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by mwmanning 17y ago
Les Paul has been a personal hero of mine since I was a kid. It's really sad to see him go, but at least we can continue to enjoy all of the wonderful creations and creative spirit that he brought into the worlds of music and engineering.
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by mwmanning 18y ago
I don't think most newspapers would ever do this, because almost all newspaper revenue comes from paid print advertisements. They're afraid of undercutting themselves. Whether that's a rational fear, I'm not sure.
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by mwmanning 18y ago
This is brilliant.
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by mwmanning 18y ago
I use it in front of a mongrel cluster to make Rails app fast. Apache serves up static files (images, stylesheets, js) and I use mod_proxy and mod_proxy_balancer to load balance requests for dynamic content among the mongrel servers. Apach
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by mwmanning 18y ago
It wasn't a question, it was a statement. You're a racist. It's become painfully obvious after reading your comments over the last several months. You can accept that or not. I just thought it was worth losing karma to confront you with
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by mwmanning 18y ago
"And yet, the more I tell people about Barack Hussein Obama, they madder they get at me!" It's because you're a bigot.
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by mwmanning 18y ago
Why are you so afraid of black people?
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by mwmanning 18y ago
I've never understood this mindset. Don't conservative types like you believe in market influences? How could spending more money NOT improve education levels? Just a couple of examples off the top of my head: 1) Spending more means highe
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by mwmanning 18y ago
I assumed he was referencing 'Time' from Dark Side of the Moon: "And then one day you find ten years have got behind you. No one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun"
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by mwmanning 18y ago
I don't know what you mean by "getting off on" other than the fact that it's fun to solve problems. It's not like I'm gloating about what I do. Most of the little things I work on are completely private endeavors that I never even talk to
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by mwmanning 18y ago
This is exactly what I meant. I didn't mean to imply that I was somehow too good to pursue an idea, just that it's hard to stay motivated once you've cracked the interesting problems.
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by mwmanning 18y ago
Don't knock it 'till you've tried it. Rabbits are decent eating.
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by mwmanning 18y ago
I think this is the cause of death for a lot of my projects that could have become successful businesses. Once I figure it out, I don't care any more.
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by mwmanning 18y ago
Maybe I'm not a "reasonably good" programmer, but I use this tool all the time. Lots of languages have little re nuances that may be hard to remember.
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by mwmanning 18y ago
http://friendfeed.com/mwmanning
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by mwmanning 18y ago
This would only work if someone else made their radius cover the entire US and Canada. The way it works is that both parties have to be inside each others' radius. This prevents spamming and assures that if you're only interested in a ver
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by mwmanning 18y ago
I wasn't aware of quotas. Thanks for the info.
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by mwmanning 18y ago
It's supposed to be. We haven't made it yet :) This isn't a launch; it's a demo.
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by mwmanning 18y ago
"It happened with his product, the launch of huddlechat, but that as you know was taken down." DHH != 37signals
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by mwmanning 18y ago
Good point. I think heavy adoption would be around events where a lot of people are co-located and don't know each other. Here are a few examples off the top of my head: -college freshmen moving into dorms -natural disasters -concerts -sp
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by mwmanning 18y ago
Sorry. The chatserver is unstable. It runs ok on our staging server but there seems to be a problem on our new host. I have an Internet connection at Stanford now, so I'll keep an eye on it. Thanks for your patience.
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Ask YC: Try our Local Chat Demo at Startup School
9 points by mwmanning 18y ago|18 comments
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by mwmanning 19y ago
I dont' think that ideas are manufactured. They sort of "pop out" when the right kinds of pressure are applied from the right directions. You seem to be searching for some sort of methodology for generating good ideas. I personally think
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by mwmanning 19y ago
My current project involves interacting with a chat bot. We could require users to sign up on a form and make sure we have a boatload of data from them upfront before opening up the service to them. Instead what we do is tell them to add a
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by mwmanning 19y ago
I've been really happy using apache2 in front of a mongrel cluster. Apache serves up static files and load balances requests to the mongrels. Can anyone give me a good reason why I should be using something other than apache on a producti
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by mwmanning 19y ago
"my overall curiosity means that even if I use Apple hardware, I put linux on it." You'll be wasting your money.
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Ask YC: Company Blogs
6 points by mwmanning 19y ago|22 comments
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by mwmanning 19y ago
"for certain situations, it's very effective" It may be for some, but this isn't one of them. I made it about halfway through before I completely lost interest, because there was no indication of the point of the article or where it was go
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by mwmanning 19y ago
"I also don't understand why the Net part of Net Neutrality is important. What about Paper Neutrality, or Noise Neutrality? Should I really be allowed to write my biased opinions just because I own a piece of paper? Shouldn't there be some
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by mwmanning 19y ago
Why are you downmodding me? This is a valid point. At least have the decency to refute me if you think I'm wrong.

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