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by nir 18y ago
I'm Israeli. I did expect it to be high on the list, but that gap between it and 2nd place is quite surprising... I can think of a few reasons: 1. Israel is in a way similar to a big city - a small place and tightly knit. It's a young natio
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by nir 18y ago
Could you expand a bit on the "Monetize it" part?
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by nir 18y ago
That's the thing - the choice isn't between languages, but between tools. For example, having a lot of libraries is not strictly a language feature, but it does effect choosing one over the other. On its own, as a language, PHP doesn't have
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by nir 18y ago
Also, very good user-annotated documentation (I don't know if this is still so, but it was when I started PHP) and a lot of existing code/libraries/applications (of varying quality) that you can use. The value of PHP is not in the language
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by nir 18y ago
I guess this makes sense, if you're hiring for Yahoo! Search.
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by nir 18y ago
Didn't get the "semantic web" part - isn't what the article describes simply keyword-sensitive ads?
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by nir 18y ago
Isn't the C extension issue the same for other languages, eg Python or PHP? (I really don't know, I'm not that familiar with Ruby internals) I think this issue, like Capistrano's, would benefit from having more Ruby coders, which in itself
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by nir 18y ago
I think this is related to Ruby in the sense that there aren't that many Ruby coders. The whole "scratch an itch" thing is a numbers game - maybe %1 of the people who have a problem would actually contribute a patch that fixes it, so the mo
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by nir 18y ago
You know, not to flame, but this attitude is exactly why Ruby isn't where it could be. I love Ruby, do most of my work in it now and haven't owned a Windows machine since 2001, but if Ruby's answer to Windows users is "just switch to Ubuntu
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by nir 18y ago
Would be cool if this effort creates a simple Open Source NLP library that a Sandy-like app requires.
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Open Source Replacement for Values of N Sandy?(sandysback.blogspot.com)
1 points by nir 18y ago|1 comments
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by nir 18y ago
>Acquired & Closed != Failed If that's so, what does == Failed? I can see how this move might make sense for Pownce's people, but the product itself certainly failed - how else can you define a situation where you're forced to shu
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by nir 18y ago
This is not just strained, but wrong. From Emacs (read all the document into memory) to Linux (ignore pre-386 processors, majority at the time) to Java (drop C memory handling requirements) and of course any web app that runs on a dynamic l
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by nir 18y ago
An image is worth a thousand words, as they say: http://flickr.com/photos/charliereece/777487250/
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Acts_as_git plugin for Rails(blog.caboo.se)
2 points by nir 18y ago|0 comments
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by nir 18y ago
I think this relates to a recent discussion here about Customer Development as something that should be done from the very early stages, closely tied to the product development effort. ( http://startuplessonslearned.blogspot.com/2008/11/w
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by nir 18y ago
Just flag it.
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by nir 18y ago
I don't think people who choose not to have kids are immature, it's a legitimate choice. I just mention it as a measure of certain changes. Nothing necessarily bad or good about it.
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by nir 18y ago
I mention it as example of adults who have priorities traditionally associated with younger people - the low birth rate in places like Germany or Italy partly comes from adults preferring a certain lifestyle (a better car, exotic vacations,
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by nir 18y ago
The 3 stage process of childhood - adolescence - adulthood is already irrelevant in many affluent Western countries, but what was removed isn't adolescence but adulthood. Many 40 year olds manage their lives as teenagers (look at the low bi
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by nir 18y ago
And ban anyone that follows that link from ever posting to Hacker News :)
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by nir 18y ago
"Beating the odds"? The fact they have a business model (or a notion of one) and were launched for little money does not mean they actually make profit in the long run. This article reads like something from 6 months ago.
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by nir 18y ago
Absolutely - I'm feeling the same, like we're seeing the Apple II of a new industry. That's why I posted this question, I'm curious to hear what kind of directions people have in mind for these machines.
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What would you build with a 3D printer?
16 points by nir 18y ago|23 comments
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by nir 18y ago
Anyway, SoAndSo already did this post.
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by nir 18y ago
They're really going downhill lately
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Soulseek (P2P filesharing) for iPhone(errrick.com.ar)
1 points by nir 18y ago|0 comments
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by nir 18y ago
When they were using technologies like PGP there was reason for concern. When they start using stuff like Twitter I think it's great news for all of us non-terrorists.
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by nir 18y ago
Find a niche which is new - so no one has years of experience doing it - and appealing enough that there's a strong demand for skilled coders. Right now, iPhone and Android are two examples of such fields, there's probably some more. Build
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Nassim Taleb and Benoit Mandelbrot on the Economy(pbs.org)
35 points by nir 18y ago|18 comments

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