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by dgunn 13y ago
This is something that will be exciting to developers who don't want their side projects anymore. The other side of the marketplace will be more difficult. I think your market for that side is actually the people on google searching fo
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by dgunn 13y ago
I think you should get rid of the word Beta. It's a "kid friendly" site that a bunch of moms are going to find through search. None of them are going to know what that means. That said, it probably won't hurt anything. I
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by dgunn 13y ago
I had a similar idea a while back but it didn't have as noble a goal. Really just another time waster but I could (and still do) see some potential. It was going to be an extension of something like HN or Reddit and it would have been
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by dgunn 13y ago
That's interesting. I'm not sure how common it is but I sign in all the time by doing just that. I just always try to use sites immediately because they usually cause signing in (or up) to be part of the flow. For example, I go to
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by dgunn 13y ago
This could be great. You need to monetize in a better way. Make searching free for everyone (cause no one is going to pay for it). Then, package up some pre-built searches (backlink search, competitor stuff, etc), build a special interface,
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by dgunn 13y ago
Does anyone else just want a written description of things? Make it look pretty. Create beautiful pictures/characters throughout the page. I don't care. I just want a good explanation of what a service offers. - It's user-fri
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by dgunn 13y ago
> Anyway, what are you worrying about? Another 9/11? Yes. Of course. I want NSA to keep horrible things like that from happening. Yes. There are other ways to die than terrorist attacks. They're also bad? I'm really not su
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by dgunn 13y ago
> A constant state of fear, always at war, our enemies are about to attack us. Isn't this what North Korea fuels the fire with? If you think a country this size could ever reach the point of having no enemies, you are delusional. We
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by dgunn 13y ago
I think your comment was intended for me. Their goal is protect the US. Do you think there are no threats within our borders? Seriously Americans, what's wrong with you? See? We can all try to make each other look stupid if we want. It
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by dgunn 13y ago
One, I don't think the NSA isn't allowed to spy domestically. The NSA is charged with collecting foreign and counter intelligence in an effort to protect the interests of the US. If there is an intelligence need which requires dom
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by dgunn 13y ago
Is anyone else still trying to understand the goal here? I know the big lofty goal is to cause NSA to stop spying on people but what will convince people that they have stopped? Is everyone unaware that the NSA's mission is to collect
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by dgunn 13y ago
I've used mezzanine before but ultimately removed it from the code. If you're interested in adding a company blog to your app's domain, it just touches too many things and makes a mess. I use zinnia now http://djan
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by dgunn 13y ago
I've actually wondered about this a bit before. You're kind of the "Marketing Engineer" around here so I'll ask you. Do you do what you described in option 1 or 2? I know you use WP for your blog but what do you do
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by dgunn 13y ago
I think the design looks pretty good and the service sounds fine. The trust issues you may have are in your grammar. Because the website is written in English, I assume you want to be seen by English speakers. If that's the case, you n
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by dgunn 13y ago
Things like this don't make great revolutions. People won't care enough. People need to see a real threat to their lives before you can get an uprising. They have to be hungry or homeless or in some kind of actual pain. Being spie
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by dgunn 13y ago
In my experience twitter is just a bunch of marketers trying to sell each other stuff. More specifically, it's a bunch of marketers' tweetdeck accounts trying to sell stuff to other marketers' tweetdeck accounts. It seems lik
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by dgunn 13y ago
If you're going to build something specifically for this interviewer, you should make it useful to him/her or to his/her company. Maybe think of some data their company would find useful and give them a good way to consume it
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by dgunn 13y ago
agreed
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by dgunn 13y ago
I agree strongly about coloring whites red and calling foul on well-meaning participants. Sure a lot of these guys might be pretentious, smarmy jerks but that's no excuse to act like this is any sort of meaningful exercise. This could
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by dgunn 13y ago
Hmmm... I really expected you to break and at least hint that you were joking...
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by dgunn 13y ago
Agreed. Those who would love a replacement really have very little say in the matter. That's what anyone selling enterprise-y software has to deal with. You're usually selling to the people who won't be using it. This changes
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by dgunn 13y ago
You need to turn DEBUG off in Django.
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by dgunn 13y ago
Not positive who you're trying to attract but if it's the average Joe, "A daemon will get the tweet from Twitter’s API and create a new event with the extracted date and description." won't matter much to them. Just
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by dgunn 13y ago
I have no experience in this domain at all but just taking a shot at answering you. Netflix, Hulu, Amazon, and more I believe are all producing original content now. They're huge but I suspect they operate differently than the large ne
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by dgunn 13y ago
Completely agree. Idea sites like firespotting and halfbakery just turn into a really good way to waste your time. If you have a reasonable idea, do some research on it. If it turns out to be feasible, do some customer development and start
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by dgunn 13y ago
I would say you have it right here. Link shorteners really aren't a great way to track visitors to a link. You really need something like Google analytics or count how often your server actually served a resource.
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by dgunn 13y ago
Someone should really make a to-do-list-app framework to make building to-do-list-apps more efficient. Think of the amount of time that's been wasted making to-do-list-apps.
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by dgunn 13y ago
Dude. DEBUG is True right now. If you didn't code this, tell the person who did that DEBUG is currently True so he/she can change that. Also, why did your devs create the entire django project in a single django app? I bet that's difficult
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by dgunn 13y ago
5 minutes have elapsed. I didn't think HN still operated without patio11...
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by dgunn 13y ago
So it's not Marvels responsibility to keep people's passwords safe because, 1.) If someone was trying to get the person's information, the least of their worries is an easy password to for them to get? This may be the dumbest thing I've eve

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