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by seagreen 14y ago
Ah, sorry bfe, I misunderstood your post. I agree with you in disagreeing with Barclays, if that makes sense.
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by seagreen 14y ago
You'd have to be pretty dumb to bring copper back the surface. It would be far more valuable in orbit around Earth. Also NASA isn't, ah, the best example of a cost conscious and frugal organization. They probably don't make a good baseline
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by seagreen 14y ago
guynamedloren, you might want to have a look at this thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4396747
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by seagreen 14y ago
Actually lack of good development may be the problem. Mike Cardwell's opinion of status.net certainly isn't very high: https://twitter.com/mickeyc/status/236796994532827136 and a lot of disaspora's momentum was destroyed by their early se
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by seagreen 14y ago
By doing this they're selecting for people that have a strong understanding of social interaction. That's understandable, social interaction is the fundamental skill of business and I wouldn't expect many startups to succeed without someo
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by seagreen 14y ago
Voluntary charity can of course be a noble and merciful thing. That said, strike at the fucking root people.[1] The problem isn't slavery. Slavery is a symptom of the problem. The problem is bad economies, which come from bad government. If
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by seagreen 14y ago
What would its advantages be over status.net/identi.ca?
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by seagreen 14y ago
But it didn't actually have to take over, right? It just had to build up a decent user base. Then it could be linked with identi.ca, and they would be linked to whatever came along next . . .
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by seagreen 14y ago
Yeah, this needs to be made entirely clear. App.net is a change in degree, trying to make another twitter, but better. Diaspora and identi.ca are changes in kind, trying to make something different to replace fb/twitter.
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by seagreen 14y ago
That was kind of a badass decision, by the way. It can't have been easy to sacrifice a pre existing user base for Makr.
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by seagreen 14y ago
I like it. Discovery is one of the big problems for startups and anyone working to make that easier deserves thanks.
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by seagreen 14y ago
I think it's less of a "build a replacement for twitter" kind of thing and more along the lines of "build another twitter, but better." So it's a difference of degree, not kind. This sucks. A distributed social network would be incredibly c
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by seagreen 14y ago
Could someone who has an answer to these concerns post a link for the rest of us? For instance, what restricts app.net from limiting access to the API in the future, or from upping the price severely once it's gained more traction?
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by seagreen 14y ago
One reason (playing devil's advocate here) might be to protect people's privacy. Maybe I don't like the clientele at Padmapper or Ebay for whatever reason, and I'd prefer my listings to stay on the site I posted them.
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by seagreen 14y ago
One way to disrupt companies like Craigslist would be to build disseminator sites that would allow you to post to multiple places at one. So instead of the system being: post on craigslist --> data to craigslists servers --> people
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by seagreen 14y ago
I highly recommend EncFS. It's easy to set up and simple to use. The main downside I know of is that is doesn't keep the number of files or their sizes private but, really, who cares?
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by seagreen 14y ago
Can iCould be enabled remotely? I know it shouldn't be able to, but could it?
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Ask HN: Is there a way to post to both PadMapper and Craigslist?
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by seagreen 14y ago
We need LINT! (LINT Is Not Twitter) Any other resource recommendations besides the Winer article?
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Ask HN: Standard format for common data types other than contacts?
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by seagreen 14y ago
"No vocals" would be especially nice for coding. EDIT: P.S. I've been using it all evening and I love the site. Thanks Ryan!
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by seagreen 14y ago
I meant to comment. Though of the three strategies mentioned here (obscurity, invitation-only, and skill tested) I definitely prefer the first two.
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by seagreen 14y ago
Totally! That's why I'm not suggesting anyone do it now . There's a place for kludgy solutions, but not until you've tried everything else.
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by seagreen 14y ago
If that ever changes and HN is overrun (insert dramatic and sad Hans Zimmer score) what about starting a new HN just for programmers? I wouldn't be able to get in at the moment, but someday I'd hope to be able to.[1] [1] I'm assuming you'd
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by seagreen 14y ago
I really like your way of approaching salary. Often though people will start providing more value without an agreement up front that it will earn a raise. In those cases a great boss might go ahead and give it to you spontaneously, but if t
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by seagreen 14y ago
Huh, I use Lion and haven't had any problems.
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by seagreen 14y ago
"The money speech helped me get over an irrational, subconscious distaste for money but at the same time I recognized it for the capitalist fairytale that it is." Funny, the best summary of Rand I've read (maybe on Samizdata - I can't find
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by seagreen 14y ago
The following is just an inexperienced guess, so feel free to ignore it and seek other counsel, but . . . I think the most important thing is to realize that negotiating pay takes a totally different mindset from programming. When programmi
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by seagreen 14y ago
Why would you pre-target them at Sacramento?
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by seagreen 14y ago
That's one of the things I like about Google Voice.

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