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by metajack 18y ago
The resources spent moving a company from CA to Boston would probably dwarf the savings. Perhaps he meant "5 Reasons To Start Your Startup Outside Of The Valley". Having lived in SF and moved away, I find it near painful to go back. Peopl
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by metajack 18y ago
We were fairly discouraged when the w3c took the Ogg codecs out of the HTML 5 drafts. I'm very happy to see the browsers are supporting them anyway. Monty is hard at work rewriting the theora encoder we originally ported from On2. If the
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by metajack 18y ago
I could have used this just the other day. I was all set to actually pay, and then it tried to make me install software. I decided just to hack on some code offline instead.
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by metajack 18y ago
I'm sure I'm not the only one that wishes they had this yesterday. Being able to read from slaves would be a _huge_ help.
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by metajack 18y ago
We found taking out the first/last name (and pretty much everything else besides username, password, email) caused the completion rates to go way up. I guess people don't like sharing that stuff. Many of the people who did give their name
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by metajack 18y ago
I wanted to write an app to do usability testing for a while, and then screenflow came out and my first thought was "This is exactly what I wanted, and even better to boot." I have a hard time believing no one else is using it for this. I'
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by metajack 18y ago
The only downside to them, in my opinion, is that disk access is not super fast. This makes running databases on them much slower than a properly set up real machine. That said, I fully expect amazon to fix this, just as they have already
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by metajack 18y ago
Most recurring billing providers handle the credit card numbers for you. So after you pass them along to their API you never need them again. Isn't it more secure not to reinvent every wheel yourself? I'm much rather let others deal with
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by metajack 18y ago
All the comments for posts are aggregated in one place across a number of blogs. IF comments are interesting, then this aggregation may also be interesting. For people running home brew blog software or people running their own wordpress i
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by metajack 18y ago
I started a business remotely with a friend and it didn't work out. He lost motivation and I couldn't get it back. Just because you know them very well doesn't always mean they will work well remotely. But at last you may have some idea
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by metajack 18y ago
As a founder of several companies that worked almost completely virtually, you can overcome all these issues. Inability to brainstorm at any moment? Hardly. Chat is reasonable for this task. Weakened brainstorming? Maybe. But you can alw
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by metajack 18y ago
For me it was not an issue of complexity. We use trac internally and we contribute to other projects that have similar guidelines for contribution (namely Twisted Python). But the Django trac is quite hostile. Often your patch will be clo
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by metajack 18y ago
Language isn't as important as the framework you will use for developing the web app. Have you looked at Django vs. Simfony, etc? Why not consider Ruby and Ruby on Rails? I tend to choose Python and more specifically Django.
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by metajack 18y ago
I started using twitter a lot more right before blaine left. Now I barely use it because the IM integration is gone. Hopefully someone will move forward to implement the distributed twitter on top of XMPP and Pubsub. There is already a t
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by metajack 18y ago
http://friendfeed.com/metajack
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by metajack 18y ago
Two reasons it may be interesting to HN readers: 1) I am a founder and CEO of Chesspark, which created this, and although I'm fairly new around here, I'd like to think I am part of the community. 2) The tech we have is interesting. The cli
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by metajack 18y ago
I wanted a thin surface (relatively) with legs and no drawers or gimmicks. I ended up buying a dining room table from West Elm which fit the bill perfectly. Later I added two small raised shelves (which my speakers and various doodads sit
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by metajack 18y ago
I'd like an invite too. metajack at gmail.com. Thanks!
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by metajack 18y ago
Of course. That's the first thing on most checklists. Domainkeys and SPF records are also valid.
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by metajack 18y ago
I think it's unreasonably low too, but haven't figured out a way to solve it. You can benefit by signing up other users, but this is not a very often used feature. It's not an MLM site, but a subscription chess service. We track signups b
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by metajack 18y ago
Doing it yourself is hard, especially if you want any hope of getting past the major email providers spam filters. We deal with this every day. Current stats say that our % of users who have signed up that make it through email confirmatio
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by metajack 18y ago
We use EC2 for everything but monitoring, email, and DNS. The key factor for us to switch from our more traditional hosting arrangements? The fact we could deploy a new server in seconds instead of weeks. Amazon's non-premium support via
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by metajack 18y ago
We use paypal's payflow pro. I'm very much looking forward to when google checkout adds subscriptions as well.
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