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by nir 17y ago
It's from 1998, back before they started writing articles on how Obama should start Twittering.
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by nir 17y ago
In this case it seems Goodrich is the one to damage his reputation. Copying the press on this doesn't show much class and doing it as BCC is simply dishonest. Of course, with another journalist (or a journalist) it might have ended there.
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by nir 17y ago
Here was a point-by-point rebuttal but I deleted it now since turning this to a Reddit-like argument is pointless. In any case, my problem is not with Twitter. I see it as a neat niche app - maybe you're right and it will be a huge app. Nob
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by nir 17y ago
The Web has seen its share of hype, but I think Twitter is pushing it to new levels. Most people don't really need or even understand Twitter's functionality. Those who do are getting it from Facebook. But the best part is that the numbers
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by nir 17y ago
Great idea. There's definitely a need for something like that.
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Designer/Developer matching service(collabfinder.com)
41 points by nir 17y ago|13 comments
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by nir 17y ago
Here are some more :) (about 85 so far, I think): http://www.listable.org/show/url-shortening-sites
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by nir 17y ago
>Solving the upcoming water problems is a wholly political problem and not one of engineering I'm not sure I understand this. Maybe in the sense that if there was peace among nations it would easier to apply the engineering solutions th
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Best April Fools' Prank This Year(flickr.com)
1 points by nir 17y ago|0 comments
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by nir 17y ago
>What if the successful attack opportunities are actually honeypots set up by the adversary? How many examples of this have we seen in recent experience? (Post Troy ;)) >Distributed cells come pre-divided! Witness the internecine fi
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Open Source Warfare(globalguerrillas.typepad.com)
5 points by nir 17y ago|2 comments
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by nir 17y ago
Er, my URL-unshortening service just returns the URL ;) http://therealurl.appspot.com/ There are some possible uses for such a service, I think. For example if you want to get this functionality via JavaScript (eg JSONP), or perhaps you j
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by nir 17y ago
I just added it lookup caching - ended up using memcache, turns out GAE supports it pretty nicely: http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/python/memcache/overvi...
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by nir 17y ago
Right now, its all live. I'll probably add it later on, if it gets enough use that it makes sense. I wonder Google App Engine supports output caching, that might be even better performance-wise.
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by nir 17y ago
I built it initially as a joke, but perhaps it might actually be useful in some cases (eg, Twitter clients). Would love to hear HN feedback on possible applications etc.
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TheRealURL: URL Un-shortening Web Service With JSON/P Support(therealurl.appspot.com)
6 points by nir 17y ago|5 comments
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by nir 17y ago
Wrote this initially as a joke, but perhaps it might actually have some use :) Would love to hear any feedback on the site and ideas for applications.
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by nir 17y ago
I like it a lot, quick and simple. I've been looking for something like this for gathering quick feedback on small sites, instead of forcing users to go through the whole getsatisfaction & co process. If you'd add some JS snippet for in
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by nir 17y ago
It did work out ok for MySQL and JBoss, though ;) Phusion offers a focused product - you install it, usually very easily, and you're done. It's hard to see a simple way to monetize it other than charge money for the product itself (thereby
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by nir 17y ago
Having it available as open source can prove a significant advantage - they might become the Wordpress of microblogging, so to speak. As for Twitter capturing the microblogging market, with ~6 million users I doubt this is the case. Either
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by nir 18y ago
Brilliant parody of the current "Twitter ecosystem" hype. A little app like says more than all the blog posts and Wired/Slate/etc articles put together. (I do think Twitter & Twitter apps have their place, but it's incredibly overhyped
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by nir 18y ago
Thanks!
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by nir 18y ago
Anyone here has experience with Quercus? How compatible is it with PHP? Do apps like Wordpress or Drupal run out of the box? Any noticeable performance difference?
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by nir 18y ago
I actually agree almost %100 - the initial article's tone was very, well, Johan Harri in The Independent (London-tabloidesque is putting it mildly :)), but the subject was interesting. This one is indeed about rhetoric and trolls - while an
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by nir 18y ago
The original Dubai article was very interesting and a good fit for HN, imho. This one feels more like a Reddit submission.
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by nir 18y ago
It seems like one of the things that exist when a medium is young and there aren't that many people using it. There were probably some celebs you could email in 1990 (or IM in 1997) and have them reply. I doubt this will last if Twitter gro
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"TwittX will Automatically Add 1000 - 4000 followers to your account in no time"(twitterautoposter.net)
1 points by nir 18y ago|1 comments
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by nir 18y ago
It says "They do not have the deployment, scaling, and performance headaches that Ruby On Rails has". From my experience, it's true, even with Passenger (though much better than before).
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by nir 18y ago
From the article it seems the foreign workers are given false information before coming to Dubai, and then their passports are taken (and/or payment withheld) so they can't leave.
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by nir 18y ago
I agree, but I think that you and me and other HN users are a niche. Twitter serves that niche well (6 million users after 3 years of constant hype proves it is a niche IMHO), but I think for an FB size audience the usage patterns will be d

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