RaphiePS

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by RaphiePS 11y ago
I don't want to be overly dismissive -- I'm sure this is a huge engineering achievement -- but I just don't get it. A mobile phone, where battery life is precious and a big differentiating factor between devices, seems like t
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by RaphiePS 11y ago
Sweet! I don't think I'll be able to use it until it supports React/ES6, but the debugging features look awesome!
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by RaphiePS 11y ago
It's not just unsubscribe. They let you turn off emails for an hour, a day, etc. Really convenient if you're generally interested in notifications, but just need a little break. Another example: when you change your password, Slac
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by RaphiePS 11y ago
My favorite thing about Slack is how they've thought of all the little things. My go-to example is that when they send you a notification email, it includes links to silence further emails with a single click. Obviously, this isn'
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by RaphiePS 12y ago
I think this completely misses the point. The "magic" part of Magic isn't that it's over text -- that's just an implementation detail. Rather, the value is that it navigates all these services for you. You don'
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by RaphiePS 12y ago
I think that's kind of the point. He doesn't look like an actor -- he's an everyman.
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by RaphiePS 12y ago
Yup! He's the guy behind Sandwich Video, which makes a ton of ads for startups: http://sandwichvideo.com/
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by RaphiePS 12y ago
If you watch the video in the post, the demo is surprisingly accurate.
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by RaphiePS 12y ago
17. At least in my social circles, it's polite to respond to texts (and Facebook messages) within a couple hours. Texting definitely carries more expectations than email (for example, I'd consider it rude to text back the next day
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by RaphiePS 12y ago
I don't think anyone has mentioned this: in my mind, the whole point of calling a business is getting an immediate response. Most of us are conditioned to treat text as a fundamentally asynchronous medium. Texts aren't something
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by RaphiePS 12y ago
Seconded. Most of my late-night travel is completely unplanned -- I can't imagine scheduling a 4:00 AM trip the day before.
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by RaphiePS 12y ago
(shoutout to Dave Fontenot in particular)
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by RaphiePS 12y ago
If they're already logged into Facebook/Twitter, they don't have to type a single thing -- they just hit the "Accept" button and they're done.
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by RaphiePS 12y ago
I'm scared this will mean rampant cheating. What's to prevent an early-stage startup from masquerading as a hack and getting a "fast-tracked" interview? I know this is a problem for most hackathons, but the stakes seem s
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by RaphiePS 12y ago
The way I see it, every single app that uses email for password resets (usually by emailing a link, sometimes a code) already relies on the security of email. Even if you have the most secure password in the world, if an attacker compromise
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by RaphiePS 12y ago
See http://techcrunch.com/2013/08/25/uberauto/
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by RaphiePS 12y ago
I can't speak for dang, but if you didn't ask for votes, I don't think you violated netiquette at all.
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by RaphiePS 12y ago
A voting ring is a group of people that all upvote each other's posts. But most of the time, it lacks that level of organization -- usually, ring-voting just refers to having all your friends upvote your post for you. One really easy w
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by RaphiePS 12y ago
Saw you demo this at the hackathon session at CPW! Really, really cool.
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by RaphiePS 12y ago
There are a bunch of comments about rolling your own scraper instead of relying upon a possibly unreliable SaaS app. That makes me think -- would it be viable to run a service that, instead of running the scraping on their own servers, simp
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by RaphiePS 12y ago
I'm a big fan of http://learnyouahaskell.com/
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by RaphiePS 12y ago
That brings up an interesting question. At what point does a modified file no longer fall under copyright? If I had a copyrighted ebook and changed a single "o" to "0" I bet I could still be busted for distributing it (a
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by RaphiePS 12y ago
I'm a huge fan of Braces ( http://braces.io/ ). It solves the how-do-I-get-my-site-files served problem perfectly. But I'm also a huge fan of Dropbox sharing, and it's sad that I can't collaborate on my Br
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by RaphiePS 12y ago
Here are my current Dropbox pet peeves: - You can't share an arbitrary folder with someone, only a top-level one - You can't share app folders - App folders are buried in the Apps folder (duh). So, you can't use an arbitrary
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by RaphiePS 12y ago
Can anyone speak to the difference in approach between Blaze and React? Or are they doing essentially the same thing? At first glance, this seems much better in terms of programmer productivity, given that it uses logicless templates rather
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by RaphiePS 12y ago
Does anyone have any stats on Threes' sales? I wonder if 2048 has significantly boosted them.
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by RaphiePS 13y ago
This is really cool. Up to the section on Advanced Features, it seemed like a clone of Cloudflare's cdnjs. But the multiple request feature is absolutely terrific, and I can't wait to use it. EDIT: I wonder if the multiple-request
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by RaphiePS 13y ago
That only works if you're doing a game that takes place in real-life locations. If you want a made-up world, like most games do, then scanning won't help at all.
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by RaphiePS 13y ago
He mentioned that the positive reviews could be fake. So, it seems that Airbnb should be more rigorously vetting guests.
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by RaphiePS 13y ago
Easy to fix on Chrome. Just click on the little shield at the top-right of the omnibar and click "load unsafe script." Yes, it's broken and they should have caught it, but it's so hyperbolic to call it an "utterly d

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