thinkalone

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by thinkalone 16y ago
I don't know enough about the field, but I'm throwing out this link, since I saw it earlier this week - Brain JS http://harthur.github.com/brain/
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by thinkalone 16y ago
Sounds like you could have something, then! There are a lot of possibilities for how it could be used, and that combined with the output formats would equal quite a wide range of users.
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by thinkalone 16y ago
Well, the design is very nice, but I'm not sure what I'd use it for - it's a difficult middle-ground between document sharing and full project collaboration. I do, however, really enjoy the "comment on everything" feature. Maybe you could
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by thinkalone 16y ago
Likewise, but the symbol is very simplified and pretty far removed from its original meaning at this point, so I can see how it would cause confusion. Plus, there have certainly been times when I've overlooked something that seems pretty o
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by thinkalone 16y ago
It's a reel to reel tape symbol - the first answering machines recorded onto tape.
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by thinkalone 16y ago
Ah, ok, I'm not sure why I didn't realize it would be more repository-style, haha. In that case, how would it differ from Rubygem? Seems like many languages already have package managers, but I'm not sure what the requirements are for gett
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by thinkalone 16y ago
Sounds like fun, and the "mini-startups" idea is intriguing, but I'm confused on how it's different from something like Github, a central location where people already write scripts and upload them for others to use or modify. Would your s
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by thinkalone 16y ago
As a New Yorker, I find Jason refreshing. Most of the tech community has been California-based, and has taken on the kind of casual, low-key California attitude, but if NYC becomes a more prominent area for startup growth, you're going to
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by thinkalone 16y ago
Looks like a way to test drive some new code that will eventually become part of Google Me.
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by thinkalone 16y ago
Maybe they'd even be open to hiring you as a paid consultant, since they are now using Ruby, and seemingly are willing to invest in improving their project.
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by thinkalone 16y ago
Since the post focused on brevity, was it possibly http://domai.nr/ ?
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by thinkalone 16y ago
No worries - I would have left a comment on your post, but I didn't have an account to sign in with, and wasn't sure if maybe they had raised an additional $50K outside of Kickstarter. Just wanted to say good on you for fixing bugs and cont
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by thinkalone 16y ago
Steve, where did you get the $250,000 figure? Their Kickstarter page still shows $200K and change ( http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/196017994/diaspora-the-p... ), and now there are currently three mentions of $250K in the comments here
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by thinkalone 16y ago
A perfect storm of backlash against Facebook's privacy issues combined with major media coverage thrust them into the spotlight - their original ambitions for the project and fundraising goal of $10,000 were set before that happened. By no
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Facebook's data center costs are now $50M/yr to lease almost 60,000 servers(allfacebook.com)
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by thinkalone 16y ago
> a few hundred people who don't know how to run a ruby-based website. Point them towards Hackety Hack :)
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by thinkalone 16y ago
I remember hearing about it when it launched, when people raised some of your same concerns. It's interesting to look back on the initial reactions as part of the postmortem: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1264477 http://www.reddit
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by thinkalone 16y ago
Fantastic design! It can really set you apart from the more "corporate" designs of Elance/oDesk. It's a great idea to have the marketplace have a good design and aesthetic to position yourself as different from the kinda sketchy RentACode
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by thinkalone 16y ago
If your main focus will be the online store, I'd definitely suggest going with an e-commerce app to keep things simple, but did you look into Drupal + Ubercart ( http://drupal.org/project/ubercart )? If your needs extend beyond just the on
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by thinkalone 16y ago
Sounds like a fantastic idea! I could see a combination of CRM, calendar, analytics of voting districts or previous voting data, and a ping.fm-style interface to manage the candidates' presence on multiple social sites. If I had to manage
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by thinkalone 16y ago
I've installed and played with both, but I'm still not sure how things will develop if social networks become more "distributed." Ideally, in my opinion, sites sould be able to run any social software, whether Appleseed, Elgg, or Diaspora,
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by thinkalone 16y ago
I'm not sure what the end product will look like or what the functionality will be, but when I think of "distributed social network" I'd like to see something like a HN node, a reddit node, a Digg node, a Slashdot node, etc., where they all
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by thinkalone 16y ago
Interesting interview, and thank you for taking the time to produce high quality audio. Production quality is frequently overlooked but it takes your podcast to a higher level and got me to listen for almost two hours to Gabriel's intervie
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by thinkalone 16y ago
I also thought it was going to be in PHP - they definitely mentioned that at some point, but once I saw their website was written in Ruby, I suspected they might be moving in a different direction... Good to see they hit their release date,
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by thinkalone 16y ago
He's too busy trying to get his 10-car garage built ( http://content.usatoday.com/communities/greenhouse/post/2010... ) to worry about making money.
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by thinkalone 16y ago
Could you contact the appropriate department at a local college? Professors are usually willing to speak with someone interested in their field. You could ask the same question through /r/AskScience at reddit - http://www.reddit.com/r/ask
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by thinkalone 16y ago
It's disappointing to hear that you had such a bad experience, and if you're searching at certain price points I can see how you'd hit a bunch of brick walls when trying to find an apartment - having inside knowledge, whether it's through a
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by thinkalone 16y ago
Brokers advertising as "by owner" should be reported, and if fee apartments are advertised in "no fee," those should also be reported. (Honestly, management companies are allowed to split off and have their own brokerage, so that they coll
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by thinkalone 16y ago
> The prices on craiglist are borderline fraudulent The most attractively priced apartments advertised on CL are on there because they are great deals. There are thousands of people looking for the cheapest apartments, and when someo
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by thinkalone 16y ago
> At some point, you could perhaps mash up data you get about buildings with a lot of the data NYC has opened up about the city as part of its gov2.0 efforts. This way, you can provide a sense for the "value" of an apartment alongside s

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