sell boxed software (a 'virtual' box) in my main business. To combat piracy, among lots of other reasons, we also offer an open source edition. We sell primarily to businesses, but I know some businesses have pirated our commercial ver
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by lux 18y ago
Nice ending! Poetic even :)

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