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by samlev 15y ago
There are some movies and TV shows being funded now without the 'majors', but the funding model hasn't really figured itself out yet. See Pioneer One for a self/crowd funded 'TV' show which was released under the Creative Commons licence (a
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by samlev 15y ago
Funded by isn't the same as created by. Granted, without these companies there to throw massive amounts of money at writers/directors/actors, then we probably wouldn't have much of the content that we do today (at least not how it is). That
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by samlev 15y ago
It would be difficult to do properly, unless it just cached only what you were looking at. Most links in HN are to external sites, so you wouldn't want to be caching them on your phone. Then there's the amount of traffic to HN meaning that
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by samlev 15y ago
Or "this has been fixed in a newer version".
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by samlev 15y ago
If you find bugs, then you find bugs. Just make sure that the bug hasn't already been reported, and that it is actually a bug (not just you expecting something to behave differently - the unexpected behaviour may be intentional, or at least
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by samlev 15y ago
But they're not offering to create websites for businesses - they're just offering the tools and making it easy for businesses to create their own websites. There is much in that transcript which is inconsistent and even contradictory t
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by samlev 15y ago
I'm assuming that they're offering google apps, which you can sell as an affiliate (naming your price). But reading through the transcript, and listening to the calls, they claim to be offering to "develop" a web site for the business, whic
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by samlev 15y ago
There's a couple of reasons why I think this doesn't seem quite right: - "Large human effort" doesn't seem like Google's style - a screen scrape for info would be faster for them, and I'd assume that they already have tools built to do that
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Ask +HN: How do you deal with your HN Google+ circle?(plus.google.com)
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by samlev 15y ago
Where did the '250 Apple employees' claim come from? I mean, there's nothing in either that article or the original article that shows where they got this number (in fact the original article doesn't mention it at all).
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by samlev 15y ago
PHP: if you're not looking to build from scratch, then building off Wordpress, Drupal, or Joomla is a popular way to go. Python: Django or Pyramid are the two frameworks to look at. Ruby: Rails, I guess, although I've never used it.
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Forget your ideals; design software for the real world(samuellevy.com)
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by samlev 15y ago
Honestly? Probably not much in terms of getting new traffic, but people seem to like being able to click 'like' or '+1' If nothing else, I guess they are a vague and inconsistent metric about how popular a piece of content is.
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by samlev 15y ago
When I knew I would be looking at the job market, I ended up making my own Open Source project as a kind of resume. It was something to show off my code, my architecture, and my attention to UX. Did it get me a job? No, not directly (althou
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by samlev 15y ago
http://learnpythonthehardway.org/ I'm starting to feel like a shill for pushing this one on people, but it really is one of the best "learn to program" books I've seen.
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by samlev 15y ago
Well that's nice to know. Functionally, it seems to be what I had in mind, if not exactly how I'd thought of it.
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The last few G+ features I would like to see(plus.google.com)
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by samlev 15y ago
Geeky ideas, for sure. I have recently started a few new side projects, but due to the fact that my regular sounding boards weren't available at the time (timezones... blergh), I keep getting this dread that they're not actually good ideas.
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Ask HN: Who is your sounding board?
5 points by samlev 15y ago|4 comments
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by samlev 15y ago
That would still involve knowing an IP address that the GeoIP database would associate with a particular city. @no4clipper: If it doesn't matter WHICH city (so long as it's a different one, and you can independently verify that that city is
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by samlev 15y ago
For me? Two. Django is good for getting a site/system up and running fast, so long as I'm not too concerned with specific implementation details (the users 'just work', etc.) Pyramid is good for a longer-term/more custom system where being
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Google Adsense - Is code against the TOS?(plus.google.com)
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by samlev 15y ago
It depends on the work. If I'm guaranteed a large amount of ongoing work (something getting close to full-time hours), then I'll usually bill lower. If it's a once-off project, I'll usually bill either a fixed quote, or a higher hourly rate
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by samlev 15y ago
It sounds like your lead developer is possibly out of his depth. Yes, all those solutions are no-brainers. Micro managers aren't the ones who dictate how parts of the software should be written (especially in these cases - you have legitima
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UX Design: Planning for interaction(blog.code-for-causes.org)
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by samlev 15y ago
The comments on that story make me sad for humanity. Even with Kim Jong Il out of the picture, I doubt that life in N. Korea will reach a real semblance of sanity any time soon. This type of retouching is probably just ingrained in the way
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by samlev 15y ago
How is a spatula that's 1.2m long a "simple utensil for your kitchen"? Sure, I guess the design is probably simple, but what type of kitchen do they imagine you're running where you need a spatula that's over a meter long?
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Ask HN: How should programming be taught at university?
9 points by samlev 15y ago|6 comments
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by samlev 15y ago
Local groups I couldn't really help you with, but general advice, I probably could. C is a great language for understanding the deep inner workings of a computer (some people I've worked with claim that it's "assembler with a nicer syntax",
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by samlev 15y ago
Then they're telling the truth. What if they're making assumptions with the same zeal for finding wrongdoing on GoDaddy's part as a hyperactive child has for finding more chocolate in the garden on easter? Justification for acting like a di

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