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by tlianza 15y ago
Facebook is a great example of "APIs are important" but the Facebook API for apps is completely different than anything they'd use for their pages. Especially back in the old days, when apps lived in a proxied sandbox and all of the params
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by tlianza 15y ago
> 2. Emailing them in plain text. Even if the password were irreversibly encrypted, if I can read your e-mail, I can still access your account in most systems. I can reset your password, and either follow the link they e-mail you, or s
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by tlianza 15y ago
That would suggest you have a different rate for different startups. Right? If so, I agree with you.
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by tlianza 15y ago
> Linux is much bigger than him now. Linux was much bigger than him then as well. I'd agree with you that in my world github is more important than git, but in the Linux kernel development world, I believe git is what has allowed Linu
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by tlianza 15y ago
> If you knew you didn't have the money to fairly pay for this designer's services, why ask? By this equation, a startup without a lot of VC money wouldn't have a shot at hiring anyone great - and yet a startup needs great people. Put
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by tlianza 15y ago
Gives new meaning to a programmer "going dark." Well, same meaning I guess. Only literal.
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by tlianza 15y ago
East Side of lake Washington... ie. not Seattle. (ducks)
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by tlianza 15y ago
It's because it's a colossal waste of time. Instead of Mozilla using a rational versioning policy, whereby major versions mean major changes, you're wasting everyone in the ecosystem's time instead (thousands of people's time, as opposed t
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by tlianza 15y ago
I haven't seen any commentary on the fact that Firefox's plugin system is completely based on browser version number when specifying compatibility in install.rdf. Do they expect all developers to release a new version of their extensions ev
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by tlianza 15y ago
Was it none of the software? I had a tough time reading it... seemed like definitely two pieces were out, but the e-commerce stuff might have been in?
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by tlianza 15y ago
I think it's mostly useful to keep track of all of the interesting stuff you've found on the web, so you can quickly find "that interesting article you remember reading about the javascript 'this' keyword" without searching the entire inter
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by tlianza 15y ago
It's the only call I've ever made to customer service that actually asked me to leave a message and they'd call me back. Yes, really. Oh, and they didn't.
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by tlianza 16y ago
I got the joke immediately and thought it was funny. Reminded me of a comedic movie (who's name escapes me) who advertised the review "If you like movies like this, you'll love this movie."
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by tlianza 16y ago
jQuery Mobile is not a mobile version of jQuery - it's a UI library for mobile devices. A better comparison would be jQuery Mobile to jQuery UI. Both projects depend on jQuery proper, and both provide UI-widgets (they are absolutely "narr
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by tlianza 16y ago
Hi frossie, We actually support that at Wishpot (so, we may be the lovechild you're looking for!). Any wish can be enabled for contributions, and then instead of purchasing it, the "buy it" button turns into a progress bar. The cash goes
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by tlianza 16y ago
I totally agree with you, and I think the simple explanation is that it starts at the top. You're building software with Microsoft tools on Microsoft platforms. You're in "commercial-land" right out of the gate. You're probably building
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by tlianza 16y ago
Though sarcastic, I think this succinctly summarizes the issue. Aggregators, it's time to wake up. Google is not your friend, Google is your competitor. We can agree that Bing and Google are competitors, right? And we can agree that Bing l
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by tlianza 16y ago
To be fair, the price isn't just slightly lower - it is nearly an order of magnitude lower. Sending 500k messages a month with Amazon is $50, and with SendGrid it's $400. If you send that level of email a month (which is easy to do if you
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by tlianza 16y ago
(DISCLAIMER: my startup) I'd also recommend checking out http://www.wishpot.com/ if you're interested in a universal wedding registry and wishlist. Also, to any hackers in Seattle with an interest in this space who does Ruby or .NET Devel
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by tlianza 16y ago
The story is about RSS dying, and the author is upset that Mozilla is removing RSS features and Chrome never had any. Are you also arguing that IE is failing because they still have those features (possibly a bad design decision)? In which
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by tlianza 16y ago
Curious why none of the comments, nor the original article, mentions Internet Explorer. They've continued to add new features in this area ever since IE7. The icon is hidden now in IE9 (as are most of the icons... less browser chrome is f
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by tlianza 16y ago
Sure, it could. But, if you're talking about competing over HTML/JavaScript-type tools, the market there is awfully crowded, and most of the competition is free.
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by tlianza 16y ago
Indeed, I'm referring to the Flash tool, not the Flash runtime which is obviously free. But, the investment in getting the Flash runtime everywhere is what makes the platform valuable, and therefore what makes the tool worth using. But, I
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by tlianza 16y ago
The company who should fear this turn is Adobe. This is the exact opposite of "market validation" for Flash. This is a competitor signalling that they are no longer betting on a Rich (binary) environment in a browser. They see that as a d
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by tlianza 16y ago
Wishpot ( http://www.wishpot.com/ ) is ASP.NET/C#-based. It's quite a good platform (performance and tooling in particular, LINQ is also an impressive technology). But truthfully I wouldn't recommend it. Other platforms excel in other ar
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by tlianza 16y ago
This would be suicide for a site relying on SEO to drive traffic. It's a cool approach if you're building something for which that doesn't apply though (web-based enterprise software, privately-accessed tools, or if you're a multi-billion d
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by tlianza 16y ago
I'm definitely not criticizing the developers. Developers are often pressured to release half-baked features for the sake of a PR push on a particular date. However, I don't believe a company should be able to enjoy massive PR attention un
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