andrew93101

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by andrew93101 12y ago
> You make something that is so compelling and you solve a certain problem so well that people tolerate it despite its deficiencies. That's the opposite of what I'm describing. I'm describing making something that people
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by andrew93101 12y ago
I think it is relevant. If users generally dislike facebook, but continue to use it, it's a bad situation to be in for Facebook. It indicates that people are using the product because of its network effects and despite the product i
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by andrew93101 12y ago
Not directly related but a fun fact: GCHQ had discovered both RSA and Diffie Hellman asymmetric crypto years earlier: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clifford_Cocks
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by andrew93101 12y ago
I don't understand. The apple watch does allow 3rd party apps.
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by andrew93101 12y ago
"Run your small business as if it were a large business" is a quote that I would disagree with for startups, for two reasons: - it encourages premature scaling - many large businesses have lost the ability to innovate and lost the
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by andrew93101 12y ago
A great way to check the visibility of your own profile is to view it in an incognito window.
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by andrew93101 12y ago
Here is the link to Q2: http://investor.fb.com/releasedetail.cfm?ReleaseID=861599
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by andrew93101 12y ago
"Why do local ISP markets tend towards monopoly, even though it has been illegal since 1992 to grant local cable monopolies?" This is because last mile internet access is a textbook Natural Monopoly: http://en.wikipedi
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by andrew93101 12y ago
Has there been discussion of passing this fee on to customers who access from Comcast in the form of a surcharge? If Netflix hiked prices for customers who were connecting from Comcast networks, it would encourage news of this business pra
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by andrew93101 12y ago
I think the idea is that lead exposure in childhood leads to crime later in life
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by andrew93101 12y ago
Appfolio - http://www.appfolio.com/jobs - Santa Barbara, San Diego, Southern California * Appfolio is looking for great full-stack engineers to deliver products customers love using Ruby, Rails, Javascript, Coffeescript,
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Thoughtworks technology radar(thoughtworks.com)
2 points by andrew93101 13y ago|0 comments
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Ruby Mixins & ActiveSupport::Concern(engineering.appfolio.com)
3 points by andrew93101 13y ago|0 comments
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by andrew93101 13y ago
This is the best article I've read yet on the subject of what's actually going on. The NSA slide deck was always inconsistent with most of the public statements of industry execs, and this article reconciles them nicely. The more
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by andrew93101 13y ago
An ambitious goal, but unless they have a clear path to get there, it shouldn't drive their valuation.
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by andrew93101 14y ago
If this lives up to even half of its potential, it will be fantastic. Also, routing exceptions using git blame isn't about placing blame on individuals for defects, it's about automatically managing and routing the massive quantity of excep
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by andrew93101 14y ago
Will they be compensating the bloggers whose content they are profiting from?
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by andrew93101 14y ago
Use whatever theme you want. Content should be judged on its merits, not on some blog "brand". Most readers won't know svbtle, and of those that do, most won't think it adds any gravitas to the post. If I find a link rated highly on HN, t
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by andrew93101 14y ago
Lucene search with Rails is easy and very common. Sunspot[ http://sunspot.github.com/ ] is just one example.
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by andrew93101 14y ago
(tl;dr: in California, such agreements are unenforceable) I don't know what state the author was in when he was working for Sony, but California State law prohibits such arrangements in employer agreements (Labor code section 2870): http:/
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Don't make your users wait for Garbage Collection(engineering.appfolio.com)
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Predictable, Reusable, Maintainable and Scalable CSS(engineering.appfolio.com)
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by andrew93101 14y ago
We've had nothing but problems with exceptional. We've experienced multi-day outages, that only got resolved by calling the company. Our operations staff won't even use the product anymore (insufficient data is retained to permit the sort
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by andrew93101 14y ago
Great post. If someone is trying to sell you an idea or technique and they use their own profitability to justify this technique, then the definition of "profitable" is very relevant. In my mind, a business that excludes the time spent by
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by andrew93101 14y ago
If you compare the cost of renting commercial space to the cost of software engineer labor, this explanation doesn't hold up. The cost of commercial rent is minuscule when compared to the cost of engineering labor. If a business believed d
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by andrew93101 14y ago
I think the successfulness of open space plans depends greatly on the work you're doing. If you're working primarily alone on difficult engineering problems, with well-defined specifications and a clear division of who owns what part of the
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Come work for us.
6 points by andrew93101 14y ago|1 comments
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by andrew93101 15y ago
This is the right answer. If you are trying to really quickly get code in front of users, and are working through a lot of ideas that don't end up going anywhere (code that is eventually thrown away), then heavily tested code is probably no
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by andrew93101 15y ago
This is why I love site-specific browsers. On the mac I make SSBs using Fluid for most of the sites I use throughout the day (email, calendar, google docs, ci server, pivotal tracker, etc.) and then use traditional OS app switching mechani
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by andrew93101 15y ago
This article is the best advice relating to building a successful startup that I've read on HN in awhile.

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