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by mmelin 16y ago
I think this is good advice and HN would be better off if more people followed it. Besides, "Review my startup" posts are my favorite type of post and if this brings out more then I'm all for it.
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by mmelin 16y ago
Thanks for the feedback, should have a fix up shortly for the backslash problem and will try to improve error handling in the UI some more. That SO thread looks like a great resource for gnarly rulesets to test :)
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by mmelin 16y ago
Yep, and what should happen is that when you enter a ruleset that uses a %{VARIABLE}, a text field should appear to let you specify the value to use for testing. If this does not happen for you, would you mind using the problem report butto
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by mmelin 16y ago
Thanks! I've realized I need to come up with a better way to handle the special RewriteCond patterns, such as -f and -d. Right now all variables are handled in the same naive way, i.e. you get to specify their value in text form, but for th
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Ask HN: please review my tool for rewrite rule testing(martinmelin.se)
32 points by mmelin 16y ago|13 comments
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by mmelin 16y ago
So this is essentially a signing bonus for Tony Conrad to come back to AOL for a few more years? Man, I need to start working on my personal branding.
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by mmelin 16y ago
Seriously? Acquired for "tens of millions of dollars", half a million dollars in funding? I'm not usually the one to ask things like this but could someone please explain what they're buying here? 400k users signed up during beta, okay, but
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by mmelin 16y ago
Yeah, I made the mistake of actually getting a bit excited again when seeing the progress reports these past weeks. The wording in this blog post and my gut feeling after a year of waiting is that shipping internationally will be very low o
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by mmelin 16y ago
I agree, but in this case I'd say the problem seems to be 50/50 cofounders with no clear hierarchy for decision making. I've been burned by this too many times not to insist on a clear discussion up front on who has "last call" on product i
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by mmelin 16y ago
If I'm not mistaken the business was iPhone apps. Honestly it sounds to me like sales dropping below B/E was just a good excuse to break up the startup, clearly the breakdown of the founders' relationship would have forced a change sooner o
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by mmelin 16y ago
Pre-ordered when first announcement was posted here on HN in Nov '09. Was really surprised to see a print ad for Wakemate in the latest issue of Wired, where it seemed as if they were shipping normally. Still no sign of mine, but I really d
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Dropbox for Teams: $795 per year for 350 GB + 5 users(dropbox.com)
2 points by mmelin 16y ago|1 comments
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by mmelin 16y ago
I like how your support options progress from "Online" to "CEO's iPhone" :) I'd like to read more about how it works, maybe see an integration guide, but it seems you only have the one (beautiful) page right now?
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by mmelin 16y ago
Without giving away the solution I would say that a well-equipped Firefox is a better tool than curl to complete this particular challenge :)
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by mmelin 16y ago
Definitely. If you want to grow, make sure you're thinking "I don't know what the hell I'm doing" on a regular basis. When you're comfortable with everything you do, get new stuff to do or get a new job.
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by mmelin 16y ago
My MBP has had a 160 GB Intel X25-M for almost a year and couldn't be happier.
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Ask HN: what's a good Google Prediction API alternative?
2 points by mmelin 16y ago|2 comments
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by mmelin 16y ago
That's true, of course, but not really relevant to this discussion. Even if your own code is crap, you're happy to work on it because it is your code. I think a large part of this, for me anyway, is that I have no one but myself to blame fo
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by mmelin 16y ago
While I somewhat agree that Apple's licensing of OS X is overly restrictive (though the reasons for those licensing terms are fairly complex), the OP is specifically talking about testing web apps in IE, which is the only browser with >
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by mmelin 16y ago
Perhaps you could expand on how women are mistreated in interviews? Are you saying that even though you thought you were treating men and women fairly, you were actually mistreating the women you were interviewing? Or are you saying that "o
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Norwegian artist's Spotify income now higher than iTunes(ugress.com)
2 points by mmelin 16y ago|0 comments
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by mmelin 16y ago
Also, Spotify.
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by mmelin 16y ago
Looks like the $425 million figure was wrong (probably due to it being a sweep account as mentioned in the previous thread). How could such a basic mistake be made? According to this article, the business had $50 million in revenue the past
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by mmelin 16y ago
Honestly, at this point, I take any time tables from these guys with a truckload of salt.
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by mmelin 16y ago
Only if you're trying to sell cloud storage on price.
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by mmelin 16y ago
Well, they certainly achieved the "make something people want" part.
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by mmelin 16y ago
"The three most harmful addictions are heroin, carbohydrates and a monthly salary." - Nassim Nicholas Taleb I only have to get off one more of these :-)
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by mmelin 16y ago
They actually tried the "shotgun" approach first, but decided to move to this model earlier this year. They describe the reasons behind this here: http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/04/changes-to-stack-excha... I think this diagram sums i
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by mmelin 16y ago
Sorry, can you define BFA?
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by mmelin 16y ago
Sure it will, if the price you've set as max is below the current spot price, which is the only reason I can think of that would cause these kinds of delays in launching an instance.

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