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by njl 17y ago
There you have it. There are good arguments both ways, but I decided against allowing anonymous browsing for two reasons. First was to encourage sign-ups, second was laziness -- the list of other users is sorted by their relevance to you, a
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by njl 17y ago
Good question. I'll use this as an excuse to shamelessly plug the cofounder-finder I wrote in response to that spreadsheet, http://amb.itio.us .
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What about drug discovery? The road to approval is a long, risky, and amazingly expensive one. Without patent protection, there wouldn't be a lot of incentive to develop new drugs. I think, as software people, we tend to generalize the ridi
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by njl 17y ago
I've been dealing with what you describe for most of my life, and I've been actively attacking it for the past fifteen years. If I had one thing I could get across to anyone, it's that happiness is a state of mind and a habit, not the resul
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by njl 17y ago
Mind, I'm not deeply involved in either the Perl or Ruby communities, but... The de jure successor of Perl 5 might be Perl 6, but the de facto successor is Ruby. That is where the momentum and mindshare has gone; my impression is that Perl
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by njl 17y ago
I've been under the impression (tongue firmly in cheek) that Perl 6 is called "Ruby".
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by njl 17y ago
Penny Arcade is a fascinating example of what I think of as a common pattern in creative industries... You get a creative who is amazingly talented and makes stuff that people just want; this person has no or rudimentary business skills. Th
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by njl 17y ago
Really really listen, and steer the conversation with questions. Focus on real pain they have that your product can solve. Let them come to realize for themselves that your product will solve real problems for them, and then get the hell ou
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by njl 17y ago
I view any sort of advocacy of git over hg or hg over git as borderline ridiculous. Any differentiation between the two is so far out in the margins as to be irrelevant.
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by njl 17y ago
I have scripts (I use fabric, keep meaning to explore chef) that bring a fresh OS install up to a production server automatically, doing all installation and configuration. This is all in a DVCS system, so I have a local copy of my reposito
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by njl 17y ago
I should have been more clear. The rants are interesting because they highlight things that have been subtly bugging me, but I don't know why. In this case, I scroll through and look at all of those pictures, and I know something is wrong.
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by njl 17y ago
As part of trying to become better (through necessity) at web design, I've been discovering the best way to learn about design is to find pet-peeve rants by good designers. This one is going to give me something to chew on.
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by njl 17y ago
1) About a week. Finally free of the previous failed startup, got my feet back with a quick project (co-founder finder, http://amb.itio.us ). 2) Didn't try... I'd have tried for this round, but I didn't want to start any new work until I w
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by njl 17y ago
At some point, they will realize that this is happening, and there will be outrage when they communicate about it to their friends via an outside channel. Be prepared for a lot of splashback.
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by njl 17y ago
Cuban's call for government control of bandwidth and subsequent designation of applications as "transformative" is mind-bogglingly ridiculous. It demonstrates that I guy I thought of as pretty smart doesn't really understand that what makes
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by njl 17y ago
If you do want to read "How to Win Friends and Influence People", try to get an older version of it. It has been rewritten over and over by Carnegie's successors, with more "relevant" but less interesting anecdotes. The original is filled w
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by njl 17y ago
The "Amazing Service Guy" doesn't understand how A&F markets itself. When I taught, I had a student who worked at an A&F store for a couple weeks. He quit because he kept getting in trouble for being too friendly and talking to cust
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by njl 17y ago
Their letter from January explaining why their record label won't let them embed videos is a fascinating explanation of exactly how overwhelming the sea change swamping the music industry is. http://okgo.forumsunlimited.com/index.php?showt
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by njl 17y ago
Well, some effort needs to go into some plugins for nginx and varnish. nginx needs to route incoming requests to the right varnish, and some custom cache invalidation stuff should happen on varnish as well. Other than that? Lots and lots of
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by njl 17y ago
If you're looking at doing subscription stuff, check out spreedly, http://spreedly.com/ . They'll handle all of the subscription and billing stuff for you, and abstract away whomever you end up using as a gateway. They do support Paypal as
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by njl 17y ago
If you haven't had a chance to mull over Heroku's architecture, I'd suggest giving it a look. http://heroku.com/how/architecture Basically, nginx fronts a bunch of Varnish caches, which are then in front of a "routing mesh", which queues
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by njl 17y ago
Hah! Well, I extracted myself from my previous commitments about two weeks ago, then spent a week building a co-founder-finder ( http://amb.itio.us/ ). I've been spending this week doing mock-ups and filling out the rough architecture of th
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by njl 17y ago
A couple of months ago I explored building a Django-friendly Heroku clone. I white-boarded out the architecture, estimated how much work would be needed for all the pieces, and built a spreadsheet revenue model. It's an interesting and attr
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by njl 17y ago
This feels more like the Time Magazine "Man of the Year" than it does a serious attempt to highlight those who have provided the "greatest benefit on mankind". The Nobel Peace Prize can serve a very real purpose; it can highlight someone wo
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Amb.itio.us Co-Founder Finder(amb.itio.us)
1 points by njl 17y ago|0 comments
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by njl 17y ago
A fair point. My datasets have been relatively small, topping out at less than a gigabyte. I didn't have any crashes in production, and I had a small enough database that I could export the whole thing to the file system every six hours. Du
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by njl 17y ago
For those of you who haven't tried it, MongoDB offers a pretty amazing balance of features and usability. The user community is friendly, and the developers are incredibly responsive. I just built my co-founder finder ( http://amb.itio.us/
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Tell HN: My Co-Founder Finder App
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Putting the finishing touches on the app I wrote this week, a co-founder finder. I also got a Droid this afternoon, so I've been having a hard time avoiding the distracting shiny, shiny new toy.
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by njl 17y ago
Don't screw around. Carpal tunnel surgery seriously sucks. I got both of my wrists fixed a couple of days before my 21st birthday. Things that have helped me... Make yourself aware of your posture and wrist location. Don't type with your wr

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