mr_luc

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   by mr_luc 13y ago

   I think Open Source would benefit from having both models. Your model/the gittip model is good. So many times, there are only a small handful of people who care about a bug being fixed or a capability added -- but that small handful ar
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   by mr_luc 13y ago

   Dude! You should sell them both. I want to throw out my entire "sleeping situation" and just fix it. With the word-of-mouth you guys have going for you, you should see about partnering with someone who sells great bed frames -- ev
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   by mr_luc 13y ago

   I wonder if a certain type of software business is most amenable to this. For instance, if you are a growing SaaS that doesn't need to pivot, but rather to scale and add features. In that case, a certain number of your objectives are i
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   by mr_luc 13y ago

   All 350m? That's like saying that the billion or so nominal Christians are anti-war, because the canonical Christian writings are clearly anti-war, and particularly 'pure' devotees may preach it, and a few may take a principl
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   by mr_luc 13y ago

   Or to put it another way, its market cap is approximately 1 million dollars per Model S it has sold to date.
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   by mr_luc 13y ago

   Do I care where someone learned English? Even if the work involves written or spoken output, if they clearly dominate the language and can express themselves fluently, I'd quickly move on to something more relevant, like talking shop,
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   by mr_luc 13y ago

   Whoa, cool! The gif integration would be what appears to separate this from little libs like Motio[0]. _Question for HN_: is there a reliable cross-browser way to use the sprited background-image approach with responsive elements? I'
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   by mr_luc 13y ago

   I've read the Matasano whitepaper on why you can't count on Javascript for security, as I imagine you have, and it makes sense. Use https. That being said, look at something like blockchain.info. It adds javascript security on top
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   by mr_luc 13y ago

   You're forgetting the long tail. How much will each episode earn over its lifetime?
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    by mr_luc 13y ago

    That's true -- although it highlights just how ridiculous the decision-making around those wars was. In World War 2 the United States was facing other world powers who were capable of converting their entire economies to war purposes;
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    by mr_luc 13y ago

    Here's one: https://blockchain.info/wallet/send-shared (Please note, before downvoting, that I'm not saying that's a bad thing)
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    by mr_luc 13y ago

    Oh, man. Oh man. I'm sorry that this comment doesn't add much to the discussion, HN. But I laughed very, very hard at that.
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    by mr_luc 13y ago

    Hmm. Man, maybe I should see if I can hack something together using npm and a naming convention. Package managers are ... important.
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    by mr_luc 13y ago

    I mentioned Factor in less detail below, I think it's a lot of fun, but -- from the detail here, might I assume that you're involved with Factor in some way? If so: does it have a package manager yet? The last I was plunking aroun
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    by mr_luc 13y ago

    I've been playing around with Factor when I have a moment. I was impressed by reading the excellent 're: factor' blog; he often re-implements small unix utilities in Factor, for instance. http://re-factor.blogspot.
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    by mr_luc 13y ago

    Hmm. I've actually changed my mind, (though not about their rejection of npm) -- after digging around, I see that there's been more communication about how Meteor plans to make money, and hearing that they have feasible plans th
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    by mr_luc 13y ago

    Thank you. Saying that Node has a package manager is a huge understatement. Node has one hell of a package manager, but you have to hack[1] around Meteor to use npm modules, even in the latest version. My impression of Meteor, and the imp
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    by mr_luc 13y ago

    I've been living 9 months per year in coastal pacific south america -- for the past 7 years. I am not a "nomad", and my experience is the opposite -- I am much, much more productive working remotely. I did actually enjoy the
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    by mr_luc 13y ago

    Oh wow, let me add to the group and say thanks. Teenaged mr_luc turned into a programmer mostly because of late-90's game engines, and I'm probably not alone. Everyone who wanted to be a programmer and was interested in game devel
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    by mr_luc 13y ago

    Agree re: 'keeping tech in its place' in life. I've got an interesting solution (described a bit in my hn profile). I work a few months in the states with clients each year, do a bit more work remote, but slightly over the ma
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    by mr_luc 13y ago

    Serious question: what economic incentive does the healthcare world have to adopt something like this? If it's a finger prick, there's less to mark up. From the outside, it seems like the entire healthcare industry is built on bei
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    by mr_luc 13y ago

    Compare it to ASDICs. The Brits invented Sonar in 1916, and the Admiralty kept it secret for long enough that when World War 2 broke out, they had it fitted on 5 types of ships as part of an integrated anti-submarine suite; they were the on
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    by mr_luc 13y ago

    I agree with this part: > You should have a table of contents that lists each section of the “hairball”. And then each section should have its own table of contents that lists the sections inside it. A table of contents is a wonderful wa
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    by mr_luc 13y ago

    I bookmarked your original ipad/linode article for later reading since I hadn't seen them. That notion of singular applications that you yourself control comes up a lot on HN, and it does seem like a great future. A whole ecosyste
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    by mr_luc 13y ago

    Local, to the extent of the family. If I have kids, to what extent are they 'mine'? That's the question here. So far, in America, the answer has been "you can't abuse them physically, fail to provide food and clothe
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    by mr_luc 13y ago

    I've noticed that people tend to endorse each other for not-so-cutting-edge technologies as a joke. "You have endorsed Coworker for SVN, Java and XSLT" Where I work, I don't think a week has gone by without this happenin
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    by mr_luc 13y ago

    I have to say, Isaacson's book definitely did a good job of highlighting the importance of Mike Markkula in Apple's story. It's amazing how 'right' Markkula was, at least in the bits cited by Isaacson.
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    by mr_luc 13y ago

    This is a fantastically interesting idea. For me, the idea itself is pleasant enough to make your comment the high point of this thread. :) I immediately tried to think of how the incentives could be set up this way and unfortunately couldn
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    by mr_luc 13y ago

    Yeah -- I was expressly comparing to Rails, which has had a kind of de facto standardizing effect. And in addition to not having an ActiveRecord-style de facto standard interface for CRUD, and having a much wilder profusion of datastores th
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    by mr_luc 13y ago

    Which blog is that? I ask as a developer who feels similarly.