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721.
by nirvdrum 12y ago
I did think about licensing. There are two big problems with that: 1) The costs of running a single instance of the application far exceed the plans I was selling. It requires a certain amount of amortization to become cost effective for
722.
by nirvdrum 12y ago
One reason is because you'll invariably be criticized for not merging some pull request.
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by nirvdrum 12y ago
Thanks. That's another excellent point. I think I had it in my post outline and just forgot to put it in here. The Mogotest application is complex to set up. For each version of IE you want to test, you need a separate Windows inst
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by nirvdrum 12y ago
I had reached out to a few people over the years. Without a doubt, I could have done better. If you'd like to email me, I'd be happy to discuss that aspect more. kevin@<domain_in_article>.
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by nirvdrum 12y ago
Well, the parts I could integrate with upstream projects, such as Selenium, I already had. Much of the remaining stuff is useful in its domain and small enough in scope where on-going development really shouldn't be necessary. And th
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by nirvdrum 12y ago
I came to the realization that Mogotest didn't have a future, at least with me, over the summer. I've evaluated a lot of opportunities in that time. The hardest part being that I didn't really have a clue what I wanted to d
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Open Sourcing a Failed Startup(nirvdrum.com)
344 points by nirvdrum 12y ago|159 comments
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by nirvdrum 12y ago
Maybe I've just seen some particularly bad JS, but I often see a lookup by class name and then just fetching the first element. This pattern would suffer the same fate, without the semantic hint that there should only be a single elem
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by nirvdrum 12y ago
Sure. I don't recall anyone selling anything over 160 kbps in 2004. Apple introduced their lossless encoding around then, but extra storage for that many discs was prohibitively expensive. I think Amazon is still ~250 kbps and doesn&
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by nirvdrum 12y ago
I think I've ripped my entire audio collection 3 or 4 times now. Back in the day I was naively convinced M4A would displace MP3. And depending on the disk size of the day, I've ripped with various bit rates (not necessarily VBR)
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by nirvdrum 12y ago
It's never as fast and document search on e-readers seems to be straight word match rather than any form of intelligent indexing. If I don't recall where something is, it's almost always faster to use the book's index t
732.
by nirvdrum 12y ago
For me it's a matter of quickly referencing material. For whatever reason, I seem to recall where things are roughly by the thickness of the stack of pages. The percentage bar on the Kindle doesn't replicate that. And flipping
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by nirvdrum 12y ago
Ahh, weird. Well, it works well enough on my phone if it's any consolation.
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by nirvdrum 12y ago
It's available on Android now. You need the "Amazon" app, however, so it's not easily discoverable. It seems they're trying to consolidate some of their various apps into that one master app.
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by nirvdrum 12y ago
Right. That works great. The problem is when I was composing a new email.
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by nirvdrum 12y ago
Thanks. That was a very handy feature. Alas, it was when composing new emails. I'm sure with more diligence it'll come as second nature. But when rapid firing through emails I'd sometimes send from the wrong account and e
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by nirvdrum 12y ago
I did that. It was remembering to switch the account when composing new messages. I ended up sending work emails from my personal account on a few occasions.
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by nirvdrum 12y ago
I tried it and found I constantly was sending email from the wrong account. While that's on me, it was evident I was never going to get it right either, so I went back to separate accounts.
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by nirvdrum 12y ago
A lot of people don't like passing a phone around because in many cases the recipient, either out of force of habit or just snooping around, will keep scrolling through the rest of their photos.
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by nirvdrum 12y ago
I think the license here is important as well. I know of a few companies that just paid the $500 - $750 (it's changed over time) to Mike just to avoid even having to think about Sidekiq being some sort of GPL license. If it were MIT
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by nirvdrum 12y ago
Yeah, curl is an option. It just kinda sucks when things that have worked for years break overnight because of an otherwise transparent upstream SSL change. My guess is since introducing an SNI-compatible version is outside the scope of a
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by nirvdrum 12y ago
The larger problem I had was with non-interactive browsers. E.g., GitHub changed their downloads server to use SNI and overnight a bunch of scripts I had using wget on Ubuntu 12.04 (a distribution supported until 2017) stopped working. Ja
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by nirvdrum 12y ago
I'm not sure ops time is even the one to worry about. Most things I've learned I've learned the hard way. So a server going berserk isn't fun, but it's not like I just wasted either time or money on it. I learned
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by nirvdrum 12y ago
There have been variations of this run in the past, too: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language_deprivation_experiment... The James IV of Scotland experiment was the one I was familiar with, but it appears others have a
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by nirvdrum 12y ago
Right. And that ties back into my original comment. If we want the Web to be something different and feel constrained in supporting what it was originally intended to be, we may as well make a clean break.
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by nirvdrum 12y ago
The idea of the Web as it was sold to many of us was that it allowed for cross-platform access without having to deal with hardware requirements or DLL hell. The best part, was it was completely open and you didn't need to constantly
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by nirvdrum 12y ago
If people are having consistently poor mobile experiences because of poor battery optimisation across websites, that should create market demand for smarter devices/mobile browsers, better development tools and modern standards etc.,
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by nirvdrum 12y ago
Then let's just dispense with the silly idea of having open standards. The idea was to allow graceful degradation. But if you're just going to block out people, just dump the baggage of HTML and CSS and truly move everything for
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OCaml 4.02.0 Released(sympa.inria.fr)
4 points by nirvdrum 12y ago|0 comments
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by nirvdrum 12y ago
SEURAT is a research project that attempted this. I was a test subject for it a while back and found it pretty interesting. But its implementation at the time was an Eclipse plugin that probably hasn't been kept up todate. You can f

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