mrchess

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by mrchess 14y ago
I'm tired of these stupid sensationalist articles. Pre-IPO everyone talks about how amazing it is, post-IPO everyone just talks about it dying and failing. People need to do something better with their time then speculate over stupidity. It
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by mrchess 14y ago
Unless you have data that suggests otherwise, I wouldn't rely on an additional layer to get to your target demo (the HS students). Adults/teachers/parents have lives, and in HS anything they tell their kids to do isn't "cool". Somehow you n
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by mrchess 14y ago
* Put pictures on the "About" page. It looks unprofessional and awkward without them. * A network geared toward high schoolers, yet the landing page I just see a bunch of business professionals -- not 1 photo of a person from high school (t
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by mrchess 14y ago
I did the same thing. Quit my cushy salaried corporate job for something bigger. While I don't regret it, I do wish I wasn't so rash with my decision. The biggest I didn't realize until it actually happened was that it really hurts to con
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by mrchess 14y ago
Boston, MA -- Co3 Systems We're a Series A funded company building enterprise software that handles legal response when sensitive data is lost. More about our service can be found here: http://bit.ly/S8zxz5 , and our company page http://w
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by mrchess 14y ago
Visited page. Couldn't get in. I left. No idea what Napkin does.
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by mrchess 14y ago
Can you actually host the old documentation this time and not leave us in the dust like you did in the 1.4 => 2.0 release?
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by mrchess 14y ago
Would be nice if the author had a section where he wrote in detail about the problems with the architecture and team, as I like reading about the "struggles" in team management and how they were solved.
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Mixpanel Post-mortem: API Downtime(blog.mixpanel.com)
2 points by mrchess 14y ago|0 comments
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by mrchess 14y ago
I'm curious to see how this will monetize. The founders of Gravatar often shared anecdotes in meetups how Gravatar was painful despite being big as there was no money in avatars.
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by mrchess 14y ago
This is unfortunate. I was about to implement MixPanel on my startups site (it already laced in our development code), but their API being down completely locks our application ... actually shipping MixPanel in production not looking so hot
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Ask HN: What tools do you use to track analytics on secure internal sites?
1 points by mrchess 14y ago|0 comments
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by mrchess 14y ago
Awesome. I was just about this make this yesterday when I found myself customize optimizley/guiders to work with Bootstrap skins :D
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by mrchess 14y ago
How does Bridge compare to Meteor?
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by mrchess 14y ago
In the typical hacker news fashion we see waves of posts that criticize the simplicity of a puzzle. I don't know why people are so fussy these days. Just think about this test like a FizzBuzz test. It's primary goal is really to weed out th
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by mrchess 14y ago
"PayPal.com gets a new landing page" is more like it.
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by mrchess 14y ago
What is with all the hate? Meebo tried, tried again, they failed, so they exited. 1. Meebo Messenger was great, but was not pulling in nearly enough revenue 2. Meebo tried to pivot to an advertising bar for more revenue with no luck Underst
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by mrchess 14y ago
It's too bad many of the toughest problems in companies are more typically on the integration level, which requires domain knowledge and context of the project itself. To solve these problems don't require brains, but time and communication
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by mrchess 14y ago
Well, Chatroulette validated the idea that people are naturally curious to meet other random people, but the execution was poor. To me Airtime seems like Chatroulette done right -- user authentication, tools to interact with eachother, hard
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by mrchess 14y ago
Strategic exit I'm guessing. I think they have been struggling to find a core product for a while now. The meebo bar was essentially a pivot after popularity of meebo messenger started to decline.
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by mrchess 14y ago
I own a similar app called Yoink that does the same thing. Any reason why I should migrate to Dragondrop/does DND do some things better?
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by mrchess 14y ago
I'm curious if they integrated Sencha touch with it too. Personally I use Backbone to layout structure, but still integrate it with Ext for specific components.
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by mrchess 14y ago
Anyone know the technology used for the client? Sencha? Perhaps another library?
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by mrchess 15y ago
Is this 3 backend engineers? Was there another team that maintained the app and django app?
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by mrchess 15y ago
FYI when you go here it messes up your Adblock and turns it on for all sites. To fix it go to adblock settings and remove the last entry from the Filter List tab.
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by mrchess 15y ago
SHIFT and CTROL go UP and DOWN an octave respectively.
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by mrchess 15y ago
Thoughts on now.js? Why now.js instead of dnode?
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by mrchess 15y ago
Exactly. Chrome has gone from 10-17 in a year but it still "Chrome", not Chrome 17.
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by mrchess 15y ago
Stop versioning Firefox so rapidly and people will come back. Firefox 5 - Firefox 11 in 1 year. Come on Mozilla... switch back to minor version numbers. I don't think they realize how this perception negatively effects the regular consumer.
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by mrchess 15y ago
One of the smartest moves from this game is that after you see what someone has drawn for you, it automatically forces you to draw back to them. 1. Check drawing 2. See drawing 3. Get forced to pick word (no options to reply later) 4. Draw

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