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by ryan-allen 18y ago
This is brilliant social engineering, and rather amusing!
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by ryan-allen 18y ago
Brilliant. I love the idea of bootstrapping start ups, but I love it more when the start up has some kind of business model behind it. The real achievement is not only to get 'eyeballs' but paying customers. After all, once you're keeping y
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by ryan-allen 18y ago
If you've never worked with lawyers on crafting a new TOS for a new kind of service, it can be easy to misconstrue the legal jargon to imply evil intentions. But likely it's just that they've identified where they need to be clear about wha
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by ryan-allen 18y ago
Brilliant :) On another note I miss the BBS, and Major Mud.
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by ryan-allen 18y ago
Someone please quote The Eyes of Heisenberg by Frank Herbert! In fact that book is a take on living for, well, ages. :) I enjoyed it.
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Sending SMS using Andriod Intents(jtribe.blogspot.com)
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by ryan-allen 18y ago
It doesn't really matter, the Universe will prevail!!!
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by ryan-allen 18y ago
4% of his users are IE, let's say, he's running a multi million dollar business. It'll cost him 5 million a year to keep IE working, and the business from the 4% equates to 15 million. What would you do? Beat your chest and scream "look at
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by ryan-allen 18y ago
It's patent pending! Patended the combination of two buzzwords 'AJAX' and 'Database'.
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by ryan-allen 18y ago
Some people seem to be investigating Emacs, from the world that had Textmate become popular! http://nubyonrails.com/articles/emacs-emacs I've personally jumped to Vim. Mostly beacuse I do some sysadmin and now it's much less annoying edit
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by ryan-allen 18y ago
People are judging each other left, right and centre on much more biased criteria every day whether you like it or not. Don't have an instrument to judge someone with? They'll judge you based on their preconceptions, their life experience,
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by ryan-allen 18y ago
But in all seriousness, why so negative? It can only ever be considered as a guide, and if the end is understanding (i.e. reaching your destination through the forest) then who cares if the map isn't a complete map? Isn't that the point of
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by ryan-allen 18y ago
So, that'd make you ISTJ, yeah? :P
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by ryan-allen 18y ago
Says I'm an ESTP, but I'm an ENTP. I wonder how many NT's are on HN? I'd say it's a pretty high percentage. According to David Keirsey they're represented by roughly 12%, so not very much, but on HN it wouldn't surprise me if it was ~70%.
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by ryan-allen 18y ago
I think this idea is ridiculous. Why deny the site to people because some others may be using it as a time-sink? What about time zones? What about other people's schedules? PG you don't have to fix other people's poor habits for them. You a
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by ryan-allen 18y ago
My problem with running XP on OLPC is that XP doesn't come with anything even half-useful to someone who may or may not speak English in a developing country. OLPC's software was for learning and working that was language agnostic (mostly,
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by ryan-allen 18y ago
Sweet, all you need is some venture capital and you're on your way to the big time!
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by ryan-allen 18y ago
I've used both Rackspace and Slicehost in production settings, and they both have their drawbacks and advantages. We moved to the 'premiere rails hosting provider' (I won't say which one, but it's the current one, not the old one) and after
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by ryan-allen 18y ago
My first was PHP, I was able to get useful things off the ground, mostly by trial and error, from what was initially very simple examples. PHP's strength is it's so damn easy to write useful, simple scripts. And it's so fast to provide feed
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by ryan-allen 18y ago
"I can see a time when the community builds the environment within the bounds of the rules of the game engine - and I'm not talking about second life." Hey! Like Spore! I think it's a damn great idea :)
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by ryan-allen 18y ago
The site appears to promise features that don't exist in the app. From TFA: "The emails are sent in configurable intervals. If you don't answer the first, you will get a second and a third one. If you don't answer those either, your switch
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by ryan-allen 18y ago
We already are being flooded with absolute crap! The store is full of mostly toys and 'concept' apps. And to think you have to pay for some of those (remember the several incarnations of 'iPhone Flash Light' both paid and unpaid?). I hope A
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by ryan-allen 18y ago
From TFA: "For now we’re going to assume that people like this are not sick even though a subset of the traits may sound superficially like some cases of autism or even schizophrenia." Who the hell is this guy? What kind of call is that? He
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by ryan-allen 18y ago
Check out the comment left by A.R.M. The INTP thing he's talking about is a scale on the Meyers Briggs Type Inventory, though I've never seen what he's referring to as 'extroverted intuition' exhibiting as ADD/ADHD symptoms, interesting...
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by ryan-allen 18y ago
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