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by socratic 15y ago
Every time I read one of these (Github, Etsy, ...), I feel a bit guilty that our tiny startup doesn't do continuous integration/deployment. I mean, we git push to Heroku to deploy (maybe once a week), but there is no automated push once th
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by socratic 15y ago
I must hunt down and learn to use a QuickCheck-like library for my language. If I can't find one, I should write one. So what's the (best) equivalent of QuickCheck in Ruby? In other languages?
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by socratic 15y ago
I completely agree with your analysis. That said, this comment and your blog post seem to have avoided (probably unintentionally!) the two questions that seem to me to be most salient. 1. If you ranked the startups in attendance, do you t
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by socratic 15y ago
What is the goal of startups attending these sorts of conferences (e.g., Disrupt, Demo, Launch)? It seems like the answers could be publicity, funding, sales, networking, or hype. Publicity doesn't make much sense because articles only u
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by socratic 15y ago
Is this what extremely good organic SEO looks like? Most of the other names are not really used on the Internet at all. Now, when anyone fails to spell qwikster, they're going to find this article. It seems like they rank for every misspe
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by socratic 15y ago
Do people use things like this? I recently read Robert Bringhurst's excellent Elements of Typographic Style , but have no idea how to apply it to the web. (There is an effort to translate the work at webtypography.net, but frankly, m
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by socratic 15y ago
It's weird to see Y! get a lot of hate on HN, because it seems like working there would be a lot like working at a startup. You're trading off risk (will this company exist in n years) for reward (higher salary, greater control over job
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by socratic 15y ago
Totally agreed about yearning for a directory of JavaScript frameworks. I use a little jQuery, and I'm getting to the point where I'm ready to add a little more structure. But should I be using Backbone.js? Spine claims to be cleaner, but
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by socratic 15y ago
This seems interesting, but I'm wondering who the target customer is (both for PiCloud, and for this specific use case with REST publishing). We're running on Heroku, where workers are expensive (at least, unless you scale them dynamically)
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by socratic 15y ago
I am also confused by this. The name of the startup actually appears to be "Groove Networks LLC". Obviously, there are a lot of Famous Ray's Pizzas and such, but "Groove Networks" seems so oddly specific. Does this startup have some relat
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by socratic 15y ago
I'm really curious what Alex's reaction is to the discussion here. He posted a link to the blog post, so he must be reading it, no? The comments so far seem pretty negative, and not really for unimportant reasons. The two main issues I see
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by socratic 15y ago
Would/do Jose Diaz-Gonzalez's plug-ins solve your problem? https://github.com/josegonzalez/josediazgonzalez.com/tree/ma...
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by socratic 15y ago
I think that's probably true, though I do wonder from a purely engineering standpoint what features Oracle/DB2/MS have at this point that PostgreSQL does not. Special index types? Query hints? Suggestions for physical layout on table cre
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by socratic 15y ago
Should I as a web app developer at a startup be looking for an RDBMS beyond PostgreSQL, probably a commercial one? I have somewhat of a database background, so I see the obvious advantages of PostgreSQL over MySQL. In particular, things li
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by socratic 15y ago
I hate citing Reddit, but this un-sourced imgur link makes it seem like he's not such a bad guy, no? http://i.imgur.com/lTvOg.jpg
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by socratic 15y ago
I am not sure if this is what you meant, but cogent means convincing. 1. Are you convinced that going forward, Apple's most "sustainable advantage" is economies of scale? Do you believe that consumers primarily buy Apple products based
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by socratic 15y ago
You seem to have missed an earlier part of my comment. Because HN requires very high karma thresholds before enabling downvotes, net points are an extremely asymmetric measure. However, one possible solution would be to enable downvotes, b
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by socratic 15y ago
I tried to make this point below in a more subtle way, but you take on the issue more directly. Gruber's arguments never make any sense. Historically, he changes his opinions more or less based on what Apple is currently doing. He adds li
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by socratic 15y ago
"But at this point, it seems clear to me that however superior Apple's design is, it's their business and operations strength — the Cook side of the equation — that is furthest ahead of their competition, and the more sustainable advantage.
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by socratic 15y ago
Gruber's argument confuses me: 1. Steve Jobs, the only CEO to ever successfully lead Apple in the company's 25-year history, has resigned. 2. Because of the current popularity of the iPad, iPhone, and MacBooks, Apple has great economies o
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by socratic 15y ago
The retitling is definitely useful information. I didn't notice that! However, you seem to have forgotten to explain the actual argument. Is the actual argument that sometimes some software, which may or may not include Java, asymptoticall
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by socratic 15y ago
I am confused by the point that the author is trying to make. Perhaps someone could clarify? The argument seems to be: 1. It took 2--5 years to add lambdas to Java. 2. Therefore, Java is like a comb-over. It's old and trying unsuccessfu
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by socratic 15y ago
I believe you misunderstood my point. 1. People are uncertain whether Google Plus, a centralized social network, will gain significant enough traction to become a force in social networks. 2. Google Plus, in 2011, has had extended periods
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by socratic 15y ago
Those bet terms seem really odd. Your bet is that within 3 years, there will be a distributed social network with at least 1M users? Am I reading that correctly? Google Plus, which people aren't even really sure is a success yet, had 10 m
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by socratic 15y ago
You present an interesting tool for settling such debates. However, I believe the more appropriate URL would be: http://www.indeed.com/jobtrends?q=git%2C+hg%2C+mercurial%2C+... Obviously, cvs and svn will be with us for some time still,
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by socratic 15y ago
It is difficult to answer your question without knowing your purposes and goals. What aspects do you think would make a quality version control host? For me, the primary issue is size. A large number of people use Github. This means that
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by socratic 15y ago
Ah, very interesting list. I guess I think of Python differently from the other projects in your list because the choice of DVCS chosen by the core team seems to me to impact the DVCS that someone will choose for their library in the langua
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by socratic 15y ago
Git appears to be fast becoming the standard DVCS. Is there any reason that all reasonably well-run projects should not be using git? GitHub seems vastly superior to BitBucket, and git itself seems pretty much isomorphic to hg (albeit with
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by socratic 15y ago
There doesn't seem to be much discussion of the core of Pollak's argument. Specifically, Pollak appears to be arguing that a key question in language adoption is the historical or recent win rate for projects. (Ratio of Scala projects
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by socratic 15y ago
One issue with the current karma-less HN is that one cannot visually determine who won an exchange such as this one. Is there a mechanism for determining the karma of a particular comment with additional effort?

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