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by tferris 14y ago
A long post, verbose and unclear in its message. Do not follow his advice. About coding: - Coding is an efficient way to represent processes or business processes - Business processes are the fundament of any business - 99% of businesses to
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by tferris 14y ago
Which service? Taking the Bing API, building a frontend, a parser for few shortcuts and get some VCs to blog about me? Sounds like a project from a 48h hackathon.
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by tferris 14y ago
> Google has four colours in their name. Yes, but just in their logo, that's ok because the rest of Google stands behind the expressive logo, is clear, has lots of white space, decent colors etc. Now go to DDG: read header, blue search
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by tferris 14y ago
What I like about DDG: - Somebody is trying to improve the search engine space which is too long dominated by just one party (which admittedly makes a damn good job) What I don't like: - I don't see any improvements - Don't like their name
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by tferris 14y ago
> you also have to manage a cluster of processes on every one of those machines! you just set a number of cluster/processes per machine, that's it. there is no dedicated management for clusters on multiple cores. That's the benefit of c
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by tferris 14y ago
Is Pinterest using Masonry? It's not listed on the Masonry site as a reference. Why does it cost 5$?
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by tferris 14y ago
Always when I see such exceptional HTML based pitch decks (the last one was from a wedding thing, don't know the name anymore) I am on the fence: They look so damn good and for sure you get attention en masse (today you should get 20K from
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by tferris 14y ago
I know. And still all these different libs are accessible by one UI/route ('git').
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by tferris 14y ago
Not always. Regarding core Unix commands yes (like 'ls', 'cat') but look for example at 'git' which is a real beast.
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by tferris 14y ago
There're pros and cons. Breaking apps up feels smart—it's like Unix. But otherwise you have more overhead, more apps and more updates. But I guess the app quality would heavily benefit because then the devs have to fulfill just one use case
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by tferris 14y ago
Yes, they massed up the IPO, Facebook doesn't have a true value as Google or Apple, ads do not work and user growth is finished. I have doubts too that Facebook will match expectations but I am a sick of reading every other day why FB fails
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by tferris 14y ago
The point of getting a lawyer (1) and later going to court (2): (1) At some point in a conflict it's not the technical expertise anymore which one may get with a lawyer—no, it's that there's is somebody who is not emotionally involved, who
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by tferris 14y ago
You forgot one point: After you used all cores on one machine with Go you have to use the another machine with another cores: how do you scale then? You have to build a cluster similar to Node in Go and at the end you have to manage co-rout
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by tferris 14y ago
Ah ok, good info!
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by tferris 14y ago
This is really strange. Such a move should be prepared carefully and when executed then immediately explained with a press release. Mark doesn't believe in FB.
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by tferris 14y ago
> Nope. It's not the only way. It's one way. I don't know if DHH agrees on that—maybe you should check his latest post. > If you have your own unique approach, and you think your experience can be valuable to those who haven't had y
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by tferris 14y ago
For those who haven't read the book: it's a great experience and gives you confidence in bootstrapping: that you can get things done just by starting and doing it yourself and not waiting for some coding talent or VC money. So, it's definit
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by tferris 14y ago
Hmm, a PDF isn't much better than HTML, they should provide some ebook format—how should one read this thing conveniently on his smartphone?
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by tferris 14y ago
Technical: Good knowledge of a typical web stack or mobile development or both Non-tech: Not much, you have just to show that your are ambitious and somebody who gets things done (or finishs them) With good technical knowledge you do not ne
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by tferris 14y ago
? Thought it was already free for years.
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by tferris 14y ago
Already done: Just go to http://www.wherevent.com/ and check your city. Simple idea but very powerful—you don't need more. They have to put on some filters and integrate some more streams (ie. meetup.com) and then it's perfect.
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by tferris 14y ago
> but our big idea is much much bigger. Tell us more!
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by tferris 14y ago
The idea seems appealing but as many "dating" apps it won't work: People want to meet new people all the time, the more the better and preferably close to their own personality. The problem is: if you just say, 'hey guys, you should meet up
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by tferris 14y ago
Easy: Ask for too much salary and too much equity at the same time. When negotiating compromise just on equity.
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by tferris 14y ago
OT: Another Svbtle blog in the wild—anyone likes them? (serious question, would like to hear some opinions)
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by tferris 14y ago
Hard question. A rational decision would lead to high salary w/o equity: - Probability that startup fails > 95% - You will get usually about 0,5-2% vested over 3 to 4 years with a cliff, you'd get more if you joined before a funding a
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by tferris 14y ago
> DB tends to be the limit Yes, but Rails is another huge factor too (the ORM, Ruby itself, etc.)—you would get Rails scaled somehow to 18m visitor but it's damn hard.
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by tferris 14y ago
Thinking also for a while to switch—what was the trigger that you switched from Rails to Python/Django?
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by tferris 14y ago
This is really weird—it even works when you cover one side with your hand.
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by tferris 14y ago
How does this work?

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