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by shazow 14y ago
Very nice! I've been toying with a similar idea for a while too, here's some feedback and ideas from my own project: - Bug: Don't let me create empty list items. - Definitely let people make private link-only anonymous lists without being l
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by shazow 14y ago
> People who want to be pilots love flying. Nonetheless they're not allowed to fly more than a number of hours, because passion, motivation and whatever you want won't prevent you from messing up when you're tired. Correct me if I'm wro
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by shazow 14y ago
I suspect that people who expect and look forward to working +50 hours/week would perform much better than people who are guilted into it. Also sounds like they're well compensated for it. I liked his "special forces" analogy.
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by shazow 14y ago
I completely agree with everything you've written except your "but here's the thing" should have been an "and here's the thing". We're all on the same page here. Yes, that's reality. Yes, it's unfortunate and we wish it wasn't so. I love Tw
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by shazow 14y ago
It's not always so bad. I think a lot of it comes down to UX optimization. My points of reference are http://colorblendy.com/ which gets +6,000 uniques per month and http://tweepsect.com/ which gets +25,000 uniques per month. If you loo
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by shazow 14y ago
You could just send out a link to the .apk, it doesn't even need to be through the store.
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by shazow 14y ago
The "only thing missing" is everything on that list except the unicorn and Webfinger.
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by shazow 14y ago
Quote: [...] Perhaps that's biggest flaw with how App.net was presented thus far. Perhaps if Dalton had promised one or more of the following... * The primary codebase will be open source * A light weight client will be open sour
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by shazow 14y ago
I'm not advocating internationalization. I'm advocating for using a well-known formatting standard used by almost every mature library which is unambiguous and useful for sorting.
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by shazow 14y ago
"08-08-2012-20:27:59" Which 08 is the day or the month? cut -d ' ' -f2- foo.log | sort Great, now it's sorted by (month, day, year) or (day, month, year). If my logs span multiple years, the sorting is useless. Please use YYY
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by shazow 14y ago
It's consistent. The layout of the site is simple and predictable. It's easy to figure out where to find what you're looking for and what to expect. > So? The 2nd result (MDN) does the same, looks better, and almost never contains gross
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by shazow 14y ago
w3schools is not the best resource, but 90% of the time, when it shows up as the top result on Google, it tells me exactly what I want to know. Some common examples: - What values does CSS attribute white-space take? #1 result on Google for
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by shazow 14y ago
My biggest problem is meeting when the other party is subtly trying to hire me. I love meeting people, I love brainstorming ideas and revenue paths, I love hearing new perspectives, I love going out of my way to try to help people. When som
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by shazow 14y ago
Do you not get any value out of using a product while it hasn't been shut down? Will you singlehandidly cover the developers' living expenses once the savings/investor runway is gone so that they can keep your data from being thrown away?
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by shazow 14y ago
The parent post is a perfect example: An informative comment that nearly no one will read because I posted it too late to catch the organic influx of readers, and I didn't invest in other means of distributing it to an audience.
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by shazow 14y ago
Doesn't support socks 4/5 proxies. :) Requests and urllib3 have a long way to go to be complete competitors with cURL. P.S. Good job nonetheless. Seems like a good idea to make a specialized HTTP CLI client for JSON/RESTful services.
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by shazow 14y ago
> "I believe distribution is equally important as product. That means quite literally you should be spending 50% of your time on it. For tech people, you should probably bias it to 75% so you end up getting to equal in the end." What
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by shazow 14y ago
This is why `man` came before `apropos`. :P http://www.unix.com/man-page/Linux/1/apropos/
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by shazow 14y ago
As someone who knows Eric personally, I can vouch that he's not an asshole. In fact, that is literally how he thinks and those are his real motivations. He's not the type to come out and call someone else, like Craigslist's CEO, an asshole.
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by shazow 14y ago
I'm glad to hear about your attentive private responses. HN has this culture of entrepreneurial voyeurism. When a unique scenario like Sortfolio gets posted, we like to watch how it unfolds and learn from the process. When dozens of interes
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by shazow 14y ago
That's a nice theory. Would be nice if it was an actual update in the original thread instead of leaving us to speculate, though. Edit: Thanks for this update at least. Congrats on the sale.
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by shazow 14y ago
There were so many unanswered questions in the Flippa posting and the HN "peanut gallery" that it makes me feel like 37signals was never looking for new buyers. Perhaps they already had a buyer in mind and just needed some negotiation lever
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by shazow 14y ago
I've been helping Brian play test this on and off. I love how low-friction and low-commitment it is. Especially in the age when everything requires a Facebook login. Really easy to just send a link to a friend over IM and play.
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by shazow 14y ago
Get-rich-quick schemes? Padmapper is an amazingly useful tool. Couple of months ago, I had a coworker relocate from Irvine and he was raving about Padmapper before I even had the chance to tell him about it. I run into people like this on a
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by shazow 14y ago
Here's one I built some years ago: http://www.tweepsect.com/
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by shazow 14y ago
The renting vs owning analogy is very insightful. I've always been the renting type, I never understood people with the innate desire to own their home. On the other hand, I very much relate to the difference between owning a startup and wo
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by shazow 14y ago
By whose qualifications? I much prefer Inkscape over Illustrator for my vector art. I much prefer Audacity over... actually I'm not sure what's considered the direct commercial competitor here for post-processing audio. I mildly prefer Phot
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by shazow 14y ago
You don't need to ship distro-specific packages. You could ship a tarball with a statically linked executable. Take a look at the Humble Bundle, for example. Every game published in the bundles is cross-platform, and work great Linux regard
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by shazow 14y ago
Some of the best tools in the industry (Audacity, Blender, Inkscape, others?) are already free, open source, and native on Linux.
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Valve hired their first wave of Linux developers, hiring more(phoronix.com)
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