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by vineet 14y ago
I disagree with a number of points in this article. Businesses have been built on reading code. We (Architexa) are one such example, but there are lots more companies trying to help you browse/understand code. One of the older companies in
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by vineet 14y ago
This is cool. Would love to see it as a bookmarklet.
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by vineet 14y ago
Nice. I see this as a nice stepping stone in between coding and creating and creating unit test. I have been a fan of Bret Victors work, but the video here has gotten me really excited.
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by vineet 14y ago
Very cool. Just a quick caution from someone who has been building similar tools (not as fancy though), is that runtime instrumentation can often severely slow down the main app to the extent that people often don't want to run such tooling
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by vineet 14y ago
Or, Google can release their Map application ASAP and try to build more of a foothold in the iPhone market. I guess then they would have to fear Apple rejecting their app when the time is convenient.
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by vineet 14y ago
Very good point. I am a big fan of what you are trying to do with Gondor.io. Yes, bootstrapping freemium is hard. I would love to see discussions on how to do it right. Don't get me wrong. I am revenue driven. I am not crazy about freemium.
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by vineet 14y ago
Please don't take lessons from app.net. They may have some good ideas behind themselves, but quite frankly I have not figured what they are.
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by vineet 14y ago
I don't know. There are many people who just expect freemium to solve all their problems. Freemium needs to be carefully applied, and needs to make sure to be aligned with evaluation needs of potential paying users. Most times startups do n
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by vineet 14y ago
Thoughtstream is cool. But it needs atleast a 30-day evaluation for me to get a sense of how easy it would me to use. But perhaps even take the idea further. How about the ability to create up to 30 thought streams for free. Anyone who has
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by vineet 14y ago
Glad to see the Heroku updates. It is definitely becoming one of my favorite tools. Next step, I hope they roll our websockets support.
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by vineet 14y ago
Google "skeuomorphism".
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by vineet 14y ago
Couple of thoughts: Build your physical network: The best way is to attend User Group meetings and Conferences. With time try to get involved as a speaker and with the organization of these groups. Built your online network: I would recomme
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by vineet 14y ago
Looks interesting. But perhaps give a use case so that we can see where it will be useful (in particular the forking action)?
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Pains of Open Source(blog.architexa.com)
2 points by vineet 14y ago|0 comments
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by vineet 14y ago
Yes, $7.5M, so they should contribute ~75 engineers. But, not just them, also Cisco, EBay, Amazon, and every company having a lot of usage of Eclipse. And the same line of thinking for Linux, and other open source projects.
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by vineet 14y ago
Perhaps Eclipse and the open source community as a whole needs to consider asking for more than just making their code/products free. I know of way too many people giving so much to open source projects, building 'successful' communities, b
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by vineet 14y ago
I am a fan of how much Google has put in Eclipse. I think Google employees are on the Eclipse board, they pay Eclipse committers, and might be one of the bigger contributors to the foundation. However, I do think that Google (and most compa
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by vineet 14y ago
I love IntelliJ, but I keep coming back to Eclipse because of all the plugins available for it. I would love to see IntelliJ somehow build the 3rd-party community of plugin developers.
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by vineet 14y ago
Great post (and blog). I would love to see more discussions on this topic.
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by vineet 14y ago
As an investor, Vinod Khosla's job is to make such bold statements. But his statement will never come true. Even if you assuming that 'doctors' and 'humans' are old technolgy, whenever a disruptive technology has come to market the old tech
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by vineet 14y ago
This is very cool. Beyond the obvious benefit (as stated in the blog) for developers not needing code for db access, authentication, and the overhead of deployment, such apps can bring trust to a different level. We can now have apps that s
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by vineet 14y ago
Great idea. I like the ability to share with friends. Some improvements/feature suggestions: 1. It will be helpful to have an easier UI to modify the css/js - something like what the stylebot chrome plugin does. 2. This gets into a nice pla
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by vineet 14y ago
I am the founder of Architexa, and have been pushing to make this happen for a bit. I am glad to have made this happen. Let me know if you have any questions.
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by vineet 14y ago
Thanks for the pointer. I appreciate it. I am going to try digging up the reference. I find it hard to believe though. Beyond the code reading challenges that developers have had, I have seen highly varying productivity in code bases that h
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by vineet 14y ago
> More volume = more things to comprehend I disagree. It is not that simple. If volume is similar code, then sure. But if you are talking about different styles of coding then you have a lot of other things to consider. On top of this,
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by vineet 14y ago
I like what Clojure is trying to do, but comparing languages based purely on LOC is crazy. Its almost like choosing one car over another because the first one looks better even if it does not have an engine. At the end of the day, languages
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Business Development: What is it really?(techentrepreneur.info)
3 points by vineet 14y ago|0 comments
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by vineet 14y ago
I think the spoof was created was because (a) app.net has no value proposition other than wanting $50, and (b) that there were over 100K people out there who put in money regardless. (No value proposition is more accurately no value proposi
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by vineet 14y ago
Yeah, but while Google docs does have collaboration features - assigning parts to different people is really hard. I am not a fan of using another tool, but in my opinion Asana and Trello are light years ahead of BaseCamp (atleast the old v
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by vineet 14y ago
Previous (2 months old) discussion here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4085052

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