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by petesalty 17y ago
Sorry for the late reply. Actually, there's no need to ever grant glunote access to your Twitter account, it's only needed if you want to use the web interface. If you never need the web interface just follow "glu", and the system will fol
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by petesalty 17y ago
Thanks Steve, great feedback. Wish my design skills were a little better :)
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by petesalty 17y ago
Yes, but I felt I did a really poor job of describing what I wanted to achieve so I thought I'd give it another go.
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by petesalty 17y ago
Thanks, that's always nice to hear :)
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by petesalty 17y ago
My desk is covered with little sticky notes, with just about everything written on them - things I'm interested in(books, websites, music, etc.), restaurants, lyrics to songs, people phone numbers/email addresses, etc. Anyway, this just isn
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HN: Review my little Twitter app(glunote.com)
27 points by petesalty 17y ago|20 comments
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by petesalty 17y ago
It was the biggest mistake I made. My usual tendency is to work alone but I learnt that only works for small projects. What I really need is someone to bounce ideas off, complement my skill set and occasionally fight with :) I'd never try a
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by petesalty 17y ago
In San Francisco there's a very successful grocery store called Rainbow Grocery that's a worker co-operative. I think this kind of thing can work well on this scale but I doubt it scales very well.
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by petesalty 17y ago
1. Trying to start solo 2. Not asking for help soon enough 3. Thinking that the market was broken but really just failing to understand the market 4. Never being "finished" enough to go live 5. Listening to experts 6. Completely and utterly
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by petesalty 17y ago
Steve, just a heads up, I'm running through a few things on ge.la.to and it's super slow/crashy. Just thought you'd like to know.
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by petesalty 17y ago
Cool, I hope it works out for you guys.
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by petesalty 17y ago
Yeah, I like this a lot.
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by petesalty 17y ago
Yeah, I've looked at ge.la.to, and it's kind of similar with what I have in mind, although they don't really seem to do a lot of stream analysis (I could be wrong on this). You're completely right, it's a hard nut to crack, and gaining trac
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by petesalty 17y ago
I've been thinking about something like this for the last few months. I think the mobile element is a great idea, and a very nice ice breaker - "Hey there, I'm Trent415 and superdate.com said you and I have a lot in common." Plus, you could
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by petesalty 17y ago
Just because you can't get a domain name you want doesn't make the owner a squatter. I bet everyone who's commented here, probably everyone who's read this, has more than one domain they own that they aren't using at the moment. Are they sq
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by petesalty 17y ago
Let me know if we can make things better.
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Ask HN: Check out my little app(glunote.com)
5 points by petesalty 17y ago|2 comments
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by petesalty 17y ago
http://glunote.com It was fun to build and gave me a good look at Twitter oAuth and the APIs but I doubt it'll take it any further than it is already. I do use it on a fairly regular basis, as I'm kind of forgetful, and it does work prett
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by petesalty 17y ago
What about, instead of printing local you could have it printed and shipped to you within 24 hours? Is there an online business in there somewhere, or are the numbers just too small?
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by petesalty 17y ago
Having developed in .NET and Objective-C I think they are both pretty much the same (.NEt might be a little faster, but not much). However, if you've already got .NET programmers then it's going to be a lot faster than having to train them
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by petesalty 17y ago
OSS CMS systems can have a great feature set, cost nothing to license and are adaptable, if necessary. What's not to like. Recently we implemented Comatose (a small ruby CMS) into an existing rails site. It didn't need a large number of fea
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by petesalty 17y ago
Of course it's possible, everything you can imagine is possible, given enough time and resources. But is it probable? But I think the question you should be asking yourself, if you're wondering how to spend your life, isn't if machine consc
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by petesalty 17y ago
Really, how would you do it?
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by petesalty 17y ago
No, I don't mean RoR contractors are code monkeys. I mean that if you're an engineer that specializes in RoR then you're expected to have such an phenomenal breadth and depth of understanding that few, other the DHH or Katz, could fill the
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by petesalty 17y ago
Nope, it's not a joke, not even close. Perhaps if you've done some hiring over the last couple of years you'd like to contribute something more to the discussion than this random comment.
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by petesalty 17y ago
Ah, and here we have the crux of the problem with the software engineering hiring mindset today. Over the years I've hired many software engineers and I've never hired anyone based on their ability to write code, in fact I never even ask a
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Microsoft pushes for single global patent system(news.cnet.com)
1 points by petesalty 17y ago|0 comments
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by petesalty 17y ago
Yeah, TechCrunch is getting like this too, so I've stopped reading both of them. Nothing really wrong with that, just not what I want to read. Mostly for me it's now HN for tech and VentureBeat for funding related stuff. Oh well, things cha