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by waxman 16y ago
Definitely go with Heroku for two reasons: time savings (no sysadmin is huge!) and flexibility (you can always migrate later, which is easy since almost all of their stack is open-source).
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by waxman 16y ago
These guys appear to lack both technical backgrounds and start-up backgrounds. They're backers not hackers. Could be useful for some businesses, but for consumer web startups the YC approach and team seem far more relevant.
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by waxman 16y ago
37Signals themselves readily admit that charging B2C consumers is hard, which is why they shifted their business to focus almost only on B2B products. I don't think they've ever said charging casual users works. They're whole thing is that
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by waxman 16y ago
Just wrote an API in CoffeeScript, using Node.js and Express. It was surprisingly enjoyable. I can see this ecosystem giving Rails/Sinatra/Django a real challenge. CoffeeScript makes ssjs a lot easier once you get used to it, Node.js gives
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by waxman 16y ago
Congrats, guys! I have to say, though, while you were busy inching towards 1.0 I've fallen in love with other production-ready NoSQL db's (namely Mongo and Cassandra). I'm excited to play with Couch, just to play with it, but as someone who
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by waxman 16y ago
For someone who isn't a serious programmer but is looking to prototype a business idea, I think Ruby/Rails are more user-friendly than Python/Django. - Rails deployment and hosting are super simple with Heroku ( http://heroku.com ), which,
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Ask HN: How do I find the right co-founder?
1 points by waxman 16y ago|2 comments
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by waxman 16y ago
"Facebook is a ponzi scheme... of people and sense." Great line.
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by waxman 16y ago
One of the longstanding hesitations for cloud computing is "my whole business will depend on someone else's business, what if they go under?" With $10mm in the bank, 60k apps in the cloud, Amazon's AWS backend, Heroku's rockstar team, and a
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by waxman 16y ago
Isn't that what Google App Engine is? Heroku is a cloud-based deployment and hosting solution for Ruby apps (and soon to be Node.js javascript apps too). Google App Engine is for Python and Java.
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by waxman 16y ago
It's in the US, but that's a fascinating law. Google actually specifies that they cannot disclose the exact location of one's Google Apps data because it is automatically distributed across three different server farms out of several doze
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by waxman 16y ago
My grandma is more tech-savvy than my university. We were scheduled to adopt Google apps this February, but at the last minute a group of professors stymied the proposal for a number of bogus "privacy" concerns, which included, and I wish I
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Is Justin Timberlake a Product of Cumulative Advantage?(nytimes.com)
3 points by waxman 16y ago|0 comments
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The Moral Life of Babies: New Research Shows Infants Can Tell Right from Wrong(nytimes.com)
3 points by waxman 16y ago|1 comments
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by waxman 16y ago
I'm a senior at Yale. I'm pursuing a start-up after graduation rather than a banking/consulting job. I'm certainly afraid of what the future holds. I'd be lying if I said I wasn't. And this fear almost had me applying to McKinsey and Goldma
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by waxman 16y ago
3 observations: - Brilliant execution of two 37Signals principles/generally smart start-up strategies (advertise like a chef (give away your information), and pick a fight) - If this product doesn't "scratch an itch" / solve a real problem
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by waxman 16y ago
Cool use case! Great post! I'm shocked by how few companies, especially those creating dev tools, offer clear tutorials showing you how to actually use their products (that go beyond the vanilla API docs). Obviously you should encourage peo
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by waxman 16y ago
Does books purchased over a 3-year timespan have any relevance to books purchased over a 30-day timespan? Unlike other kinds of purchases, most people usually consume books relatively slowly (at a rate of one per month or more). If your Kin
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by waxman 16y ago
The "Delete your Facebook" crowd remind me of bad televangelical ministers. Why are they trying to get other people to delete their accounts? We can save our own souls, thanks.
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The difference is, country roads are not nearly as bumpy as flash.
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by waxman 16y ago
Pardon my ignorance, but why don't all browsers auto-update to the latest stable version, even without user permission? Because I feel like the one thing that really holds back web techniques are old browsers (IE6, IE7, Firefox2, etc.)... I
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by waxman 16y ago
Heroku is to hosting and deployment what Rails is to web development. It's so easy. And it keeps on getting better and better.
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Will Open Graph Kill Twitter?(waxman.me)
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by waxman 16y ago
My gf is getting her PhD at Yale, and she studies the obesity epidemic with some of the field's leaders. As a result, I'm pretty fluent in the science of this issue. All I have to say is, in 10 years I think we'll look back on fast-food adv
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by waxman 16y ago
Do something based on science, not on some kooky self-help guru. The scientific literature supports only a few interventions that can measurably improve happiness: - keeping a daily gratitude journal (in which you write down what your thank
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by waxman 16y ago
iTunes Cloud TBA at WWDC? I'm excited to free up some hard-drive space.
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by waxman 16y ago
Yes, the PC era is coming to a close, and every company involved is panicking, EXCEPT for Apple, because they're clearly out in front with their iPhone/iPad OS ecosystem. Also, Apple makes relatively little money from the App Store; they st
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Facebook's Open Graph: Less Open, More Facebook(yalelawtech.org)
1 points by waxman 16y ago|0 comments
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I love how he didn't sugarcoat Apple's core motivations: Everyone wins – we sell more devices because we have the best apps, developers reach a wider and wider audience and customer base, and users are continually delighted by the best and
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by waxman 16y ago
Have standing meetings. It makes everyone pick up the pace, and it's almost impossible to doze off or doodle, and yet if you need to write something down you still can

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