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by daa 14y ago
I think Disqus is a great service, and I suspect that this business model will work fine for them, but it's obviously not ideal for everyone. The economics of hosting comments are interesting -- there is real engineering effort in doing it
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by daa 14y ago
Gah. The old site and old pages will come back -- part of the shift that pmoz mentions above is that different teams ran the 2010 site and the 2012 version, and so we're learning (a bit late) how to build in permanence into the site struct
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by daa 14y ago
That's cool. I think my first computer-related job was circa 1984, when I worked for Vera Molnar and her husband. Some of her art is in that archive, but there's more at http://www.veramolnar.com/diapo.php?y=1984 . All I really remember
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by daa 14y ago
Find a mentor who can help for free, and who will take the time to learn more about you and your startup than HN commenters can in a random thread.
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by daa 14y ago
There is a notable exception: http://thefailcon.com/ "FailCon is a one-day conference for technology entrepreneurs, investors, developers and designers to study their own and others' failures and prepare for success."
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by daa 14y ago
This is a tad off-topic, but I'd love something that's more like django's admin UI for mongo-using projects. Not the same tool, I know. What's a good word for something like that?
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by daa 14y ago
This comment thread is a bit depressing, but ignoring that. One of the bits about the piece that has me scratching my head a bit is whether the mess that is dependency management in OSS operating systems (and generally OSS software distribu
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by daa 14y ago
Right -- we'll be adding JS support in a later release. That can be lesson 4 (where 1. is "what's HTML", 2. is "what does HMTL look like", ...)
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by daa 14y ago
It's primarily for educational purposes, indeed. The pages are hosted on Mozilla servers.
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by daa 14y ago
Temporary glitch, sorry 'bout that!
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by daa 14y ago
The target audience is very much _NOT_ real developers. Think of it as "lesson 2", where "lesson 1" is something like x-ray goggles: https://webmaker.org/en-US/tools/x-ray-goggles/ for someone who _knows nothing_ to start with. Your ave
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by daa 14y ago
Yah, we suffered some issues on the cluster which caused temporary failures. Sorry 'bout that!
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by daa 14y ago
Thx, we'll see if we can find a good monospaced font. Although IMO it's not as important in html as in other languages, for some reason.
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by daa 14y ago
Nice! I've been looking for something to give me a better feel for what's going on.
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by daa 14y ago
I think the real trick isn't convincing hardware makers -- they do what the operators ask them to (at least in the non-Apple world). Operators like Telefonica are interested. See e.g. http://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2012/02/27/mozilla-in-mo
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by daa 14y ago
I don't know that anyone's tried that yet. Boot2Gecko is focusing on making a real phone that people will really be able to buy, so working on a platform that requires "fighting the manufacturer" isn't a priority. But it's open source, so
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by daa 15y ago
It's even more fascinating when viewed in Firefox.
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by daa 15y ago
You must not have read brendan's posts on HN about dart!
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by daa 15y ago
IIRC, there's a windows-specific bug that was discovered at the last minute. They're fixing it & respinning.
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by daa 15y ago
I used to share your skepticism about single sign-on. I'm actually quite bullish about BrowserID because it uses concepts that both users and websites are very familiar with (email, 'validated email addresses'), and works it in a flow that
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by daa 15y ago
I think we agree? browserid & apps & intents-or-something-like-it are all mutually reinforcing, IMO.