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by zeeshanm 12y ago
OK - in NY - as an entrepreneur, my days are a lot unsexier than these guy. Wake up, read HN, write code, talk to customers, write more code, read HN, read programming books to learn, write more code. May be it's the Valley vibe where
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by zeeshanm 12y ago
Would love to see autoscaling feature in Heroku. Wonder if it breaks their revenue model somehow to have something like this. May be it's more of a complex problem. As increasing dynos may not help for apps that are CPU bound.
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A brief history of inventing new media(medium.com)
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AWS Tips I Wish I'd Known Before I Started(wblinks.com)
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by zeeshanm 12y ago
I think much of the last decade has been about streamlining information accessibility. Whoever owns information dominates the market. It's like in one of those third world countries where a dictator coming to power would manifest his c
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by zeeshanm 12y ago
Here is a hack I've found to steer focus away from depression. Whatever your goal is, you have to begin with an understanding you are going to fail. So you won't be depressed since you already know that you are failing or have fai
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by zeeshanm 12y ago
Ron Conway had invested in this startup Ev Williams was doing before Twitter that did not work out. Ev Williams returned money to Ron Conway, and I believe the story goes Ron said he would invest in whatever startup Williams starts next. Th
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by zeeshanm 12y ago
One of my very first attempts was to build a tutorials site where I'd write stuff on photoshop, php, css, html, etc. Wrote a few tutorials, (re)designed website over 10 times before launch, but did not get any traction. Gave away my tu
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by zeeshanm 12y ago
I like search feature in your app (hangout app doesn't have it)...perhaps make it responsive by searching on the fly as user enters a search term... And may be sort messages by created time in desc order
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by zeeshanm 12y ago
Nicely done - for a moment I thought this app was officially from Google because of the circle icon. :-)
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Is Aluminum Magnetic? (2013)(terpconnect.umd.edu)
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Unsolved Problems – From Wolfram MathWorld(mathworld.wolfram.com)
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by zeeshanm 12y ago
You should work on stuff you genuinely find interesting with the only expectation to learn. Don't do freelance, you'll have plenty of time to work. And don't overwhelm yourself. Just do stuff you genuinely find interesting. I
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Mark Cuban: Only a 'Moron' Would Buy YouTube (2006)(foxnews.com)
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ZocDoc in NYC uses C#/.NET stack.
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BFS – The Brain Fuck Scheduler by Con Kolivas(gitorious.org)
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How Mobile Is Enabling Tech to Outgrow the Tech Industry [video](a16z.com)
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by zeeshanm 12y ago
Anyone feeling down should read Ev William's story from "Founders at Work" on how he had to create, recreate, and recreate his team at Blogger. There was an year when he was the only one running Blogger when the entire team l
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by zeeshanm 12y ago
What are your skill sets? If you're a good programmer you can easily land another job these days. If you don't have time to look and apply for jobs then may be you should quit your current job to look for a new one. It may sound l
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Eric Schmidt Public Speaking Class(youtube.com)
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by zeeshanm 12y ago
While we are at it, here is a good piece by rms: https://stallman.org/facebook.html
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by zeeshanm 12y ago
I think the following two paragraphs are very applicable to founders: It takes much more than the knowledge and skills to build shelters, get food, make fires, and travel without the aid of standard navigational devices to live successful
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by zeeshanm 12y ago
Fast fwd to 2:37: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDA0t49AaZ4&feature=youtu.be...
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JavaScript Associative Arrays Demystified (2008)(blog.xkoder.com)
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Couldn't stop recalling this quote from pg while reading this article: "Really good software is not software that is written according to some particular design methodology. The really really good software is software that does so
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Xiaomi, Not Apple, Is Changing the Smartphone Industry(blogs.hbr.org)
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Show HN: Skimmer – read stories you like, later(skimmerapp.com)
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by zeeshanm 12y ago
I was using heroku initially but went with digital ocean to reduce costs. From my experience with using heroku, it's pretty easy to scale without knowing server-side configs, etc. But depending on your app, getting onboarded with digi
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by zeeshanm 12y ago
I use it for ad hoc data analysis. When I just want to put data in, get it out without thinking about the ultimate picture of schema. Probably not a solution for all needs. For example, I wouldn't use mongodb in apps where atomicity is
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Attackers Scrape GitHub to Mine Virtual Currency(forbes.com)
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