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by nir 17y ago
Is it possible to simply make current site render nicely in both iphone and regular browsers?
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by nir 17y ago
This is beautiful. Simple, immediate and actually useful to real people. Great stuff. I hope you don't add any features that will compromise its simplicity.
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by nir 17y ago
>Like price, comment score is the best indicator of context, class, and quality. You mean in the same way a book's price is an indicator of its quality? ;) The nice thing about comments is that they are short and quick to read. Unlike b
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by nir 17y ago
http://37signals.com/svn/posts/1941-press-release-37signals-...
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by nir 17y ago
I don't understand why this is downmodded, a pull-based chat is a pretty good test for load handling capabilities. Seems like this is sending a request every ~2 seconds for every user logged in. How are you finding GAE so far? BTW are you h
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by nir 17y ago
Funny how this is happening the same week we discover Google now supports (or works on) real time search: http://blog.omgili.com/?p=108
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by nir 17y ago
Well, maybe like how people switched from ICQ to MSN to gTalk to Skype, or from Slashdot to Digg to Reddit to HN. Opening a user account on a competing website is much easier than changing OS or car engine.
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by nir 17y ago
%10 of 250k company would simply create a visa for money path. Getting VCs to sit in a government committee and review thousands of visa applications seems rather unlikely, and their success prediction ratio is questionable. The various leg
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by nir 17y ago
Different strokes - I always find the NY Times lacking, while Amazon usually works ok for me :) But the point is, these sites have a lot of data, divisible in several different ways to a lot categories.
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by nir 17y ago
I doubt there's a YC-type startup that can employ a full time UX designer, or needs to, really. IIRC I once read that Amazon employs one UI dedicated person. It makes sense, since UX (no offense to UX experts) tends to be less work intens
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by nir 17y ago
The current New Yorker issue has an article on Zappos, pretty interesting: http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/09/14/090914fa_fact_...
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by nir 17y ago
Upvoting for presenting an actual working alternative rather than a juvenile blog post.
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by nir 17y ago
I think the problem it really solves is the Twitter problem rather than the RSS reader one. That is, if RSSCloud works as advertised, implementing a Twitter-scale infrastructure becomes pretty simple. The article raises important issues re
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by nir 17y ago
It's not "money on the side". He makes money selling products based on the ones he covers. If Snow Leopard doesn't sell, "Snow Leopard: The Missing Manual" doesn't sell either.
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by nir 17y ago
Assuming reporting is always objective would be a a bad idea, but expecting the publication to strive to make them as objective as possible isn't flawed at all. The fact there are dozens of elements that may effect the way a reporter cove
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by nir 17y ago
Why not use another blogging platform then? It's not a Windows case of near-monopoly. There are plenty of blogging platforms. If WP is crap, why not switch to another one?
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by nir 17y ago
How is Typo's security?
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by nir 17y ago
The fact it's been written in PHP is meaningless. As for "designed without security as a goal", I think you'll find that's true for most web apps.
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by nir 17y ago
AFAIK wordpress.com never got broken into...
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by nir 17y ago
Honestly, I have no idea where most of newspaper revenues come from, but so far it seems most (all?) of the major ones are failing to make enough money by selling online ads. It's not a matter of theory or opinion, it's something that's bee
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by nir 17y ago
The article is about PHP & Python. Erlang, C++ and Java don't really compete in the same space - I doubt writing any of these sites in Python would mean they wouldn't need Erlang or C++.
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by nir 17y ago
AFAIK in its recent versions PHP doesn't have any unique design flaws that make them more vulnerable to attacks. In fact, being the most widely deployed web language means it probably had more security patches than most. Bugs and vulnerabil
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by nir 17y ago
I wouldn't be so certain this is committing suicide. It could be argued that providing all content for free is committing suicide as well.
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by nir 17y ago
Apparently Wikipedia, Facebook, Flickr, Wordpress.com, Facebook, Yahoo, Digg... haven't hit that complexity ceiling yet :) (Some of these use other languages as well, but AFAIK it's stuff like Java or Erlang for particular tasks) PHP is far
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by nir 17y ago
While I don't agree with the way bumbunnies put it (and certainly not with the liberal vs. conservative characterization) I think he has a point in that we let our list of "basic needs" grow to include a lot of overpriced, unnecessary stuff
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by nir 17y ago
The funny bit is that rather than arranging this over the phone/email with a customer rep, they apparently need to discuss it over coffee with JetBlue's CEO. This is where the idea moves from Paul Theroux ("Great Railway Bazaar" etc) territ
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by nir 17y ago
Sinclair BASIC forever! ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinclair_BASIC )
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by nir 17y ago
That a VC firm created to focus solely on RSS-based applications has closed doesn't mean that RSS is dead, it means that a venture built on pure hype (not RSS itself, but the idea it can be immediately translated to cash) is dead. Opening w
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by nir 17y ago
Think about it: would EBay sell a company that generates $900m (or $600m for that matter) a year? And sell it for only $2b, less than they bought it for? There's always a tendency to assume organizations handling such huge amounts of money
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James May builds a house from Lego(news.bbc.co.uk)
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