matt2000

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by matt2000 14y ago
Perhaps we should make a site who's terms of service explicitly bars use by members of congress. Once some member of congress goes to the site, we try to get them put in jail, at which point they'll change the law.
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A crowdsourced guide to not blowing your first term sheet(docracy.com)
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by matt2000 14y ago
Just for interest sake what language were you working in?
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by matt2000 14y ago
Thanks. Am I right in thinking its basically bigtable?
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Ask HN: Is anyone using Amazon DynamoDB?
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by matt2000 14y ago
I disagree with this almost entirely. Startups _are_ different: 1. What you are doing starts at 0 value. 2. You can (usually) break it and it's ok. 3. You need to change stuff a LOT to figure out something that someone wants to use, rewriti
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Turning off my new email notifier - experiences so far(matthall2000.tumblr.com)
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by matt2000 14y ago
I agree, the other way to look at this is that they're working through the weekend to figure it out.
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by matt2000 14y ago
Fwiw our site isn't as big as rap genius and we see highly variable performance and timeouts even on requests that on average only take 100ms. I'm not ready to blame heroku entirely since there's a lot of moving parts that still could be at
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Show HN: Open Source Mobile Privacy Policy(docracy.com)
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The monkey stare test for startups(matthall2000.tumblr.com)
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by matt2000 14y ago
Hilarious - does anyone have any backstory or more info?
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Save your app startup $800K(blog.docracy.com)
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Git -r done(teespring.com)
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Your startup needs a reason to exist(matthall2000.tumblr.com)
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by matt2000 14y ago
[I work at Docracy] The first part here isn't necessarily true. Many sites don't keep previous versions of their terms online, so the version of the terms you agreed to might no longer be available.
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Docracy Terms of Service Tracker(docracy.com)
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Total dollar value of people killed by guns(matthall2000.tumblr.com)
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Did Twitter ban an account for being unfunny?(matthall2000.tumblr.com)
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by matt2000 14y ago
Do think this might be a viable messaging option instead of paying for Internet minutes or SMS?
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by matt2000 14y ago
I'd be very interested to hear from people using other databases on whether their DB of choice is much better. I've been using MySQL for a while, have been burned by a few things, but figured it was mainly my fault. If indeed there are bett
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by matt2000 14y ago
I see, so the use case here is real time messaging and chat? Like if there's a lot of people in a given area they care fire this up and talk? That sounds pretty awesome. We were going more for a slowly propagating P2P effect that might take
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by matt2000 14y ago
Thanks, looks interesting, I'll check that out.
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by matt2000 14y ago
I think sadly that changing without notice is the standard language, but I'll check against some other TOS on the site to be sure.
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by matt2000 14y ago
Hey this seems really cool, I'll have to read up on how you do some of this stuff - do you keep bluetooth connections open to multiple other devices?
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by matt2000 14y ago
There's actually a panic button in the app which resets to an innocuous set of stock photography. It's not perfect, but it's better than being caught in a situation that you're describing.
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by matt2000 14y ago
No, for power reasons and the way that bluetooth works you have to expressly put the app in sync mode with someone nearby, which isn't ideal but is a good start. That being said anyone can post anything so there's certainly the option for a
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by matt2000 14y ago
Yeah if I remember correctly the built in Bluetooth file transfer actually won't send an apk, which was definitely surprising to us too. We could send it over our custom app, but that's the problem - what we're trying to send is the custom
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by matt2000 14y ago
Yeah exactly, and this seems to be the reason that android doesn't allow apks to be sent over Bluetooth, so we haven't really found a solution so far unless you count swapping SD cards.
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by matt2000 14y ago
This is a great point. We were trying to figure out a way for people to first pass the app between devices locally so it could spread and be used in a situation where the internet was down, but we haven't figured anything out there yet. May

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