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Limonade - Sintra-like PHP micro-framework(limonade-php.net)
3 points by nir 16y ago|0 comments
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by nir 16y ago
People tend to have much stronger opinions/prejudice on politics than on fitness. It's interesting to read non-hacking discussions in HN when they are from a perceptive (vs. judgmental) standpoint. As it is now, there isn't really much diff
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by nir 16y ago
Wordpress codebase sucks by all accounts, I'm just wondering if this is related to PHP or we'd see something like this in every non-framework code, regardless of language.
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by nir 16y ago
I know the military checkpoints - I spent some of my childhood there and still visit every few years. But these aren't "military bases turned beach resorts".
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by nir 16y ago
>so the military removed the bases, and built tourist resorts instead. Which they ran. Any sources for this? The Sinai peninsula did not have many military bases (certainly not Egyptian ones) on the coastline. Are you referring to anoth
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by nir 16y ago
It's a common case in PHP, but might have less to do with the language's inelegance than the size of the app. I doubt a comparable CMS in Python/Ruby/etc, with a similar number of contributors and plugins developed over 8 years would really
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Hire talented copywriters/designers/UX people etc for small tasks(byteandgrid.com)
2 points by nir 16y ago|0 comments
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by nir 16y ago
I find that one of the most productive places for me are hotel rooms. For some reason I seem to get a lot of work done in a hotel room in a foreign country. If you need to make a living while working on your project, a Sales Engineer type r
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by nir 16y ago
I didn't really think of this in terms of good or bad. I guess, like most things, it can both. I had a lot of fun doing support & sales work with clients as sales engineer for an open source software company. Access to free software is,
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by nir 16y ago
Giving away software can definitely build a market for your time - but in the end you're selling your time, which you have a limited amount of, instead of a software product which might scale indefinitely (see "Angry Birds", for example).
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by nir 16y ago
Doesn't this mean you're back to selling time, then, rather than a product, losing the almost-zero marginal cost benefit of selling software?
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by nir 16y ago
"Egyptian state television has actively tried to foment the unrest by reporting that “Israeli spies” have infiltrated the city – which explains why many of the gangs who attack reporters shout “yehudi!” (“Jew!”)." http://thelede.blogs.nyti
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by nir 16y ago
I'm not, by any means, suggesting bubbles are a good thing. I'm saying they're a fact of life in this field, so people working in startups should know how to deal with them. If you can maintain a level head in a bubble (ie, the opposite of
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by nir 16y ago
In the dot.com bubble, it felt to me like the opposite was taking place: a lot of very rich people pumped a lot of money into startups, some of it in turn transferred to engineers and other employees and from that into, say, restaurant tips
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by nir 16y ago
I would prefer it too. But it wouldn't automatically validate the medium he's using - and I wouldn't unquestioningly take his words as well. I would take them as the opinions of a smart person.
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by nir 16y ago
Qatar's dictators don't fear Al Jazeera at all. (I like AJ's role in Egypt, but not the naivete of these comments. Standing up to one dictator doesn't make you a freedom fighter if you're funded by another)
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by nir 16y ago
>Which of my claims are you questioning? The scare quotes around "ex-" colonel, the "refuses to disclose funding" - and now "how do you know that MEMRI isn't financed by Israel?" How would I know? Officially they only accept money fro
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by nir 16y ago
Putting aside the completely unsourced FUD in your comment, clearly MEMRI does have an agenda. Personally I rarely visit that site and wouldn't get my news from it. But my question was why would you consider a network that is openly finance
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by nir 16y ago
I do have huge respect to YC personnel and companies, but not sure performance so far is at a level that makes it a sure investment. Even so, YC's model is small fiscal investments and large time/mentoring investment. I doubt that the oppos
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by nir 16y ago
Yuri Milner definitely guaranteed his spot in future articles about the '10 bubble.
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by nir 16y ago
When YC takes developers and mentors them towards a first version in an aggressive timeframe with limited resources, it's encouraging innovation. When someone comes in and gives a bunch of company they know nothing about $150k each, it's ca
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by nir 16y ago
Actually, MEMRI is an American non-profit, which in principle doesn't accept financing from any government ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_East_Media_Research_Inst... ): Apparently the mere inclusion of Israelis (I recognize 3 Israel
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by nir 16y ago
>It's a very simple idea that one can independently evaluate the quality of the reporting I would think that's actually very far from a simple idea. How do you evaluate the quality of reporting? By going to where the news happened and r
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by nir 16y ago
Why, it's almost the same as Qatar then..
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by nir 16y ago
This is exactly the kind of ridiculous relativism I'm talking about. The UK is a democracy where some of the taxpayer's money goes towards financing the BBC. Qatar is a monarchy, where the control of the nation is passed within Al Thani dya
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by nir 16y ago
I think it's hilarious the same people who complain about corporate/government interests affecting Western media often praise Al Jazeera. Do you really assume Qatar's Emir funds the network out of sheer philanthropy, or some passion for qua
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by nir 16y ago
Why is this completely useless outside the US? Going to college is the common course in many countries, it usually requires 3-4 years of your life and more money than you independently have at 18. (Yeah, very cheap/free in some parts of Eur
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by nir 16y ago
Nobody does. Quora is just a new club where the owners have some celebrity friends. Give it time.
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by nir 16y ago
Yeah, I'm not saying it as judgmentally, just that it is what it is. It's similar to Hollywood, in a sense - an industry where a product can earn you a lot of money or nothing at all, and it's hard to predict which is which.
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by nir 16y ago
It still is. Not nearly as big as the dot.com one (it was the first bubble, the economy was in better shape, etc) but still a bubble. We're in a bubble-bust industry. It will be this way for some time.

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