mhartl

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   by mhartl 12y ago

   My cofounders and I developed Softcover [1] to support the business model used by the Ruby on Rails Tutorial [2], which combines "tech cred" with a profitable product business. I plan to reveal more detailed numbers soon, but I ca
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   by mhartl 12y ago

   Congrats to the Twitch/Justin.tv crew!
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   by mhartl 12y ago

   Thanks for the plug. Be sure to watch for an upcoming announcement, too: http://news.railstutorial.org/ The upcoming third edition, which I hope to start publishing soon in draft form, is by far the most newbie-friendly edi
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   by mhartl 12y ago

   Do you have a reference for this? I did a Google search for "yellow pages rails node", but it turns up your comment as the #1 result.
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   by mhartl 12y ago

   Lenny was one of my lab partners in Physics 15c. It was especially cool since I'd read about him in Newsweek the year before. Really smart, super nice guy.
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   by mhartl 12y ago

   Alas, I don't remember the details of the particular sum.
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   by mhartl 12y ago

   It is weird. Doing great mathematics is like writing great poetry in a language only a few hundred people can read. And yet, every once in a while a mathematical poem changes the world.
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   by mhartl 12y ago

   I was in the same Harvard class as Manjul Bhargava, one of this year's Fields Medal winners. I remember having lunch with him as a freshman and being amazed that he was already taking Math 134 (topology). I slowly realized he'd ef
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   by mhartl 12y ago

   They missed one of my favorite examples: Mojang, makers of Minecraft (with single founder Markus Persson, a.k.a. Notch).
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    by mhartl 12y ago

    Thanks for the tip on the Packrat feature. I didn't know about that. Added.
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    by mhartl 12y ago

    Most of what happens in the world is just a consequence of natural, universal laws Everything that happens in the world is the consequence of natural, universal laws. That's what makes them universal. The mediocrity principle simp
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    by mhartl 12y ago

    People have no idea; once they see the "Harvard", they can hardly see anything else. The confusion extends even to Harvard grads. Because of the mix at alumni events of Harvard College graduates, MBAs, JDs, MDs, Extension School g
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    by mhartl 12y ago

    First I'd like to thank sethbannon for writing this valuable article. As someone with two failed startups under his belt (including one through Y Combinator), I think entrepreneurs being more open about the challenges of startups is a
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    by mhartl 12y ago

    Thanks for pointing this out. There are many strong opinions on this subject guided by little more than naïve intuition. Having an opinion on the nature of the firm without reading Coase is like having an opinion on externalities without re
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    by mhartl 12y ago

    The story links directly to the comments thread. Could the original poster or an admin please fix?
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    by mhartl 12y ago

    It's important to criticize venture capital for the right reasons. VCs correctly care about value, not revenue or profit, but by itself this isn't a problem because the few most valuable companies typically dominate the returns, a
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    by mhartl 12y ago

    This is so rad. I mean, like, totally awesome!
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    by mhartl 12y ago

    What do you think about soliciting upvotes by sending people to /newest? Among other things, as a side-effect they might upvote other stories as well.
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    by mhartl 12y ago

    MIT still uses it: $ curl -I mit.edu HTTP/1.1 302 Moved Temporarily Server: AkamaiGHost Content-Length: 0 Location: http://web.mit.edu/ Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2014 03:12:18 GMT Connection: keep-a
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    by mhartl 12y ago

    Your registrar may provide . . . forwarding. And thus we return to my original question: Is there a way to do forwarding at the registrar level in a way that preserves the rest of the URL structure? If you're willing to work at a les
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    by mhartl 12y ago

    So what if my website is at Heroku?
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    by mhartl 12y ago

    It won't work at, e.g., Heroku.
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    by mhartl 12y ago

    It is possible to do 301 redirects at the registrar level in a way that preserves the full path, including query strings? This is, I'd like to arrange for example.com/home?a=foo&b=bar to redirect to www.example.
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    by mhartl 12y ago

    I wonder if there's a way for startups to systematize Adams's insight that "[e]very entrepreneur is now a psychologist by trade" by hiring professional psychologists.
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    by mhartl 12y ago

    In [ Structure and Interpretation of Classical Mechanics ]( http://mitpress.mit.edu/sites/default/files/titles/content/s... ), the same authors mention that a computational approach to calculus reveal
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    by mhartl 12y ago

    I've read Burke. ADG is excellent, though it would be even better if it had more concrete examples. It's also very much aimed at physicists (assuming advanced undergraduate knowledge of mechanics, E&M, etc.) and has less emp
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    by mhartl 12y ago

    There's a big difference between a quote someone wrote down and a video of same. Plus, with YC talks there's an assumption of audience discretion.
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    by mhartl 12y ago

    I've wondered the same thing. He returned under the same username, so it looks like he recovered his password somehow. Matt is a Y Combinator alumnus, so it's possible he talked to PG directly.
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    by mhartl 12y ago

    To be fair, they do mention this issue: 2.11 Apps that duplicate Apps already in the App Store may be rejected, particularly if there are many of them, such as fart, burp, flashlight, and Kama Sutra Apps
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    by mhartl 12y ago

    If you're interested in something that actually is halfway between Markdown and LaTeX, take a look at Softcover: http://softcover.io/ .