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by viscanti 15y ago
An NLP API server might be a good fit. It wouldn't be awful to be able to throw lots of data from web scrapers, twitter streaming api, etc to a node server to do NLP. It would also be nice to use for any other node project where you'd ben
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by viscanti 15y ago
It's great to see more useful libraries like this for node. I recently built a sentiment analysis module for node ( https://github.com/thinkroth/Sentimental ). I think there's a need for more lower-level libraries like 'Natural' as well a
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by viscanti 15y ago
That assumes that the entrenched leader doesn't make mistakes. If the market leader does something outrageous, like violate privacy (or even if they're perceived as doing that), a "just as good as" alternative that doesn't do that, could "
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by viscanti 15y ago
Desired salary is inelastic. Everyone would like to make as much as possible, regardless of debt level or career/education. If anything, a higher debt load should make someone risk averse, and more willing to take on more lower paying jobs
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by viscanti 15y ago
Probably sometime between when Erlang was developed and the first MapReduce paper was written. There isn't "One True Way", but there are plenty of solutions. We don't need to re-invent MapReduce or message passing. There are ready made so
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by viscanti 15y ago
No, the Rails inspired node.js framework forces an ORM on you. My advice throughout this thread has been to stick with Rails if the Rails conventions do it for you. There's certainly nothing broken with that approach. I don't think Rails
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by viscanti 15y ago
Sencha Touch feels a lot further along in development. They've been "feature complete" for a while, and most of their focus is on performance. I think the tradeoff is in the learning curve. jQuery Mobile is probably easier for most develop
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by viscanti 15y ago
It's nice to see that they're putting effort into this, but the "True Fixed Toolbars" are still broken. That's been the biggest reason I've avoided the project so far. They're using css fixed positioning which is now better supported on m
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by viscanti 15y ago
There's a difference between using an MVC pattern (which is easy with Express, but is completely optional) and relying on an ORM (which the project forces on you). One of the great things about minimilist frameworks like Express is that yo
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by viscanti 15y ago
Generally there are alternatives, so the challenge is in communicating why your product/service is a better fit for solving that problem than any of the other possible alternatives. There's also a greater than 0% possibility that your mark
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by viscanti 15y ago
I think you're conflating "tricking" with "doing a better job of communicating". For most businesses (including startups), there's a clear value proposition. Their product/service actually fills a need/want. Iterating design/marketing co
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by viscanti 15y ago
I guess I don't see how copyright applies to publicly viewable images online that are being used for non-commercial purposes. Certainly someone can link to that page, and anyone could see the image. It seems to come down to "credit", and
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by viscanti 15y ago
The biggest reason Facebook has a 100 Billion valuation is because people expect ad revenue to grow rapidly. If there are signs that's slowing down now, before they even go public, it has a huge impact on their valuation. 100 Billion is a
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by viscanti 15y ago
I'm not sure how much benefit Twitter/Facebook/Linked integration is. For most people, those are already channels they're familiar with and are able to easily reach out to, to find people to learn/study with. You'll have a big list of peop
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by viscanti 15y ago
I think one of the big missing pieces is the social aspect. One of the big benefits of attending classes in person, is that you get to meet and network with other people with similar interests. It's much more difficult to get a study grou
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by viscanti 15y ago
Aren't you doing exactly what you're complaining non-technical founders do by treating "business" people as a utility? They just want you to "code" and you just want them to "sell". I think both sides need a mutual respect for each other.
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by viscanti 15y ago
It looks like it's a Rails course, and any mention of "every programming language in the world" is an insignificant portion of the curriculum. I'm also not seeing lots of "Buzzword filled nonsense", but just some explanations of various Ra
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by viscanti 15y ago
"somewhere fun" sounds good too. It could keep track of your ratings of places you've been and recommend new places based on that.
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by viscanti 15y ago
I don't think it's Apple's job to get apps in front of iOS users. The app developer(s) should have a marketing strategy of some sort. Obviously that strategy depends on budget, but if you're hoping you're featured, or fraudulently using b
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by viscanti 15y ago
You can already accomplish this in Express by creating middleware and abstract routes for CRUD stuff. app.all('/users', middleware, routes.user); If you're just doing CRUD on a route, that can be abstracted fairly easily. It can also help
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by viscanti 15y ago
Ferris borders on the extravagant when talking about his personal experimentation. He portrays the image of a guy who has tried a million different things to keep the reader from having to. It's extreme, but the actual "advice" is all fai
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by viscanti 15y ago
I suppose we have different definitions of "scammy". RDPD and the 4-hour series both package up common-sense recommendations in a way that resonates with a lot of people. There might not be a whole lot of substance there, but I don't thin
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by viscanti 15y ago
What Cleveland Incubator? It's not obvious from the linked site.
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by viscanti 15y ago
I'm not a Javascript evangelist. I'm the first to admit that it has flaws. Some (like recursion) are fundamentally broken and a trap to unknowing programmers. I think you'd be hard pressed to find anyone with any real javascript experienc
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by viscanti 15y ago
Having lambda expressions, closures, and being able to construct higher-order functions makes it pretty "functional" in my book. Having to be careful about recursion is a negative, and TCO would be a welcome addition. It's really a hybrid
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by viscanti 15y ago
This is a fantastic project, but I can't help but feel that it's a bit late to the party. Five years ago this would have been especially helpful. The trend now is towards css compilers like LESS or SASS, or using bootstrap css frameworks
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by viscanti 15y ago
I don't know that anyone is suggesting that it's "finished". In fact, it's not even to a 1.x release yet. I consider anything below that a work-in-progress at at minimum. Generally anything under a 2.x release has lots of room for improv
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by viscanti 15y ago
Curebit shouldn't have used assets off the 37Signals site, but I don't think this is a huge deal. If you write an article talking about how to do a/b tests (like 37Signals did), and talk about how great your results were from adding people
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by viscanti 15y ago
It depends what idea you're testing. If you're looking to see if there's any interest at all in the idea, a landing page with adwords could test that. You can funnel traffic there and see if anyone clicks a "buy now" button. That can be
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by viscanti 15y ago
I agree. The demos all show text being imported from some other text file (likely whatever the writer has already written to distribute elsewhere). Then Author is just used to add an additional level of interactivity for iBook distributio

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