no_future

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by no_future 12y ago
If you're so serious about your web stack and know it is going to need all these fancy and performance features, why build on Ruby in the first place? Why not use something that is performant with a history of successful apps behind it
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by no_future 12y ago
Don't understand why people seem to think being good at chess is directly correlated with being smart. Chess is just a game that you can get better at through practice like any other game, you can be average in all other respects but s
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by no_future 12y ago
>Cat-Pictures-as-a-Service Wait till le derpina hears about this one!
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by no_future 12y ago
fake it till you make it I guess?
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by no_future 12y ago
Terry is a goddamn hero and an inspiration to us all
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by no_future 12y ago
>Engineering is about making things work, visual design is about creating an emotional connection. There are no formulas or rules that can be systematically applied to make a product feel right. People that think they are similar probabl
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by no_future 12y ago
There are almost no MPAA-proof countries, its pretty hard to hide from billion dollar companies with lobbyists and legal teams who are effectively above the law/make the laws. Countries that do ignore international copyright laws(Russi
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by no_future 12y ago
>Realizing you’re a software developer and not a designer I hate when people pigeonhole themselves by giving themselves and others labels like this. What's stopping someone from being both a great designer and a great software devel
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by no_future 12y ago
I have to disagree with you here. Elasticsearch has a "more like this" feature built into it, which would give you pretty much the desired functionality you're describing that Facebook and LinkedIn have. It's a free and
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by no_future 12y ago
>Heh, if it's that easy then, ummm, go build it? I did not mean to say that I could build a product like these to demean or belittle them in any way. The vision, ideas and UX execution behind them were clearly thought up by inspired
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by no_future 12y ago
But it isn't free, free implies that they don't demand anything in return. You sell investors an ownership stake in your company, so it is the same as any other transaction. That means that they get a portion of whatever profit yo
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by no_future 12y ago
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I remember reading that Snapchat was originally pretty slow to acquire users, and conducted almost no marketing campaigns. According to the founders, they focused on building a great product, and this paid
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by no_future 12y ago
Can somebody explain to me why every startup company(or at least every one that articles are written about) feels the need to raise as much VC as possible ASAP? There are so many options for developing scalable systems relatively easily and
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by no_future 12y ago
Can anyone tell me about the interop situation? I'm working on my first iOS app and doing it all the old way with Obj-C, and some things have been a little difficult to grok even though they've been around a while(AVFoundation). I
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by no_future 12y ago
I wrote a simple CUDA based image thumbnailing dongle with OpenCV a while back. https://github.com/NealP/cudathumb It's pretty fast but doesn't expose a good interface via console so if someone would like to
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by no_future 12y ago
A million dollars isn't cool. Know what's cool? A billion dollars.
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by no_future 12y ago
Lies. Python and Ruby are older/as old as Java.