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by fooandbarify 14y ago
I actually started working on it for last year's NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month; http://nanowrimo.org ) but life happened and it got shelved so I pulled it out again today and got it into somewhat usable shape. Sorry about the FB
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Show HN: Just Write, a "weekend" project in time for NaNoWriMo(just-write.appspot.com)
2 points by fooandbarify 14y ago|1 comments
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by fooandbarify 14y ago
I'm not one of the authors, but the code in question is all in one file: https://github.com/clips/pattern/blob/master/pattern/web/__i... It would be fairly straightforward to add your own class.
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by fooandbarify 14y ago
I've been running a few Linodes for the past year with absolutely no complaints. A year isn't a huge sample period, but I am very happy with my experience so far. I can't compare to Slicehost or Rackspace, but compared to my previous VPS
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by fooandbarify 14y ago
Reddit is open-source ( https://github.com/reddit/reddit ) so yeah, I'll clone it for $4k.
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by fooandbarify 14y ago
Ahh, I think I may have originally caught you before an edit (or just misread). There is probably more money to be made teaching eg. email marketing for someone in patio11's position, but that doesn't extrapolate well. For young developers
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by fooandbarify 14y ago
I'm not sure that's true. My hypothesis is that we find it easier to meet and communicate with people similar to us, so marketing a product aimed at other developers is an obvious path. There is lots of money to be made by getting out of
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by fooandbarify 14y ago
If you look at the linked report it says that online segments are growing in all of air, rail, car rentals and hotels--"vacations" are just not growing as a segment online. I think what tstegart might be saying is that it's not obvious whic
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by fooandbarify 14y ago
Are you talking about information products or paywalls or something else entirely?
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Kalzumeus Podcast 3: Growing Consulting Practices, with Brennan Dunn(kalzumeus.com)
75 points by fooandbarify 14y ago|47 comments
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by fooandbarify 14y ago
https://payments.amazon.com/sdui/sdui/business/cba
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by fooandbarify 14y ago
I think a disclaimer might be appropriate here ;) Not that I mind at all; CloudFlare is awesome.
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by fooandbarify 14y ago
I wouldn't put it past gliese1337. I turned 24 yesterday, and I can honestly tell clients that I've been programming professionally for over a decade. (Obviously, my abilities/standards have changed since then, and so have my rates... hopef
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by fooandbarify 14y ago
Sure, objectivity is good, but often times difficult decisions have no objectively clear optimal path (eg. there are many good arguments to be made for why MZ should not be replaced, and even time will only evaluate a single path). Emotion
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by fooandbarify 14y ago
Geez, a lot of jerks on HN today. jv22222, thanks for making this. You're obviously putting a lot of work into it. I can't say that it particularly interests me at this point, but I'm glad that you and people like you work hard on things an
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by fooandbarify 14y ago
FWIW, when I was figuring out Bitcoin I avoided the paper at first (due to logic similar to yours) but eventually read it because there was a lot of noise in the wiki, etc (may have changed). I found it surprisingly accessible; more so than
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by fooandbarify 14y ago
That's awesome Roman (it's Roman, right?), I'm looking forward to it! And yes, Black Chair is going to be my full-time gig, although the website is a major work in progress right now :)
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by fooandbarify 14y ago
As a counterpoint to some of the views already expressed, I would happily pay for this. I'm planning to take my freelance/consulting business full time starting January, and have become hyper-aware of the importance of my personal network
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by fooandbarify 14y ago
"Science Fiction Condition". What an incredible way of putting it. Thanks for the link!
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by fooandbarify 14y ago
I had somehow missed that post until now. Thank you so much Ali!
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by fooandbarify 14y ago
Congrats to the Balsamiq team! To anyone who isn't using Balsamiq yet, do it--an astoundingly useful bit of software. It's difficult to convey just how valuable this tool is for anyone that makes software/website for people to use. The fact
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by fooandbarify 14y ago
Thanks!
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by fooandbarify 14y ago
Do you have a link?
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by fooandbarify 14y ago
patio11, pg, tptacek... who is the fourth? I'm on the lookout for more very high quality contributors; sticking to their feeds instead of the front page (I still check front and new, just not as often) has greatly increased the value of thi
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by fooandbarify 14y ago
Patrick, just to be clear: Are the heuristics you're advocating here just something along the lines of "E-mail this user if they haven't touched their account in X days" or is a more in-depth approach required?
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by fooandbarify 14y ago
+1 on this feature request! It would be even more valuable to me than the image swap/image hosting features I mentioned. I obviously can't speak for other users, but my ideal use case would be setting this up for a client and then letting t
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by fooandbarify 14y ago
Oh my God. Thank you for this. Please ignore any sarcasm/negativity; this is so helpful. I was just in the process of building almost this exact same thing for a client, but kept putting it off--partly because I couldn't believe it didn't
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by fooandbarify 14y ago
file_get_contents('nonexistent') actually returns false, but calling trim() on that coerced it into an empty string.
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by fooandbarify 14y ago
I know you are looking for a non-cloud option, but Tarsnap (an excellent service by HN's cperciva - http://www.tarsnap.com/ ) is impervious to the sort of issues raised by Matt Honan's hack, as long as you properly secure your private keys
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by fooandbarify 14y ago
The term "line-of-sight" typically refers to the obstacle presented by the curvature of the Earth or large metallic objects[1]. An insect would not block a THz EM wave, just as the walls of your home (probably) don't block your cell phone's

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