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by terryjsmith 13y ago
I'm disappointed with the tone here; not in a "you should be nicer" kind of way, but because he seems to assume that Musk is acting insultingly in his proposal. This seems to me to be the way all startup ideas start: there&#x
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by terryjsmith 13y ago
What changed when you were 25(ish) if I may ask?
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by terryjsmith 13y ago
I'm getting IMAP logins rejected as well.
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by terryjsmith 14y ago
Stripe so far has been really developer focused and so they've really targeted themselves towards that audience (home page, docs, marketing, etc.), unlike PayPal which is more consumer friendly. I think there's a lot of baggage that comes
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Syncable comes out of beta as Morse, an easy way to store email contact info(thenextweb.com)
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by terryjsmith 14y ago
While this seems like a good solution, I'm not sure the problem is real: to me, a v1 API and a v2 API are two separate APIs, so the URLs for that API aren't really changing during it's lifetime (ie. the v1 stuff will stay the same for those
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by terryjsmith 14y ago
That's definitely why you want someone like WPEngine doing this for you; Jason and the team there is fantastic and they rival Automattic for their WP knowledge. Out of the box on WPEngine is astronomically better than out of the box on a re
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by terryjsmith 14y ago
We were building a system like this back in 2009 or so as a competitor to Dropbox (we called it P2P storage cloud). We had a competitor you might want to check out: http://www.wuala.com/
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by terryjsmith 15y ago
Yup, that's fair. And there are actually ways to scale WP beautifully with a small amount of servers (we're using less than 5 servers to handle our 10M visitors a month and content archive). Again, I keep meaning to blog about it, I just
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by terryjsmith 15y ago
As someone who worked as lead dev for a blog network that does 10M+ visitors a month, here's the thing: if you've gotten your blog to 10M hits a day, you likely have a massive amount of content (we had about 1M posts over 5 or 6 years and a
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by terryjsmith 15y ago
Definitely easy to use, but once I was on the preview page for my image, I didn't see an easy link to share right now. Is the link I'm on shareable? I think there should be a few default sharing options (other than Twitter/Facebook) right
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by terryjsmith 15y ago
There is quite a bit of flexibility that the author seems to have missed. But speaking as someone who has just recently tried Disqus on a major blog for work where a number of the comments are anonymous, the simple fact that the button is
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by terryjsmith 15y ago
It might not even be login, but the ominous "Login As" button which does not suggest the ability to post anonymously. We recently tested Disqus on one of the major blogs I work on and our comments dropped by about 60% month over month (wher
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by terryjsmith 15y ago
User akfcypkYsCGqzG4P, thanks!
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Re-creating Facebook’s Gallery Lightbox(icedteapowered.com)
4 points by terryjsmith 15y ago|0 comments
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by terryjsmith 15y ago
This is great. I work for a blog network that got hit similarly hard by both Panda updates, and we've done a lot of the same stuff (removing and/or de-indexing short/no page view content, improving our site map and linking system), but scr
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by terryjsmith 15y ago
The UI of your start-up very rarely makes or breaks it if you iterate and keep it clean. This is a great article about increasing user retention from x% to x+y%, but like A/B testing and everything else, it will not make a bad product good
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by terryjsmith 15y ago
I think a database inconsistency is unlikely, though possible, I imagine they would be very on top of that. It is more likely a caching or replication issue (maybe to do with their new data center -- entirely speculation).
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How Not To Run A Conference: WordCamp Edition(icedteapowered.com)
1 points by terryjsmith 15y ago|0 comments
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by terryjsmith 15y ago
It is built on AWS, and we are using PHP and a custom framework for the actual site, and on the backend we're using CutyCapt[1] to generate the thumbnails, which is based on Qt and Webkit. Yes, we automatically de-dup on the back-end. If t
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by terryjsmith 15y ago
Clickable: http://www.thumbomatic.com/
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Show HN: Thumbomatic - Amazon pricing for thumbnails
12 points by terryjsmith 15y ago|6 comments
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Lessons Learned: From Weekend Project to Seven Month Upstart(blog.jaxified.com)
6 points by terryjsmith 15y ago|0 comments
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by terryjsmith 15y ago
We noticed this when starting out company (which measures these stats for your blog), and it never struck me as odd. Sure it seems a little disingenuous at first, but the Like button has replaced the Share button as the preferred implement
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by terryjsmith 16y ago
Totally disagree. I don't think I've ever heard this phrase used when someone's primary intention is to make a better wheel. If you're building cars, do not try to reinvent the wheel. Leave it to someone who is all about wheels. Which
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by terryjsmith 16y ago
There seems to be a rift here between what people are good at/what they want to do now and what they want to do later. I consider myself a good programmer, but it's not where I want to be forever. I have always wanted to branch out and le
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by terryjsmith 16y ago
One of the big contentions over the Colo[u]r debate wasn't necessarily the name but the domain name. I'm pretty used to seeing colourapp.com or mycolour.com, etc. at this point. The start-up name IS definitely important, but the domain na
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by terryjsmith 16y ago
Kind of. This is all good advice, but WordPress is still the major blogging platform, and it is awful at scaling out of the box. You can get Super Cache or Total Cache but most people don't do that up front because they're not expecting t
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SSL Is Not An Adequate Site Identification System(icedteapowered.com)
5 points by terryjsmith 16y ago|0 comments
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by terryjsmith 16y ago
I second this. We've been sending out daily e-mail reports with PDF attachments to our customers and their API is easy to setup, easy to use and even makes attachments simple. To me, they've picked one thing and they're owning it.

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