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by tjogin 18y ago
They're not saying to not use an advertising model. They're saying "don't forget about the regular old proven model of charging money for your product — it's still relevant and it has these great attributes, here's our experience with it"
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by tjogin 18y ago
Upcoming. DHH said on Twitter that he'll tweet a link to it when it comes up.
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by tjogin 18y ago
That, and the fact that they are giving away their knowledge and experience to anyone who wants to listen. (Plus repackaging it and selling it to anyone who want to pay for it.) Anyone who doesn't appreciate that can simply not listen to
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by tjogin 18y ago
Sure it is, but it's much easier to just build and provide a service which people are willing to pay for. Everyone is free to do whatever they think suits them of course, I'm just saying that a lot of the time people take the harder path th
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by tjogin 18y ago
Yes. And "some people" win a shitload of money on the Lottery. Just because you have a really slim chance of winning a whole lot doesn't mean it's the smartest way to go about earning money.
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by tjogin 18y ago
Why not just play the Lottery?
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by tjogin 18y ago
The only thing he proved was that statements that state the general aren't absolute. With a bit of thought, I think most people can understand the point I was trying to make. If you cannot, I don't see any reason to explain it in more words
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by tjogin 18y ago
Charging a price doesn't magically give your product a substantial value.
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by tjogin 18y ago
How rude of him to not assume that everybody already reads and listens to every word he ever says.
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by tjogin 18y ago
Your product is free because its value is not substantial.
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by tjogin 18y ago
When the "functional spec" is the exact same thing as the html code, it is no longer recognized as a functional spec. The functional spec usually comes before the html code. Sure, Fried treats his html code as a functional spec, but others
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by tjogin 18y ago
Good points!
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by tjogin 18y ago
True, but they rarely use web interfaces, do they?
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by tjogin 18y ago
You have a point. But I have to say that I didn't need any imagination to think of ways to use Ajax to enhance parts of my web app interfaces. The only reason I hadn't use xmlhttprequests extensively before it became popular (and renamed
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by tjogin 18y ago
Neat, almost a bit magical. But what kind of common web development problems does this solve? I'm sure there are a lot of contrived examples, but are there any good ones? Facebook and Twitter. Ok, but are there any good and common o
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by tjogin 18y ago
This mirrors my own realization; With Linux, Linus showed me he is an extremely good programmer. With Git, Linus showed me that he is a true genius.
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by tjogin 18y ago
Git has won insofar as it is superior. The pace at which ignorant and late businesses catch on to this fact is of only tangential interest.
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by tjogin 18y ago
Yeah, especially considering how much more of a nightmare COM and the rest of the .NET predecessors were which he was involved with, as compared to .NET, which he wasn't. Maybe he's spot on, maybe not. But one thing is for sure; his story d
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by tjogin 18y ago
Sure, but aren't there other things to write about, besides how incredibly magnificent some individual company is doing (with the help of skewed stats, at that)? It seems like these "journalists" aren't working from a wealth of ideas and
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by tjogin 18y ago
I don't even have an opinion on AG. I'm just saying that having "the idea of Facebook", and that you were the first to have that, is retarded. First of all, it's a really really old idea. Second of all, the idea is irrelevant. What made F
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by tjogin 18y ago
I don't understand why magazines like VentureBeat and Wired love to talk up individual companies so much. All the damn time it sounds like this company is so incredibly amazing and all the time the numbers are inflated and skewed as much as
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by tjogin 18y ago
- I have a super unique idea that nobody has thought of before: an online community where you can connect with friends, send messages and stuff. Keep a lid on it though, I don't want this never-thought-of-before idea to get out!!! (Ideas ar
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by tjogin 18y ago
Well, one obvious downside is a mountain of debt.
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by tjogin 18y ago
What are the odds that this blogger guy actually has a site that's already pushing 500 requests per second?
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by tjogin 18y ago
It is very very simple. Just arbitrary and not (entirely) mathematical.
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by tjogin 18y ago
Nope. But it could have been if for a different service/purpose.
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by tjogin 18y ago
I thought you said you'd have a "pretty easy time" figuring it out?
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by tjogin 18y ago
To each his own, but in my case I can calculate mine in my head without any assistance of any tool of any kind.
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by tjogin 18y ago
I don't think you could work out the algorithm, because it's not mathematic. It's a handful of quirky arbitrary rules. But hey, give it a shot; here are three random passwords (calculated using a slightly different algorithm than the one i
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by tjogin 18y ago
What I do is I have an algorithm. Based on the name of the website/service and its purpose, I can calculate what my password should be on it in my head. This means that every account I have uses a unique password composed of both alphabet

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