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by subwindow 18y ago
"The reality of the business" is that in the past year, Blockbuster has lost $70M, while Netflix has made $60M.
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by subwindow 18y ago
I honestly can't tell if you are serious or not. This chart explains it all: http://finance.google.com/finance?chdnp=1&chdd=1&chd... ;
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by subwindow 18y ago
And if you read the article, you would have seen: "You must have a playful, intermittent form of exercise. And you must exercise. The benefits are profound. Make it fun, intense according to your own fitness and goals, and brief. Brevity an
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by subwindow 18y ago
You should only fully trust the opinion of a VC if they are the target audience of what you are building. Otherwise, they're just some person with a lot of money. The fact that they have a lot of money actually makes them a worse source
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by subwindow 18y ago
Some people think it is a great PR strategy. That is because sometimes it is. The problem is when you fool yourself into thinking that "sometimes" is "always". Or, at least, "always for me".
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by subwindow 18y ago
Try to avoid Intuit (Quicken/Quickbooks). They have a monopoly, and it is unfair. I tried for a bit to compete with them, but the banks are complicit and it is impossible to provide proper account import functionality with the way things a
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by subwindow 18y ago
I had always thought that Craigslist was poorly designed, but I've changed my mind. This site is, ostensibly, better designed. But I still had to look around for about 15 seconds before I found what I was looking for. The way that the Cra
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by subwindow 18y ago
37signals has been doing web applications for five years. They're not some new startup who are building Ruby on Rails applications because it is the hot new technology. They're building Ruby on Rails applications because they invented it .
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by subwindow 18y ago
As far as I understand it, you're talking about dorks, not nerds. Nerd: Very Smart, socially inept Geek: Smart, somewhat socially competent Dork: Not smart, socially inept That also explains why most people prefer to be called geeks.
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by subwindow 18y ago
The use of deprecated HTML tags and bad practices in general stopped me from exploring Arc further. I found I couldn't hack the HN code without first fixing all of the HTML. Fixing all of the HTML is a herculean task because it's mixed up
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by subwindow 18y ago
I think the price points should be adjusted a little bit. Very few people are going to want to pay more than $30 for a shirt. This means that for almost all of the shirts, 3/4ths of them will never sell. It kind of looks bad. Its not as
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by subwindow 18y ago
Probably a little bit, but they're just one site. Google would never put so much influence on one site- it is too gameable.
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by subwindow 18y ago
A single VPS, and it was running completely un-optimized code. It held up fine. We get more traffic now on a regular Monday morning than TechCrunch ever sent us. Their influence is greatly overstated.
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by subwindow 18y ago
Businesses can be made from niches. Niche business can have social networks. However, niche social networks are not businesses. You see which way it flows? With a niche business, the social network is a subset of the functionality if it
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by subwindow 18y ago
I think his technical infrastructure was ready for it, but his marketing infrastructure was not ready to take full advantage of it. I've been TC'd once before, and it hit us at the worst possible time- a temporary banner was up for the hour
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by subwindow 18y ago
Who says the sharded webheads and databases have to be on different boxes? As for the linking problem: I had assumed (wrongly, perhaps) that the application in question is one that is friendly to sharding- an application where little or no
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by subwindow 18y ago
When I've planned out sharded infrastructures, the database usually wasn't that big of a concern. The web framework or system architecture are usually the pain point. And with Rails, you have to abuse establish_connection if you're going t
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by subwindow 18y ago
I had been considering doing something similar in Ghana. I thought about it for a few weeks and kept coming back to teaching. Teaching programming in particular probably wouldn't be very useful, but teaching basic computer skills definite
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by subwindow 18y ago
WoW was much better at linking together the big rewards than EQ or FFXI were (I've played all three, along with Asheron's Call 1&2, Dark Age of Camelot, Ragnarok Online, Eve Online and Lord of the Rings Online [Good God!]). With EQ, big
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by subwindow 18y ago
Having spent half of the past 10 years addicted to MMO's, I can tell you: Addiction via immersion and frequent incremental rewards. One: you immerse the user in the game environment so that all of their attention is focused on the game worl
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by subwindow 18y ago
Equating education with work is kind of silly. I mean, being silly is obviously the point of the post, but there's no need to be so morose about school. Education is incredibly valuable, and receiving it for free is nothing to sneeze at.
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by subwindow 18y ago
I don't understand why this post was downvoted. It seems rational and inoffensive. The main post asked for opinions and he gave his- what's wrong with that?
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by subwindow 18y ago
I would go with Rails because there are several options out there to give you a good starting point for a social network. Try out Insoshi ( http://portal.insoshi.com/ ) and Lovd By Less ( http://lovdbyless.com/ ). Work with each for about
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Embracing OpenID: "Clickpass did it for me"(paulstamatiou.com)
21 points by subwindow 18y ago|1 comments
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by subwindow 18y ago
All of them. Or, none of them. Basically, you need to be able to do everything. From graphic/ui design/css, to html, to the MVC stack, to the database, to the system administration and the networking. For a startup, being a jack of all tr
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by subwindow 18y ago
This stuff is brand new. Obie is essentially blogging the announcement straight from RailsConf. More press will come soon, I'm sure.
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by subwindow 18y ago
It adds an air of authenticity, allowing you (maybe a little bit) to see things as he does. Also, the pictures break up a very long post.
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by subwindow 18y ago
Nope. I keep meaning to attend an SXSW, but can never find the time/money.
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by subwindow 18y ago
I wrote this four months ago in an email to a friend of mine: "San Francisco is definitely a great area, and you should at least visit some day. There's a vibe there that's completely different from anywhere else I've ever been. It is har
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by subwindow 18y ago
Git or SVN using Capistrano. If you're deploying code, you really should be using Capistrano. Even if it is not a Rails project. It is a world of difference.

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