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by michaelpinto 11y ago
Thank you for posting this, and yes the term is very much a put down. It gives the illusion that said business is a hobby of a member of the leisure class, and that just isn't the case.
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by michaelpinto 11y ago
I guess if my one critique is that I'd like to see more examples in the portfolio that's a good problem for you to have. PS I like the fact that you're showing process in a very small space.
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by michaelpinto 11y ago
Firstly you should talk to a lawyer, and avoid getting legal advice online. A good lawyer (and not all lawyers are good) will know the right questions to ask you. A good lawyer might also suggest a strategy that's in your best interest
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by michaelpinto 11y ago
I actually worked on a congressional race last year (in addition to other races) and not only is money important, but I'd dare say that it's more important than ever before. Even in a small congressional race you'll first be
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by michaelpinto 11y ago
Also not to be confused with Sandra Dickinson who played the role in the 1981 television show
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by michaelpinto 11y ago
This sort of reflects hard times for the open web and desktop.
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by michaelpinto 11y ago
I think the real question should be: Are users using the hamburger menu and do they know what it means? Also this may not apply to apps, but on the web the hamburger is an indirect result of responsive design techniques where a navigation m
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by michaelpinto 11y ago
First thought: "Wait, there's NO way ColdFusion can still be around today!" Looks online "OMG!" Although I think Adobe is still supporting Director, but alas my paying CD-ROM gigs ended in the 90s...
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by michaelpinto 11y ago
I think you should forgive yourself a bit more: Back in 1995-8 most programmers never took JavaScript seriously because the "real code" was be done in a language like Java or Perl. We tend to forget that in a pre-web 2.0 era it wa
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by michaelpinto 11y ago
That story is really about pride in your craftsmanship, what a wonderful story.
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by michaelpinto 11y ago
Ask HN: How are these guys still in business?
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by michaelpinto 11y ago
Something tech folks may find of interest is that eons before Uber there were private van sharing services in Queens that operated near all of the final subway stops like Jamaica. Also due to the lack of yellow cabs you'd tend to use b
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by michaelpinto 11y ago
It depends on your target market. For example if you're making an app for early adopters you'd want to go with a high end model, but if you're doing something for the mass market you might want to look at what's popular.
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by michaelpinto 11y ago
The Kubrick analogy is a bit misplaced as film isn't an interactive medium, although a good film has a "replay-ability" factor. But if you're looking at what's being done in games today one might find rewards lookin
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by michaelpinto 11y ago
I wish humanity would focus more on this story: "Using data on shark catches, discards and mortality rates worldwide, the researchers estimated that approximately 100 million sharks are killed per year by humans." source: http:&#
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by michaelpinto 11y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Podhoretz Podhoretz wrote in February 2002 that "There is no doubt that Saddam already possesses large stores of chemical and biological weapons, and may ... be 'on the pr
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by michaelpinto 11y ago
Yes but the article clearly refers to them as a unicorn.
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by michaelpinto 11y ago
The funding of junk. It's not the same as the dot.com era in that era was so much about public companies. But maybe it's more of an angel investment bubble? There just seems to be a great deal of money being pumped into low qualit
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by michaelpinto 11y ago
So then you're agreeing that Automattic isn't a unicorn, and you also hinting that they should be a non-profit. And if that's the case and if that's what they want to do (wikipedia is that) then you're right. But I
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by michaelpinto 11y ago
You know I started to dive back into WordPress very recently after a few years and there are a few things I noticed: - Commercial themes are the selling point of the WordPress ecosystem. The themes are what gets a user to use WordPress in t
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by michaelpinto 11y ago
I'll go a step further: This smells like a bubble! If you're in a dense urban center like NYC there are already countless coffee stands that already do this (most have doughnuts and a wide range of pastries). But it's a reall
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by michaelpinto 11y ago
Will it have rectangular pixels like the Amiga?
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by michaelpinto 11y ago
The age old test of any platform is the ability to run games, and HTML5 just isn't there when put next to Flash or native apps. And I'm not talking the bleeding edge stuff, but simple things like getting sound to work between brow
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by michaelpinto 11y ago
There are some people who love their job more than many other things in this life. The CEO in question was a true gamer at heart, and i suspect that many other gamers if given the job of being CEO of Nintendo would do that their last day.
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by michaelpinto 11y ago
A lottery has a fixed set of rules, and in terms of game design they do design it where you can win every so often but being a fixed game the odds are against you (like a casino). And part of this is also that a lottery is a game of chance,
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by michaelpinto 11y ago
As a student of semiotics one tends to notice the disuse of the word "Europe" and the reversion to "Germany" and "Greece" in all of the language that I see used on the media coverage of the story. This is reall
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by michaelpinto 11y ago
Something that people in silicon valley just don't get is that that the above argument also applies to tech corporations like Google who collect personal data for living and then say "trust us, we'll do no evil". The ind
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by michaelpinto 11y ago
Back in the day I was member of the L5 Society and SSI, and of course I'd assume that by the year 2015 i'd be living in a O'Neill cylinder: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O%27Neill_cylinder In my heart of
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by michaelpinto 11y ago
Looking at your questions I have a huge suggestion: Unless you know a space really well be careful with investing. Maybe spend some serious time doing research, and place your bets with a small amount of money or even make an imaginary port
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by michaelpinto 11y ago
You'd have to do what's known as "shorting a stock": http://www.investopedia.com/university/shortselling/shortsel... So pick companies that would be hurt by a real estate bubble (you can look a

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