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Your Startup Idea Sucks and You’re Going to Fail(billpatrianakos.me)
3 points by bpatrianakos 9y ago|1 comments
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by bpatrianakos 11y ago
I think this only applies to people implementing their apps using SOA as pat of cargo cult thinking like was mentioned in the article. I ran a company with 4 employees. 3 developers and an idiot sales guy. SOA made perfect sense from the st
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by bpatrianakos 11y ago
I couldn't agree more about the mass market being morons. It's hard to say and not often said so bluntly in public though. Not because it's untrue but because the person saying it could be afraid they might be a part of that
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by bpatrianakos 11y ago
I don't see a need for the snark. I don't see this as a troll question at all. Python is obviously thriving for scientific programming but it's not hard to tell that the question being asked is about whether Python is losing
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by bpatrianakos 11y ago
But this is specifically marketed toward developers and designers. So my question is are there really enough of those developers and designers interested in a WYSIWYG took or would it be better to drop the Bootstrap focus and focus on the s
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by bpatrianakos 11y ago
Is there a big market for WYSIWYG apps for developers? I think this is a great application but might it be better targeted toward non-technical people? Remember iWeb? This reminds me of a more developer-centric, flexible version of that. Bu
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by bpatrianakos 11y ago
I'd argue the barrier is just as high. I taught a ten week course in back end development and I think the students would have done equally well deploying on a VPS or Heroku. The curriculum called for using Heroku but I regret following
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by bpatrianakos 11y ago
I think it sums up the Beginner Community in general, not the JS community. You see this with beginners in everything.
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by bpatrianakos 11y ago
No SQLite isn't heavy but I hope you mean for use in development only. The issue isn't MongoDB is bad and relational DBs are awesome. The real issue is new developers being taught that Mongo and NoSQL in general are the databases
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by bpatrianakos 11y ago
This is great but it really only applies to SPAs. I know single pagers are all the rage these days but it often makes a lot of sense to structure your application in a hybrid way where you have full page reloads for different sections of a
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by bpatrianakos 11y ago
CSS is not a programming language. You can't think about it the same way you'd think about your backend code or even client side JS. The global namespace is by design. It's a feature, not a bug. The whole point is to think a
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by bpatrianakos 11y ago
These are all great ideas. The only thing I don't like about these types of projects/guidelines is the almost religious, strict adherence to them that some people who pick them up like to rant about. The examples are great and rea
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by bpatrianakos 11y ago
They won't do it on their own because there's really no incentive to make this information easily accessible. Healthcare is like Microsoft and Oracle in the 90's. Everyone wants you locked in to their platforms and services.
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by bpatrianakos 11y ago
Having done exactly this type of integration with legacy systems I think a point that gets glossed over is that it's the startups themselves who are full of engineers who think that the whole world has moved on to using NoSQL Node.js R
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by bpatrianakos 11y ago
I disagree. I can relate to application setup and deployment feeling like its a fragile, error prone process but library usage in general is a good thing. Now if you're picking up obscure, poorly maintained libraries from GitHub I ca
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by bpatrianakos 11y ago
I don't see the benefit. It seems no easier on the eyes than JSON and it's more complex with more syntax rules to learn. I wouldn't recommend this for either humans or machines. HJSON would be my choice for a human readable d
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by bpatrianakos 11y ago
Haven't tried it. I don't think I would as its a SASS project and I prefer LESS. My initial thought just upon glancing the readme was that it seems a bit bloated. Starts out with some great options then it looks like they've
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by bpatrianakos 11y ago
I've been using this as the basis for my typographic styles for maybe a year now. My only problem with it has been the spacing between paragraphs and headings. I find myself using the .hug class a lot.
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by bpatrianakos 11y ago
Most people don't disable JavaScript but beyond that edge case (I consider JS disabled an edge case) I agree that this architecture isn't necessary and overused. A single page app is great on a MacBook Pro with 2 tabs open but run
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by bpatrianakos 11y ago
Great suggestions for non-technical people in there but if a real concern is ownership and control of content then the only real option is buying or renting server space and putting up a website with maybe Ghost (the most overrated blogging
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by bpatrianakos 11y ago
The process is the same for those with sleep apnea who aren't overweight. Like me. I weigh 155 and an 6' tall. Born with a small airway and just got lucky it seems. So if your point is that if people just lost some weight they wou
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by bpatrianakos 12y ago
Is there no alternative that saves users' data? Of course there is. But you probably don't want to put anything sensitive into any of them. There's no shortage of bare bones Evernote type services out there. I've been ru
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by bpatrianakos 12y ago
> Developers shouldn't have to sacrifice their rights to speak and innovate freely just to bring their applications to millions of Apple users. Ummm... Is this really why they develop for iOS or are they just having fun mostly, enjo
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by bpatrianakos 12y ago
I doubt and don't think they should feel threatened. If I were them I wouldnt be guarding my application because it's a very simple and easy to replicate concept. The real value is in the service. You pay for StatusPage because yo
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by bpatrianakos 12y ago
Great! Now I'll just have to get a Statuspage.io subscription to watch my catchet install. But seriously, this is cool. Creating a StatusPage-type app has actually been on my todo list and even though I've moved away from PHP I th
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by bpatrianakos 12y ago
So are you saying you try before you buy? The concept is sound but it falls apart the moment you get something free. How likely is it that after pirating a movie or an album someone goes back and buys it so they can vote with their wallet?
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by bpatrianakos 12y ago
It's great to see I'm not the only person who thinks this way. There are going to be no shortage of thin analogies and excuses in response to you in afraid. Regardless of the merits of copyright and how "dumb" the laws e
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by bpatrianakos 12y ago
Yes! I have 4 sites that I bought an SSL certificate for out of around 20 that run. If browsers wouldn't throw a warning for self-signed certificates every last one of my sites would have been secured from the start, easy. The only thi
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by bpatrianakos 12y ago
A speaker icon isn't making a judgement as to whether that sound is good or bad. Turning no-ssl into a warning is like having the browser judge you for being poor or cheap or incompetent. Not having HTTPS does not mean that you are ins
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by bpatrianakos 12y ago
I get your point but you're kind of blowing it out of proportion. A lot of people like myself host really mundane content and that concern is really the last thing on the minds of those types of site owners and their users. You want HT

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