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by njl 16y ago
I like the idea, but you've got a lot of work ahead of you. First and foremost, your design is lacking. I'm not good enough at design to explain exactly what's wrong, but I can kinda wave my arms and say it needs more texture, some richness
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by njl 16y ago
My Django hosting service. I looked at Heroku and thought, "I want that for Python." Yesterday, I got most of the http request path finished. There is some node.js work left, and I still need to do some more work on Varnish. I'm hoping to g
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by njl 16y ago
More like, "Lets find interesting new people together."
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by njl 16y ago
The algorithm is quite doable. A good-enough algorithm would be fine -- I have higher standards for those I exclusively date than for those I grab an occasional beer with. An opportunity to meet some new and interesting people would be grea
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by njl 16y ago
From the FAQ, "Our transaction fee is $0.99 + 9% of each payment."
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by njl 16y ago
Frequently, when I'm uncertain or ambivalent about a binary decision, I'll flip a coin. When the coin lands, I feel that moment of happiness or annoyance at the result. I then use that feeling to make my decision. If I realize that I really
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by njl 16y ago
I've been pondering hanging sheets of glass on my walls. I've been taking notes on my bathroom mirror with a dry-erase marker for a while. The ability to get out real cleaning products and get the writing surface really, really clean is com
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by njl 16y ago
This is basically telling you to let somebody else run xplanet for you, then download the results every four hours. Pining for my xearth root window of yore, I wrote up how to run xplanet on your local machine, rendering out a nice new vers
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by njl 16y ago
I built this using twilio yesterday. It took maybe an hour, from research to code to commit.
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by njl 16y ago
I might be willing to help you develop your tool; I'd need to hear more. I'd definitely be willing to help you screen developers, or even help you write your advertisement. njl@njl.us
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by njl 16y ago
The letter from Buffet where he outlines how Wall Street has just turned into a source of friction slowing down "real" industry is gold. http://money.cnn.com/2006/03/05/news/newsmakers/buffett_fort...
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by njl 16y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Murray "Being very detached from the Hollywood scene, Murray does not have an agent or manager and reportedly only fields offers for scripts and roles using a personal telephone number with a voice mailbo
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by njl 16y ago
Thank you! So this is more a desperate legal maneuver by a company that was stuck with some dreadful license terms, and less a potential serious shellacking of MPEG LA. That disappoints me.
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by njl 16y ago
I sent him an email thanking him for his contributions and groveling for his insight ;).
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by njl 16y ago
I've used both daemontools and monit in anger. For a single server that I'm not particularly concerned about, monit has been more than sufficient and convenient. The web interface to see what's going on isn't bad either. On the other hand,
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by njl 16y ago
The last thing you should do is look at patents. If you knowingly infringe a patent, your "willful" infringement opens you up to triple damages. It's actually better to not know.
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by njl 16y ago
I am not a Wall Street expert, by any means, but... The NYSE has guys (mostly guys) who stand around on the floor and act as market makers for various stocks. They call 'em specialist. They stand around and run the auctions for shares, matc
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by njl 16y ago
I like the concept a lot! The "how it works" boxes on the first page need to give me more. I kept clicking on them. I liked the plans list. I want the entire box to be a click target, and give me a mouse-over subtle color change. I also wan
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by njl 16y ago
I just came up for air from working on my take to browse hacker news for a bit. A lot of work for one man, but I'm moderately pleased with the progress I've been making.
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by njl 16y ago
Some business ideas are innovative, in the sense that they are a new, bold, or risky approach to solving problems. I don't think you have anything to lose by sharing those ideas. These ideas are all about execution, and passion and domain k
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by njl 16y ago
This one: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=779448
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by njl 16y ago
The qualified-investor concept provide a way to short-circuit a lot of investor-protection legal rigmarole. If I want to offer an investment to the public, I need to undergo a lot more effort and expense than a private placement from a "qua
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by njl 16y ago
In the startup world, we always talk about the difference between ideas and execution. I can like the idea, but I shudder at the execution. This won't end well.
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by njl 16y ago
I suspect online advertising is undervalued precisely because it can be measured. I further suspect that "brand advertising" is a scam for all but the largest advertisers.
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by njl 16y ago
My understanding is that kids were told that this was a common malfunction and not to worry about it. This whole thing has struck me as beyond creepy. I'm embarrassed both as a technologist and as a former educator. That this was allowed to
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by njl 16y ago
When I taught high school, nomic was the day-before-vacation time waster in my CS classes. I think we actually had a winner once in the couple of dozen times we played, but the kids had fun. They sat around arguing about logic, which was a
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by njl 16y ago
I had a couple of submissions that I thought were pretty reasonable, but disappeared without a trace. I now make it a habit to go through /newest when I visit HN. I view it as a little work to curate a community that I get a lot of value fr
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by njl 17y ago
Step one is hard. Some way of meeting people with whom I share peculiar mutual interests, but not peculiar mutual friends, is hard. Instead of a social networking app that tells me, "These are your friends, we'll help you keep in touch", I
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by njl 17y ago
Thank you. I see somebody moved that row to the top. I added a short little plug, but I refrained from moving it back down to the bottom. Thank you for going to all the trouble to curate this, by the way.
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by njl 17y ago
There's a real cool idea there, something about turning social networks inside out by focusing on meeting people instead of keeping track of people you already know. A dating site, without any real overtones of dating. On the other hand, I

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