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by mrshoe 17y ago
Building the web 2.0 phenomenon that is RoR? No biggie. Getting X million people to use your web apps? Meh. Microsoft lists you as competition. Now you've arrived. :) Edit: tongue firmly planted in cheek, in case you couldn't tell...
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by mrshoe 17y ago
I was asked a related question during an interview at Google. As an example, the interviewer told me of a time their ads drew an especially vile reaction: they had placed luggage ads on a news story about a serial killer who chopped up his
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by mrshoe 17y ago
By far my favorite mouse killer is the Ion window manager ( http://modeemi.fi/~tuomov/ion/ ). Using the lua config I changed a bunch of the key bindings so that the entire environment behaves like vim. I can easily change windows using the
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I'd hire Zed just for his online presence. I'd put him in the Technology Evangelist role he mentioned. Just having Zed on staff would mean instant publicity for a small startup. Even if he doesn't play nice (although he seems like a reaso
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by mrshoe 17y ago
I think Arrington is bluffing here and I'm calling his bluff. I would probably do the exact same thing in his position. There's no way I would quit the iPhone, and I bet he won't either. He's just using his powerful voice to put more heat o
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Farmer saves $200,000 with poo power(cnn.com)
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by mrshoe 17y ago
I think Gruber makes a lot of great points here and I agree with most of what he says. However, I think he's missing one important point. Microsoft doesn't think "it is sitting pretty because Best Buy has a 17-inch Dell for $650." I can ass
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by mrshoe 17y ago
It's probably faster to serve them off your own server due to HTTP keepalive. Sure, making a new connection to google's CDN might be faster than making a new connection to your server, but it's definitely not going to be faster than sending
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by mrshoe 17y ago
Wouldn't it be yet another optimization to just include that loadScript function in the HTML? Reducing round trips to the server is a common technique in web site optimization. I realize that script will be cached after the first time, but
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And that's why I've never done it! I've never heard of anyone actually trying this, but I bet you're right that it's been done.
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by mrshoe 17y ago
After observing a similar pattern at my last startup, I thought it might be a good idea to intentionally screw up something minor. Then we could apologize for it like this and maybe offer some small reward to make up for it. My theory was
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by mrshoe 17y ago
It's a cable! How incompatible with something can a cable be? Quite. Analog or not, cables carry a lot of technology these days. To attribute this to some DRM effort is quite a large assumption. I wouldn't recommend writing off a company
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by mrshoe 17y ago
This is a good article, but the very first example is perhaps a bit ill-chosen. The mass-energy equivalence formula doesn't assign mc^2 to e, it states that the two sides are always equal . The equality operator (== in C), would probably
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by mrshoe 17y ago
Finally having an effect?? Tell that to the immigrants of 200 years ago. I'm sure they'll attest that the effect was much stronger back then. The US has a ton of room for improvement on how it treats immigrants, but I think it's safe to s
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by mrshoe 17y ago
Maybe it's just my lazy desire not to have to think about such matters, but I just defer to Strunk and White in these discussions. I love it when someone else makes these coin-flip decisions for me and publishes a book about it. :) Their ta
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by mrshoe 17y ago
I would hardly call that "acting like twits". People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware. --Alan Kay While MicroSoft expends all of their resources testing their OS with every possible piece of hardware and
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by mrshoe 17y ago
Working on a new homepage for http://shoptalkapp.com , since you helpful HN reviewers pointed out last week that it is lacking. :)
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by mrshoe 17y ago
Fear of failure is the main reason one would not chat up an attractive girl. The point of this article is that men think they are going to fail, not because they are not attractive, but because attractive girls must have so many other opti
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by mrshoe 17y ago
This just makes me glad that pg encourages hackers to be entrepreneurs. In my experience, engineers could use a little dose of overconfidence, but that's probably the last thing finance guys need. I say this because most business/finance gu
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by mrshoe 17y ago
Let me expand upon my one line explanation. I apologize for being terse last time. Let's say the stock market increases at 10% per year. This growth is driven by more capital being invested in the market each year. That means everyone in th
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by mrshoe 17y ago
Just look at the stock market as an example. Many people speak of the stock market in terms of a zero-sum game, because on any given transaction if one person makes money the other loses money. However, every day more and more money gets pu
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by mrshoe 17y ago
It's zero sum at any given moment, but you are correct that the sum constantly increases. It's similar to the stock market in that way.
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by mrshoe 17y ago
This exposes the truism that there is always a standard of living continuum in society. In a different era there were Kings and Lords and Peasants. Now we have Europeans and Americans and Chinese and Indians. If globalization can succeed at
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New Yahoo Homepage(m.www.yahoo.com)
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by mrshoe 17y ago
Thank you for this very helpful thread of feedback. ShopTalk is better than Campfire in many respects (and there's more to come), but we definitely need to communicate that better on the site. We also need to do so without relying on the
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by mrshoe 17y ago
I'd be interested to hear his proposed solutions. If controlling a platform on the internet is impossible, what is twitter to do? Is their only chance at longevity to publish a protocol spec and allow twitter to become a decentralized messa
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by mrshoe 17y ago
I might be an ill-trained author, but I don't mind writing <h2 class="stage-direction"> instead of <stagedirection> I think (X)HTML + CSS is extensible enough for me. The former is only slightly less readab
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by mrshoe 17y ago
Thanks, trickjarret, for the useful feedback. I think a shorter intro would definitely be helpful. We will definitely have searchable logs of all conversations in a future version. They will be searchable by everyone (based on room permissi
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by mrshoe 17y ago
I think we do see Campfire as direct competition, but we believe this market to be largely untapped. As jamwt mentioned, we do serve a slightly different audience. I think (and hope!) that as more people start recognizing how useful this ty