davcro

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by davcro 15y ago
I don't think protesting these companies is a good long term solution. We need a protect DNS act or anti-censorship bill. Big tech has more money and power than hollywood. They should lobby more aggressively.
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Why don't big tech companies lobby congress to protect the web?
1 points by davcro 15y ago|0 comments
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by davcro 15y ago
I agree. I'm a 37s fanboy. Web tech has made a quantum leap in the last year. The difference between rails 3.1 and rails 2.8 is huge. Not to mention html5, css3 and new javascript libraries such as backbone-js. These are game changers.
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by davcro 15y ago
DHH's Twitter suggests otherwise. He talks about the joy of starting from scratch developing with rails/master. Can't link to it because I'm on a phone.
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by davcro 15y ago
I am surprised, I thought 37s was against rewrites.
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by davcro 15y ago
Happy to see that Salesforce is releasing its own apps on Heroku. It shows they are serious about using the platform as it is, instead of turning it into something enterprisey.
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by davcro 15y ago
I really enjoyed reading this. Especially the section about bravery, "the opposite of fear is initiative not courage". Well said. I'm leaving today for a big wall climbing trip and trying to prepare myself mentally for the intense fear th
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by davcro 15y ago
Also living off Facebook apps from 07. Biggest downside is having too much free time and working alone. Right now im studying for the MCAT
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by davcro 15y ago
Amazing. Way back in 2007 I taught myself how to code by making small Facebook apps. I started out by editing live PHP files on a shared server from A Small Orange ($3.33 a month!). After a few months I a few apps with traffic around 30k
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by davcro 15y ago
Last night I visited my uncle, a 50 year old rancher in Eastern Colorado. He wanted to show me videos of him calf-roping with a rodeo celebrity. I was very surprised when he brought out a Samsung Galaxy Tablet. This man is extremely comp
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by davcro 15y ago
Y'all don't know my struggle Y'all can't match my hustle You can't catch my hustle You can't fathom my love dude Lock yourself in a room doin' five beats a day for three summers That's a different world like Kree Summers I
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by davcro 15y ago
About $10k a month from an old Facebook quiz app. I haven't touched the codebase or worked on said app in 8 months.
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by davcro 16y ago
Back in the day, I had a Facebook app called Quiz Monster that was utilized by lots of people all over the world. The app had international appeal because quizzes could be written in any language. For fun I coded an internal translation a
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by davcro 16y ago
They should highlight this to new viewers, I was about to complain about the lack of scrolling.
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by davcro 16y ago
This doesn't work at scale. The IO performance with LVM is terrible. I lost a lot of money trying to implement this. Percona wrote Xtrabackup as a replacement for LVM. Documentation: http://www.mysqlperformanceblog.com/2009/02/05/disast
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by davcro 16y ago
They do. I think Heroku is the best thing for new apps / developers. You can launch your app for free. Your app would have to be rather successful (and hopefully profitable) to outgrow their free database plan.
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by davcro 16y ago
I can't imagine life without RDS. I'm a solo developer responsible for a large web app. Before RDS I hosted MySQL on dedicated hardware from Softlayer. I had a dedicated box for the master, one for the slave, and another for storing back
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Facebook Kills Platform Virality(insidefacebook.com)
1 points by davcro 16y ago|0 comments
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by davcro 16y ago
Your's truly just applied to be a beta user. The product looks awesome. I would love to try it with my app.
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by davcro 16y ago
I also like to cache resources as JSON and then render them into a template with Ajax.
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by davcro 16y ago
I started building a new app and was bummed when I discovered Chrome didn't support the Html5 File API. The next day Chrome 6 was released along with said API support. Now the canary version includes WebGL support. These guys are moving
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by davcro 16y ago
> The average salary at Goldman Sachs in 2005 was $521,000 Wow. New title suggestion: "Working at Goldman Sachs will earn you enough money to found a startup with zero revenue."
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by davcro 16y ago
> Could this be any more self-righteous? I believe this self-righteous attitude regarding acquisitions comes from being a bootstrapped startup. When you bootstrap your company starts with a valuation of zero. The only way to increase
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by davcro 16y ago
Wow. Great work guys. I am impressed with the data collection, but even more impressed with the attention to detail given to the interface. I love how big circles represent better deals.
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by davcro 16y ago
But he is leaving at the worst possible time. A big upgrade requires months of follow up work and he should know that. I'm not usually an internet tough guy, but this is outrageous. If I was a digg engineer I would be livid. The captain
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by davcro 16y ago
What a cop out. Kevin Rose has been hyping Digg v4 for months. He should stand behind his product, his vision, his creation. He should go down with a fight.
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by davcro 16y ago
I agree with the author. Stealth mode assumes you will deliver a competitive and popular product in your first try. This rarely happens.
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by davcro 16y ago
Heroku's dynos scale just fine. As long as you got the money you can keep adding dynos. However Heroku's database services do not scale as easily. I recommend using Amazon's RDS instead. RDS is F'n amazing. You can scale the db up or d
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by davcro 16y ago
Quiz Monster and Friend Interview have a bigger userbase both international and in the US than Slide's apps. Granted I'm only looking at FB here, but IMO that is the only social network that matters. I work solo and believe that my apps c
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by davcro 16y ago
This does not make sense. I am the developer of two Facebook apps, Friend Interview and Quiz Monster. I would argue those two apps are more valuable than Slide's and there is no way they are worth $182 million. What is Google buying?

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