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by nir 18y ago
This is pretty cool. How come stuff like this gets 3 points and TechCrunch speculations get >30?
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by nir 18y ago
>but really people are just using 2, Facebook and Twitter, making Friendfeed unnecessary. Make that one, since Twitter has only 5-6 million users (about 4 million of whom seem to be "internet marketing" consultants) I think you're right
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by nir 18y ago
Foreign Policy's blog is a good resource: http://blog.foreignpolicy.com/ - you can sign up to get a daily brief. I try to follow John Robb's Global Guerilla blog ( http://globalguerrillas.typepad.com/ ). He discusses a lot of interesting
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by nir 18y ago
I've read War Nerd's analysis on regions and conflicts I personally know all too well. The last thing I would say about him is that he's "no BS". WN stitches together real facts, out-of-contexts facts and completely made up "facts" in abo
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by nir 18y ago
It's not a good day when the #2 story on HN is a War Nerd piece. This "scrap metal" BS is typical of the kind of hyperbole nonsense Redditors get off on. Just because there exists a weapon that can destroy a certain target, doesn't make thi
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by nir 18y ago
Done: http://www.listable.org/show/url-shortening-sites Thanks!
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by nir 18y ago
Yeah, I suppose it would make sense for Twitter to provide URL shortening themselves, and they'd probably buy someone like bit.ly for this - so betting $2m on it makes some sense (as much as anything makes sense in this area).
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by nir 18y ago
BTW, it's up to 80 sites now ( http://niryariv.wordpress.com/2009/04/04/list-of-url-shorten... )
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by nir 18y ago
No problem. (BTW I'm not sure bit.ly was a bad investment. Common sense might say so, but that has little to do with which Web companies get bought and for how much. If I was a VC I'd put some chips on a URL shortener, and bit.ly is one of
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by nir 18y ago
Yeah I found it kind of funny too :)
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by nir 18y ago
After all, who can resist a woman with a BIG twist?
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List of 74 URL Shortening Sites
7 points by nir 18y ago|19 comments
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by nir 18y ago
Carpenter jilts saw for hammer [EDIT: dear downmodders, the intention here is that languages are tools, and you pick the one which fits your current needs best. What's good for Twitter isn't necessarily best for another app, and Scala <
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by nir 18y ago
Definitely will! Thanks
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by nir 18y ago
Actually, there's plenty of Rails work out there, and usually in higher rates than PHP (granted, you do accomplish more work per Rails hour). It seems to me most Rails jobs are either for companies who chose Ruby because they really know th
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by nir 18y ago
I'm think using Mongrel/LigHTTPD for a while might make you see Apache in a new light :)
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by nir 18y ago
ruby-doc.org is nice, but there's a lot missing in the package level (FeedTools etc). Also, it could use a lot more code examples. Here again I think it's interesting to compare to PHP's annotated docs ca. 2000, which were a great resource
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by nir 18y ago
I don't really know Python's community that well, but I would wager it's probably due to sheer size. I disagree with PG's "law of averages" regarding choosing environments - working in a language that has more users does have significant be
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by nir 18y ago
I love Ruby. I love that code can be so short and yet easily readable. It might be slower and perhaps more memory-hungry than other languages, but for my needs that's usually not an issue. What I do miss are good, well documented , stable
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by nir 18y ago
I think (and I mostly code Ruby these days) it's not least because of comments like this.
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by nir 18y ago
Yeah, I guess you have a point :) http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/google_brings_free_musi...
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Google opens free music download service in China(google.cn)
3 points by nir 18y ago|3 comments
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Mark Essen’s brutal, lo-fi video games are about to make him an art-world star(nymag.com)
1 points by nir 18y ago|0 comments
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by nir 18y ago
The twitter comparison isn't really accurate - if you & the people you follow are on twitter, it's not trivial to just switch to identi.ca. Switching from tinyurl to is.gd to bit.ly to whatever comes next is a lot simpler.
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by nir 18y ago
From the VC perspective, they're doing their job - getting a return on the investment. I agree it's disturbing, because ultimately it's a bubble, which is then followed by bust and so on... It makes for interesting times, though.
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by nir 18y ago
I think the key misunderstanding here is judging bit.ly (or any other company's) value by whether/how much money VCs invest in them. VCs raised money which they now are expected to invest. They don't know what will end up a good investment,
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by nir 18y ago
Most of the Long New Foundation's seminars are excellent: http://longnow.org/projects/seminars/ The New Yorker Out Loud has its moments: http://www.newyorker.com/online/podcasts/outloud The Moth' stories are great for passing that subwa
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by nir 18y ago
Also, it's just bad taste. It's plain ugly. I wish someone would write a PHP parser with a Ruby-like syntax. Obviously the more powerful features of Ruby would still be missing, but just having a more readable syntax would be a nice improve
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by nir 18y ago
I know what you mean, I've been the developer in this scenario more than once :) In the end it's a matter of balance between sales and development. Unlike the common "10 things you must do" stories on HN, there aren't really any well-define
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by nir 18y ago
I think if you have good sales (or sales oriented) people on the team, you probably already are selling before you build, regardless on what stage the company is in. As developers, we'd often complain about sales people selling features we

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