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by smoody 16y ago
What about SaaS apps that serve up content as part of their service? It starts to get gray at some point.
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by smoody 16y ago
First thought: Perhaps try to transfer to another school? There are great schools out there where you can find motivated, smart students and perhaps even find some great co-founders. Second thought: Stay where you are one more year/semester
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by smoody 16y ago
wow. i had no idea that doctors have access to technology that lets them predict how long people will live by looking at a few photos. last time i checked, they had a hard time predicting how long people would live even if they've done exte
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by smoody 16y ago
their use of rockstarninja did exactly what they wanted it to -- get the job listing on the front page of hacker news.
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by smoody 16y ago
why can't 'modern' also mean 'compatible?'
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by smoody 16y ago
Y Combinator does (or at least did in the past) ask for the founders' ages on their application, so it must be incorporated into their decision making process somehow (not saying negative or positive, but if it didn't matter, they wouldn't
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by smoody 16y ago
When MG Siegler uses title superlatives, such as "Brilliant," "Genius," etc., you can usually replace them with NOP. ;-)
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by smoody 16y ago
wow. it is amazing how little content that article contains. i've noticed that a few sites like mashable, RWW, TC, and a couple of others are generating content that is nearly devoid of content. don't mean to put down you linking to the art
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by smoody 16y ago
I'm glad to hear you'll be supporting both interfaces. And I'm looking forward to hearing details about how the two engines will be integrated going forward.
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by smoody 16y ago
you might want to dig deeper into the dropbox encryption and security methodologies before putting valuable information up there if you haven't already.
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by smoody 16y ago
"If you take an honest poll of news readers that are using iPads and you will find that for most the sweet spot is a few hours old. That is, most iPad news consumers want the news they are reading to be up to date within the last few hours
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by smoody 16y ago
totally agree with the 'if at first you don't succeed' aspect of this post, but you have a different co-founder and a different concept now, so your prior rejection, while interesting, is not really related to your current situation.
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by smoody 16y ago
learnboost is leading the way when it comes to nimble startups that take the time and effort required to open source their code. great work!
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by smoody 16y ago
journaling has been introduced in mongodb today, so some points in this article are, unfortunately for the author, outdated only one day after it was published.
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by smoody 16y ago
it is similar to a service that was mentioned on hacker news a week ago or so: http://www.newsfeedemail.com/ just putting that out there as a datapoint.
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by smoody 16y ago
I live on Main Street just a few blocks north. It's great news for the neighborhood and should hopefully result in some great new restaurants and shops opening up in the area. I might ping you at some point.
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by smoody 16y ago
I tend to avoid using Facebook sign-ins for sites if they want permission to post to my wall. I think sites should explain what and when they post. For example, your site could post things like "Joe just signed-up for SocialLeaks where he c
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by smoody 16y ago
That's easy: Liberation Mono -- hands down winner in my humble opinion https://fedorahosted.org/liberation-fonts/
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by smoody 16y ago
I know that kickstarter uses Amazon FPS because it alone allows them to perform their all-or-nothing funding process.
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by smoody 16y ago
I'm definitely a huge fan of the Bill Budge Pinball Construction Set. It was the way many of us were first introduced to the ideas behind object-oriented programmer (the ball is the message).
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by smoody 16y ago
No, it was a different investment bank. They eventually bought one or two NeXT systems, but the developers that championed them were considered 'radicals' within the company. As with many other IBs, this one was a Sun company through and th
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by smoody 16y ago
Pycon is on the horizon?
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by smoody 16y ago
I was in a small meeting at an investment bank with Jobs when he was at his lowest point (1994? 1995?). There were probably three of us in the room with him. He was literally begging us to use the NeXT platform for even just a small test
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by smoody 16y ago
I believe it is helpful to provide, at a minimum, the general area being addressed "making hiring easier," "making photos more fun," or "making your bbq chicken taste better"-- there is no way anyone can deduce exactly what a company is doi
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by smoody 16y ago
tl;dr ;-)
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by smoody 16y ago
What's the downside with static methods? It makes sense to me that they use them for factories and now that the can be effectively overridden in PHP5.3, I'm not sure why it's a bad thing... perhaps just a personal preference?
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by smoody 16y ago
Figuring out the age is a nice touch. I know this is old-fashioned, but you might want to make 'www' a subdomain for your app because some people will still type that in and, when they do, they'll be surprised to see someone's album (if som
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by smoody 16y ago
this is already outdated. they reversed this decision a day or two ago.
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by smoody 16y ago
I've also been thinking about Corona for some non-game apps. How is it at handling text in general -- working with fonts, wrapping text, special formatting, etc.? Thanks for offering to ask questions. Also, I had no idea apps were compiled
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by smoody 16y ago
formatted version of the article with photos: http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/152/the-socialist-networ...

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