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A year in review, my thirtieth.(naveen.tumblr.com)
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by siong1987 14y ago
Since we are on this particular topic, let's brainstorm some of the things we can do to get a list of close friends. I have a few from Facebook. - access the friends list api, particularly the close friends list from Facebook. Since Facebo
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In Man-Rich Silicon Valley, It Seems Like Strikeout.com (2000)(nytimes.com)
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by siong1987 14y ago
This sounds really cool but one thing that this blog post didn't mention is that there is memory constraint on each dyno. So, this model might work if you have a Rails[1] app that doesn't use up a lot of memory. And, since Unicorn forks a
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by siong1987 14y ago
Definitely check out Rails Dev Box( https://github.com/rails/rails-dev-box ) too. It helps to create a virtual environment for testing and running the Rails test suite. Once you have that installed, you basically don't have to worry about
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by siong1987 14y ago
RubyMotion is actually pretty cool. So far, the adoption of RubyMotion isn't too bad.
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by siong1987 14y ago
I don't think that thin will help in this case because Rails is blocking in general. So, you are right because other IOs will still block. You probably need an app that is built on like: https://github.com/raggi/async_sinatra
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by siong1987 14y ago
"The goal is to become HBO faster than HBO can become us." - Ted Sarandos, Netflix’s chief content officer. This is the kind of disruption that we actually need for traditional media companies.
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by siong1987 14y ago
It has no problem to run a crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter until Kickstarter disallows you to do that on their platform. SelfStarter was created by the Lockitron team to run their own crowdfunding campaign because Kickstarter didn't al
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by siong1987 14y ago
And, Sequoia invested in Square too.
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by siong1987 14y ago
Have you tried using Rails engine for this or different components of your app? It is actually pretty neat because the same login session can still be used within multiple engines. You can also release them as gems too. I used to work on a
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Show HN: Hubtime - Personal Github Graphs(github.com)
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by siong1987 14y ago
I might be wrong. But, I think the then CEO was actually one of the current YC partners, Geoff Ralston. Bill Nguyen was on the board I think.
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The Headphones Rule(theheadphonesrule.com)
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PowWow - Collaborative Screen Sharing(powwow.cc)
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by siong1987 14y ago
I don't think that you need `Control`.
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Talking with Y Combinator founder Paul Graham [Audio](boston.com)
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Javascript Debugging(siong1987.com)
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by siong1987 14y ago
I actually think about that before. But, decided not to let people to create multiple forks of the same list. Now, after looking at your use case, it seems to make sense to allow multiple forks for the same list from the same user.
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by siong1987 14y ago
You can make your list private. So, it isn't pure social as you mentioned. Email me at siong1987@gmail.com. I will delete the account for you. :)
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by siong1987 14y ago
Android has twice the smartphone marketshare than iOS. But, it is so fragmented that building for the Android market requires you to have at least few different devices to test out your app, not to mention that there are multiple versions
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by siong1987 14y ago
Many people do not realize that Github has an enterprise product called github:enterprise. Aside the money they raised for this round, there are also help comes together from the VC, Andreessen Horowitz in this case. I don't have any exper
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by siong1987 14y ago
Yes. It is definitely possible. Remember the 5 minutes blog that Rails used to have on their website? The timeline can be something like these: - 2 weeks: basic programming knowledge(just Ruby, not Rails) - 2 weeks: basic website knowledg
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Introducing Backbone Routes - Rails like routes.rb for Backbone(siong1987.com)
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by siong1987 15y ago
siong1987 [at] gmail dot com thanks.
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by siong1987 15y ago
For those who are thinking about getting recommendations from YC alum should really read this: http://www.quora.com/Y-Combinator/Should-you-try-to-get-endo...
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by siong1987 15y ago
Yes. That is what most caching feature does. Take Ruby on Rails as example, if you have a static page, you can just cache it as just raw HTML file(after the first rendering).
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by siong1987 15y ago
Then, it is not going to be as static as as static site generators like Jekyll or Hype. One good thing about those sites are that you don't have to serve those static sites from any hosting without any dynamic generation of the web pages. B
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by siong1987 15y ago
I am actually suspicious about it. That's why I posted it here to get others to comment on it. I already contacted one of the founders of the incubator about this problem. https://www.facebook.com/groups/webcamp/404741189537971/?com...
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Incubation Program from Dr. Kai-Fu Lee, ex Vice President of Google(tmi.vc)
9 points by siong1987 15y ago|3 comments

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