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by codelust 10y ago
Karam/Shubhendu, Really kicked to see something from my neck of the woods with great potential out in the market. Congratulations on the launch. I'm assuming it will take significant volume to make this profitable (should be easi
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by codelust 12y ago
Common mode of infection I have seen with Wordpress is through site owners downloading premium themes that have been uploaded into file sharing sites by malware authors. The site owners can't, in most cases, poke around to see what is
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by codelust 12y ago
Had written about this a while ago: http://frontiernxt.com/hybrid-entertainment-free-roam-networ... Kjellberg maybe the biggest personality, but there is a significant group of people who make a decent living out of doing t
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by codelust 12y ago
RSS was never meant to be a product. It is a format and a spec. Products are built around the spec: apps that push it, clients that pull it. It has incredible value where machines speak to each other. Much of the 'dying' was fed b
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by codelust 12y ago
It was also only a year ago I said “Automattic is healthy, generating cash, and already growing as fast as it can so there’s no need for the company to raise money directly — we’re not capital constrained.” I was wrong, but I didn’t real
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by codelust 12y ago
If you have the time, there is a good Coursera course on the domain: https://www.coursera.org/course/modelthinking
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by codelust 12y ago
I have kind of stumbled on to the same line, though I'm in the early stages of getting over the shock of it all as it was not something I was looking to do and considering where I am located (India), I never would have thought it would
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by codelust 13y ago
Looks like it uses Rails & Boiler? Why not outsource the missing bits, get it to MVP and explore options?
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by codelust 13y ago
Bubble 1.0 was greed without the knowledge on how to value digital companies properly. This phase is greed even after knowing how to value digital companies properly. You will come off looking really silly if an attempt is made to make sens
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by codelust 13y ago
It has been quite easy for a few years now to put together your own setup on a VPS and run with it. IIRC, I started doing this somewhere around 2008, during the heydays of Slicehost. What has changed is that you now get pretty good and reli
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by codelust 13y ago
What is the kind of traffic total/concurrent at peak that you serve?
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by codelust 13y ago
Not on the desktop, but in Opera Mini there have been product placements on both the home screen and speed dial screens for a while. I'm somewhat OK with it, considering it is a free product. What sucks is that they don't respect
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by codelust 13y ago
It is a bit frustrating to see the NSA angle in everything these days. Going by the same logic, it is very likely that they are tapping into the backbones, should we then be less enamored with using the internet? The snooping is a serious p
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by codelust 13y ago
$this->app['component']->function() gives me an instant headache. Which is why I always wind up giving up on Symfony/Silex after trying it out every now and then. OTOH, I had a much easier time with Laravel, though it u
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by codelust 13y ago
Replying to the reply to my parent comment, since I seem to have reached HN's nesting limit. Forms of control are not always very direct. Let us, hypothetically, say the big state actors jump in to take control of 80% of the available
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by codelust 13y ago
But you do recognize that people are buying Bitcoins using the day-to-day authoritarian tools, right? This is the equivalent of popularization of denims as a statement of rebellion from the 1970s; or the prevalence of Che Guevara tees in ca
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by codelust 13y ago
Indulge me here for a bit; but how does a multi-million dollar investment (raised from the same existing authoritarian framework) into Bitcoins make it anti-authoritarian? Best case scenario is that this is a good hedge with decent risks, w
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by codelust 13y ago
Bitcoin is the most promising of derivatives to come into the market in recent years. And as far as derivatives go, something that has no formal structure controlling or regulating is a godsend for actors who can move the markets. And consi
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by codelust 13y ago
Congrats. This looks pretty neat, especially since it uses Composer. Does it do the whole autoloader song and dance with Composer? Example: If I add Guzzle to Composer, can I call it from my plugin's code the way you can with other fra
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by codelust 13y ago
Guess one valid scenario is to use this as the base for a child theme.
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by codelust 13y ago
Thanks, had to read up on what exactly is a materialized view. Not something I was familiar with.
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by codelust 13y ago
One example is a CMS. An article these days is a title, body and 5-10 comments, and whatever other metadata that you would want to present on a page. Don't update the corresponding NoSQL record till there are writes in the RDMBS. Serve
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by codelust 13y ago
Thanks, there are some good numbers to chew on there, though, I am always skeptical about projects, thanks to IDC/Garntner. From the little I have seen of NoSQL, I like it as a niche use-case DB, not entirely divorced from a RDMBS. Thu
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by codelust 13y ago
Hey Slava, First up, congrats. Whatever the back story is, getting funded (save runaway revenue/profits/margins) is always a crucial inflection point in a company/product's lifecycle as an enabler for bigger and better t
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by codelust 13y ago
Used to think the same way about most investing till I figured out better. I do not know the specifics of this particular deal, nor have I used the product, but I hope the points are of going to be some use. Let us look at it this way. Assu
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by codelust 13y ago
Have not read the piece yet, but your comment resonated with me. I'm at a similar place in life, especially after being a terribly critical person almost all my life. Thankfully, the best takeaway for me from my so far below-par tryst
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by codelust 13y ago
Turn off, as in, turned off location tracking in Google. I do not believe it is possible to break out of the surveillance state by using technology, unless you want to go the RMS route, which I am not that keen on or even sure if it works 1
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by codelust 13y ago
I turned mine off recently, not because I am convinced there is a method that guarantees 0% data leakage, but because it is a good idea to reduce the surface area of data that you provide voluntarily to anyone. Anyhow, what is more amusing
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by codelust 13y ago
That's the reason why I gave it up the last time I tried it. IIRC, there's a requirement to run 'vagrant up' with sudo and that does things which I don't like. Maybe, I'll try something like leaving the files o
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by codelust 13y ago
Virtualbox VMs. Never tried the VMware ones. The performance is acceptable most of the times, other than when I am running one of those PHP frameworks that includes a million files to process each request.

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