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Missed opportunity: Penny Arcade's Robert Khoo reviews Your business plan
1 points by vitovito 14y ago|1 comments
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by vitovito 14y ago
With this announcement, might be a good time to review my design analysis of the BERG Little Printer. I compared it to a related, unreleased "alternative printer" project I designed several years ago: http://vitor.io/little-printer-design
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by vitovito 14y ago
As the copyright holder, the CC-BY licensing explicitly states "You must attribute the work in the manner specified by the author or licensor". There's no argument. You decide if it's an appropriate attribution or not. If it's not, they'r
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by vitovito 14y ago
Really interested in this for some research I'm doing. Just installed it (XP 32-bit). I wonder if knowing the title from my browser tab is enough to correlate it with my browser history to find the URL, or if that'll have to be a feature r
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by vitovito 14y ago
This isn't necessarily an indictment toward DRM. Hardware-accelerated video is (used to be?) done using hardware video overlays. You'd pipe frames directly to the video card and tell it what region of the screen to render it to, completely
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by vitovito 14y ago
So, a PhD is like an MD without the fieldwork. And a PhD is like this: http://matt.might.net/articles/phd-school-in-pictures/ What that myopic, institutionally-granted dent in the universe gives you is the ability to write grants and man
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by vitovito 15y ago
Sure, and the "live" team is made up of people from the regular "new feature" team, rotated in and out so they all understand the impact their code has. But, in a product that gets used by lots of real users, shit happens. You're never g
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by vitovito 15y ago
Well, some of them are artists and designers, too, and this isn't just a web site, it's a desktop product and an online service, and the proportion changes depending on where features are in development and what sort of load we're seeing on
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by vitovito 15y ago
I have to assume all of the other comments in this thread are from small shops that have never supported a live product. We run a multi-hundred person team here for a live, 24/7 product, and as many as half of our developers have been sched
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by vitovito 15y ago
Drupal is a monolithic PHP application that uses MySQL for caching and locking. Scaling MySQL will be your bottleneck, alternating that with optimizing queries and database usage in third-party modules. Most of Drupal Core is written well
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by vitovito 15y ago
Ah! Caught out as being geocentric. Didn't even occur to me to see where the OP was posting from. :)
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by vitovito 15y ago
But there are "iTunes for Open Source Content"s, at least two of them, and a barrel full of failed projects gone before them: Songbird: http://www.getsongbird.com/ Miro: http://www.getmiro.com/ The issue isn't the software, it's the mar
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by vitovito 15y ago
...This is a strange discussion thread. I assumed it was an ancient Usenet thread before business method patents became common. But, it's not. It's recent. It's in the Lean Startup group. You already can patent business models, if they're
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by vitovito 15y ago
Wow. Congrats on finally going completely headless on Linux. That's a big deal. This makes it the first modern browser replacement for our old moz-headless-screenshot branch, which is effectively Firefox 3.6. It's really a shame no-one's
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by vitovito 15y ago
Can't make it (have to do the Awesome Foundation party at that time), but great job hosting one.
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by vitovito 15y ago
If you're building a file sharing site, aren't the logistics of sharing files exactly what your core competency is supposed to be? Why would you outsource that?
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by vitovito 15y ago
"It demands a brutal honesty that risks discouraging young recruits, but this is how the best of the best operate." and "To tell people of the dangers in no uncertain terms, to take a chainsaw to their ideas" are the passages I take iss
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by vitovito 15y ago
I ran two-hour workshops for designers in 2010. Fifteen in all, free to attend, with about 50% non-designer attendance. http://vi.to/workshop Workshops are a lot of work -- I'd spend 8-16 hours prepping for a two-hour one -- but they'r
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by vitovito 15y ago
I complete agree with your premise, in what hackers need to support them in a traditional, SF/NYC-style, VC-backed sense, but I disagree with your solution. The solution isn't to run people through the gauntlet just because you had to run t
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by vitovito 15y ago
Everything old is new again. In the late 90's and early 2000s, video game companies that used OpenGL instead of DirectX offered the same thing in a program called GLSetup: http://web.archive.org/web/19991013110237/http://glsetup.com...
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by vitovito 15y ago
Whoops, broken rewrite rule. Fixed, thanks.
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by vitovito 15y ago
For a while, I maintained an exporter that would turn a BMML (or series of BMML files) into interactive HTML and JavaScript, which allowed me to customize the JS to provide that interactivity. I discontinued it after Balsamiq offered clicka
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by vitovito 15y ago
Would love to see inline examples of the output, or a bookmarklet that gives you the generated output of e.g. an element you choose on an arbitrary site. Also, you don't need to copy every child element's style. You only need to copy the st
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by vitovito 15y ago
I would not make that assumption. I held a survey for the Austin design community last year, and the things people with 10+ years of experience wanted to learn and felt were missing in the workplaces was not statistically significantly diff
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by vitovito 15y ago
I would strongly discourage this sort of thinking. First, there are third-party "game mechanics" solutions; I think YC even funded one. Second, reposting my own comments: "Game mechanics" is the new "Web 2.0" as far as misapplied buzzwords
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by vitovito 15y ago
It was sarcastic: http://www.jonathancoulton.com/2012/01/21/megaupload/
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by vitovito 15y ago
Legally and technically, they're not investors. Kickstarter cuts you a check via Amazon. You don't have any contact with the donators except as mediated via Kickstarter. There's not even a requirement that you fulfill your promised obliga
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by vitovito 15y ago
Amazon EC2 new pricing for reserved instances might serve your friends' needs: For a 24/7 instance, a "Heavy Utilization" Micro instance with a 1-year reservation costs $62.00 up front, and then half a cent an hour, which is $3.80 a month,
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by vitovito 15y ago
Blergh, this isn't a GET if you're doing this. GET is for retrieving a resource, which is like a fixed representation of data. In your example, you're trying to do a function call, an RPC, and badly mapping it to HTTP semantics. That's wha
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by vitovito 15y ago
Sure! There were three previous threads on this you might be able to get other interested usernames from: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2613176 && http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=897565 && http://news.ycombina

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