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by franzus 14y ago
Fun Fact: You can get the API secret key out of twitter's official client. Which will allow you to use their xauth system (no browser oauth required - only enter username/password). Also great for spambots: Twitter can't ban the app becaus
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by franzus 14y ago
> man ssh doesn't imply being "LEET".
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Coderwall is losing its way(coderwall.com)
6 points by franzus 14y ago|0 comments
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by franzus 14y ago
If you don't know "tricks" like this ... what are you doing on HACKER news?
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by franzus 14y ago
Great. I perceive webdev as pretty boring. I hope using an exotic language like clojure will make it a little more interesting for me.
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by franzus 14y ago
Start writing a game. You will learn a lot more from the problems you have to solve for your game than from a dozen project euler websites.
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by franzus 14y ago
Yep, I too don't understand the fascination with puzzles. I love solving real problems but I hate those idiotic puzzles.
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by franzus 14y ago
> worked to get a high karma Wow, why would anyone consider a score on any internet site so important? I certainly wouldn't "work hard" to get internet points.
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by franzus 14y ago
It should be pretty hard to automate spam comments (without the comments getting downvoted to hell). Whereas automated submission of stories is super trivial.
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by franzus 14y ago
> I think showing veteran users in another color would really help a lot to set the tone. Why should we set apart veteran users? Only because they are longer here doesn't mean they have a more important opinion on a certain topic. Setti
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by franzus 14y ago
> community leaders That's where I stopped reading. I don't need or want a leader who can lead my thoughts. Also: Meta discussions are never productive. They only waste time.
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by franzus 14y ago
> market sabotage by people selling apps at 99 cents The real sabotage comes from Apple who are encouraging 99c ents applications. It fits well in their strategy to commoditize software so their hardware becomes more appealing. The pro
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by franzus 14y ago
Hmm, getting me to buy a mobile app for $1 is really hard. I consider most of them time wasting toys. On the other hand I'm perfectly happy to pay $15/month for a useful web service. And on the desktop I have no problem with paying $50+ for
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by franzus 14y ago
> Is There Hope for the Paid App? Yes, there is. But not on a market where $2 is a premium price. If you want to make a living from software products you should stay away from mobile. At least it plays out well for Apple who wanted to c
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by franzus 14y ago
> It's important to recognise that we're talking about a shovelware market This. Where $3 are considered a high price you realistically can only produce apps that are worth their low price. If you try anything different - making a great
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by franzus 14y ago
Those guys are the typical case of the "free" brainwashing. They see taking money as something filthy and immoral to do. It's how you start thinking if you grow up with everybody giving away their $product for free on the one side and the o
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by franzus 14y ago
> and sold to a corporate buyer for $120m. That's a great business plan and not lottery at all!
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by franzus 14y ago
> Literally anything can break with an update on Arch. I can confirm that. After the 3rd time such a thing happened to me I switched to Ubuntu. Arch is a testing bed for people who like screwing around with Linux. Nothing against that b
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by franzus 14y ago
> specifically Zuck’s idealism (perhaps even naïveté) that focusing on building great products will lead to solid long-term businesses Nothing against that. Also I find it a good thinh that he's still involved in the products ... But wh
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by franzus 14y ago
I bet this has been done before and is available as a C library ...
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by franzus 14y ago
In these cases monetization simply means: sell the start up to a bigger idiot.
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by franzus 14y ago
> Long Tail Market Oh, don't get it wrong. The long tail market is there. But what many people get wrong is that you don't make meaningful money as a producer in a long tail market. The guy owning the store with all those obscure niche
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by franzus 14y ago
The app store is a perfect example of missing competition. It's 4 years old now and has not been improved once inch since its original inception. Search, discoverability and speed are still as bad as on day one. Paired with Apple's kafka-es
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by franzus 14y ago
I guess it's because they work.
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by franzus 14y ago
> Do you think there might be a lot of interest in something like this? I can only tell from what I know from my peers (mostly CS educated guys). Many of them are interested into hooking up stuff to their computers but can't get their h
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by franzus 14y ago
Yeah, I know what you mean. There's not much information about "electronics for software guys". Every resource I could find was "the other way around": Programming for electronics guys. There were some promising videos on youtube but it al
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by franzus 14y ago
Just another naysayer. At least he's not one of those "but H+ is unethical/against god's will" guys.
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by franzus 14y ago
At our company we have beer and whisky stocked. "Project Friday" is a fun day. We're in Germany and this is not usual here :)
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by franzus 14y ago
Hmm, I can only speak from my experience where I checked domains with GD and when I came back one week later to register them I was greeted with a "this domain has been registered. but you can buy it for $50"-type message. This was around 2
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by franzus 14y ago
> When technology inventors have to explain themselves to content producers in order to not have their product killed, something has gone horribly wrong with the world. Not if those technology "inventors" want to make money from said co

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