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Ask HN: Diaspora meets Dropbox?
2 points by oldgregg 16y ago|2 comments
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by oldgregg 16y ago
Diaspora needs to be the Dropbox for Facebook (plus any other social network). They need to launch as the diaspora facebook app. P2P with just your friends. The abundance of legitimate uses provides a legal shield that will allow all kinds
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by oldgregg 16y ago
On a related note, NEVER put a doctor, lawyer, or accountant on a board of directors. It's very tempting because they often have many of the external signs of success. But many years of indoctrination have taught them to limit risk at all c
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by oldgregg 16y ago
Hopefully. With Google behind it they have a better chance of fending off the patent trolls masquerading as an educational services provider.
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by oldgregg 16y ago
A few thoughts off the top of my head. 1) You've gotta network the shit out of it if you want the big $$$. Otherwise get ready for assholes on craigslist who are looking for "a college student that wants to build their portfolio" 2) Pricing
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by oldgregg 16y ago
That's what "flag" is there for-- please do your part -- and if that part involves a greasemonkey script that auto-flags anything from techcrunch then more power to you.
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by oldgregg 16y ago
jrails will let you use jquery rather that prototype but it doesn't generate clean code like rail 3 does. unless you have some dependencies that are not compatible, the bump to 3 is really worth it. http://github.com/aaronchi/jrails
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by oldgregg 16y ago
Snag it from github: http://github.com/bububa/MongoHub-Mac/downloads The app was previously released using titanium and it was really unusable. This version is a native app... and outstanding.
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by oldgregg 16y ago
Somebody really lucked out. http://www.6pm.com/dsquared2-boot-paragnosta-cusna-t-moro
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by oldgregg 16y ago
I don't even know where to begin. Apple is the one that made the decision to stay with ATT so it's their own damn fault. As Apple loves to say, it's the end user experience that matters. Apple has stuck by ATT for two reasons: Control and M
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by oldgregg 16y ago
Actually Christians do seem to constantly apologize and distance themselves from Christians with whom they disagree. Every time Pat Robertson opens his mouth you'll see swarms of Christians clarifying THIS IS NOT WHAT I BELIEVE. I think "fr
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by oldgregg 16y ago
I thought I just gave a response. Christianity has a clear example of how to respond to persecution in that God sacrificed himself for others. This doesn't give me a better understanding of the Islamic perspective.
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by oldgregg 16y ago
I agree, it's not very charitable. But remember we are also very isolated from the conflict in Europe-- the whole culture is getting rocked over how Islam functions in a modern society. My uncle in France has friends who describe themselves
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by oldgregg 16y ago
My host is a fellow HNer, he better not cave! Of course I guess someone could always go upstream...
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by oldgregg 16y ago
Yep, I will be in the next few days... Just not from this account!
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Ask HN: How can I keep from getting sued?
4 points by oldgregg 16y ago|10 comments
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by oldgregg 16y ago
Only if it's my doppelganger old-gregg. I'll bump into that scaly man fish on random threads now and then-- I know nothing about him except he has insightful comments and like him I was a Rails developer in NYC... I know you're out there a
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by oldgregg 16y ago
The rich person bunker is particularly devious. Good luck getting a refund when martial law is declared and the cloud of Gulfstream Vs descend on Saskatchewan only to discover Auschwitz style accommodations run by a bunch of high school joc
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by oldgregg 16y ago
Yes, but I do feel a little bad for the other 20,000 developers that don't have the resources to do anything about it. It's now clear that "open platform" hype is pure marketing spin -- bullshit-speak to make you think they actually give a
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by oldgregg 16y ago
This is not the real problem. The bigger issue is that youtube videos are EDITED. People put hours into editing a single clip to make it palatable. Even if you DO catch a live stream the signal/noise is usually unbearable. No amount of tech
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by oldgregg 16y ago
Clever. The only thing more disturbing than Apple's behavior is how many developers seem to be suffering from stockholm syndrome.
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by oldgregg 16y ago
I agree, but it's really sad that we're at a place where we praise Apple for communicating... like normal human beings.
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by oldgregg 16y ago
You're ignoring the fact that almost all Americans ARE "PR majors" -- lots of other names for shitty degrees, of course -- but the hard sciences are dominated by indians and asians. Communications, sports medicine, all these majors attract
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by oldgregg 16y ago
Telling people to "toughen up" is missing the point. The University of Chicago is built around creating Nobel prize winners (which they do a damn good job of it). But they also drive students so hard that they often fail out or just commit
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by oldgregg 16y ago
Bro. You opened your account a month ago and your submissions are all self-promotional. Maybe your post didn't get a lot of votes-- but it did get a lot of comments-- most of them suggesting your claims are not credible. Perhaps all of the
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by oldgregg 16y ago
I know IKEA has been doing some experimental housing developments, I wonder if they have factored this into their design?
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by oldgregg 17y ago
I tried it. Don't waste your time.
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by oldgregg 17y ago
I just signed up to try it. Comprehensive but simple UI. EXCEPT, in free mode it LITERS the interface trying to get you to upgrade. I don't use much of the social features of github for private projects so it still might work and I'll just
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by oldgregg 17y ago
Deja vu. Back before Zuck gave his awkward f8 platform speech I built an app called FaceFreaks... even though their DEMO application was called "MochaBook" they later shut down all the apps that had "Face" or "Book" in the name. The moment
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by oldgregg 17y ago
Pretty interesting predictions, very thought provoking at least.

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